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Xiotech announces new array, management software

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Computerworld - Xiotech Corp. announced on Friday that it will soon be shipping three new products including new storage analysis software and an updated version of its storage array with up to 1.8 petabytes of RAIDed storage.

The product set is aimed at virtual desktop environments, enabling more efficient management of random I/O storage traffic by allowing centralized management and on-the-fly volume creation, as well as real-time data analytics for performance-sensitive applications.

The company also announced the next release of its ICE Manager software. Version 2.5 can now manage all of Xiotech’s ICE-based arrays through a single user interface. Previously, the storage arrays had to be managed through separate interfaces.

Xiotech’s new storage array, the Emprise 9000, follows the Emprise 7000-series box and is based on the company’s existing 3U (5.25-in. high) storage blade technology that Xiotech calls an Intelligent Storage Element

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Despite iPhone woes recent report says Apple is on the rise in the enterprise

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A survey conducted by ITIC/Sunbelt (Information Technology Intelligence Corp.) has some good news in it for Apple in this week of uncharacteristically harsh criticism over the iPhone 4 issues. According to the survey interest in Macs, iPads, and yes, iPhones, is significantly up among business users as compared to the last survey.

Of note:

  • When asked to rate satisfaction with the performance, reliability and security of Apple devices, approximately two-thirds of participants rated the performance and reliability of Apple devices as “Excellent” or “Very Good.”
  • 23 percent of surveyed IT managers said they’ve already purchased or ordered the iPad and another 18 percent said they plan to purchase an iPad within the next nine months.
  • Of those who already have iPads, 86% were using them for both personal and business uses.
  • 82 percent of participants said they use their iPhones to access

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How much security is enough?

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Security professionals have an interesting job. They manage existing security controls while eternally looking for gaps in their organization’s defenses. Recognized gaps often result in analysts running to the favored security vendor for another application, appliance, or service. But is this the best approach financially or “defensively”?  Probably not.

The challenge

Many organizations approach security like players of Whack-a-Mole.  (See Figure A, 360digest.com.)  Placing basic security controls in place, they wait for the next emerging threat and whack it with a virtual mallet.  This process continues without end and without any real protection strategy. The one-off approach may protect the organization, but related costs are probably much higher than necessary. In addition, integrating new business solutions simply expands the number of holes from which moles might stick out their little furry heads.

Figure A

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Apple approves Mozilla’s Firefox Home iPhone app

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Computerworld - Mozilla today announced that its Firefox Home iPhone application has been accepted to the App Store, and is available for downloading.

The program is not a full-fledged version of Firefox, but instead is a spin-off of the bookmark and tab synchronization technology it currently offers as an add-on to the desktop browser.

Mozilla submitted Firefox Home to the App Store on June 30.

The wait was longer than for most proposed apps, according to recent comments by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. In remarks last month at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Jobs claimed that 95% of the submissions it receives are approved, most of them in less than a week.

Firefox Home gives users access to their browser bookmarks and history, as well as to the open tabs from their most recent Firefox sessions. The iPhone application also includes technology

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Take a look at the Ubuntu-based malware analysis toolkit REMnux

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Security Consultant Lenny Zeltser has released a lightweight version of Ubuntu that includes a collection of malware analysis tools and runs as a VMware Virtual Appliance.

Zeltser says that REMnux is especially useful for running services in an isolated lab environment in order to perform behavioral analysis on malware infections introduced to the lab environment. It can also be used to study web-based threats, such as malicious JavaScript, Java programs, and Flash files, or for analyzing  malicious documents, including Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files. Here is a list of some of the tools and utilities contained in REMnux from Zeltser’s blog entry for it:

  • Analyzing Flash malware: swftools, flasm, flare
  • Analyzing IRC bots: IRC server (Inspire IRCd) and client (Irssi). To launch the IRC server, type “ircd start”; to shut it down “ircd stop”. To launch the IRC client, type

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