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 Cloud computing has given birth to a broad range of online services. To maintain a competitive edge, service providers are taking a closer look at their Big Data storage infrastructure in an earnest attempt to improve performance and reduce costs.
Large enterprises hosting their own ...Dec. 31, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,682 |
 “We’ve been disrupting the security industry for years with camera surveillance in the cloud,” explained Rishi Lodhia, CEO & Founder of CameraManager.com, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8...Dec. 31, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 3,540 |
 As with Nathan's book WPF 4 Unleashed this book is a pure pleasure to read. It is in full color, the content is laid out in an easy to read style, the author's writing style makes it easy to read, and the content is all valuable. There is no fluff like you find in a lot of the books wr...Dec. 31, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,341 |
 Wrapping up a year of impressive growth and product innovation, Gazzang, the Linux data security company, today made its 2013 predictions covering emerging trends in big data, the cloud and open source technology adoption.
“Buoyed by increasing adoption of and trust in cloud technolog...Dec. 28, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 4,020 |
 Using the Holiday season as a way to educate about the cloud.
Happy holidays to all of you and may the season keep your perimeters protected, your assets secure and your networks free of nasty little elves!
Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the net
No access was stirr...Dec. 27, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,798 |
 Evolving regulatory compliance requirements can be a major headache for the IT teams responsible for identity and access management (IAM). Sarbanes Oxley, the wide range of privacy regulations and other federal requirements, have transformed IAM from a problem that keeps the chief info...Dec. 27, 2012 06:11 AM EST Reads: 3,031 |
 Business is continually seeking ways to improve functions. One of the most financially burdensome departments for many companies is IT. To succeed in any industry, a system needs to be in tune with the fast pace of the world it serves. Sustaining such an environment requires dedication...Dec. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,242 |
 ARM has just given Intel another reason to chew its lip.
The British mobile chip designer has launched a promised joint venture in mobile security called Trustonic that’s gotten the backing of companies like MasterCard, Sprint, Cisco, Samsung, Nvidia and 20th Century Fox Home Enterta...Dec. 26, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,965 |
 “This is our first chance to bring our traditional, reliable backup and disaster recovery to the cloud. Everyone needs DR and that is becoming more and more apparent,” noted Laura Shafer, Director of Product Marketing at StorageCraft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Confer...Dec. 23, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,963 |
 The best thing about public cloud is it’s cheaper to fail than belabor conversations about whether to try it or not. If you physically touched it, estimated your peak demand before buying, and/or don’t have a re-occurring OpEx fee… IT’S NOT CLOUD.
If you're an IT manager calling your...Dec. 21, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,778 |
 Software developers and service providers need a period of usability testing before launch to find out how the product stands up in the hands of end users. An experienced QA team will ferret out bugs and identify major issues, but they won’t use your software like a customer will. The ...Dec. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,881 |
 One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the ‘keeping the lights on’ approach of IT. Ultimately this lacks the economic benefit that makes cloud computing such an...Dec. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,351 |
 Introducing a new security paradigm that leverages the cooperative functionality of various security tools. However, the key is still monitoring the results in real time; and the best case scenario (most efficient/effective means) for most companies to achieve this is via the cloud.
T...Dec. 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,957 |
 Dell may not have much of mobile profile but it said late Tuesday that it’s
gonna buy Texas-based Credent Technologies, the 11-year-old purveyor
of data protection solutions to control, manage and secure data sent from
mobile end-points to servers, storage and the cloud.
Dell did...Dec. 19, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,017 |
 Samsung said Tuesday that it will drop its attempts to get Apple products banned anywhere in Europe using its standards-essential patents (SEPs).
It’s not dropping its infringement suits, but will limit its SEP claims to monetary damages. It will still seek injunctions for Apple’s al...Dec. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,068 |
 Cisco has hired Barclays Plc to sell its Linksys wireless home router unit according to Bloomberg.
Barclays is also advising Google on the sale of its Motorola Home Business, which sells set-top boxes and cable TV equipment.
Cisco bought the Linksys business for $500 million in 200...Dec. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,975 |
 What changes in the cloud computing and big data landscape should we be expecting in 2013? In this article we offer a round-up of industry experts' opinions as they were asked by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan to preview the year ahead.Dec. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,439 |
 Centrify, the ISV that makes its living leveraging Microsoft’s Active Directory, has got some new cloud-based widgetry that lets organizations centrally secure and control access to their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments.
The adoption of SaaS apps combined with the Bring-Your...Dec. 17, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 3,075 |
 “We are in the center of everything that’s happening on the Internet today. We develop a lot of the capabilities that help address a lot of the challenges that companies may face when leveraging the cloud,” stated Gary Ballabio, Product Line Director for Akamai, in this SYS-CON.tv inte...Dec. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,444 |
 “Cloud adoption has been much more prevalent in SMBs, in small office and home offices, and yet those are the individuals that don’t have the resources to secure themselves when using cloud. So Leeward was created to give assistance and practical advice to those individuals and organiz...Dec. 14, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,375 |
 When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
The solution, powered by Rapid7 scanning technol...Dec. 13, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,010 |
 Many organizations say they rely on real-time processing of big data to fuel their business, and many of them say they are thinking about taking their big data to the cloud.
It's no surprise that most enterprises are now taking big data more seriously. But what might raise an eyebrow ...Dec. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,504 |
 We’ve tracked a trend for the past several years: customers aren’t moving to standardize on a single brand or type of server, operating system, or even x86 hypervisor. But, in our in fifth annual x86 Data Center Survey (2011-‘12 edition), we were somewhat surprised to find that custome...Dec. 13, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,713 |
 John McAfee, the odd founder of the antivirus house Intel now owns, may get out of jail in Guatemala after foiling the cops in Belize where he was wanted for questioning in the murder of his neighbor on Ambergris Caye, an island off Belize’s Caribbean coast.
McAfee claimed the neighb...Dec. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,314 |
| John McAfee, the oddball founder of the antivirus house Intel now owns, got
out of jail in Guatemala and – thumbing his nose at the cops in Belize who
want to question him about the murder of his neighbor on Ambergris Caye,
an island off Belize’s Caribbean coast, where McAfee lived ... Dec. 13, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 777 |
 Cloud computing is changing the way big business communicates and is fast becoming the new technological standard for enterprises.
With employees working across so many devices from numerous locations, cloud computing is taking on a growing importance for a seamless work experience. ...Dec. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,240 |
 Most attacks, like the recent DDoS attacks on banks, show most hackers do not use brute force to gain entry to sensitive data. And as organizations expand the perimeter of their networks,, there are so many more opportunities for data leakage and theft. To control it, a more nimble, fl...Dec. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,842 |
 It’s been a busy and successful seven days for online retailers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic and sales were well above 2011, and there was the extra benefit to those businesses that started deals on Thanksgiving Night. The traffic data collected by the Compuware Ecommerce and...Dec. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,374 |
 Designing and implementing a hybrid encryption application is a big challenge but without a supporting infrastructure it’s almost impossible. There are open source libraries that allow you to encrypt a file but only provide the translation technique. After the information has been encr...Dec. 9, 2012 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,508 |
 Perhaps the only thing worse than a disaster happening is seeing it coming and knowing nothing can be done to stop it. Businesses along the northeastern seaboard had several days of warning before Hurricane Sandy struck, certainly not enough time to implement a disaster recovery plan f...Dec. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,281 |
 Dave DeWalt, who sold McAfee to Intel for $7.7 billion last year, more than Intel has ever paid for an acquisition, has been named CEO of the fast-growing security start-up FireEye, which he figures to take public next year while he focuses on growth over profitability.
FireEye lets ...Dec. 7, 2012 03:41 PM EST Reads: 2,588 |
 Enterprises are quickly realizing that their future success is dependent on their ability to adapt their business to the Cloud. That realization however comes with more questions and concerns about executing an effective cloud-based strategy. The explosion of the OpenStack community ha...Dec. 7, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,629 |
 The article discusses cloud strategy as the first and foremost step towards cloud adoption by larger enterprises. It talks about its merits and how vendors need to provide this critical piece in order to be successful in selling their cloud services.
Just returned from the AWS re:Inve...Dec. 7, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,190 |
 Guatemala Thursday denied John McAfee refuge. He is expected to be flown back to the capital of Belize where he is wanted for questioning about the murder of a neighbor he accused of poisoning his dogs.
On his blog McAfee, who turned up in Guatemala earlier this week seeking asylum, ...Dec. 7, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,613 |
 John McAfee, 67, the tattooed gun-toting founder of McAfee, the namesake antivirus house now owned by Intel, turned up in Guatemala this week still on the run from Belize police seeking to question him about the shooting death of his neighbor only to be arrested by Guatemala’s immigrat...Dec. 7, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,656 |
 After being denied asylum in Guatemala, where he fled to escape Belize police seeking to question him about a murder, John McAfee, 67, the eccentric founder of the antivirus firm named after him, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital Thursday from the immigration detention center where...Dec. 7, 2012 04:45 AM EST Reads: 1,369 |
 one of the main movers of the IT world.
The IT industry's transition to "The Third Platform," built on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking and Big Data analytics technologies, has dominated annual predictions from IDC over the course of the last several years.
For 201...Dec. 6, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,620 |
 Outsourcing the IT operations, support and associated infrastructure maintenance has been the norm for large enterprises over the last decade. Typically the multi-year IT outsourcing contracts cover the following aspects:
Application Development Services: These will be the set of reso...Dec. 6, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,877 |
 CipherCloud, the cloud data protection outfit, has gotten a sweet $30 million
round from existing backer Andreessen Horowitz.
It plans to use the money to accelerate its global go-to-market strategy
with expanded sales and marketing and to develop its cloud information
protection...Dec. 5, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,098 |
 is used in capacity planning, designing and engineering networks. It’s paying about $141 million in cash and retention incentives.
Cariden, whose clients include Verizon, Deutsche Telecom, SingTel and Swisscom, specializes in optimizing traffic management and visibility on service pr...Dec. 4, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,856 |
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