Articles by Alex Goldman

Court Ruling Tilts toward VoIP Providers

A ruling on a little-watched case in Texas is first to challenge RBOCs' right to charge …

FCC Plans Busy Third Quarter on Spectrum Issues

The FCC's Julius Knapp outlined the agency's ambitious plans to open the airways to …

EMC Targets Private Clouds

"Proven Solutions" aims to settle CIO concerns about risk and ROI as they move to private …

RSA Says Virtualization Involves Security Risks, Rewards

Security and virtualization can be a challenge, but a report says managing the challenge …

Insiders Are a Threat, Even When They Don't Mean It

A study shows even accidental breaches can do a lot of damage.

Businesses Not Immune to Botnets, Report Warns

A new report delivers best practices on dealing with this spam vector.

Cisco: IT Struggling to Cope With Internal Security

Too many IT managers are mired in minutiae, fixing small holes while failing to see the …

Symantec: USB Drives Threaten More Than Endpoints

Key drives pose malware propagation risk, and the damage isn't limited to desktop PCs.

Platform Providers Claim Cloud Advantage

With so many companies large and small targeting the cloud, the providers of cloud …

Ex-Googlers Launch Anti-Malware for Servers

Dasient's answer is to crawl the Web looking for vulnerabilities, analyze the …

Salesforce Has Integrators Buzzing With DIY Cloud

Salesforce says the free edition of Force.com will make it easy for companies to build …

SuccessFactors Claims Record-Breaking Cloud

Announcements show both that large enterprises are adopting the cloud and that cloud and …

Oracle Steps in and Picks Up Sun

Database company talks strategic value of the buy; predicts "substantially higher margins" …

Buying Sun: Big Blue Less Than Benign?

Beyond the talk about "synergies" and innovation may be a simpler motivation: picking off …

SunRocket Goes Under

Can plain vanilla, cost-driven VoIP succeed in today's world?