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Is the iPhone changing the way businesses adopt new technology?

The iPhone has created a wide array of challenges for IT departments.  However, the larger question being posed is, are end users changing the way businesses adopt to new technologies? Read more

Productive releases its newest P-Guide: Mid-market Software Licensing

Productive has released its newest P-Guide entitled, "Mid-market Software Licensing".  In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source solutions have been emerging as potential solutions to the challenges posed by software licensing.  While both have undeniable benefits, users should examine four reasons to think twice about SaaS and open source as components to critical infrastructure while taking a look an innovative new offering from Microsoft OVS.  Read an excerpt from the article and learn more about the P-Guide.  Read more

ARCserve Backup version 12 released

CA released CA ARCserve Backup 12 on February 7, 2008.  The update streamlines the management and also increases support for remote and branch offices, and provides better integration with applications acquired from XOsoft in 2006. Read more

PayPal's CIO Calls Out Apple's Safari

PayPal's chief information officer Micheal Barret does not recommend Safari as a browser becuase it does not have two important anti-phishing security features.  Read more

CA Threat Manager Demo Available

CA Threat Manager gives effective threat management security. Download a trial as well as request pricing. Read more

Shavlik secures offline virtual machines

Shavlik Technologies has developed a way to patch all virtual machines, even one that are offline.  This provides organizations with the ability to assess and remediate the patch levels of their physical servers, online virtual machines and offline virtual machines for both VMware and Microsoft virtual environments.    Read more

Point of Sale (POS) system compromised at national restaurant chain

At a Dave and Buster's restaurant three men gained unauthorized access to the point-of-sale server and installed a packet sniffer designed to capture Track 2 data as it moved from the POS servers to the computer system at the restaurant's headquarters and a data processor's network.  The packet sniffer captured data for approximately 5,000 credit and debit cards which was sold to others who used the information to make fraudulent purchases.  Read more

CA launches Gateway Security product

CA has formally announced the launch of its newest security product; CA Gateway Security r8.1.  This is a major revision of the previous product Secure Content Manager (SCM).  CA Gateway Security is a spam and URL filtering solution focused on the small, mid-size and enterprise business organizations.  Read more

Productive releases its newest P-Guide: Continuous Data Protection

Productive has released its newest P-Guide entitled CDP: A Closer Look.  Continuous Data Protection as an answer to mid-market data-protection needs.  This month's P-Guide focuses on CDP and the mid-market IT department.  Read an excerpt from the article and learn more about the P-Guide. Read more

Webinar: CDP XOsoft High Availability Oct. 16th 11 AM CDT

Productive will be hosting a webinar on October 16th at 11 AM CDT to give IT professionals the opportunity to take an in-depth look into the CA XOsoft High Availability continuous data protection product.  Register here.  Read more