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 When VMware announced its hybrid cloud initiative it made perfect sense. The hybrid cloud market could provide substantial growth opportunities for VMware, as discussed in VMware Crosses the Rubicon and Hybrid is a Whole New Cloud. Yet one respected tech analyst has recently suggested ...Apr. 4, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,601 |
 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: 1,767 |
 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: 1,786 |
 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: 2,383 |
 OpenStack is an Infrastructure as a Service offering. (see my prior post for an explanation of IaaS).
OpenStack is an OpenSource project, founded by RackSpace, NASA and others.
OpenStack can be deployed as a public or private cloud.
Project NOVA, or OpenStack Compute, provisions and...Apr. 1, 2013 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,081 |
 Associated Surgeons and Physicians, LLC in Indiana went from zero to 100 percent virtualized infrastructure and as a result, met many compliance and efficiency goals.
In part one of a two-part interview series, we discuss how a mid-market health services provider rapidly adopted serve...Mar. 28, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,144 |
 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: 3,100 |
 Organizations today understand that better access to information assets can improve their bottom-line. But they struggle with the variety of enterprise, cloud and big data sources, and all their associated access mechanisms, syntax, security, etc. Data abstraction overcomes data sourc...Mar. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 Everyone has an argument for the ideal technological approach to cloud computing: public vs. private (vs. hybrid), open vs. closed, vertical vs. horizontal, etc. Larry Ellison’s thoughts on the proprietary cloud aside, an open cloud environment is inevitable. Companies will have a vari...Mar. 25, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,573 |
 The Who asked ultimate Access Management question..."Who Are You?" So do we listen to Paul McCartney said and "Open the door and let 'em in" or kick them to curb as the Stones suggest..."Hey You, Get off of my Cloud" The answer is different for each organization because, not every empl...Mar. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,309 |
 GPU maker Nvidia Tuesday diversified away from its traditional PC market to sell its first server product – complete with software.
The new widgetry moves ultra-fast graphics-intensive tasks from pricey workstations to low-end PCs.
Nvidia calls the 4U server-like widgetry the Grid ...Mar. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,815 |
 In a surprise development ARM CEO Warren East, 51, said Tuesday that he’ll step down on the first of July after a 12-year run that’s seen ARM chips used in almost all mobile widgets and mobile widgets become a primary computing form factor.
His replacement will be ARM president Simon...Mar. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,855 |
 Apple has gotten sued for patent infringement again, but this time the charges are coming from Intertrust Technologies Corporation, now owned jointly by Sony and Royal Philips Electronics NV, which got Microsoft to settle a broad claim back in 2004 for $440 million.
The suit against ...Mar. 25, 2013 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,076 |
 Bank News recently published an article written by cNico’s CEO, Pierre Naudé. He notes that while it is commonplace for many financial institutions to incorporate cloud technology into their operations, there are still some that continue to question the security of storing information ...Mar. 25, 2013 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,246 |
 Log analysis is a unique use case that is being leveraged in multiple ways to gain deep insight into activities generated by multiple sources.
A common theme heard in the IT marketplace is that innovative technologies are enabling new insights to be harvested from data. Cloud computin...Mar. 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,362 |
 Amazon has dropped more crumbs in the forest to entice the enterprise to ultimately abandon its own infrastructure for its doubtlessly cheaper public cloud.
It’s making its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which used to be separate service, a free default.
It said in a blog that the an...Mar. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,579 |
 Home is where the cloud is.
The work-at-home movement has given some momentum recently to cloud computing, as well as finding itself in the middle of the debate on whether companies should allow their employees to work from home.
It's understood that a public cloud platform are typi...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,017 |
 McAfee has announced the industry’s first white-listing security solution for Android embedded systems.
McAfee Application Control for Android is the only security solution that resides in the Android operating system kernel.
McAfee provides protection from the installation or exec...Mar. 16, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,971 |
 On Wednesday Dell joined the Object Management Group – an international open standards organization that’s always been a little bit over its head – and proposed an SDN standardization working committee that it will chair within the OMG technology working groups.
The companies that ar...Mar. 15, 2013 03:49 PM EDT Reads: 1,962 |
 Securing your IT environment is not free, but there are new (cloud) options designed to mitigate costs while still providing a strong, manageable and proactive defense. While many companies still would rather spend capital on commodity assets, many CIOs recognize that information secur...Mar. 15, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,138 |
 "Since running with our first product in North America just five months ago, the global response has been remarkable," said Ian Pratt, co-founder and SVP of Products at Bromium, as Bromium, Inc. this week announced its arrival into the UK market with the general availability of its vSe...Mar. 15, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,491 |
 Last September I made the mistake of trusting a local business in Florida and buying three Persian oriental rugs from Nader Amini, the owner of Amini Rug Gallery here in Fort Lauderdale.
Mr. Amini came to my home with a dozen or so Persian rugs and displayed them. He left three of t...Mar. 14, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,576 |
 In the name of the software-defined data center VMware says it’s going to merge its vCloud Networking and Security product line with Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) and come out with a single product family based on common technology.
It’ll be called VMware NSX and sho...Mar. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,077 |
 The new open source cloud orchestration platform called OpenStack is the promise of flexible network virtualization, and network overlays are looking closer than ever. The vision of this platform is to enable the on-demand creation of many distinct networks on top of one underlying phy...Mar. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,233 |
 Big Data – a large amount of information that comes in a variety of forms and constantly changes – has generated a significant amount of buzz in the business world, mostly around the implications for marketing. But there’s little attention paid to its potential impact on risk managemen...Mar. 13, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,985 |
 Bring the solution to your CEO. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rob LaMear, CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net, shares his findings while talking cloud with over 1,000 CEOs around the globe. Delegates will learn what cloud barriers exist and how to remove them.
Rob LaMear...Mar. 12, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,192 |
 The Technology Adoption Lifecycle and Gartner’s Hype Cycle are well known in the industry for helping companies make better and informed decisions about technology adoption and deployment. Both have influenced companies the world over and through various technology generations. These m...Mar. 12, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,650 |
 New technologies always generate hype. To cut through the hype and find the value, you have to see how things fit in the real world, both in implementation and in actual realized benefits.
That’s one of the reasons BlueStripe Software conducts an annual survey of IT Operations executi...Mar. 11, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,076 |
 After fining Microsoft $733 million for unintentionally flouting an antitrust settlement with regulators, the European Commission took some of the blame.
Antitrust czar Joaquín Almunia said the EU had been “naïve” to let Microsoft monitor its own adherence to the 2009 deal that let i...Mar. 10, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,757 |
 It goes without saying that 'Big Data' is very much a hot topic right now. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a day when we're not being spoken to, about or on the subject, and when you consider the possibilities of what Big Data provides it's not hard to see why.
It allows organizati...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,753 |
 A number of studies I’ve recently read indicate that more enterprises will use cloud services in 2013 than ever before. This fact is not lost on many of my software vendor clients, who are transitioning many of their on-premises products into cloud-based offerings.
The problem many o...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,467 |
 In this post, I will cover adoption - one of the key things to be aware of when you're aiming for high adoption levels is that without focus on the aforementioned requirements, adoption will be low. I've been writing these in order for a reason - in order to drive high adoption levels,...Mar. 9, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,499 |
 Carl Icahn, the famous “gangsta”-style activist investor, has stepped into the middle of Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buy-out, threatening “years of litigation” if he doesn’t get his way.
He has apparently amassed a 6% position in Dell, making him the company’s second-largest outsi...Mar. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,360 |
 With a focus on developing affordable solutions that drive innovation for our customers’ missions, I believe that the development of cloud standards can have a positive impact on cloud adoption. The more than 370 members of the cross-domain Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) are p...Mar. 11, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,937 |
 To say that mobility is affecting the way enterprises do business is akin to suggesting the planets revolve around the sun. These are not unproven theories, they are undisputed facts. However, while the modern model of the solar system was established long ago, the effects of enterpris...Mar. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,057 |
 The European Commission Wednesday levied a fine of €561 million ($733 million) on Microsoft for failing to keep its legally binding 2009 promise to offer European Windows users a choice of rival browsers.
Microsoft claimed an accidental technical glitch prevented the new Windows 7 Se...Mar. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 1,691 |
 Sharp, the big Apple supplier fighting for its life, is going to sell a roughly 3% position in itself to Samsung, which is an even bigger Apple supplier and one of Sharp’s biggest rivals.
The price is reportedly about a cheap $112 million, below market value.
Sharp is trying to cla...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,972 |
 Many organizations that are looking at implementing a new network infrastructure for cloud computing; a new building being built; or any other network capability, better look closer at their network designs.
Why? All the cabling needed to build the network should fit the lifespan of t...Mar. 6, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,004 |
 I think the new cloud killer apps for enterprises will leverage cloud-integrated data centers (or true hybrid cloud adoption), and will strategically transform IT operating models. Those killer apps will include cloud-enabled agility, protection and scalability.
The public cloud has b...Mar. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,420 |
 Generally speaking when the topic of devops comes up security isn't something we mention. If we do it's in hushed tones, eyes darting back and forth, the fear that someone might hear us overriding the certain truth that security can benefit as much from devops as any other operational ...Mar. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,107 |
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