Stories about: Advanced Encryption Standard

Sun Microsystems has announced its first UltraSparc T2-based servers, which the company hopes will cut the number of servers required in datacentres.

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Cisco is beefing up its Wide-Area Application Services WAN-acceleration gear that improves branch-office application performance by adding encryption and better monitoring tools.

French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday's elections.

IBM Friday announced enhanced security features for its System z9 Business Class mainframe. The new features include IPSec-based network encryption using IBM's zIIP crypto engine, as well as host-based public-key encryption based on its CryptoExpress2 hardware module.

My heart sank when I first saw Al Gore pull out his BlackBerry. It was in the waning weeks of the 2000 US presidential campaign, and there he was on the TV, tapping away on his then-novel converged device. Though I had no evidence, I was positive that whatever he was reading had already been perused by some conservative skunk works, with his responses scrutinized not long after. Given recent revelations about the opposition's ethics and panting obsession with domestic spying, I still suspect that any eavesdropping technically possible at the time was probably being done.

Symantec is dramatically expanding its mobile security offerings this week, adding VPN (virtual private network), data encryption, antispam and other features.

HP on Monday launched an enhanced midrange storage array, a new Fibre Channel switch for its BladeSystem servers, a network-attached storage gateway and encryption for its data protection software.

Cisco made no blockbuster buyouts in 2006. The US$256 million in announced cash and stocks it shelled out for acquisitions this year is chump change compared with 2005, when it began the year buying Airespace for US$450 million, and ended it with the US$6.7 billion Scientific-Atlanta merger.

Federal government agency Centrelink is tendering for an agency-wide upgrade to logical and physical access identification cards.

AT&T is installing encryption equipment throughout its IP-based network that lets the carrier provide more-flexible IPSec-based security to business customers for their voice, video and multicasting.