HP gets software house in order

HP, which recently closed a $4.5 billion takeover of Mercury Interactive, is now restructuring the company to support its now doubled software division, reports Info World.

With Mercury as a wholly owned subsidiary, HP becomes the world's sixth-largest software vendor. HP continues to elevate its software focus from its network management roots up to business technology optimisation, which threads IT governance and process management throughout HP's IT management products.

Still to be determined is how well HP absorbs all of its recent management software acquisitions, which include Peregrine, Novadigm, Consera and Talking Blocks. Mercury in June acquired PowerHelp IT software, a product built from the ground up to be compliant with the IT Infrastructure Library best practices model for service management, from Vertical Solutions and Tefensoft.

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IT security professionals have a new "C-level" challenge - measuring network security and demonstrating IT compliance against industry and regulatory requirements, reports the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal.

Chris Andrew, VP of security technologies at PatchLink, says IT professionals must now ensure the health of their IT infrastructure while meeting voluntary and mandatory regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, among others.

A critical piece of the compliance puzzle - and an instrumental component already supporting the enterprise IT security posture - is patch and vulnerability management. This is quickly becoming a multi-faceted solution that IT security professionals are employing to address this challenge as part of their layered security approach.

Scentric, a developer of what it calls "the world's first universal data classification solution", has launched Scentric Destiny R2, the latest version of its flagship product that aims to solve critical information governance problems through data classification and policy-based data management, reports Baseline.

"ESG estimates that organisations will archive over 24 000 petabytes of information over the next five years," said Brian Babineau, a senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "The challenge will be to identify, classify and group this data based on compliance and accessibility needs."

Scentric Destiny R2 introduces new functionalities into the product that address critical problems resulting from runaway data growth and ever-changing compliance requirements, a company spokesperson for the company said.