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Information infrastructure solution provider EMC introduced the enterprise version of its Mozy online backup product Tuesday: MozyEnterprise, powered by EMC Fortress. "Our strategy is focused on bringing new Software as a Service offerings to market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, senior vice pre...

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"Do you remember where you were on Y2k?" Ask that of most IT professionals and you're almost sure to get a conversation started. While the non-IT crowd was off partying like it's 1999, many of us spent the new year in the office, on call or tied to our pager. Even those of us who weren't directly in...

Microsoft has opened up its usability specifications, the User Interface Automation, to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance, a group formed to develop standards for making user interfaces more accessible to people with disabilities. The 2,600-page specification document, which was released r...

McAfee announced Monday a security suite that provides enterprise users with host data loss prevention, device management and endpoint encryption to ensure compliance and limit exposure to fines. McAfee Total Protection for Data, a solution for data loss and data leakage protection, has full visibil...

In the wake of several incidents in which batteries in AT&T U-verse network cabinets exploded or caught fire, AT&T is replacing 17,000 of the batteries in its streetside devices, the company confirmed Thursday. The batteries were manufactured by Avestor, a Canadian company based in Quebec th...

Security provider Webroot on Tuesday released its namesake e-mail security Software as a Service solution. Targeted at small to medium-sized businesses, Webroot's new offering delivers better protection, lower total cost of ownership, and better value than perimeter security appliances or software, ...

Dell and storage manufacturing partner EMC launched new entry-level storage area network solutions aimed at small and medium-sized businesses Tuesday branded for each hardware maker. EMC's CLARiiON AX4 and Dell's AX4-5 are intended to meet the growing demand for storage capacity driven by both SMBs ...

A federal judge has sentenced a former systems administrator for Medco Health Solutions to 30 months in prison Tuesday for planting a "logic bomb" in Medco's computer systems that was designed to wipe out critical data on more than 70 servers, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. A progr...

The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD may be settling down at last, but in the mobile TV arena another competition is just getting under way. Two different mobile digital television technologies will enter testing this year, each backed by a different set of vendors. In one camp, there's the A-VSB p...

Having unwillingly ceded Web search leadership to Google, Yahoo is not about to also let the growing world of mobile services slip through its fingers. The Internet veteran chose the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show to announce a number of mobile initiatives, including a decision to open...

Change may no longer be the only constant; danger is proving omnipresent and therefore a constant variable in enterprise IT planning. "In today's world where a shooter can walk in the front door of a church and open fire, there is really no place that is safe," Henry Dewing, analyst at Forrester Res...

"Web 2.0" was one of the computing industry's biggest catch phrases of 2007. Much like a software upgrade, Web 2.0 brings to mind images of bug fixes and new features. In reality, however, Web 2.0 is nothing more than a new round of Internet functionality bolted onto a very tired and old World Wide ...

Enterprises house vast amounts of information, the secure and timely handling of which is key to their core business -- especially as it relates to sensitive personal and financial data. As a result, an enterprise's IT developer community has transformed into the role of compliance enforcer and prot...

It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...

Heavy e-mail users sometimes have trouble finding the needle of information they need in the haystacks of old missives lingering in their in-boxes. That's the sort of user IBM has targeted with its new OmniFind Personal E-Mail Search tool. Rolled out Thursday, IOPES is a free, semantics-based search...

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