IT SECTOR

That's about, August 1, must allow extending from the beginning of spring conflict between the owners of the shares and top managers Yahoo. However, the historic meeting of shareholders will take place only on the day following the release of this issue newspapers, so that your humble servant can only clarify the placement of forces before the event. The second-largest shareholder of Yahoo Gordon Crawford could not support the current leaders of companies in the forthcoming elections board of directors. According to the American media, Crawford dissatisfied with the actions of Roy Bostoka Yahoo chairman and CEO of Jerry Yang. In doing so, Capital Research and Management owns one of the largest blocks of shares of Yahoo - 6,5%. And earlier this week Yahoo reported that the online music store Yahoo Music Store closes with music servers, protected from copying technology DRM. As stated in a press release, all servers will be closed, starting in September 2008. As a result, users will ...

Five leading information technology companies - Cisco, IBM, Intel Corporation, Juniper Networks and Microsoft Corp. -- Formed an industry consortium to strengthen Internet security. This nonprofit organization is designed to strengthen the global information technology security through innovative preventive measures to improve the efficiency of combating threats. Over the past few years the nature of such threats on the Internet has changed dramatically. Instead of viruses and worms have appeared much more sophisticated hacking attempts simultaneous multiple products or common protocols in several products. The agreements will allow the leading IT manufacturers to collaborate and reflect the attack perpetrated against products while several suppliers. The consortium will provide the basis for customer support and create a neutral methods permit (without the participation of government) major global incidents in the area of information technology security. Generally, the increasing comp...

The term "Unified Communications" appeared quite recently, but already evident: it is defining a new trend in the development of custom telecommunications. With regard to home users is already well known service Triple Play (data transmission services, voice and video on the same Carrier Networks, as an option - Multiple Play). In addition, a number of principles "unified communications" for private PC users are trying to realize the framers of the latest versions of the most popular Communicator - ICQ. As for corporate users, it is not all so simple and unambiguous. On the "unified communications" in the segment of corporate communications there is no common understanding - that they must include themselves in and what business functions to provide. But we do try to answer some questions. Namely: What benefits of "unified communications"? How do they put into practice now? As with these things in the U.S., Europe, Russia, Belarus? And start from...

In recent years, development of the Internet has made considerable heights. Curve growth in the number of users worldwide network - eloquent proof. However, talk of further development of the Network falls in the context of extensive: Internet successfully developed and will evolve, however, the effectiveness of the use of its resources constantly decreasing. For scientific purposes, and some tasks, even existing megabitnyh velocities clearly not enough… One of the tasks for next-generation network, is to increase the speed of information transfer up to 10 Gbit/s. And this is just the beginning… Internet. A brief digression It all started in the distant 1962, when ARPA research on military applications of computer technology led by Dr. JCR Licklider, who proposed to use for these purposes interaction of government computers. The main idea of this "experiment" was to build a network of functionally equal nodes, each of which would have some autonomy and would have its own rece...

On the topic of information security progovoreno already done. And that the problem worse year after year - too. Every once in informbezopasnosti for companies and government agencies are found all the new gaps. Last year, for example, insiders were major problems and loss of data due to simple negligence. Now there are new problems. An increasing spread in the world receives remote work. Typically, these officers perform their duties, staying at home and interacting with the business via telephone and through computer networks. For companies implementing schemes work remotely employees who perform some kind of intellectual work extremely profitable. Exempt jobs in offices, reduced turnover, increased productivity. But in terms informbezopasnosti increase in the number of remote workers this most noticeably reduces security. This is especially true of finance, business services and software development. Among the risks associated with the creation of remote jobs - to open suspicious e-...

New IP-cameras and access control systems allow reliably protect the buildings, corporate offices and mobile environments The company Cisco announced the expansion of a family of products for physical security, called Cisco ® Connected Physical Security. Now this product line includes new features IP-video surveillance and electronic access controls that facilitate the convergence of information technology and physical security systems, enabling customers to integrate existing system of physical protection of IT infrastructure. The company Cisco is going to bring to market new IP-camera and the first in its history, physical access control system. Sharing these products provides an opportunity to clearly monitor the situation and take effective solutions. Advanced Cisco portfolio of products for security help customers build the best in its class cost mobile infrastructure physical protection of high flexibility and compatibility. The new system reflects Cisco physical security strateg...

To meet the growing demand for solutions for corporate governance IT-risk, protection of data and meet regulatory requirements, the company Cisco announced the expansion of its proposals in this area and make network Self-Defending Network (samozaschischayuschayasya network) in a broader system solution that provides overall protection networks, as well as a wide variety of devices, terminals, applications and content. The company Cisco announced on improving protection for terminal devices, systems prevent incursions, firewalls and means of screening applications, monitoring and analysis of security solutions for centralized management of corporate rules, as well as many other hardware and software protection. Among them, Cisco Security Agent 6.0, Cisco Intrusion Prevention System 6.1, Cisco Security Monitoring Analysis Response System 6.0, Cisco Security Manager 3.2, incorporating the functions of Web-filtering routers in the Cisco ISR, modernization modules firewalls Cisco Firewall ...

As usual, in anticipation of the end of the year IT-industry is taking stock and compiling plans for next year. But it is, well, routine. The most visionary top managers - "vizionery" - trying to capture the main trends, which follow in 2008 - year will yield maximum profits and losses izbezhatneopravdannyh. Is fair to say that the cause of world IT-business situation is not bad at the moment, as market forecasts for the most optimistic. Experts organization Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has finally been published the results of an analytical study of the state of the world market for semiconductors in October 2007. It turned out that this month (just 60 years later, after the invention of semiconductor transistor) chip sales rose compared with last year at 5% up to $ 23.1 billion If you compare these figures with September, the deal with growth at 2%. Most experts are inclined to assert that the semiconductor market growth was triggered primarily stable segment of...

New IP-cameras and access control systems allow reliably protect complexes of buildings, corporate offices and mobile environments The company announced the expansion of Cisco family of products for physical security called Cisco ® Connected Physical Security. Now the product lineup includes new features of IP video surveillance and electronic access control, which facilitate the convergence of information technology and physical security systems, allowing customers to integrate existing systems for the physical protection of IT infrastructure. The company Cisco is going to bring to market new IP cameras and the first in its history, physical access control system. Sharing of these products provides an opportunity to clearly monitor the situation and take effective action. Advanced Cisco portfolio of products to help customers build security best-in-class cost mobile infrastructure physical protection of high flexibility and compatibility. The latest system for physical security strate...

Improved protection of end points, firewalls, a means of preventing intrusions, security routers, as well as management tools that improve the security of networks, end points, applications and content. San Jose (California), April 8, 2008 - To meet the growing demand for corporate solutions for the management of IT risks, protect data and meet regulatory requirements, the company announced the Cisco expand its proposals in this regard and make the network Self-Defending Network (samozaschischayuschayasya network) in the wider system solution that provides general protection of networks, as well as a wide variety of terminal devices, applications and content. New solutions to the security of Cisco empowers the protection of corporate information technology infrastructures from malicious programs and deal with the loss of data, corporate compliance with safety regulations and welcomed the legislative and regulatory requirements. Today, as the network becomes the platform for a variety o...

The company Apple was rightly a major gleaned in 2007. And news of the "Apple" in most cases were purely positive. Let's try to deal with what the company has come to the final year and preparing what surprises us all in the coming 2008. The success of today Fresh version of Mac OS X, updated line of iPod players and Makov together will lead Apple to another record quarter, analysts believe. Recently, the American report has been sent to banks, which contains the conclusions of the main channels of distribution Apple and its Asian suppliers. As it turned out, on average, at the warehouses now in a three-week margin products (Macs and players), although this figure is usually one and a half, if not twice as much. It is noted that the decline was caused not by artificially restricting production - it is running at full capacity - and a very high user demand, which once again exceeded expectations. Experts expected that this quarter will be sold around 2.2 million trees and ...