By 2014, 15% of enterprises will adopt layered fraud prevention techniques for their internal systems to compensate for weaknesses inherent …
Mainframe, meet cloud
Mainframes are stable, secure and under your control – perfect for anchoring a private cloud- but where’s user provisioning? Mention …
PlayStation Network hack will cost Sony $170m
Sony expects the hack of the PlayStation Network and will cost it ¥14 billion (US$170 million) this financial year, it …
Rackspace offers hosted virtual desktops from Citrix
Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday. Enterprises will …
Sophos introduces enhanced encryption solutions
IT security and data protection company Sophos today announced the availability of a number of new and enhanced enterprise product …
Industry agrees on vulnerability reporting format
Three years after its founding, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is starting to bear …
Software glitch caused Exchange Online to trip up
A software bug caused e-mail queues of some Exchange Online customers in the Americas to clog up on Thursday, leading …
Gartner outlines contractual terms to reduce cloud risks
IT procurement or sourcing managers challenged with finding sourcing options that reduce costs at tolerable risks should examine nine contractual …
Sony takes down PlayStation Network after URL error
Nothing comes easy to Sony these days. The company was forced to take part of its Sony PlayStation Network offline …
VMware debuts sign-on service for cloud apps
In the hopes of simplifying cloud operations for organisations, VMware has launched a federated sign-on service for cloud applications. The …
Juniper Networks unveils Junosphere Classroom
Juniper Networks has launched Junosphere Classroom, a new cloud-based service designed to enable educational institutions, partners and customers to efficiently …
An app store future and what it means
Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, blowing through the 10 billion downloads …
Into the vortex
Everyone says the cloud is the future. Not without the proper service level agreements (SLAs) – contracts that specify quality …
Secureway showcases solutions at GITEX Saudi
Secureway Network Distributors is promoting its extensive range of IT security solutions at GITEX Saudi Arabia 2011, which is being …
McAfee secures the cloud
McAfee has announced the McAfee Cloud Security Platform to help organisations safely and efficiently take advantage of Cloud computing. The …
Google launches Chrome OS
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
Information on Facebook not safe: Symantec
A programming bug on Facebook’s website may have accidentally given advertisers and others access to a treasure trove of personal …
Making IT count
Post global recession, the banking and finance sector in the region is investing in technology solutions to manage data flows, …
HP counters Cisco with new switches, architecture
At Interop this week, HP unveiled products supporting a new architecture that attempts to unify enterprise data center, campus and branch networks …
EMC’s Tucci sees hybrid cloud becoming de facto standard
As far as EMC CEO Joe Tucci is concerned, the future of his company is the hybrid cloud and big …