At VMworld in California this week, the topic de jour was, unsurprisingly, cloud computing. VMware wants to be the underpinning to internal and external clouds, using the capabilities of its growing management suite to service the needs of such a...

Strong, two-factor authentication in itself is nothing new. It has long been used for providing a higher level of assurance that a person accessing computer resources is who they say they are than would be provided by a username and password...

The current financial crisis has produced a new round of record-breaking bankruptcies that overshadow those of the last crash caused by the dot com bust at the start of this decade. Measured by assets, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual (both...