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Tours of Microsoft's gargantuan, under-construction San Antonio and Chicago data centers reveal state-of-the art IT infrastructures on an immense scale.

Fortinet has acquired the software sold by IPLocks, a San Jose, Calif., vendor of database security software.The acquisition will give Fortinet, best known as a seller of UTM (unified threat management) products, a new line of database security and auditing tools. These products will continue to be sold under the IPLocks brand.Although Fortinet had provided network-based database protection, "this gives us a much more granular focus on application database security," said Anthony James, vice president of products with Fortinet. "It dovetails into our strategy of moving the company toward enterprise application security."The deal was signed last week but announced on Tuesday. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Founded in 2002, IPLocks sells software that can be used to test databases for software bugs and also help meet the auditing requirements laid out by regulations such as the Payment Card Industry data Security and Sarbanes-Oxley standards. The company's

Research providers, including Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters, are employing semantic technologies to turn data into information.

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why do enterprises set out to build a Service Oriented Architecture, but end up with a 'Service Averse Architecture'? There are many promises being made about the potential of SOA these days, followed by disillusionment as these promises don't pan out. However, SOA is more than a single IT project or even a series of implementations. Rather, SOA represents a long-term change in thinking and management of all aspects of the enterprise. SOA not only decomposes technology into loosely coupled systems, but also decomposes organizations into 'loosely coupled businesses.' This session will look at the latest survey data on ways organizations are embracing service oriented architecture, and how far along the road most are from full-func

While less than one in 10 developers polled in the spring by Evans data analysts are building for Windows Vista, half of them are developing software for Windows XP.

(Source: SAS) Learn how to clean up data in the operational system before people want to use it in a warehouse -- no matter if it is structured or unstructured data. When it comes to really getting the most for your money with business intelligence investments, data integration is the foundation upon which success rests.

The data explosion has made information storage management more critical. Major issues and trends in storage technology are injecting complexity. Industry experts identify some of these influencing factors on the enterprise.

(Source: Oracle) An integrated new high availability-disaster recovery solution enhances quality of service while reducing cost and complexity. IDG tests the new Oracle Active data Guard option to assess its value to DBAs. Plus, access an IDC Executive Brief entitled 'Two Birds, One Stone: A Single Approach to Ensure Continuous Database Availability and Better performance.'

SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful semantics embedded in data are often inadequately considered when architecting and implementing large scale real-time SOA applications. This talk will introduce several real-time data-centric technologies that specifically address the challenges of wide-scale, real-time data distribution, as well as how these technologies seamlessly integrate into existing SOA frameworks. Examples will be drawn from military and aerospace applications that are already seeing success with real-time, highly distributed SOA applications.

Among those who benefit from expanded video publishing: Cisco and network equipment providers who lay the pipe to move IP data....