Tim Greene articlesThe latest articles by Network World Senior Editor Tim Greene.Sun claims million-messages-per-second trading system- July 1, 2008 Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced it has broken the million-message-per-second barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System used by Wall Street traders.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-sun-message-trading-barrier.html?fsrc=rss-tim... 'I have a lost laptop horror story for you'- July 1, 2008 The devil of identity theft is in the details: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider.http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/070108-buzz.html?fsrc=rss-timgreene Indian agency walks all over laptops to test ruggedness- July 1, 2008 Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) uses an unusual way to test laptop computers that it plans to deliver to students in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. It places them on a hard floor and asks people weighing over 80 kilograms to walk all over them to ensure that the computers are rugged and durable.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-indian-agency-walks-all-over.html?fsrc=rss-ti... Start-up nexTier debuts data-leak prevention appliance- July 1, 2008 Data-leak prevention gains another market entry with the debut of start-up nexTier Networks, which is touting a DLP appliance that monitors and blocks sensitive and unauthorized transmissions and learns by crawling the enterprise network to read for information content where data is stored.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-nextier.html?fsrc=rss-timgreene Kaspersky adds anti-keylogger keyboard- July 1, 2008 The new version of Kaspersky's security suite, Internet Security 2009, features a novel but simple defense against keylogging malware -- a virtual keyboard.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-kaspersky-adds-anti-keylogger.html?fsrc=rss-t... E-prescribing groups merge networks- July 1, 2008 Two large electronic prescribing networks, one operated by retail pharmacists and the second by pharmacy benefit groups, have merged in an effort to push forward the use of e-prescriptions in the U.S., the networks announced Tuesday.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-e-prescribing-groups-merge.html?fsrc=rss-timg... Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife- July 1, 2008 The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail spam that came to them, chronicling the results. Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., was among them, and she tells what she saw in her online identity as "Penelope Retch".http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-mcafee-spam-experiment.html?fsrc=rss-timgreen... Ellison-backed Pillar targets storage utilization rates- July 1, 2008 Larry Ellison-backed Pillar Data Systems upgrades storage system for VMware, Oracle and Exchange environments.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-pillar-axiom-system.html?fsrc=rss-timgreene Microsoft SharePoint popularity comes with issues- July 1, 2008 Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-microsoft-sharepoint-issues.html?fsrc=rss-tim... SAP names new EMEA, Latin America heads- July 1, 2008 SAP on Tuesday announced that Jos Duarte is now president and CEO of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) territory, while Rodolpho Cardenuto assumes the same role at SAP's Latin America division.http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/070108-sap-names-new-emea-latin.html?fsrc=rss-timgre... |