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Fortinet has announced availability of a new FortiGate unified threat management device that will eventually replace an older model for midsize businesses.

On November 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president & CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled "The Smart Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda" at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. That speech is only now getting public press attention.

In an unusual move, a security company owned by IBM has publicly blasted a rival for not patching reported bugs in its enterprise-grade, server-side antivirus software.

Queensland’s $220 million Polaris 1 Data Centre, located in Springfield and soon to be one of the largest in Australia, had six huge 22 tonnes diesel generators installed five floors high last week and is on track for construction completion by Christmas.

The same week one of the world's worst spam operations is being shut down, security researchers are warning the next big threat may not be for PCs at all -- but rather for mobile phones.

The Unified Threat Management (UTM) market has already started to outgrow the point security solution segment, said analyst firm IDC.

IBM software chief Steve Mills receives a monthly report on employees and contractors who have left IBM, and the actions taken to close off their access to sensitive information as soon as they walk out the door. Ideally, the very second a person's affiliation with IBM ends, that person's active identity within the business and all passwords will be wiped out, removing any access to intellectual property.

IBM is targeting retail security with a package of software and services designed to prevent physical loss of merchandise, protect against electronic threats and comply with credit card industry regulations.

A major VMware security initiative announced more than six months ago has still not resulted in any new products, but VMware and partners this week are demonstrating several prototypes of technology that will better secure virtual machines.

VMware's recent release of a large number of patches for its virtualization offerings is likely to be the first of many, as hackers increasingly focus their attention on virtualized environments.

Proctor & Gamble, the global manufacturer of household products, Friday said it has selected IBM ISS to provide managed security services.