HP shelves virus-throttling product
15635
Virus Throttler, unveiled by HP in February, was one of two new security services developed by company researchers that debuted at the RSA Security Conference.
450948
(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. is leveraging Microsoft Corp. software in a new portfolio of storage products aimed at taking on EMC Corp. in the small-to-medium-sized (SMB) market. HP's StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) Storage Systems come in two models for a range of capacity needs, and can be installed in less than 10 clicks of a mouse, the company said. The systems provide storage, sharing, management, back-up and protection for SMBs' application and file data. The HP StorageWorks AiO400 has four drive bays with serial ATA (SATA) ports and capacity of 1T byte of networked storage for US$5,000. For SMBs that have bigger storage needs, the HP StorageWorks AiO600 has six drive bays in a rack or tower and can provide 1.5T bytes of SATA capacity for $6,700; 3T bytes of SATA capacity for $9,000 or 876G bytes of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) capacity for $9,250. SAS drives are typically more reliable and higher performing than SATA drives, and so storage devices with these drives cost more. The systems are based on Microsoft's Windows Storage Server and are specifically designed or Microsoft environments, HP said. The new AiO systems include point-and-click tools for working with both Microsoft Exchange messaging server and the SQL Server database. HP first announced it was planning networked storages for SMBs in July, saying it wanted to take on EMC in that market as well as capitalize on what IDC predicts will be a $5.7 billion market opportunity by 2010. The company designed the new offerings to be simple so SMBs can install and maintain them without a full-time IT department, HP said. HP plans to sell the AiO systems mainly through its channel partners, which the company said number more than 145,000 worldwide. Â
723475
(InfoWorld) - A Silicon Valley startup claims to boost computing security and reduce electric costs with a virtual desktop PC that uses no software or processor. The Pano device, a small silver cube announced by Pano Logic, a privately held company in Menlo Park, Calif., has no CPU, memory, software drivers, or OS, the company said. Instead, the device connects a user's keyboard, mouse, display and other peripherals connected by USB (Universal Serial Bus) to a version of Microsoft Windows Vista or XP running on a remote server. By reducing the amount of processing and data storage performed on each user's desktop, the approach is similar to thin-client PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard, Wyse Technology, and Neoware and PC blades sold by ClearCube Technology. Those vendors all say that users can increase IT security by storing crucial data on remote servers and save on PC management costs by allowing administrators to update software on a centralized server instead of multiple machines. Pano Logic says its approach improves on the model by stripping even the most basic processors and local storage devices from the desktop hardware, relying on a virtualized server running software from VMWare and Pano's server application. Without software, the Pano device is immune to worms and viruses and without a processor it consumes only 5 watts of power, a fraction of the typical PC electric draw, the company said. Pano Logic is likely to find an audience eager to hear about products that deal with those issues, one analyst said. "The goal for a lot of companies using products from the virtualization and software-as-a-service sectors is to do more with less, to get greater functionality without burdening the customer and without having so much software to install and maintain," said Jeff Kaplan, managing director of ThinkStrategies. "There's no question that customers are becoming more aware and more willing to adopt these solutions, because they're seeing that products like Salesforce.com can be more secure and more stable than their own in-house applications. So there's a good chance they could be safer and more productive." Pano Logic could quickly see its market spread beyond traditional thin-client PC users in vertical segments like banking and health care, Kaplan said. "We're seeing an evolution of the technology; it's been proven to work. And we're seeing an evolution in the way of thinking by customers, as they're willing to try the technology for its benefits in security and cost of management," he said. Pano Logic will sell the Pano devices beginning in September for subscription prices beginning at $20 per month.
693586
New utility from PivX keeps intruders out of Windows systems.
385332
Microsoft releases two free programs designed to help users keep PCs free of viruses and spyware.
82742
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has begun shipping a new product that the company thinks will give it an edge over rival IBM Corp. in the market for blade servers.
401276
Hewlett-Packard says it is putting 300GB hard drives into storage devices and servers, with more products in October.
439602
Antivirus software is now generally sold as a subscription-type service, which is helpful for keeping users up to date but potentially nightmarish when it's time to cancel accounts.
200272
Security pros have their say Anti-Virus vendorsâ¦
99173
HP, the world&#39;s second largest computer maker, on Friday introduced a number of consumer products including TVs in unveiling its fall product lineup for the Christmas season.
487542
SAN FRANCISCO--Hewlett-Packard plans to give customers a new weapon against viruses: software that crimps their spread. Early next year, the computer maker will begin selling software designed to slow the
394179
HP introduces a security technology that ensures printed documents get to the right people and protects against malware.
624271
New variant offers holiday greetings before infecting your PC with a virus.
326461
After unveiling cutting-edge technology for choking off the spread of viruses in March, Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is quietly shelving the project, citing conflicts with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system, a company executive said.
212843
(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard is enhancing security features on the HP-UX operating system for its Integrity line of servers amid growing customer concern about recent network security breaches. HP is announcing Monday the availability of a free upgrade to HP-UX 11i v2 that automatically encrypts data as it is stored. HP has offered this capability before, but this upgrade puts the encryption capability right into the operating system (OS). "If it's in the operating system, it's easily implemented without needing to do anything, and you're not going to break anything," said Charles Kolodgy, a research director at IDC focused on secure content and threat management products. IDC is about to release results of a survey of IT managers on their network security spending priorities for 2007, Kolodgy said. The survey will show that "file and folder encryption" has rocketed to the number one spot, from fifth in the 2006 survey, surpassing common concerns such as firewalls, network intrusion, viruses and spyware. What's changed in the last year is theÂ number of reports of serious security breaches, from theÂ U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs laptop stolenÂ in May and recovered in June, to the Dec. 12 report ofÂ hackers accessing personal information on 800,000Â current and prospective students at the University of California, Los Angeles. Sun Microsystems has added encryption capabilities to its Solaris OS that it originally offered only on its Trusted Solaris system for sensitive governmental use, Kolodgy said. And Microsoft is including an encryption feature called BitLocker in its new Vista OS. "They are all attempting to bring these solutions to the end user," he said, but he added that the HP upgrade is improved over prior HP offerings. HP is also offering an optional embedded chip on its Integrity servers that holds the digital keys to decrypt protected data. It claims this approach is more secure than software-based keys. Also, a new feature called HP Protected Systems allows a network security administrator to isolate certain data in unique compartments and configure different security settings for that data as needed. Adding encryption capabilities directly to storage hardware can require an expensive upgrade, which enterprises can avoid with an OS upgrade, said Ron Luman, the security architect for HP-UX. "What we have been asked to do [by customers] is provide something that is transparent to the applications and also transparent to the storage hardware, and so that means doing something to the operating system itself," Luman said.
599778
A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one (alleged) virus writer. Is it a bust?
260397
Early next year, the computer maker will begin selling software designed to slow the spread of viruses from its ProLiant servers and ProCurve networking equipment, an HP executive said on Tuesday.