Next-generation firewalls combine application awareness and deep packet inspection to give companies more control over applications while also detecting and blocking malicious threats. By: [author-name] This...

Tuesday Jan 22nd was a critical milestone for us at Syncsort as our main contribution to the Apache Hadoop project was committed. This contribution, patch MAPREDUCE-2454, introduced a new feature to the...

Bit9 is the latest victim in a series of high-profile security vendors that have been hit by targeted attacks that compromised their security technology, prompting calls for vendors to unite and share...

Following the compromise of The New York Times' network, Mandiant--the company that responded to the incident and conducted the forensics analysis--collected enough evidence to identify the attacker....

For those readers growing up in the 1970s, you are probably familiar with the commercials for Fram oil filters. For those who don’t know, they featured a grease covered mechanic talking about how changing...

For several years now I’ve been lucky enough to attend and present at MicroStrategy’s biggest user conference, MicroStrategy World, where thousands of professionals from many industries and places...

I’d like to share with you several short videos (no longer than a minute each) with observations from me and my colleagues who attended MicroStrategy World. The videos are short, unedited and provide...

Seagate announced a $40 million investment in Virident, which makes flash-based PCIe cards for servers. The move underlines the broad expansion of flash storage into multiple sectors of the enterprise...

‘Big Data’ was probably one of the most used and abused terms in the IT industry throughout 2012. Conferences, publications, vendors, and analysts alike talked tirelessly about the opportunities and...

Not every idea that comes out of the storage industry is a good one. Here are three developments in storage encryption, patents and holographic storage that have got me scratching my head. By: [author-name] This...