Exclusive Interview With the CEO of DataCore

Check out this interview with George S. Teixeira, president and CEO of DataCore Software.

Teixeira clarifies Virtual SAN Appliance:
No, we’re not doing hardware, it’s a Virtual SAN Appliance. It runs in a VM, so for Microsoft, here was the problem, they have all these new customers that are with the Windows Server R2 and Hyper-V, for them to try the new advanced features, the motion, as an example, they have to buy an EMC, they need the big shared storage. So they’re finding it hard to teach their customers about shared storage.

So we came up with a Virtual SAN Appliance – they download, they put it on, they can try it. In reality, most customers will deploy something different, but to learn, and to at least see it, they get exposed to DataCore.

So one trend is I anticipate Microsoft will have a massive impact in the market, and the reason is that they’re bringing in all kinds of new customers who weren’t thinking about virtualization, but because it’s basically free, with Hyper-V, they’re getting it.

A second issue is that because the economy was so bad, people are what I’m calling, “Return on Yesterday,” like Return on Investment, because what they’re finding is that they don’t have the money to buy a new storage array, they don’t have the money to buy new servers, so we say if you’re consolidating, you have extra servers, if you already have storage, it’s not being used well. Do a return on yesterday with DataCore, which is use what you already have.

The third big trend is one that appears a year ago. If you bought, if you were going to do a virtualization project, you were going to spend €100,000 to do virtualization, and then you would find you were going to buy an EMC and spend another 100K. What’s happening? That 100K of VMware today, you can get a XenServer, you can get a Hyper-V, the price went down to 20K. The problem is this didn’t go down, so we have this mismatch in the market.

Serving the needs of customers:
Datacore serves customers that belong to the "I want to do virtualization because I not only want to consolidate, but I’m stuck, this price is too much." So we give them a way to use their existing materials, and thus get the price down. The other thing I saw was that the first wave to virtualization, I would call consolidation. Very simple.

To read the full interview, please go to http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/people/datacore-george-teixeira

Source: Jean-Jacques Maleval, StorageNewsletter.com

Top 5 E-Threats – January 2010 (Released by BitDefender)

Autorun and JavaScript – January’s main vectors of infection
People’s constant need to interact makes them targets for all sorts of malicious software. This month’s top e-threats are to be found mostly on torrents, “warez” and other peer-to-peer platforms.

1. Trojan.Clicker.CM ranks first in January’s Top, with 8.30% of the total amount of infected computers and is mostly found on file sharing websites such as torrent portals, “warez” communities and other services hosting pirated content. The Trojan is in fact a small script forcing advertisements in your browser. While some of the advertisements are related to free online games, others may expose the computer user to hardcore pornography or other types of inappropriate content.
2. Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen, With 8.17%, the second e-threat on January’s Top is a generic mechanism to spread malware using removable devices such as flash drives, memory cards or external hard-disk drives. For instance, Win32.Worm.Downadup and Worm.Zimuse are two of the most famous families of malware to use this approach to infect other systems. So, great attention should be paid to the use of such external devices: they may be an easy solution when it comes to data transportation, but they might easily harm the computer if used carelessly. Libraries, copy shops and other public hotspots are usually the most notorious sources of infection.
3. Win32.Worm.Downadup.Gen is responsible for 6.18 percent of the global infections. Exploiting the Microsoft Windows Server Service RPC Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (MS08-67), this worm spreads on other computers in the local network and restricts users’ access to Windows Update and security vendors’ web pages. Newer variants of the worm also install rogue antivirus applications, among others. The worm’s persistence after more than one year since its original appearance reveals that most users are reluctant to updating both the operating system and their locally-installed antimalware solution.
4. Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen, with 5.76% of the total amount of infections. This generic detection deals with malformed PDF files exploiting different vulnerabilities found in Adobe PDF Reader's Javascript engine in order to execute malicious code on users’ computer. Upon opening an infected PDF file, a specially crafted Javascript code triggers the download and automatic execution of malicious binaries from remote locations.
5. Trojan.Wimad.Gen.1, ranks fifth with 4.30%of the global infections, and is mostly found on Torrent websites disguised as an episode of your favorite series that has not been aired yet. These fake video files are able to connect to a specific URL and download malware posing as the appropriate codec required for playing the file. Trojan.Wimad.Gen.1 is particularly active when box-office titles are expected to appear on file-sharing websites.

Source: BitDefender

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Whats New - Import Resources/Contacts

In the new version of Mindjet MindManager 8 for Mac you can now import your contacts to use as resources. Check out how in this quick how-to video.

Whats New - Export to Microsoft Office

In the new version of Mindjet MindManager 8 for Mac you can now export you maps into Office products. Check out how in this quick how-to video.

Review - MindManager 8 for Mac Review

"Impressive, isn’t it? I can tell you from experience with MindManager 8 that it becomes even more impressive in some areas. "


Erik Vlietinck reviews MindManager 8 for Mac and has this to say:

BETTER THAN BEFORE!
"...It’s more of a business tool than it was before. It’s better suited for business than any of its competitors on the Mac too, I think..."

Read the full review here:

By Erik Vlietinck
Source: http://www.it-enquirer.com/main/ite/more/mindmanager-8/