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Sourcefire Rolls Out Open-Source ‘Razorback’ The makers of the popular open-source Snort intrusion detection platform today unveiled a new open-source platform — a detection framework that unites existing security tools, including IDS/IPSes. The new Razorback platform developed by Sourcefire is basically a tool for tying together the various layers of detection within an organization, including antivirus, IDS/IPS, Web and email gateways, and firewalls, to use in concert to catch and examine potential threats and create mitigations on the fly. Its creators say it’s not the same thing as a security information management tool, however, because it does more than capture events: “SIM collects events in a vacuum: It takes an AV event and says this host is infected by a virus …

Microsoft cites no-email crawl pledge Microsoft has a big responsibility in maintaining users’ data as part of the company’s hosted applications such as Hotmail, said Tim O’Brien, Microsoft senior director of platform strategy, on Tuesday. But unlike Google, Microsoft pledges not to scan users’ email as a way to tailor advertising, he said. With cloud applications, a level of trust now exists between provider and customer that is “almost unprecedented,” O’Brien stressed at the SaaSCon 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.

Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company’s data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate. “We had already done significant virtualizing of our servers and couldn’t cram anything more onto our data center infrastructure

Kim Johnston, VP of marketing for consumer and enterprise at Parallels, and Lynda Maybury, senior director of online marketing at Parallels, delivering their presentation at Parallels Summit 2010.

Kim Johnston, VP of marketing for consumer and enterprise at Parallels, and Lynda Maybury, senior director of online marketing at Parallels, delivering their presentation at Parallels Summit 2010. Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Houston – February 18, 2010 New York City – March 25, 2010 Chicago – April 22, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Masterclass Online Marketing News: CA to Acquire Cloud Firm 3Tera News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Will Online Backup grow to be your biggest SaaS business? News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: Selling Services for Small Business News: Parallels Summit 2010 – Day 3 Session: How Cloud affects Deal Valuation and M&A volume (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the “Masterclass Online Marketing” presentation, Kim Johnston, VP of marketing for consumer and enterprise at Parallels, and Lynda Maybury, senior director of online marketing at Parallels discussed key points in implementing a successful online marketing strategy.

SGI offers supercomputing as a service SGI is rolling out what it believes is the first hosted supercomputing service on the market. Called Cyclone, the service is designed specifically for technical computing applications, said Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI