At the RSA conference in San Francisco, VP of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney told the conference attendees that Microsoft was planning new security offerings to ease the management of identity and authentication information. He further added that Microsoft was working on a new server initiative as part of its Geneva Project. This new [...]
Source: PCWorld.com
If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it’s John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems’ Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry’s move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also “a security nightmare.”
Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, [...]
VMware unveiled its much-anticipated next generation of virtualization solutions designed to transform enterprise IT infrastructures into private clouds.
http://www.techalpha.com/ideas/perspective_vmware_announcement.pdf
As the company’s biggest announcement in almost 3 years, vSphere marks a big step forward and will further expand its already considerable lead over Microsoft and Citrix. However, we suspect the company will face formidable challenges in [...]
Microsoft recently admitted that it had released more patches during the second half of 2008 than it had in the beginning of the year. No surprise here, and we certainly didn’t need Microsoft to tell us this. We could have looked at the history of its patches. What is surprising, in a weird kind of [...]