Stories about: NetApp

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today responded to Data Domain’s announcement that its board of directors has recommended that Data Domain stockholders reject EMC Corporation’s (NYSE: EMC) offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock, not tender their shares to EMC pursuant to EMC’s offer, and vote in favor of the merger with NetApp.

Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.

For managers of enterprise datacenters, the endless stream of security patches from Microsoft, Oracle, and other software vendors (not to mention open source projects) has been a prime source of frustration. For Blue Lane Technologies, it has provided a golden opportunity.

When it comes to the Web's domain name system (DNS), many otherwise vigilant CSOs heed the adage of leaving well enough alone.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is coming; early adopters say it's a friendly invasion.

How does your company enforce data security? I bet most of your answers will involve procedures based on host applications that have varying degrees of sophistication, depending on how much is at stake with a security breach.

Security experts call it the soft underbelly of the Internet, and hackers, having drawn first blood, are ripping at it with new enthusiasm.