Stories about: Domain Technology

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DNS hole doesn't go unnoticed 15 July, 2008 08:58

A software patch released by Microsoft to plug a hole in the Domain Name System protocol was just one of nine security fixes the company issued last week. And like the others, the DNS patch got only an "important" severity rating, one step below Microsoft's top rating of "critical."
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DNS hole prompts synchronized patching effort by IT vendors 10 July, 2008 08:51

In a rare synchronized security move, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and other IT vendors Wednesday released software patches aimed at addressing a fundamental design flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol used to direct traffic on the Internet.
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Reality Check: Easing the burden of SaaS 06 December, 2006 15:07

Of all the issues IT will deal with in 2007, from maintaining regulatory compliance to building out SOAs, SaaS (software as a service) could quickly become the new focus of IT. In fact, forget about SaaS vendors' claims that the SaaS model eliminates the need for significant IT oversight; the opposite is actually closer to the truth.
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EMC exec on virtualization, competition 19 October, 2005 13:51

Mark Lewis, executive vice president of Open Software at EMC, spoke to Computerworld this week about EMC's Invista virtualization software. Invista promises to pool storage resources behind switches from multiple vendors. But EMC has yet to ship the product -- which it announced earlier this year -- in bulk, even though IBM began selling its own SAN Volume Controller virtualization technology more than two years ago. Lewis also addressed recent announcements by IBM and Cisco Systems in which those vendors said they expect to sell virtualization products for the entire data center, from servers to back-end storage.
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Crypto Proposal Faces Long Journey 12 October, 2000 12:01

The National Institute of Standards and Technology earlier this month selected the encryption algorithm called Rijndael as the preferred 128-bit encryption for the government, but NIST has to tackle conformance testing and other issues before Rijndael shows up in any products.