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Dissident locations, other sensitive data interceptedLawmakes are urging everyone on Capitol Hill to have their computers checked for malware after discovering that people working from inside China hacked into multiple congressional machines and accessed locations of Chinese dissidents and other sensitive data..

SwapDrive swaps ownersSymantec Vision '08 Symantec has stealthily purchased the online storage firm SwapDrive, slipping a reported $123m into the startup's pocket to flesh-out the consumer side of Symantec's web services..

A Dublin company introduced a financial alerts service based on emerging data-crunching technology from Microsoft on Wednesday.Zignals is opening a beta of a new service that lets users set parameters about stock performance and receive text messages or e-mail when the parameters are met. The free service is designed for "someone who is active about managing their own portfolio of investments but not obsessed. We're talking about people who actively manage their investments but who have day jobs," said Pat Brazel, CEO of the new company.Microsoft is taking a 15 percent stake in Zignals and has two seats on the board.Zignals has an exclusive license to use new technology developed at Microsoft Research, until Microsoft formally launches a new group around the product in about a year. The Solver Foundation team, to be based in Redmond, Wash., will develop and market the new technology, which can be used to process very large amounts of data very quickly, said David Harnett, sen

Vendors at the Enterprise 2.0 conference tried to convince a group of seasoned IT pros that they should put all their data in the so-called cloud and leave it to outsiders to manage.

In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. The company's solutions include APC's InfraStruXure data center architecture, the comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. The company's products also include APC and MGE-brand uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), along with APC-brand precision cooling units, racks and design and management software.

Certeon's S-Series Application Acceleration Appliances provide solutions with Application Intelligent networking to deliver application acceleration, security and scalability from the desktop to the data center. Certeon's patent-pending S-Series appliances accelerate all WAN traffic and are optimized for distributed content delivery and collaboration applications such as: enterprise content management, work flow and process management, Web portals and search. S-Series appliances are the only solution to securely accelerate encrypted traffic (SSL) with the same performance improvements as unencrypted traffic. The appliances minimize network traffic to improve application response times, while maintaining end-to-end security. The result is the highest productivity possible for all remote branch office employees.

As data growth rates continue to climb and business requirements further evolve, customers are feeling the pressure to realign their storage infrastructure to better meet the needs of their business. Mr. Yoshida will discuss how storage virtualization is the key enabler towards the storage-based services required to deliver substantial breakthroughs in efficiency and business agility across the entire enterprise. He will discuss how storage-based services such as thin provisioning, content and file management and dynamic data migration, enabled via controller-based Virtualization, are paving the way for the Dynamic data Center of tomorrow.

The Apple iPhone 3G may be getting all the attention at this week's WWDC, but the unveiled of MobileMe could shape how people use computers and data on a broader scale. Computerworld columnist Michael DeAgonia explains how.

Sun Microsystems Friday is set to unveil open source code that can turn OpenSolaris-based servers into block-based storage devices.

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