Security information management vendor netForensics will make available two stand-alone products designed to help network managers monitor Web and database applications and more efficiently collect log data for compliance and auditing purposes.
A German scientific research institute is using an open-source database running on Linux and x86 hardware to store global seismic activity data and to interpret that data. The purpose is to ensure that countries around the world are in compliance with the terms of the nuclear test ban treaty.
In addition to teaching information assurance courses at my university, I also teach database design every year and sometimes teach systems engineering courses. In all of these courses, at some point I emphasize the importance of integrating plausible limits into the computer-human interface to reduce the effects of unthinking human credulity.
Today I turn to a tidbit I ran across as I was updating my INFOSEC Year in Review database in preparation for upcoming courses. It seems that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) hopes to see all paper airline tickets issued outside airports disappear totally by the end of 2007.
Oracle’s move to lure Oracle/Red Hat users to buy support from the database company, instead of the Linux vendor, could be a double-edged sword for users of each respective technology.
Last week, MySQL Enterprise was launched. It's a subscription service to help administrators run the open source MySQL database more smoothly and efficiently.
Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle.
Symbian has updated its operating system for mobile phones, improving support for digital TV, cameras, database applications, location-based services and roaming between Wi-Fi and 3G networks.
The worldwide relational database management systems market saw a 12.6 percent growth spike in 2007 to US$18.8 billion compared to $16.7 billion in 2006, according to IDC.
The last Friday in this past July marked the 8th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day -- a day to recognize all the typically unnoticed efforts of systems administrators, network managers, database administrators and other IT professionals.
In the financial news of storage companies last week several news items made the list. IBM acquired database archiving and classification vendor Princeton Softech. Isilon, which went public in 2006, lost money, but the amount was less than previous losses. Data Domain announced its IPO. ONstor announced it may go public. And, Qlusters announced an investment from Network Appliance.
Worried about poor online data management and certificate forgery among students, the Nigerian government has established the National Universities Commission Data Base (NUCDB).
IT hiring is forecast to remain steady in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from Robert Half Technology. Business growth is driving the need for more workers, while Microsoft Windows, network administration and database management are the most sought-after skills.
Recently, one of my favorite topics for these columns has been ITIL's Configuration Management Database (CMDB) but several years ago a topic that was nearly as active in these columns was quality of experience. There was a good reason for that focus then, and given new developments in the marketplace, I think there's good reason for readdressing QoE now.
On the evening of Sept. 17, one of the biggest hosting providers, Layered Technologies in Plano, Texas, suffered a major security breech. Hackers managed to access the company’s support database and download client data on something between 5,000 and 6,000 user accounts.
Even with all the talk around data center automation, one vendor says the industry forgets to stress the importance of automation when managing multiple databases.
If you think that you always get what you pay for, the just-released beta of OpenOffice 3.0 should convince you otherwise. This free, open-source software suite provides most of what anyone could want in an office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, drawing tools, and math equation editor.
I recently finished teaching the two-day INFOSEC Year in Review (IYIR) Workshop in Rome, N.Y., under the aegis of Syracuse University. The course was great fun, as I have always found it to be, with a lot of discussion of the cases, ideas and trends extracted from the IYIR database.
For an executive who had just had his company bought for a cool billion a few months ago and was on the eve of announcing a major update to his business' flagship database program, former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, now Sun Microsystems' senior vice president for databases, didn't look comfortable. Mickos had come to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center to explain that MySQL was not about to abandon Linux. His audience, the movers and shakers of Linux bus
Customers at the MySQL conference this week said Sun Microsystems' acquisition of the database company could increase MySQL's credibility among senior IT decision makers still skittish about using open-source software.
At its Security 2.0 event in New York Tuesday, Symantec plans to make use of the spotlight to showcase its new Database Security and Mail Security 8300 Series appliances.
Oracle has always made bold claims about the security of its database and applications. Now the company has said it will make security a priority as it begins rolling out its next-generation software products for building service-oriented architectures (SOAs), Oracle Fusion, in the next several years.