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  • Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down

    A Gartner report about the security software market out today shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6% of the $19.1 billion market.

  • Puppet gets a more expressive configuration language

    With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility in scripting their deployment routines.

  • BMC set to go private in $6.9 billion deal

    BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about US$6.9 billion.

  • IBM launches 'Internet of things' appliance

    Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages

  • Dell corrals acquired products for BYOD market

    Dell has pulled together products it gained from its recent acquisitions into a series of BYOD offerings, though it faces the challenge of selling them at a time when the company's ownership hangs in the balance.

  • BP rolls out CA Clarity globally after refinery explosion

    Oil giant BP has extended the roll out of its CA Clarity version 12.0 software after it used the tool for project and portfolio management after the devastating explosion of a refinery in Texas City in 20005, which killed 15 workers.

  • CA CTO: We will raise costs of running old software to facilitate SaaS drive

    CA Technologies? CTO John Michelsen has confirmed that the company will raise the costs of running legacy software in a bid to facilitate its current drive to get customers off of old releases and on to software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms.

  • CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API insights

    CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).

  • New CA CEO looks to transform the company to SaaS provider

    CA Technologies? recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.

  • IT supply-chain security standard aims to prevent counterfeits, tampering

    The danger of counterfeit and tampered IT products is well known, and to fight it, the Open Group has published a technical security standard aimed at supply-chain safety. It's anticipated that by year-end there will also be an official process under way for accreditation so technology suppliers can prove adherence to the standard, according to some involved, which include IBM and Cisco.

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  • A year after DigiNotar security breach, Fox-IT details extent of compromise

    The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority (CA) DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration, according to Fox-IT, the security company contracted by the Dutch government to investigate the incident.

  • Five secrets your cloud provider won?t tell you about multi-tenancy (and how to overcome them)

    Low-cost cloud computing and storage can be a boon for IT managers with tight budgets looking to get as much computing power for their money as they possibly can.

  • Self-signed SSL certificates can be secure

    Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted" certificates for our websites, but in the end even Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud.

  • What's next for Dell?

    Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.

  • Citrix targets virtualisation, orchestration layers instead of "cloud washing"

    With scores of new cloud companies popping up and so many existing players jumping on the cloud bandwagon, we wondered where the traditional enterprise networking vendors stood?

  • Juniper sticks to strengths with cloud strategy

    Juniper has a three-pronged cloud strategy that includes selling networking gear in the data centres of most major IaaS players, providing secure connections between virtual data centres and cloud customers, and orchestrating how virtualised resources get allocated to cloud application services.

  • Cisco catching up with the cloud

    The only place Cisco plays directly in the cloud is in the SaaS arena with its WebEx collaboration, video and telepresence services, which account for about $1 billion of Cisco's $40 billion in annual revenue.

  • Five reasons agents are wrong for application performance management

    Despite rapid evolution in the application performance management (APM) market, few enterprise IT organisations would say they have sufficiently solved their application performance problems. If anything, the complexity challenges posed by virtualisation, agile development practices, multi-tier application architectures and other IT mega-trends are outpacing the capabilities of legacy APM products.

  • Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left

    SSL/TLS, the protocol that protects security of e-commerce, has taken a beating lately, with news items ranging from the violation of certificate authorities to the discovery of an exploit that beats the protocol itself.

  • Are security failures undermining faith in the Internet?

    Recent attacks could reverberate and undercut the public's faith that the Internet is a trustworthy medium for doing business.

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