Alex Goldman

Mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2009 and peer-to-peer networks have a lot to do with it. A report by deep packet inspection (DPI) provider Allot also found P2P accounted for congestion in highly utilized nodes. “We had seen similar report on fixed line bandwidth but nothing specific […]

Changing the IT culture can deliver benefits such as business/IT alignment, but it’s not easy — it must be lead from the top. IT departments know that they need to modernize, but a fundamental cultural change requires leadership from the top of the org chart, said one consultant and author. “This is not just information […]

Several companies today announced the release of a new cloud standard, the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Federation specification (CMDBf), created by the non-profit Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) (a PDF version of the standard is available here). CMDBs give IT organizations complete visibility into the attributes, relationships, and dependencies of the components in their enterprise […]

Microsoft this week accused mobile ringtone and entertainment firm Funmobile for resorting to spamming Windows Live Messenger users to hawk its wares. In a lawsuit filed in the Washington State superior court for King County against Funmobile, which sometimes does business as Mobilefunster, Microsoft accused company officials of misusing Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger infrastructure in […]

Enterprise software companies understand that IT managers have too much to do and too little to do it with and are eager to sell software to solve the problem. They are highlighting ease of deployment and management as a key a feature of their latest releases. For example, enterprise Web 2.0 provider Socialtext today announced […]

Citrix will officially unveil Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V, Express Edition on Monday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. The Express Edition is free and incorporates Citrix StorageLink’s simplified storage management technology. “StorageLink provides one-click access to native storage devices for simplified management through storage configuration wizards that leverage existing storage array-based services and […]

A whopping 70 percent of enterprises in the UK have suffered data breaches in the past year, according to new findings from the Ponemon Institute. In its 2009 annual survey of UK enterprise encryption trends, sponsored by PGP Corporation, Ponemon said that it also found that 12 percent suffered five or more data breaches during […]

NEW YORK — Experts from security firm Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) warned that USB drives are a real security threat to enterprise networks. The comments came in the opening speech at Symantec Norton Cyber Crime day here. In this case, an old threat is new again, according to Kevin Haley, Symantec Security Response group product manager. He […]

The security flaws in Social Security numbers have been known for some time, but what was theory has been proven to be fact as researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that publicly available data could be used to obtain about 8.5 percent of all social security numbers of people born between 1989 and 2003. […]

Enterprise software makers are focusing more on ease of use with their recent releases, an element usually associated with video games and mobile devices than in complex enterprise software products. Recently, SAP (NYSE:SAP), known for detail-oriented and meticulous software, attempted to break out of that mold by releasing a natural language search engine for its […]