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 Learn about the complex regulations surrounding HIPAA compliance and other considerations for running sensitive data in the Cloud.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Frank Nydam, Director of Healthcare Solutions at VMware, and Ken Ziegler, CEO of Logicworks, will ...May. 20, 2013 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,343 |
 With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intr...May. 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,603 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Intrinsic-ID, a provider of top-level security solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Intrinsic-ID’s software application Saturn...May. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,754 |
 Box, the cloud storage start-up getting close to going public, has acquired Crocodoc and its HTML5 document rendering and viewing solution.
The widgetry works on PDF, Word and other files without Flash or plug-ins. The transformed files can’t be edited.
Box said Crocodoc’s technolo...May. 14, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,203 |
 Cloud enables SMBs to access new, scalable resources – previously only available to enterprises – in flexible and cost-effective ways. McKinsey’s SMB Cloud Report projects the public cloud market to reach $40-$50 billion by 2015, with SMBs comprising 65% of public cloud spending in 201...May. 13, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,804 |
 New cloud-based service leverages applications and insights within Ariba Network to streamline and enhance settlement and reconciliation of business commerce.
Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services has unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is exp...May. 11, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,415 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Logicworks, a global leader in cloud computing and managed hosting, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Logicworks provides cloud comput...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,669 |
 Intel security unit McAfee, the semiconductor’s largest acquisition ever, is buying Stonesoft Oyi, a Finnish company founded in 1990 that’s got next-generation network firewalls. It’s paying $389 million cash.
That’s a 128% premium to the outfit’s closing price on May 3 or $5.90 (€4....May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,161 |
 Cloud computing is the #1 topic for most CIOs this year.
In her Lunch Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Krishna Subramanian, VP Marketing & Business Development at Citrix Systems, will walk you through how customers have transformed the way they do business using Citrix C...May. 7, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,328 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Henrik Rosendahl, Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions, at Quantum Corporation, will explore trends in cloud-based backup and DR, and how current approaches to cloud data protection fall short. He’ll look at in-house vs. subscripti...May. 6, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,317 |
 Multi-tenant environments bring a new set of challenges when it comes to security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Omar Khawaja, Global Principal, Security Solutions, at Verizon Terremark, will provide a structured and sequenced data-centric security approach to ...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,374 |
 License and compliance management was difficult when most everything you needed was terrestrial – on the ground, tangible, countable. But as assets float toward and into the cloud, license and compliance management are becoming more complex, more challenging, and even more important.
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 This book is not only solid in the technical coverage it gives, it also gives a great overview of security concerns, history of how we got where we are, the types of threats and flaws that exist, who needs to be concerned, and what your role's responsibilities are in the security pictu...Apr. 29, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 963 |
 In a discrete low-key press release API house Apigee said Thursday that it’s getting backing from the CIA’s strategic venture arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) to enhance its widgetry to support the US intelligence community.
No number was mentioned.
Apigee has already raised $72.1 million in fiv...Apr. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,994 |
 Today, highly orchestrated, easily testable disaster recovery (DR) and data center migration solutions are becoming the norm in cloud environments. Costs related to DR implementation and ongoing operations can be dramatically reduced through the use of technologies such as VMware’s Sit...Apr. 29, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,642 |
 Big Data has made a huge splash in the enterprise world, but the legal and risk management implications are seldom discussed. It’s critical for businesses to assess these issues and develop a proactive strategy to protect the enterprise from costly errors.
Corporate policies and regu...Apr. 27, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,479 |
 Backup, Recovery, and Archiving (BURA) are critical elements for IT to address. BURA solutions need to address a broad spectrum of needs including data protection, regulatory compliance, and business continuity. Today's cloud based solutions can enable customers to procure and consume ...Apr. 27, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,192 |
 Security-as-a-service leader is first to the cloud-based market with a security solution that combines the key capabilities of user credentialing and authentication with single-sign-on for both SaaS and legacy applications.
CloudAccess, a provider of unified security solutions from th...Apr. 26, 2013 02:09 PM EDT Reads: 933 |
 What's the difference between "DBaaS" and "DRaaS"? What's the current status of Hadoop? What's the US Government doing right now in the Cloud? How about the financial industry? Why is the Cloud so important to the Big Data boom?
Which cloud model is right for your company? How can y...Apr. 26, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,635 |
 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, intents to sponsor a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate public-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and tec...Apr. 25, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,816 |
 Before you start to envision and design your cloud, you’ll need to make sure it’s built on a solid architectural foundation.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Matt Mullins, Principal Consultant – Cloud Platform Implementation Engineer with Citrix Systems, will cove...Apr. 23, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,382 |
 Space Monkey's beta started Wednesday.
It's taking pre-orders for its P2P device on Kickstarter, where it's looking to raise money for the project.
A pledge of $99 will fetch the widget, 1TB of space and a year's subscription. A pledge of $199 buys 2TB for a year.
The number of devi...Apr. 18, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,578 |
 Companies around the world are moving into on-premise private cloud environments. Many connect their private cloud to their public cloud service providers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO of Appcore, will talk about examples of what wor...Apr. 14, 2013 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,516 |
 Explore SSD technology and key considerations when designing SSDs into cloud computing environments. Learn about the best known practices to overcome IO bottlenecks and accelerate cloud applications.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tahmid Rahman, an Application...Apr. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,006 |
 Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage ...Apr. 12, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,920 |
 ADP delivers human capital management (HCM) solutions via the cloud to enable better business outcomes for its clients, and sees the cloud's real value as a gateway to providing clients with easier, faster, and more cost-efficient software services and solutions that can be constantly ...Apr. 12, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,277 |
 Let's face it, business units are bypassing IT and are using the likes of EC2 and Rackspace. Developers are driving this trend for the sake of agility and hindrance-free innovation. Security is not their top priority and is usually an afterthought, and this makes IT cringe.
In his se...Apr. 12, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,504 |
 Space Monkey, the Google-backed P2P start-up that intends to compete against Box and Dropbox not to mention the likes of Google Drive and SkyDrive, seems to be slowly pumping up publicity for its widget so maybe it’s getting close to its promised public beta if it can get the Kickstart...Apr. 12, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,632 |
 Boston-based startup nCrypted Cloud recently launched software of the same name designed to address the security and privacy concerns that have emerged with the use of popular cloud-based storage services.
Available in consumer basic, consumer pro, and enterprise editions, nCrypted ...Apr. 11, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,993 |
 Agile is not easy and implementing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is not easy. I think my favorite part of the book is that the author realizes that, and also has a realistic perspective on what it takes to successfully use agile processes and DDD.
The book starts out with a really nice o...Apr. 10, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,128 |
 The OpenStack movement is about to release Grizzly, the seventh and latest release of the open source infrastructure cloud platform for building public, private and hybrid clouds.
Among other things it was on time. The widgetry is on an every six-month release schedule.
The changes ...Apr. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,500 |
 Planning scalable environments isn't terribly difficult, but it does require a change of perspective.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Phil Jackson, Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, will broaden your views to think on an Internet Scale by dissecting a...Apr. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,780 |
 Samsung rushed in to tell District Court Judge Lucy Koh the other day that the US Patent and Trademark Office had found a major claim in Apple’s so-called Rubber-banding patent invalid (US Patent No. 7,469,381).
The PTO said it wasn’t novel based on prior art.
The decision is a so-...Apr. 8, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 Saas, IaaS, PaaS. Cloud computing is growing at a breathtaking speed and is the fastest-growing means by which technology companies offer their products today. Regardless of the industry, cloud computing is revolutionizing the way companies manage their applications and data processing...Apr. 8, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,223 |
 Some cloud-based file sync vendors tout their solutions as viable alternatives for the online backup of business information stored on laptops and desktops. But existing sync products lack a variety of critical backup capabilities, including those required to secure enterprise data. Un...Apr. 7, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,263 |
 Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, and new user and application demands are just a few of the many challenges that are putting IT organizations under more pressure today than ever before. As a result, a new approach is required.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud...Apr. 7, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,438 |
 The next two generations of iPhones were designed before Steve Jobs died in October of 2011, according to San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who reportedly gleaned this little tidbit during a rambling conversation with Apple’s government liaison, Michael Foulkes.
The San ...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,466 |
 After Judge Lucy Koh cut $450.5 million off the original stunning $1.05 billion in damages a jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple for infringing its patents, Apple checked the judge’s arithmetic and wants to file a conditional motion to reconsider.
It complains it’s been gypped of $85 m...Apr. 1, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,515 |
 A coalition of news organizations and media advocacy groups including Bloomberg, The New York Times and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold District Court Judge Lucy Koh’s order that Apple and Samsung unseal financia...Apr. 1, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,039 |
 For its latest trick Amazon Web Services has launched CloudHSM so users – pointedly the enterprise – can up their data security and meet compliance requirements by using dedicated, tamper-resistant Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
The widgetry actually ...Mar. 28, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,360 |
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