Worldwide virtualisation software revenue to grow 43 per cent

Worldwide virtualisation software revenue will increase 43 per cent from US$1.9 billion in 2008 to $US2.7 billion in 2009, said Gartner.

By Carol Ko | 18 February, 2009 12:00

Tags: Gartner, Microsoft, servers, virtualisation, VMware

Symantec: Online underground economy is booming

An online underground economy has recently matured into an efficient, global marketplace to trade stolen goods and offer fraud-related services.

By Carol Ko | 11 December, 2008 06:30

Tags: security, symantec

Hong Kong takes title of most spammed country

Spam levels in Hong Kong experienced the largest increase -- by 13.2 percent, reaching 79.6 percent of all e-mails, according to a Web security research conducted in Q3 2008.

By Carol Ko | 23 October, 2008 10:00

Tags: spam

Data recovery breakthrough for virtualized environments

Kroll Ontrack, a provider of data recovery and legal technologies products and services, Thursday announced it is the first company able to perform data recovery services on VMware systems.

Shop with your mobile phone, Gartner advises

Research house Gartner has forecast that there will be 33 million mobile payment users worldwide in 2008, with the Asia Pacific taking the lead.