Open source BI vendor Pentaho touts migration deal
August 31, 2009
Add open source BI (business intelligence) vendor Pentaho to the list of vendors rolling out financial incentives to lure customers during the global recession. On Monday, the company will announce a new migration program along with the launch of its 3.5 release. Under the “Escape” offer, users of A…
EMC to resell VMware management software
August 31, 2009
EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping enterprises build private clouds. The combination of Ionix and VMware vCenter AppSpeed will allow IT departments to both measure the performance of a…
Users quote HP printer problems after Snow Leopard upgrade
August 31, 2009
Mac users who upgraded to Snow Leopard on Friday began reporting problems with Hewlett-Packard (HP) printers within hours of Apple launching the upgrade, according to the company’s support forums. Some were infuriated that their long-reliable printer was not currently supported by Snow Leopard, whil…
Skype spy Trojan escapes into wild
August 31, 2009
Only days after Swiss programmer Ruben Unteregger released the source code for a Trojan he wrote three years ago to hack Skype phone calls, the inevitable has happened — someone has released it as a compiled piece of “faux” malware.
Cloud-enterprise integrations readied for Amazon EC2 users
August 31, 2009
Cast Iron Systems is looking to manufacture it easier for users of cloud applications on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to integrate with their in-house enterprise systems.
VMware unwraps virtualization management tools
August 31, 2009
VMware has revealed several new virtualization management products to be announced at VMworld Monday, but is so far shying away from any big-ticket announcements.
Unpatched flaw could take down Microsoft’s IIS server
August 31, 2009
A hacker has posted cipher that could be used to take by a system running Microsoft IIS (Internet info Services) server. The software, which was posted to the Milw0rm Web site on Monday, could be a big problem for some webmasters, however the attack appears to work only on older versions of Microsof…