Stories about: Ecora

Virtualization is taking enterprise companies by storm, and ill-prepared IT managers might find themselves struggling against a proliferation of virtual machines (VM), increased configuration complexity and other management issues that come with widely deploying virtual servers.

E-mail hosting company Servers Australia was the victim of a hack attack on Friday which spammed its customers with offensive e-mails by assuming the company's domain name.

As part of the overhaul of its patch management tools, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released the next version of a tool that detects bad configurations that could leave users open to security vulnerabilities.

The list of all-too-familiar names - Nachi, Klez, Lovsan, SoBig, BugBear, Swen, Blaster and Yaha - represents only a sampling of the most prevalent worms and viruses that slithered into corporate networks this fall. But they all have one thing in common: Patches were readily available before most damage had been done. So why do these intruders continue to wreak such havoc?

When it comes to patch management, there's no one-size-fits-all approach to doing a job no one wants to do: update software for new features, or the more troubling task, fixing a security hole before a hacker or computer worm finds it.

Configuration management software vendor Ecora is adding support for Sun Microsystems ISolaris servers and Cisco Systems routers to its stable of modules that automate the collection of system settings.

IT executives are not only habitually concerned about how efficiently their Windows-based networks run, but how fast they can recover from inevitable failures.

Ecora Corp. is adding Lotus Domino and Oracle databases to its lineup of software that automates the collection of server configuration data.

Microsoft Corp.'s worldwide launch of Exchange 2000 next week will feature a host of partners pledging support for the messaging and collaboration platform.

With Windows 2000 starting to show up on the corporate landscape, a company called Ecora Corp. is moving to provide IT executives with a way to automatically document the configurations of the servers they deploy.