Just a few years ago, Andrew Mayhall had to decide whether to continue his unique education or drop out of school to start his own server company. Now, he's mulling another major decision - whether to continue discussions about potentially selling that company and working for Facebook, or to follow the entrepreneurial path Facebook's founder laid out when he was around Mayhall's age.
EMC has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis.
Juniper Networks needs better marketing and execution, among other things, to turn its fortunes around.
Don't fear the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend -- take a chance and find out if it works in your organization, say IT managers in the financial industry that let employees make use of their personal smartphones and tablets for work.
As budgets are locked in for 2012 it's time to aggressively expand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">server</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, and for those who have been held back by cost, to consider <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/120511-cloud-companies.html">virtual desktops</a>.
IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Microsoft led the list of companies that failed to patch vulnerabilities within six months of being notified by the world's biggest bug bounty program, according to HP TippingPoint's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI).
While the world has been distracted by HP's baffling $10.2 billion purchase of Autonomy and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s surprising $9 billion buy of Skype, EMC/VMware and Google have been snapping up dozens of software companies throughout 2011.
Cloud <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> options are set to widen today as RSA teams with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform.
The New York Stock Exchange has made one of its main application programming interfaces open source, in a move that it said would support development and ease product integration in the financial services market.
Hitachi Data Systems announced a new converged platform alongside SAP that will help users manage and analyze massive amounts of critical data, while improving business decisions and insight based on instant access to that data.
RSA executive chairman Art Coviello has revealed that two groups, operating on behalf of a single nation state, are thought to be behind the major attack on its SecurID system in March.
Six weeks after EMC's RSA security division saw its SecurID system hit by hackers, RSA president Tom Heiser met with the CIO of a large global medical device company.
The Bank of England has signed a contract with EMC to expand data storage with new SAN devices, as it considers rolling out virtual desktops to staff.
Put about 100 chief information <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> officers, CIOs and CEOs into a room and what they are willing share about cybersecurity just might surprise you. More information about just what they shared will be revealed soon in a report stemming from a closed-door Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats held in Washington, D.C., in July, where business and government security professionals acknowledged to each other that their organizations had either been hacked through stealthy infiltration to steal valuable sensitive information and intellectual property, or that they wouldn't know it if it had been.
At the upcoming VMworld conference, VMware plans to highlight new data-loss prevention capabilities in an updated version of its virtual system security product, vShield.