VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced its intention to acquire Digital Fuel, a leader in IT Financial and Business Management SaaS solutions. Digital Fuel's solutions enable companies to plan, manage and optimize cost and value in the emerging world of cloud based dynamic IT. With this acquisition, VMware will enable enterprises to more effectively manage the business impact of IT environments, centralizing visibility of IT costs, integrating financial discipline into IT decisions, and delivering meaningful measurements and reports that drive engagement with the CFO and line of business stakeholders. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in July 2011, subject to customary closing conditions.

Digital Fuel's portfolio for IT costing, budget, chargeback, cost optimization, vendor management and SLA management integrates with a broad set of systems, applications, data sources and third-party management technologies to deliver comprehensive, unified financial analysis. These offerings, offered both on-premise within an enterprise datacenter and delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS) models for maximum flexibility, will complement VMware's portfolio of management solutions including vCenter Chargeback and Service Manager. The acquisition of Digital Fuel will enable VMware's enterprise customers to:

Net Neutrality in the US and the Digital Economy Act in the UK are attempts by Governments to start to legislate the Internet.Certainly the Digital Economy Act in the UK was written to prevent the piracy of film, music, photography etc. For what it's worth I don't agree with the measures in the Act, which gives the Government power to checktraffic and potentially block sites involved in the breach of copyright...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4012-Internet-Legislation-and-Piracy.html

With data sources growing exponentially and competitive pressures at an all time high, the need to synthesize and extract meaning is critical to success. Centrifuge provides businesses with the freedom to explore data, uncover new insight and improve decision-making...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3982-Interview-with-Tony-Agresta-VP-of-Marketing-for-Centrifuge.html

Mark Bregman, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Offcer, Symantec Corporation says that SaaS has the potential to be a game changer. In a conversation with Ashwani Mishra, Bregman talks about the company’s strategy in the security and storage areas and how it plans to...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3857-Interview-with-Symantec-CTO-Mark-Bregman.html

Writing an article about Chinese hackers (all 3 parts were published here - please use the search to find them) I had to explain why it's difficult to fight against them due to a wide range of tools, methods and existing vulnerability of operating systems and applications in addition to the ...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3954-The-cyber-gangsters-weapons-and-the-state-of-Internet-security-.html

In a 2008 speech to the Texas General Counsel Forum, former United States Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty provided his perspective on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance investigations and the Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions. From his experience as the former seco...

 https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3950-FCPA-Compliance-and-Continuous-Controls-Monitoring.html

ID Theft is a personal problem because it focuses on the personally identifiable information of individuals, but it’s a company problem too. It’s not only about how you control the flow of information and what information you have within the organization...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3949-ID-Theft-Its-What-You-Cant-Control.html

Criminal identity theft is when someone commits a crime and uses the assumed name and address of another person. The thief in the act of the crime or upon arrest poses as the identity theft victim. Often the perpetrator will have a fake ID with the identity theft victim’s information but the i...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3946--Why-We-Need-Secure-Identification.html

Security Awareness is a key part in the battle to keep the company secure, a switched off audience could have catastrophic consequences, because they miss the part about disclosure of sharing passwords. Whilst a different approach to presentations will not guarantee that your company remains secure, it might help in keeping employees vigilant in the fight...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3924-Death-by-Powerpoint.html

We use easily counterfeited identification, Social Security numbers that are written on the sides of buses and we rely on the anonymity of the phone, fax, internet and snail mail as a means of application. In other countries they solve problems. They have priorities and don’t deal with the rhetoric.  They put security first, convenience second...

https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3935--Why-Americans-Identities-Are-Easily-Stolen.html