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EMC's RSA division today announced an upgraded version of its data-leak prevention suite, adding more than 20 policy templates for recognizing personal identifiable information in countries around the world, including Spain and New Zealand. Also, Entrust today announced it has entered into a deal to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo for $114 million. (5:22) Follow Network World on Twitter, from the people who bring you this newsletter. Virtualization management: Cross-platform tools fall short
With the abundance of formidable virtualization platforms on the market today, there ought to be a better way to manage heterogeneous VM farms. Related:
CA offers the strongest current option for cross-platform virtual management
DynamicOps homes in on VM provisioning
TotalView provides static view of VMware- and Xen-based virtual servers
Microsoft's SC-VMM provides limited view of VMware-based VMs Can the status quo threaten your LAN?
In times of economic crisis people tend to seek the safety and security of the status quo. "Doing what you've always done, and what everyone else is doing, is the most prudent course," goes the thinking. Entrust to be acquired by private equity firm for $114 million
Entrust has entered into a deal to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo for $114 million. TippingPoint offers customer filtering service
TippingPoint will announce at next week's RSA Conference a service that creates filters for its intrusion prevention gear to block potential attacks against vulnerabilities in corporations' custom Web applications. Sallie Mae will undo IT offshoring, return jobs to U.S.
Student loan provider Sallie Mae Inc. last week announced that it will return its offshore operations to the U.S., along with about 2,000 IT, call center and operations support jobs. Start-up led by Sun veterans unveils Intel-based data access appliances
Schooner Information Technology emerged from stealth mode with high-powered data access appliances designed to speed up Web 2.0 and cloud computing applications. 6 Ways to Ruin Your Resume
My vision is blurry. I've reviewed more than 40 resumes for a network administrator position, and less than half have made the cut. Although I rejected some candidates because of their lack of experience (or, rather, their lack of demonstrated required experience), others had errors in their application packages that lowered their ranking -- errors that could have been easily corrected. Trend Micro dishes out security smorgasbord
Trend Micro Monday dished out a smorgasbord of endpoint security products that put the focus on Trend's cloud-based architecture and its partnership with systems-management vendor BigFix. Twitter Worm Attack Continues: Here's How to Keep Safe
The malicious worm affecting Twitter over the weekend has now mutated and continues to invade the popular micro-blogging network. Although Twitter is taking action against the problem, security analysts fear that further mutations of the worm will continue to wreak havoc on the network over the week. Identity management is key to the proper operation of cloud computing
One of the hot buttons, or buzz phrases, these days is "cloud computing." Boiled down, it's just like client-server computing except: a) you don't own the server; b) you don't know where the server really is; and c) you may not even know where your data resides. All that aside, there remains the issues of authentication and authorization; provisioning; entitlement management; governance; compliance; risk management; single sign-on; and all of the other facets of identity management. Is anybody even thinking about those? Can Cisco commit to management software?
Cisco's recent Unified Computing System launch caused an analytical frenzy among industry watchers speculating about how the network equipment maker could rival HP and IBM in the data center server market. | 
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