July 7, 2004
How Gary Bloom pilots Veritas past utility titans
: Can this Switzerland of clustering solutions continue to prosper in an increasingly homogeneous IT environment? ...

July 7, 2004
Veritas CEO Gary Bloom Unplugged
Veritas CEO Gary Bloom has two pieces of advice for CIOs: One, make utility computing your top priority. Two, make Veritas -- a company with virtually no hardware or application software agenda -- your unbiased go-to company for computing infrastructure requirements. Bloom talked with ZDNet executive editor David Berlind just prior to announcing that his company would miss its quarterly earnings mark....

July 2, 2004
Why Microsoft's patch process needs patching
: In a bid to prevent more exploitations of the Windows vulnerability that enabled last month's Download.Ject attack, Microsoft has released a "configuration change" it wants Windows users to apply immediately. However, timing flaws and user interface issues with Microsoft's patch process reveal that the company's Trustworthy Computing Initiative needs a lot more attention to detail than it's getting. ...

July 1, 2004
Why Microsoft must fix flawed firewall
Neither Internet Explorer nor the best anti-virus defenses were well-prepared to do a thing about one of the keystroke loggers that dominated this week's tech headlines. Microsoft will be making a critical mistake if its new personal firewall included with Service Pack 2 to Windows doesn't have a facility for outbound blocking. Here's why your security could depend on it. ...