Hey: They're Gonna Confiscate Your iPod
From border guards to copyright cops. Get busted with ripped music at the border, and you just may have your iPod, notebook, or smartphone confiscated on the spot. Maybe even if you acquired the music legally.
Speed's Dead
In my recent article on data deduplication on InformationWeek's sister site, Byte and Switch, a question of speed impact came up. As we talk to customers throughout the storage community about backup priorities, a surprising trend continues: the importance of shrinking the backup window has become less of a priority for disk to disk backup solutions. Why?
Die, Comment Spam. Die
Blogging software and services provider Six Apart (known for MovableType and TypePad) has unleashed a new anti-comment spam filter, creatively dubbed TypePad AntiSpam. Now how will I get the latest stock-trading tips, body-enhancing drugs, and pharma deals?
Bullying & the Enterprise
Protecting your employees and your brand from cyber-bullies and inappropriate behavior requires a zero-tolerance policy
Finding The Needle, Part One - Saving Money
In the last week another new storage startup is launching a new product, another just received another round of founding, and still another announced it was being purchased. This happens almost every day with technology startup companies, especially in storage.
Adobe Flash Player Under Attack
Security researchers are warning that an in-the-wild exploit within the Adobe Flash Player has been planted in from 20,000 to 250,000 Web pages. If that wide range of potentially affected Web pages isn't enough disparity for you, try this on: it's not entirely clear what versions of Flash are at risk. Read on...
Cloud Security
Making use of cloud computing resources like Google's App Engine, or Salesforce.com, or Amazon S3, while all the rage, still makes some folks nervous. In particular, heads of enterprise development organizations who feel the need to tell their developers, "Nah-ah. Unless it's behind our firewall, you can't use it."
Infrastructure Virtualization
Server virtualization helped justify and broaden the use of the SAN by leveraging networked storage to enable features like server motion. In similar fashion, companies such as Scalent Systems are using infrastructure virtualization to further justify and broaden the use of a SAN by bringing those server virtualization capabilities to nonvirtualized systems: the ability to move or start new application instances in a matter of minutes after powering on and bo
Yahoo Sues 'Lottery Spammers'
The suit accuses the defendants of sending spam e-mails trying to trick people into divulging personal information by claiming they had won a prize from Yahoo.
RIM To Indian Government: No Crypto Keys For You
Just last week it looked like RIM was ready to hand over its BlackBerry message encryption to the Indian authorities. Now, it seems as if, to quote singer/songwriter Tom Petty, RIM has had a "Change Of Heart."
Do iSCSI-Only Systems Make Sense?
When iSCSI first began to appear, there were several companies -- LeftHand Networks, EqualLogic (now owned by Dell), and others -- which developed storage solutions based solely on the protocol. But what these companies had really developed was a storage software solution that probably could have run on any protocol, although they choose iSCSI. My opinion is that this was as mu
Passport to the Web
Our system for authenticating international travelers' identities is solid. Why can't we create a similar process online?
Apple's iCal Vulnerable To Hackers
In order for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities, he or she would have to convince an iCal user to open an .ics file sent via e-mail or hosted on a Web server.
Building Better Branch-Office Wireless
One rogue access point at a remote site can make for a potentially huge security mess. The answer? Extend the corporate wireless LAN safely and efficiently. We'll show you how.
An Inconvenient Data Retention Policy
I recently met with a client that had a 45-day retention policy for ALL data. I've heard of this kind of policy for e-mail, but I don't recall ever hearing of it for all the data in the enterprise. Is this realistic and can you get away with that short of a data retention policy? Not really, and here's why.
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