Avatech Solutions Appoints Bruce White to Vice President of Infrastructure Solutions
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Avatech Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:AVSO.OB), the nationwide technology experts for design, engineering, and facilities management, today announced they have appointed Bruce White to head the Infrastructure Solutions Group.
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EMC has appointed Jeff Nick, the former chief architect of IBM&#39;s grid computing initiative, as its senior vice-president and chief technology officer (CTO).
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Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results.
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i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO), today announced that Matthew Elson has been named senior vice president of the company's Agile Business Process Platform Technologies Group.
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VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc., a platform-enabled biopharmaceutical  company using embryonic stem cell technologies for drug discovery and  development, has named Matthew W. Kalnik, Ph.D., as Executive Vice  President, Head of Business Development.  Dr.
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Vishal Sikka, formerly senior vice president and chief software architect at SAP, is now responsible for ensuring a "clear and harmonized roadmap" for the company's products.
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EMC has hired the former chief architect of IBM&#39;s grid computing initiative as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Hopkinton, Mass.
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Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC) today announced the appointment of  Christopher Kuppig as Vice President of Business Development,  Publishing.
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The business applications maker will integrate its technology more closely with infrastructure software from Big Blue.
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ClearCube Technology, the market leader in PC blade centralized computing solutions, today announced an OEM agreement with virtualization software leader VMware to deliver a new PC blade virtualization solution for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
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WHO:  Richard Brashears, corporate vice president, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), will represent the Cadence(R) Space-Based Router team on behalf of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
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Jason Oates, Datran Media's vice president of media services, a leading provider of performance-based email marketing solutions, will lead an interactive lab at the 2007 Marketing Sherpa Email Summit + Bootcamp, Awards &amp; Expo.
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Omnilink Systems, a leader in the Vital Status Services (VSS) sector  announced today the appointment of wireless and technology veteran Stas  Wolk as Senior Vice President of Sales.
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Sylantro Systems Corp., the leading supplier of feature servers for  hosted VoIP services in carrier networks, today announced the  appointment of Frank Salm to vice president of marketing.
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(InfoWorld) - Itâs not easy being Ben Fathi. As corporate vice president of Microsoftâs Security Technology Unit, Fathi took the place of longtime STU leader Mike Nash in March amid a larger management shake-up just days after Microsoft announced that the shipment date for Vista was slipping yet again. After Nashâs high-profile tenure, Fathiâs charge is more subtle: building what he calls a âtrust ecosystemâ around Vista and its new security features and promoting the companyâs secure development practices. But first he must help get Vista out the door. Fathi sat down to talk with InfoWorld Senior Editor Paul Roberts at the recent Security Standard Conference in Boston about Vistaâs progress, and the world after Vista. InfoWorld: Recently thereâs been some back and forth with Symantec about issues such as Vistaâs Kernel Patch Protection feature for 64-bit systems, as well as some public criticism of Vista code for having security holes. What should enterprise folks make of that? Ben Fathi: First, on the paper Symantec published: We thank them for their input. I think itâs unusual for a partner to go public with a paper like this on a beta product, but they did identify a few issues. To the best of my knowledge, all those were already fixed in more recent beta releases. We love to hear feedback on beta products. Thatâs why weâre in beta. Itâs a test. Weâll fix them as long as they report them to us. As for the kernel patching, we fundamentally believe that the current model of kernel patching is broken and not sustainable. We never recommended it or supported it on any version of our operating systems. As weâve been telling our vendor partners, this is the only chance we have, as 64-bit computing becomes available, to start with a clean architecture and build on top of that. We want to work with you to find ways to extend the kernel functionality by having a clean architecture, APIs, and filters. â¦ instead of patching instructions and data structures in the kernel. In the long term, what we want to do is move a lot of these functionalities to a hypervisor that sits under the kernel to make the kernel even smaller and the trusted computing base even more secure. We still have a window of opportunity here. â¦ and weâre working with two or three vendors in the space to come up with that kind of architecture. One of the other comments thatâs been made is that [Kernel Patch Protection] is anti-trust. That weâll go back in with our own products and get around it. Thatâs absolutely not true. Weâd never do that. IW: You recently patched a beta version of Vista. Is it a bad sign that youâre patching beta Vista? BF: I believe that Vista is significantly more secure than any version of XP or anything else weâve shipped in the past. Just SDL (secure development lifecycle) in general and the process of penetration testing and hardening kernel services. These all created a stronger, defense in depth strategy. What I would say is, Yeah, there will be patches and vulnerabilities as we move forward. What weâre hoping is that by creating these layers of defense, weâre giving customers, especially enterprise customers, a longer time to test and make sure things are not broken. IW: Do you see your job description and responsibilities changing after Vista? BF: There are six different areas that we call âBig Betsâ that have been identified in my division. I will mention two. The first, Application ID, is a way to identify an application that includes an executable, the library it uses, configuration files, registry settings, any patches that are applied to it. So youâll have a cryptographically signed version of the application, and youâll be able to identify that and whitelist or blacklist that. When we talk about a trust ecosystem today, the ability to trust people based on an ID and trust machines based on an ID, we canât do that with applications. If itâs called powerpoint.exe, we go and run it. So having strong IDs based on the application and [making] sure they havenât been tampered with after download is an important investment for us. The second area is isolation. Creating guest operating systems that sit on top of hypervisors allow us to create better isolation mechanisms so that even if malware comes in, it only affects one subset of the machine and not everything else. Weâve done some great work on server hypervisors and server virtualization. We need to extend that to the client. Weâre seeing partners do that already, and so weâre going to invest in that space.
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(Fluke Networks)  When a business expands an existing facility, adds a new location, incorporates an influx of new users, or upgrades an existing infrastructure - it's vital to ensure network readiness and validate infrastructure changes to optimize network performance, minimize user downtime and reduce problems after implementation. This white paper describes a methodology to manage network changes that meets the need for speed of implementation without sacrificing accuracy.
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By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Sep. 10--Cisco Systems recognized Advanced Technical Solutions in Scott Depot for implementation of the Cisco Unified Communications as a managed solution for C. J. Hughes Construction in Huntington.