Verizon assesses application security

Verizon Business is now offering to help businesses analyse potential security flaws in their business applications, states Network World.

Verizon says it decided to start offering an application security program after finding that 79% of corporate records were compromised last year through attacks against businesses' application layers.

The new program starts by scanning and assessing risks for all company applications and then suggests a series of preventative controls that companies can take to secure their applications.

VMware said an enhanced feature of its vSphere 4 virtual machine management software can improve application performance by up to 47%, says InformationWeek.

The Distributed Resource Scheduler in vSphere 4 monitors virtual machine usage across a server cluster to see whether the virtual machine is loaded on the server that best meets its needs.

DRS can perform load balancing in the cluster to ensure the best possible application performance.

Modularis has introduced its Accelerator 2009 R2 business application platform that delivers SOA-based software development automation, reports, ebizQ.

"Accelerator 2009 R2 accelerates the value of our client applications software worldwide," said AJ Singh, Modularis CEO.

"The Microsoft .NET framework-based platform helps enterprise ISVs, systems integrators, OEMs, and government enterprises achieve their business goals fast."