Stories about: Black Box

Monta Vista, the mobile and embedded Linux company, unveiled version 5.0 of its carrier-grade embedded Linux kernel this week.

Businesses and public sector organizations face a wave of disruption from the internet as well as enjoying its benefits, Gartner analysts have warned.

The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) today launched a Global Technology Audit Guide (GTAG) to fill a gap when it comes to auditing application controls.

On the Internet, there's always a ghost in the room -- watching you, listening, recording your activities and interests, aggregating profiles or categorizing you, and whispering secrets and lies about you to others again and again.

For all of my 25+ years in IT, the "software vs. hardware" debate has raged on. During that time, their benefits were mutually exclusive. In many instances, software gave us total flexibility, but hardware gave us reliability and performance. As with most things in life, there were tradeoffs. Now, though, it appears that virtualization is coming to the rescue -- again -- with the concept of virtual appliances. Perhaps you can have it all, after all.

Most enterprises have some type of messaging security in the form of spam and virus filtering. When installing a new or replacement messaging-security system, key areas to pay attention to are performance, user experience, and management and operational costs. Performance is generally easy to manage. Aside from simply having enough hardware to do the job, there are three keys to keep performance up to par.

Most enterprises have some type of messaging security in the form of spam and virus filtering. When installing a new or replacement messaging-security system, key areas to pay attention to are performance, user experience, and management and operational costs. Performance is generally easy to manage. Aside from simply having enough hardware to do the job, there are three keys to keep performance up to par.

Dell is rolling out a line of servers preconfigured with Microsoft's SQL Server database -- a combination that the two vendors claim can top trendy data warehouse appliances on price, performance and ease of installation.

With a stable of high-profile luxury brands to its name, and disparate IT systems to match, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) implemented a data integration system to help streamline its business processes.

Nortel's Government Solutions arm has won a US$300 million, 10-year contract to outfit the U.S. Social Security Administration with an IP-telephony system.

Jeremiah Grossman wants you to know that firewalls and SSL encryption won't prevent a hacker from breaking into your e-commerce website, compromising your customers' data and possibly stealing your money. That's because most website attacks these days exploit bugs in the Web application itself, rather than in the operating system on which the application is running.