Security Journal

IBM Session at Cloud Expo Frankly I've grown weary of the debates over the security of cloud computing. It's not that I don't appreciate that there are technical hurdles in front of us, but we have reached a point that a security vulnerability in a single offering, whether that offering is in the public or private cloud, results in loads of silly commentary that links the particular problem to the overall state of cloud security. I'm not sure if those involved in this commentary have a vested interest in driving this kind of dialogue, or if it happens because it is easy to write about, but in either case a majority of the discussions around cloud security have degraded to pure absurdity. By and large I've learned to ignore most of this commentary as useless rambling. H... (more)

Survey Reveals More Than Eighty Percent of IT Executives Plan to Keep Cloud Initiatives within Their Own Firewalls

TORONTO, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Eighty-three percent of IT executives intend to keep their cloud initiatives within their own firewall, according to a survey of delegates by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC'09) in November 2009. Platform Computing surveyed 95 IT executives across the research, manufacturing, government and education industries to determine why o... (more)

Shavlik NetChk Protect Gets a "Best Buy" 5-Star Rating From SC Magazine

ST. PAUL, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/10 -- Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in simplifying and automating critical IT operations, today announced that Shavlik NetChk Protect has earned a 5-star rating and Best Buy designation in a Patch Management Group Test published in the February edition of SC Magazine. In the review of leading patch management solutions, Shavlik NetChk P... (more)

Opengear Announces Growth and Industry Validation for Open Source Console Servers

SANDY, UT -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/10 -- Opengear (www.opengear.com), a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced that it saw significant growth and industry validation in 2009. "We made great strides in 2009 expanding our open source product line so that we could bring better out-of-band management to remote offices and at the same ti... (more)

New Kerio Connect 7 Groupware Server Targets Organizations With Multiple Branch Offices

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/09/10 -- Macworld Conference & Expo 2010 -- The new Kerio Connect 7, previously known as Kerio MailServer, marks the messaging server's entry into the market of midsize, multi-office deployments, giving customers an option to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system. The advantages of a distributed domain become apparent for o... (more)