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Thompson Coburn Makes Network Appliance the Firm Choice for Consolidation and Disaster Recovery

whitepaper Thompson Coburn LLP serves clients throughout the United States. Thompson selected NetApp. The firm's production data was spread across Microsoft Windows servers and a storage area network (SAN). The direct-attached storage was difficult to expand...

Tags: back-up, files, microsoft windows, attached

[09 Dec 2004]

John Thompson

AS Profile John Thompson will play a major part in setting the Agenda over the coming years - in terms of how businesses secure themselves but more vitally in terms of how the security industry consolidates, and the repercussions that has for business and...

[23 Sep 2005]

Symantec CEO John Thompson on the Veritas merger

News Symantec's CEO John Thompson is not new to the acquisition game. The combined company is expected to generate some $5bn in revenue within the next year or so, putting it on the map with other mega-sized software powers such as Microsoft, Oracle and...

[17 Dec 2004]

Symantec boss demands tougher laws on cyber crime

News Symantec CEO John Thompson has said it is "unconscionable" that cyber crime is going unpunished to the degree that it is around the world and demanded that governments get to grips with the escalating threats.

Tags: symantec

[18 Apr 2006]

Symantec makes race equality breakthrough in Silicon Valley

News John Thompson, formally general manager of IBM Americas, replaces Gordon Eubanks, who left the anti-virus specialist to head an Internet start-up. Thompson's new job hurls him into a raging debate about the under-representation of African-Americans...

[16 Apr 1999]

C&W goes ASP and says: SMEs, don't buy another PC

C&W goes ASP and says: SMEs, don't buy another PC

News a-Service is an end-to-end, pay-as-you-go offering and Jeremy Thompson, CEO of the company, claims users "may never need to buy a computer again". The 'a' stands for application, according to Thompson, who added the company did not want to use the...

[31 Oct 2000]

A CIO's Perspective on the Value of Identity Management

whitepaper This 12-minute video clip features an interview with David Thompson, CIO of Oracle, who discusses the value of using Identity Management (IdM) technology to secure Oracle's corporate computing resources.

Tags: identity management, idm, video, reporting

[25 Apr 2006]

Online brokers come together in $75m deal

Online brokers come together in $75m deal

News US online broker TD Waterhouse has bought RJ Thompson Holdings in an undisclosed all cash deal reckoned to be worth around $75m. The purchase of privately-owned direct access broker RJ Thompson offers TD Waterhouse the opportunity to the smaller...

[16 Aug 2001]

Symantec CEO hits out at Microsoft... and Linux

News Symantec CEO John Thompson has hit out at "the myth" that Microsoft's operating system is inherently less secure than the open-source alternatives, which he likened to a "dead-end alley". Thompson believes the reason Microsoft is so often seen as...

[02 Jun 2004]

Symantec CEO: 'More people should buy Macs'

News Symantec CEO John Thompson has spoken out in support of Macs. In response to a question from the audience at the Future in Review conference in Coronado, California on Monday, Thompson said of Apple's Macintosh computers: "We think more people...

Tags: virus, apple mac, mac, symantec

[16 May 2006]

Ex-Bush official to get RFID implant

News Tommy Thompson, the Health and Human Services Secretary in President Bush's first term and a former Governor of Wisconsin, is going to get tagged. Thompson has joined the board of Applied Digital, which owns VeriChip, the company that specialises...

Tags: tommy thompson, rfid

[19 Jul 2005]

Red Hat CFO hits the road

Red Hat CFO hits the road

News Red Hat Chief Financial Officer Kevin Thompson will resign, the Linux seller announced yesterday, raising eyebrows three days before its scheduled announcement of quarterly financial results. Thompson is leaving after four years at Red Hat to...

Tags: cfo, red hat

[15 Jun 2004]

Symantec aims to be 'the Microsoft it's OK to like'

News John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, has reaffirmed his company's commitment to continue acquiring other businesses and has spoken frankly about past acquisitions, a tough year and Symantec's new position within the industry.

Tags: symantec

[13 Apr 2006]

Toshiba chief criticises corporate IT investments

News The claim came from Alan Thompson, UK MD of Toshiba, in an exclusive silicon.com video interview. Thompson added that IT managers need to rethink their business strategies to take full advantage of technology or risk losing out on IT investment.

[28 Jun 2000]

iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs

News The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson. Thompson made the commitment in a blog posting responding to questions about the BBC's approach to...

Tags: bbc, online, firefox, iplayer

[08 Feb 2008]

Leader: Microsoft too popular for our own good

Leader John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, likened virus writers to graffiti artists - and the operating systems targeted as the surfaces they vandalise. Thompson raised eyebrows, going so far as to say the perception of Linux as safer is purely "a myth".

[02 Jun 2004]

Symantec eyes up ID management space

News Symantec CEO John Thompson mentioned those fields as areas the company is interested in as it tries to become a single-source supplier for management of data centres and protection of data and online transactions.

Tags: id management, identity management, symantec

[09 May 2006]

Symantec on Microsoft: We won't cry 'antitrust'

News Symantec chief executive officer John Thompson said on Tuesday: "We're not looking to go whining to the EU or the DOJ [the US Department of Justice] for anything. Symantec, of Cupertino, California, has responded to questions from EU competition...

Tags: antitrust, security, symantec, microsoft

[12 Oct 2005]

Teen saves Gates from hackers, gets nothing

Teen saves Gates from hackers, gets nothing

News A teenager who discovered a security hole in Windows and worked with Redmond for six months to fix the problem has received his reward from the multi-billion dollar company: a mere note of thanks on its website.year-old Matt Thompson from Aberdeen...

[16 Apr 2004]

Bank data seized in e-card scam

News Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and login names and passwords of thousands of individuals from Australia and the US has already been collected in the scam, Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security...

Tags: e-card, scam

[22 Sep 2006]

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