The relentless arms race between security firms and spammers looks poised to swing back in favour of the cyber criminals with the news that a new spambot is cracking CAPTCHAs in as little as 60 seconds.

Data Domain has become the latest company to join the Green Grid, an group of storage companies committed to improving efficiency and reducing the environmental impact of data centres.

Hitachi has rolled out a new enterprise hard disk, promising the usual bundle of increased performance and greater capacity.

IBM has come up with a strong showing in its first-quarter 2008 results posting to the New York Stock Exchange.

Infrastructure software specialist Autonomy has introduced automated real-time policy management software for IT, legal, and compliance purposes that it says is the first of its kind due to its ability to understand the information it is managing.

Diagnostic health firm DDI Health has picked DataCore to handle its storage virtualisation, claiming the firm’s technology is the right tincture for its data storage and VMware ills.

Sir Peter Gershon, famous for his cost-slashing reform of the UK Government has been chosen to lead an independent review of the Australian Government’s ICT spending.

The United States Air Force (USAF) has chosen HP for its imaging and printing services provider for the next five years.

Oracle has grown its enterprise content management offerings with a new online archive and email archival service, both components of its Fusion Middleware.

ReadSoft recently held its inaugural Oceania user and partner conference. Over 60 people attended to listen to speakers covering benchmarking, forms design, business process engineering and success stories. Liam Tung spoke to ReadSoft’s CE...