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 Companies that are undergoing PCI compliance checks will have to ensure they educate all staff working with sensitive materials so that data is kept secure, it has been stated.
Research director at Gartner Australia Rob McMillan explained in an interview with Computer World that one o...Nov. 17, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,211 |
 The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently released findings from its annual CIO survey that indicate CIOs around the world plan to commit more of their budgets on IT outsourcing in 2013 to boost productivity and reduce costs. Not surprisingly, cloud computing was cited as a...Nov. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,880 |
 A consignment of Apple iPad Minis was looted from a warehouse at JFK International Airport in New York the other night according to the New York Post. The cops suspect it was an inside job. The thieves used one of the airport’s own fork lifts to make off with two pallets of the little ...Nov. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,952 |
 Information technology is undergoing a major shift due to new paradigms and a variety of delivery channels. The drivers for these technologies are social networks, proliferation of devices such as tablets and phones. Social business and collaboration are continuing to develop further t...Oct. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,690 |
 Hurricane Sandy brought with it a heavy dose of disaster, but utilizing the cloud helped mitigate what could have been even more difficulties faced by businesses.
“Overall, I think cloud does help,” said Stephanie Balaouras, an analyst at Forrester Research. “Tier one cloud and SaaS p...Nov. 16, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,068 |
 Over the last decade, Business Process Outsourcing has become an enterprise standard way of delegating the non-core processes to third-party service providers, which resulted in cost controls and business efficiency. This BPO industry has further matured by providing innovation to the ...Nov. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,996 |
 A cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types of IT services to Thomas Duryea’s many Asia-Pacific region customers.
Why cloud services for your consulting and business customers now? Have they been asking for it
Certainly, the customers are the big driver while we are moving into...Nov. 16, 2012 03:35 AM EST Reads: 2,381 |
 With the common theme in today’s security management conversations being “your security will fail” and “expect to be breached,” it’s no question that there has been increased interest in the area of incident response. The industry is realizing that the addition of regulations, people, ...Nov. 15, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,813 |
 FTC chairman Jonathan Leibowitz is reportedly pressing Google to put acceptable remedies on the table in the next couple of days or face an antitrust suit for abusing its Internet dominance in the next week or two.
Bloomberg says it was told by unnamed sources that the FTC wants to r...Nov. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,401 |
 Since ZapThink wrote our ZapFlash on Cloud Brokerages in April 2011, the Cloud Brokerage marketplace has exploded. Or at the very least, the noise level involving such Brokerages has reached a fever pitch, which the vendors in the space want you to think is the sound of an exploding ma...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,768 |
 Based on different reports of companies in New York still caught “off-guard” with their computer systems, it is hard to believe that corporate computer systems are down for some major companies – especially financial ones – and there are no redundant systems up-and-running.
What happe...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,691 |
 Liberty Mutual Insurance is building security deeply into its overall business practices, not just viewing it as an IT add-on. This has led to higher enterprise resiliency and responsiveness to risk.
We'll see how the requirements of compliance and regulatory governance are aligning w...Nov. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,542 |
 It’s that time of the year again. The flood of email alerts showcasing online holiday shopping deals fill the inbox at your office PC, laptops and wireless devices as merchants attempt to lure online shoppers to “click and save” while supplies last. In fact, reports show that this year...Nov. 14, 2012 10:40 AM EST Reads: 1,506 |
 PCI (Payment Card Industry) enforces Data Security Standards that looks to ensure that ALL companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. This can be a burdensome task unless retailer can leverage the cloud. This article takes a look at...Nov. 14, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,570 |
 John McAfee, the man who started the antivirus company named for him, is wanted for questioning by the Belize police in the gunshot murder of his next-door neighbor, fellow American expatriate, Gregory Faull, a 52-year-old retired builder.
According to the police record published by ...Nov. 13, 2012 11:54 AM EST Reads: 1,736 |
 Asigra, the Toronto-based cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider, just unveiled Asigra Cloud Backup v12, a secure, single end-to-end data protection software suite that protects data across physical, virtualized and cloud operating environments.
It claims the widg...Nov. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,930 |
 User expectations with respect to performance are always a concern for IT. Whether it's monitoring performance or responding to a fire drill because an application is "slow", IT is ultimately responsible for maintaining the consistent levels of performance expected by end-users – wheth...Nov. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,868 |
 Both OpenStack.org and the OpenStack ecosystem intend to go into orbit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley today, November 5th. Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keyno...Nov. 5, 2012 02:15 PM EST Reads: 12,683 |
 What does Cisco's Cloud CTO have in common with the CTOs of Rackspace, Progress Software, Eucalyptus Systems, SOA Software, and the Cloud CTO of Symantec, as well as the CEOs of Nebula, Cordys, Adaptive Computing, and Virtustream, and the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation...Nov. 5, 2012 08:20 AM EST Reads: 4,664 |
 Cbeyond Inc. the technology ally to small and mid-sized businesses, will address secure cloud and network integration strategies during Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.
Chris Ortbals, Cbeyond's vice pr...Nov. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,038 |
 Porticor has fleshed out its security widgetry and figures it can now deliver
the only system anywhere that can secure data in the cloud.
It does it with an algorithm that protects cloud data while it’s stored and in
use.
The two-year-old Tel Aviv company’s next trick will be t...Nov. 3, 2012 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,841 |
 Many articles describe cloud security as a problem. But do you know how security affects you and your application in the cloud?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bryan D. Payne, Director of Security Research at Nebula, will open your eyes to the various security co...Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,736 |
 With Strata, IBM IOD, and Teradata Partners conferences all occurring this week, it’s not surprising that this is a big week for Hadoop-related announcements. The common thread of announcements is essentially, “We know that Hadoop is not known for performance, but we’re getting better ...Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,548 |
 Massive data growth. An aging and inefficient data center infrastructure. A proliferation of new software and a host of costly legacy applications. These are the challenges that business and IT organizations face every day – and cloud computing is often touted as the “magic bullet” tha...Oct. 29, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,188 |
 Cloud computing continues to hold a great deal of promise for a variety of business and personal implementations. A lot of buzz has been generated this year with regards to the potential of cloud-based applications and web services as well as a few recent developments that highlight th...Oct. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,237 |
 Apple’s record earnings came in a bit short of expectations Thursday, a situation the smart money attributed to its failure to make enough phones although it still sold an amazing 26.9 million of the things, up 58% year-over-year and good for $17.13 billion, into the expected launch of...Oct. 29, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,923 |
 Learn how SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, on-demand edition, helps independent software vendors (ISVs) easily manage multitenant data architectures while providing the data security, scalability, and cloud availability their end customers demand. The on-demand edition can be hosted in private...Oct. 28, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,537 |
 Cloud consumers need choice because workloads are different.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, M. Srikanth, CTO of ComputeNext, will discuss how with the growth and adoption of cloud, there is a need to provide options for consumers of cloud with the ability to sel...Oct. 28, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,431 |
 IT spends untold millions of dollars, thousands of man hours for technology designed to solve solutions, but because of complexity, budget shortfalls, lack of expertise or a myriad of other gremlins, too many initiatives never realize their potential. That was before cloud computing an...Oct. 27, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,015 |
 As mobile phones become as indispensable as credit cards for purchasing goods and services, mobile payment developments are quickly gaining pace. Many different service providers are competing for their piece of the action. Within the last year, we have witnessed the arrival of mobile ...Oct. 27, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,870 |
 The Cloud Identity Buyer’s Guide discusses the issue of identity and access management (IAM) for cloud applications. It outlines the issues that need to be addressed, suggests some approaches to solving those issues and wraps up with an overview of the products from McAfee/Intel that a...Oct. 27, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,449 |
 While the cloud provides businesses with a more secure IT investment, many don’t realize the data-protection risks of public networks until it’s too late. As a result, CIOs and business owners are kept up at night worrying about the security of their mission-critical data, not realizin...Oct. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently published a useful and informative report on cloud computing that provides key guidance for companies using or considering cloud services in the UK. The guidelines intend to help organizations comply with the 1998 Data Protection ...Oct. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,728 |
 Software-Defined Networking has the potential to revolutionize the networking world.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Scott Sneddon is Chief Solutions Architect at Vyatta, will discuss the SDN and network virtualization landscape and how this new technology can en...Oct. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,708 |
 Microsoft is having a déjà vu moment.
It’s in the soup again with the European Commission and is expecting a hefty fine that could theoretically reach 10% of its annual revenues, or $7 billion, something the EC has never done before but then the EC has never met a recidivist like Mic...Oct. 25, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,497 |
 Both small startups and large organizations have the same choice to make: focus on what is important or spend time toiling with the ancillary details. No matter the size of your team, you still have to solve the same problems: code, testing, infrastructure, monitoring, availability and...Oct. 25, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,767 |
 Many have focused on the cost reduction possibilities of the cloud, some have focused on business agility. However, the cloud can play a strategic role, as well.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Joe Weinman, Sr. VP of Cloud Services & Strategy at Telx, will discus...Oct. 25, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,911 |
 Digital Forensics is not an elephant, it is a process and not just one process, but a group of tasks and processes in investigation. Examiners now perform targeted examinations using forensic tools and databases of known files, selecting specific files and data types for review while i...Oct. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,966 |
 Heartland Payment Systems moved rapidly from a security breach to an overall improved security stance largely thanks to embedding a security-as-culture position across their operations and into their business strategy.
Right now, we’re number six in the US, and with consolidation and ...Oct. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,693 |
 The US Patent and Trademark Office has tentatively decided that all 20 claims in Apple’s US Patent No, 7,469,381 are invalid.
The non-binding decision had Samsung sprinting off to Judge Lucy Koh late Monday to inform her of the re-examination finding.
See, Apple used Claim 19 of th...Oct. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,376 |
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