Virtualization for your DMZ?
Defense and intell agencies would like to use virtualization to give users access to system of different security levels from one machine, but some experts doubt whether the idea can work.
Open source remote sensing
Ball Aerospace has released into open source its Opticks software, which analyzes remote sensing data.
MindTouch updates Deki wiki
MindTouch has updated its advanced Wiki software, MindTouch Deki.
Securing the virtual world
The move to virtualization raises questions about security, as researchers seek to demonstrate ways to break out of a virtualized container and into the host system.
Garth Gibson | Faster storage systems through parallelism
GCN Interview: Garth Gibson, one of the inventors of the RAID storage system discusses the development of the Parallel Network File System protocol, an effort to standardize parallel operations.
Perl vision gets sharper
Perl creator Larry Wall has ambitious plans for the next version of his language, but remains mum as ever on its release date.
Twitter for the enterprise
New open source software, called Laconica, provides a federated Twitter-like microblogging service.
Web 2.0: Back to the future?
Web 2.0 initiatives such as cloud computing and the programmable Web could take us back to the days of proprietary centralized systems, according to Tim O'Reilly.
EMC updates Documentum
Documentum 6.5 features collaboration, multimedia support, off-line synchronization.
Vizioncore updates backup, management tools
Vizioncore has updated it vCharter Pro virtualization monitoring software and its vRanger Pro virtualized environments backup software.
Symantec products Common Criteria-certified
Symantec access control and security packages get Evaluation Assurance Level 2 certification.
Annotating Java in spring
Java developers using the Java Spring framework should welcome its recent support for annotations, which could take care of many mundane construction and configuration duties.
Security is no secret
NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems.
JPEG 2000 a viable alternative to TIFF
Study shows JPEG 2000 image format is suitable for archiving and takes less disk space than TIFF.
Oracle releases critical updates
This latest round of patches fixes Oracle buffer overflows, denial-of-service attack points and other vulnerabilities.
TCS thin client SABI-certified
Trusted Computer Solutions' thin client desktop system is certified to communicate with both a classified and an unclassified network.
Navy gets new supercomputer
The Navy will use the machine principally for oceanographic modeling and weather forecasting. Such data will help the Navy steer its own ships clear of potentially damaging storms.
Fort Lewis invests in translation devices
The Army's Fort Lewis military reservation has procured 92 one-way translators that contain a database of English phrases translated into key languages spoken throughout the Middle East for soldiers deploying to Iraq.
'Prefetching' scheme saves time, energy
Researchers have figured out a way to maintain access to data on a computer hard disk that has powered down to conserve energy.
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