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Symantec acquires PGP and GuardianEdge
by Sandip Kale
-added contribution from Dr. Mitul Mehta Finally, acknowledging long pending customers' requests, Symantec Corp. is entering the encryption market with the twin acquisition of PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies Inc. Both strongly established vendo… more »
Categories: Security, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) Tags: data protection suites, dlp, encryption, guardianedge, m&a, pgp, symantec
01/05/10 04:13:31 am,
01/05/10 04:13:31 am, Triton - three pronged defence
by Norman 
Emily Wentz asks for “Any brand new proxy websites for Websense that don't have the word proxy on them? I need one that doesn't have the word proxy anywhere on the page. Trying to get through Websense”.Another young lady who, from her online name asp… more »
Categories: Google, Websense, Security, Private cloud, Networks, network security, Defensio, Triton, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), web security, use violations, malware
26/03/10 03:06:12 pm,
26/03/10 03:06:12 pm, Big Blue tackles Brownfield Networks
by Norman
Let’s probe behind yesterday’s announcement that IBM is acquiring Intelliden, a privately-owned technology company more »
Categories: IBM, Mergers & acquisitions (M&A), Intellident, Tivoli, Networks, network maintenance, network security, audit, compliance Tags: ibm, intellident, merger, network maintenance
17/02/10 07:34:07 am,
17/02/10 07:34:07 am, Cloud in the clouds
by Norman
The announcement that the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has awarded IBM a contract to design and demonstrate a secure cloud computing infrastructure capable of supporting defense and intelligence networks, moves the cloud computing/security issue to a totally ne… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Security, attack, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Public cloud, Private cloud, Defence (Defense), Air Force
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm,
07/02/10 02:03:37 pm, Outlook: still Cloudy
by Norman
The start of a press release begins thus:
Following the recent formation of its dedicated cloud consulting group, international solutions provider, Logicalis, today launches its Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service. Architected on Cisco's Unified Com… more »
Categories: data centre, container, cloud and privacy, virtualisation, Logicalis
30/01/10 12:18:24 pm,
30/01/10 12:18:24 pm, Taking security to the Cloud
by Norman
A constant theme of our postings on Cloud has been the security issues that customers perceive as so significant in this area. So what about the security issues of delivering security products from the Cloud?
This is the latest development to come al… more »
Categories: Cloud computing, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, McAfee, Verizon
19/10/09 10:35:56 am,
19/10/09 10:35:56 am, IBM encircling the Cloud
by Norman
Today IBM announces its latest steps in Cloud computing. Followers of this blog - as well as scores of others - will know that this is but one in a regular stream of such announcements.
Why? Because IBM is out to own the Cloud. It may be a softly… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, partners, Security, cloud and privacy, IBM Global Services, IBM Strategy & Change Services, IBM Testing Services, Public cloud, Private cloud
05/10/09 01:31:24 pm,
05/10/09 01:31:24 pm, IBM's desktop in the cloud
by Norman
At the end of August, IBM announced it was introducing what it called “the industry's first public desktop cloud service”. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28292.wss
After the usual PR guff about the benefits to Mankind of cloud computi… more »
Categories: IBM, Cloud computing, Google, SMB, small business, medium-sized business, Channel, partners, distributors, cloud and privacy, Citrix, Wyse, Desktone, VMware
11/09/09 05:35:50 am,
11/09/09 05:35:50 am, A glance at Cloud Computing
by Norman
Cloud Computing is many things. A quick check on Technorati this evening showed there were over 14,000 blogs picking this topic up in one way or another.
There are many facets to cloud computing and they cannot all be covered in one blog entry. Secu… more »
Holding the line in Web 2.0
by Norman
Last month, Websense Security Labs http://securitylabs.websense.com/ issued its latest security trends report. To anyone of a sensitive disposition it is a depressing document.
You think you can rely on the good reputation of a renowned, well-ordere… more »