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Trust, or the lack thereof, is a key factor with respect to the adoption of the Hosted Application and the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The case could be made that data is the most important asset of any business application—data about products, customers, employees, suppliers, and more. In a hosted model, an organization must surrender a level of …

Layang-layang yang biasa kita mainkan ternyata telah ada sejak ribuan tahun silam. Bahkan, menurut sejumlah sumber sejarah, layang-layang sudah ada sebelum ditemukannya tulisan. Layang-layang sendiri diyakini berasal dari daratan China yang kemudian dibawa oleh pedagangnya keliling dunia. Namun, versi sejarah lain mengatakan bahwa layang-layang berasal dari Indonesia atau Malaysia. Disebutkan, saat itu, layang-layang masih sangat sederhana karena belum ada bahan …

The Linux Foundation yesterday announced that Nokia Siemens Networks has become a member. Nokia Siemens Networks will work with the foundation and its members to continue improving Carrier Grade Linux (CGL). Nokia Siemens Networks, a leading enabler of communications services, will be working with the foundation specifically on Linux-based technologies for use in User Plane and Control Plane Network Elements, …

To mark the second birthday of the openSUSE project, the community program last week celebrated with two announcements – the availability of the first beta of openSUSE 10.3 and the growth of the openSUSE Build Service with a new end-user interface. The openSUSE Build Service is a framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to create and compile packages …

Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis (VDA) Labs, founded in April by Jared DeMott, notifies software vendors of security bugs found in their software, as do many other security researchers. But as part of VDA’s business model, vendors are asked to pay for the bugs it discovers, or its consulting services, otherwise VDA threatens to sell the bug to a third party …

When it comes to security expertise, you have two options: become a security expert or hire a security expert. There really is no middle ground. How prepared is your IT department or administrator to handle security incidents? Many organizations learn how to respond to security incidents only after suffering attacks. By this time, incidents often become much more costly than …

After years of development, intensive fine-tuning, and much anticipation, Windows Server 2008 is almost ready for release. But not before it passes one more test. Microsoft is handing it over to the global Information Technology community for final scrutiny. And we’d like you to be part of that process. Here’s how the Face of Windows Server 2008 website lets you …

Lenovo will offer a version of Linux on its ThinkPad notebooks beginning in the fourth quarter, the company announced Monday. The Chinese PC maker has selected Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell as its first supported entry into the world of open source. Though ThinkPads have been certified to run Linux in the past, this is the first time …

This year’s Black Hat was pretty much summed up in a prescient keynote by Richard Clarke, the nation’s former cyber security czar now novelist and chairman of Good Harbor Consulting. Clarke said “we’re building more and more of our economy on cyberspace 1.0, yet we have secured very little of cyberspace 1.0.” The apparent speed gained in Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript …