Symantec announced that it has joined the ranks of IT companies investing in online backup services.

The company acquired SwapDrive, a privately held online storage company, for terms that were not officially announced. However, an industry and financial analyst who asked not to be identified told eWEEK that the price was approximately $123 million.

Is it really a whole year since IBM unleashed its Project Big Green brainchild on the IT industry, triggering a barrage of like-minded efforts across the high-tech industry?

Well, apparently it is, and the company is using the anniversary to make a push for some of its modular data center technology, like the one squeezed into this container. According to IBM, the new designs can reduce energy consumption by up to 50 percent.

IBM DB2 made a market for the relational database in 1983, but its future is in stream processing and unstructured data management.

In the 1970s, Don Haderle and a team of researchers at IBM began a project that would change the face of the company’s database business forever.

The fruits of their labor would come to be known as DB2, and would hit the market in 1983 to become a force for IBM among relational databases.

Here’s one more good example of why everybody and every business should have their data backed up somewhere safe online.

The Associated Press reported June 10 that billing records of about 2.2 million people at the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics were stolen from a courier’s vehicle.

OpenOffice.org has shipped a fix for a "highly critical" vulnerability affecting versions 2.0 to 2.4 of its open-source desktop productivity suite.

According to an advisory from Secunia, the flaw could be exploited to launch code execution attacks with manipulated document files.

Sometime back, we looked at recursion as a way to solve some problems not easily solved in other ways. Unfortunately LotusScript recursion does have its limitations and in this article Ian Murray discusses how to discover what those limitations mean for you and your code, and how you can avoid them.

Read this DominoPower article.

Most companies only learn about network data breaches in the months after their data has already been compromised, according to a new study.

The study, conducted by Verizon Business, looks at data breaches in a wide variety of industries, such as retail, food and beverage, technology services, and financial services, and examines more than 500 forensics investigations comprising roughly 230 million records over a period of four years.

If its internship programs are any indication, IBM already knows what it wants to see in an IT department in the next five years: pros savvy in green IT, Web 2.0 and virtual-world technologies. These are IBM’s three focal areas for the summer 2008 season of its most competitive internship program, Extreme Blue.

Sherpa Software announced the latest release of Discovery Attender for Notes version 6.4c. The latest release provides a Desktop installation option that allows the discovery of content within .NSF files without a Domino server. Specifically developed for law firms and other parties operating outside of the Notes environment, the Desktop option allows searching without the need to install all of the specialized Notes components.

Law Firms are often handed .NSF files from clients in response to litigation or other legal matters, but typically lack the hardware and technical expertise to properly search them. The new Desktop installation of Discovery Attender bypasses the costly and cumbersome process of setting up an in-house Notes domain, while providing extensive e-discovery functionality such as content retrieval, culling and annotation that was previously only available with a server installation. In addition, users can easily create and execute custom searches directly from their desktops.

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the addition of Japanese language support to its Users’ Community Forum. This Web-based Community Forum brings experts and users together to provide support to users of OpenOffice.org, the free alternative to Microsoft Office. The Forum is free to users and is free of advertisements.

Since its launch six months ago, the Forum has greatly exceeded expectations, attracting a registered membership of nearly 13,000, Together, these members have generated a growing knowledge base of 90,000 postings. These include both answers to specific user questions, and user generated tutorials. Originally launched in English, the Forum added support for Hungarian in February, French in March, and now Japanese in June. Further languages are expected during the rest of 2008.