Ex-Intel worker charged with $1B data theft
Big time data theft event, this time by an employee leaving Intel to go to work for AMD. A Worcester, Mass. man has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth more than $1 billion. Biswamohan Pani, 33, was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets from Intel’s Hudson, Mass. facility and downloading confidential documents from Intel […]
Industry indicators
Are test equipment sales a bellwether of the telecommunications and technology industry prospects? I have been looking for macro indicators of what will happen in the telecommunications industry. We specialize in data security for telecommunications. Data security is a big issue for companies in flux – firing employees, turning more to outside contractors and merging […]
EMC Atmos – cloud storage
I had heard about this EMC startup but didn’t know much about what they really do. My friend Arik Blum from HP takes the time to send interesting technology updates to his own private distribution list. Atmos is COS “cloud optimised storage”, with web services such as SOAP and REST for access. Cloud Optimized Storage(COS) […]
The credit crunch, Cisco and Nortel
I was talking with my friend Gennady Weizman yesterday about medium term (as in the next 6-18 months) impact of the current financial markets crisis on the tech market. Most of our business is in the telecom industry – so I have an interest in whether our clients will have money to spend. it appears […]
Blu-ray is dead, I told you so.
Over a year ago I wrote that proprietary content protection schemes like HDCP and AACS would drive production and ownership costs of high-definition content so high as to be uneconomical for the consumer mass market. Blu-Ray copy protection was broken in the beginning of 2007, but the HDCP black-listing scheme defied the laws of physics […]
User BI applications – think before you go for it
According to research by Gartner: “IT won’t have much of a role in the emerging business-intelligence technology as the tools make it easier for users to build their own analytic applications. To address users’ increasing independence, Gartner suggests that IT departments incorporate the new technologies into the standard BI architecture, communicate which performance measures should […]
Host your own SaaS with Open Source – the potential of Mosso
Show me a profitable business application-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. There is a lot of trade talk about the success of Salesforce.com. Here is a company with a $3.2BN market cap as of Oct 26, 2008 currently trading at 24 down from 72, 5 months ago. In 2007 – SF.com posted a net income of $480K on […]
Triple play in South Africa
Safika-controlled Goal Technology Solutions (GTS) and Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, have designs on delivering affordable TV services to SA households. Neither will need a pay-TV licence from the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) as the service, which is delivered on demand, is not technically defined as broadcasting. operators could soon face competition from ISPs […]
7 tips to improve security in a tough economy
Are you waiting for the next Gartner Security Report, making plans to evaluate some technology your CEO might not approve after she slashes your funding and maybe your job? As a security professional, you can blame hackers, buggy software and the economy – or you can do something different. “Life is what happens to you […]
Ubuntu in Warsaw
I was in Warsaw two weeks ago on a data loss project and walking down the street – lo and behold – I run into this. It’s hard to see in this little picture but one of the sponsors of www.ubuntu.pl is Subaru. Someone seems to have stolen the hubcaps which is an indication of […]
