Big Fish, Little Fish

The industry is full of fairy tale of a big fish that swallowed fish. This is not always a bad thing, but it can sometimes leave you what the fate of the fish rarely than the long-term (see "unfair fighting?", January 2007).

A recent engulfed by the big fish Microsoft is not involved. Symantec company and the various fish on the West Coast, recently acquired low. Although It may not be entirely accurate to call the low point of fish, it was swallowed up, however : bright yellow fish Symantec It is a typical discovery or coastal areas near the Apple, has just signed an agreement to annexation freshwater low.

Going to be before the shareholders are expected to be low 33 yuan, or common low cash on hand, so the final value of the transaction approximately 830 million US dollars net. This is a very big network. Of course, the transaction has been approved up and down the food chain, but it is expected to be held later this month, the second the first three quarters of this year. Symantec in other news, the company has just issued a VERITAS Backup 6.0.

Backup reporter, let you verify backup service levels, comply with and implement backup as a shared IT services. As part of this process, the backup reporter, let you keep closely monitor data management, backup consolidation and reporting from non-homogeneous environment . As a backup running backup and recovery as a discrete operation, it is very suitable as a tool to manage the service provider. It can determine the use of resources in different customer environments, you can use The data for billing purposes.

Whale of a snack talking about a big fish that swallowed the fish, if you feel that you head Why is Microsoft a big fish occupy the whale communication, here your answer.

As this issue went to press, Microsoft launched its intelligent application Gateway (IAG) 2007. The SSL VPN solutions combine technology from the acquisition whale communication with Microsoft ISA Server firewall. Integration of the two provide an integrated application of the network perimeter defense, remote access endpoint security management and application-level protection.

As part of this release, Microsoft is revising its pricing and licensing model for the Association of Geodesy, make it easier for small and medium-sized fish, in order to protect their own reef with Microsofts SSL VPN. Whales were more complex licensing model, so you rest assured to hear Microsoft is its standard model.

Large dog, a little dog This is not only fish swallowed each other. Shavlik technology companies just acquired all the rights to the St. Bernard updateexpert software product line. Shavlik bear full responsibility for the care and feeding of all existing updateexpert customers.

Patch and remediation is still a growing market, and a new report from IDC company demonstrated safety and vulnerability management market is expected to grow nearly 17 per cent, to 3.4 billion US dollars a year, to 2010. Through joint efforts, shavlik and St. Bernard has been putting more teeth into its comprehensive and non-invasive assessment, expansion secure database and integrated security configuration, policy and performance management.

Talk about eating your own dog food. As part of the agreement, St. Bernard will be relocated their own internal security assessment and repair process shavlik to protect the netchk 5.8. Both companies will be in the process of finalizing other long-term product planning policies to continue to watch more and more details of the notice from both sides shavlik and St. Bernard in the next few months the implementation.

Beware of dolphins More news from the aquatic world: in the official website of the dolphin stadium recent release of malicious code . Websense Security Labs found irregularities. Dolphins Stadium site has been with (Bill Gates huge number of visitors because it is the familys Super Bowl 41.

Websense found to connect to a malicious document inserted into the JavaScript header the front page of the web site. site visitors will be the implementation of the script inadvertently.

script, and then attempt to take advantage of two vulnerabilities, both of which would then try to download and execute malicious document. Websense notify the company website owners and operators, but because of After the Friday before the Super Bowl is still compromised. But who would have thought the dolphins will be a threat to the Colts or Bear?