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Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. This state of affairs will remain true until 2012, but security should improve substantially after that point, Gartner said.

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Gartner: 60 percent of virtual servers less secure than physical machines

One ex-Sun Microsystems employee who will not be cashing an Oracle paycheck is XML co-inventor Tim Bray, who has opted instead to work for the Google . Bray will be working, beginning on Monday, as a developer-advocate for the company’s Android development team, according to an announcement on his blog.

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Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google

The Apple iPad has been available for pre-order for more than 48 hours now. Initial demand seems promising, although not everyone has embraced the concept of dedicating $500 or more to be an early adopter of a device that nobody really has all the details on just yet.

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Turning the iPad into a business tool

Microsoft at its Mix10 conference on Monday will introduce a framework enabling Web analytics to be performed for Siliverlight rich media applications. The open source Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework will debut in a beta form at the conference in Las Vegas, said Michael Scherotter, Microsoft media experience evangelist. The framework, which will be released on the company’s CodePlex site for open source projects, will work with third-party analytics services from companies such as Preemptive Solutions.

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Microsoft to offer Web analytics for Silverlight

The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting today, Friday, March 12, at 8:30 a.m. EST.

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Start your browsers: iPad set to go on pre-sale

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today’s most pernicious threats.

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The ugly truth: Security vendors can’t solve many threats

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft’s Dynamics family of business applications.

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Microsoft tries to lure NetSuite users with new deal

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June — a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.

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Tighter security coming for .org names

Hyped as the router that would ‘change forever the face of the Internet’, Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net’s darkest recesses.

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Cisco shows off Internet super-router