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Few reports have surfaced of security breaches in virtual-server environments, but the potential looms large.

Digital information is being created at a faster pace than previously thought, and for the first time the amount of digital information created each year has exceeded the world's available storage space, according to a new IDC report.

EnterpriseWizard this week is releasing the 2.0 version of its CRM application, a product built on top of its SaaSWizard Web application development platform and designed to be easily customizable.

Heather Carver faced major dilemmas when she became the IT director at Windsor Unified School District in California one year ago. There was no virus protection, no data backup, and upgrading to current Microsoft technologies would have cost more than US$100,000, half of the district's IT budget. Buying security from Trend Micro to cover all seven schools would have cost US$200,000 a year.

Weary of answering late-night alerts and troubleshooting calls, Bethany King finally had enough. Six months ago, she closed the book on a 12-year stretch as an IT storage administration professional to become an IT auditor.

Without a doubt, the most influential factor driving the current state of IT security is the ubiquitous presence of Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system on a vast majority of the world's PCs.

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High-performance computing (HPC) is emerging as a critical business need for companies that use simulation and virtualization to test and design products, because such companies can potentially cut product development time and improve speed to market. "Our innovation process is insatiable and perpetual," said Thomas Lange, director of corporate research and development, modeling, and simulation at Cincinnati-based The Proctor & Gamble Co., and "our need for speed is huge."

I can recall back in the last century when I first began writing stories about e-mail snooping and the need to monitor Internet misuse by employees in the workplace. Remember the 1990s when the evils of the Internet first made news headlines and organizations were forced to pay multimillion dollar settlements to employees who had been exposed to explicit porn via e-mail?

Symantec CEO John Thompson Tuesday found himself again defending his company's planned purchase of Veritas amid continued investor concerns about the company's strategy and fears of Microsoft's looming presence in the security market.

Benevolent entanglement. The phrase might be a mouthful, but the concept is what building an extended enterprise network ought to be all about, says Brandon Lackey, portal program manager at US energy industry giant Halliburton. In other words, involve customers and suppliers in a business ecosystem that provides such high value, so simply, few would leave it.