Datamation Staff

Spanish criminals who stole bank details from computers around the world did not realize the power of the illegal network they had created which could have paralyzed an entire country’s computer systems, police said. Police gave a news conference on Wednesday, a day after they arrested three people for what they believe to have been […]

Sybase: The data explosion in the last few years is well documented. Unfortunately, as enterprise data warehouses grow, the analysis and reporting tools which use that data can slow. However, a columnar approach to database management can alleviate some of those problems. This white paper compares row-based and column-based approaches to databases and elaborates the […]

McAfee: In this white paper, researchers from McAfee detail the six-step process that allowed hackers to gain access to company servers in recent, well-publicized attacks. It lays much of the blame for the problem on software configuration management (SCM) systems that were not properly secured. It exposes the security flaws contained in some of the […]

Microsoft Corp made its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, calling its Internet rival’s actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators. The broadside comes days after a Microsoft-owned business, along with two other small online companies, complained to European Union regulators about Google’s operations there. Microsoft is […]

Intel: Working with DreamWorks Animation, several Intel employees developed an innovative technique for optimizing common Linux bottlenecks without any source or build system changes. To do it, they used LD_PRELOAD to preload highly optimized libraries from Intel Thread Building Blocks, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives and run-time libraries provided with Intel C++ Compiler for Linux. The […]

HP: Small, individual IT teams can sometimes lose sight of the big picture in IT operations. Sometimes, multiple teams work separately to solve the same problem, adding unnecessary expense. Consolidated operations brings sanity back to the IT department by eliminating duplicate effort, streamlining communication, resolving as many incidents as possible at tier 1, and escalating […]

Software giant Microsoft Corp has won a U.S. court approval to deactivate a global network of computers that the company accused of spreading spam and harmful computer codes, the Wall Street Journal said. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, granted a request by Microsoft to deactivate 277 Internet domains, which the software maker said is […]

ArcSight: Being able to quickly search log files benefits everyone in an IT operation. For CIOs, it aids in the process of cutting costs. It helps security managers analyze on-going or previous threats. And it assists operations teams in resolving performance and availability issues. This white paper explains why integrated search is the best option […]

CA: Everyone knows that IT offers great advantages to business; the difficulty lies in figuring out which IT initiatives offer the greatest business benefit and how much they add to the bottom line. Fortunately, service portfolio management (SPM) offers a technique for determining the business value of IT. This white paper first explains the challenges […]

Xerox Corp has sued Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, accusing them of infringing the document management company’s patents related to Internet search. In a lawsuit filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, Xerox said Google’s Web-based services such as Google Maps, YouTube and AdSense advertising software, as well as Web tools including […]

HP: Performance testing should never be an afterthought in the development process, but incorporating it into Agile processes can be difficult. Developers must consider service-level objectives, focused performance testing, test data preparation, trending, reusable and shared testing assets, automated testing , continual analysis, and component testing. This paper considers each of these in detail, explains […]

Intel: Having the right hardware can make it easier to use new software. For example, Intel explains that its “Core 2 processor with vPro technology complements the new Windows 7 operating system by building effective trusted computing and management mechanisms into the hardware.” The white paper goes on to explain why an upgrade to Windows […]