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Jun. 18, 2013
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 Bromium, where the old Xen team now lives, says it’s made it 105 harder for hackers to compromise a PC.
CTO Simon Crosby says that means the bad guys would have to shoot an arrow through an apple on a kid’s head at the distance of 100,000 miles to penetrate a PC endpoint and that, in...Jun. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 800 |
 Telerik, an end-to-end provider of development tools and solutions for building cross-platform and mobile applications, has announced the latest evolution of Telerik DevCraft, the ultimate toolset for professional .NET developers. With this release, Telerik sets the standard for .NET m...Jun. 12, 2013 09:06 AM EDT Reads: 310 |
 OVH.com, the leading Web hosting company with the world’s largest data center, located in North America, will showcase its dedicated cloud infrastructure offerings, at Cloud Expo NY, which will be held at New York's Javit's Center, June 10-13, 2013.
As a leading Cloud provider since ...Jun. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,925 |
 The cloud security challenge is about more than new technologies, architectures and business models. It is about change. The organizational process of cloud adoption and migration executed by disparate IT teams and business units delivers point cloud and security solutions that create ...Jun. 10, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,009 |
 Nicos Vekiarides, CEO and co-founder of TwinStrata, Inc., an innovator in cloud-integrated storage solutions, will present on the roles of traditional and cloud storage in the era of Big Data to attendees of Cloud Expo New York, June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City. TwinStr...Jun. 10, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,865 |
 Centrify, which made its bones making Microsoft’s popular Active Directory accessible to Redmond’s enemies list, is spreading its wings and snuggling up closer to Microsoft at the same time by throwing it something of a lifeline.
See, Microsoft expects Office 365 to be one of the fas...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,745 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Panzura, a leading provider of global cloud storage 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.
Panzura optimizes enterprise data sto...Jun. 10, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,640 |
 Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combin...Jun. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,960 |
 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...Jun. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,886 Replies: 1 |
 The hybrid cloud provides compelling benefits to the enterprise – the security of the private cloud combined with a public cloud’s scale and scope. However, hybrid clouds also experience similar challenges. Increasing traffic demands combined with their dynamic nature can result in cos...Jun. 8, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,011 |
 The world’s first vendor neutral marketplace for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing is being built. This marketplace fills the current gap in the value chain by offering standardized products and by addressing the needs of providers and consumers of cloud computing reso...Jun. 8, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,386 |
 I had the good fortune to attend a session this morning atClickSoftware's ClickConnect Europe 2013 with Gartner's Research Director Dr. Richard M. Marshall. Here are some of the notes I took from the session:
By 2017 Microsoft will sell as many mobile operating systems as Apple. Thi...Jun. 7, 2013 02:25 PM EDT Reads: 580 |
 Agile enterprises are increasingly moving towards Platform as a Service (PaaS) due to its ability to instantly provision resources for application delivery, elastic storage and database services. But PaaS not only allows cost and labor efficiency, it can also drive innovation and reven...Jun. 7, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,921 |
 It’s a standard refrain heard in enterprise IT departments around the world – “I want to move to the cloud, but what about data security, uptime and user response time across a nearly infinite number of devices to support?” Because of this, fear gets in the way and enterprises reap onl...Jun. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,235 |
 The special committee of Dell’s board and its JP Morgan advisers figure the Carl Icahn-Southeastern Asset Management counter to the $24.4 billion Michael Dell-Silver Lake buy-out offer can’t be done without another $3.9 billion in financing.
They’ve sent a 37-page slide presentation ...Jun. 6, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 Google is reportedly hot to mate with Waze, an Israeli map merchant that’s got a mobile satellite navigation application that renders real-time traffic.
The two are in talks that could flounder at any point according to Reuters. But the first talks to hit the rocky shoals were report...Jun. 3, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,435 |
 Nimble Storage, one of the darlings of the new storage breed – darling if for no other reason than it’s managed to collect $98 million from the VC crowd since it started in 2008 – that’s pretty darling – has been waving around the plans for a new Microsoft private cloud that’s pre-conf...Jun. 3, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,832 |
 Organizations of all sizes are challenged because of an industry-wide deficit of information security professionals. Compounding this problem is the steady adoption of cloud-based services, including software and infrastructure as a service, where information security is not always a c...Jun. 1, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,002 |
 Once upon a time, children – though this might sound like a fable, it’s a true story – little AMD scared the bejesus out of mighty Intel and forced it to change all it’s carefully laid 64-bit server chip plans.
Until it did AMD ruled the server roost and made a little money.
Then A...May. 30, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,470 |
 IDC has once again looked into its crystal ball and sees worldwide PC sales dropping by 7.8% this year as compared to last and figures next year they’ll drop another 1.2% compared to this year, brutal news for the likes of PC and Dell.
The researcher, which previously said PCs would ...May. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,199 |
 Google is getting pushback from the European Commission, which wants it to come up with a better set of remedies to settle its antitrust case against Google’s search practices, the EC’s competition chief Joaquin Almunia said Tuesday.
He also said the EC has gotten complaints about Go...May. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,168 |
 Federal prosecutors have accused the Costa Rica-based digital-currency firm Liberty Reserve and its founder of running a $6 billion money-laundering operation that authorities say made it a “bank of choice for the criminal underworld,” the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Five m...May. 29, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make th...May. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,161 |
 Economic uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government sequester, European debt crisis and weakening GDP in China has resulted in volatile spending patterns across most segments of the market. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (May. 28, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,182 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dave Eichorn, Global Data Center Practice Head at Zensar, will share a case study describing how a utility services company handled the migration of its Microsoft platform to the cloud. Challenged with the time-consuming task of open...May. 26, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,595 |
 Cloud computing must have been brushing up on its bedside manner.
HIPAA requirements now stipulate everyone in the health-care industry must begin migrating patient records and other data to cloud computing. By 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utiliz...May. 24, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,970 |
 As enterprises deploy private IaaS clouds into production they are reevaluating their future application delivery models. SUSE and WSO2 believe that private PaaS will leverage the automation and scalability of Private IaaS solutions, such as OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, to deliver the s...May. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,517 Replies: 1 |
 Fancy that. Dell said Monday that its “current in-house multi-tenant public cloud IaaS will be discontinued in the US in favor of best-in-class partner offerings” that it’ll deliver as a single-source supplier.
While it’s preaching the gospel of customer choice, it’s saving badly nee...May. 21, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,754 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, Ne...May. 19, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,153 |
 Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding sinc...May. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,685 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in Ne...May. 18, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,562 |
 Cloud computing is more than a buzz-phrase it’s a transformative IT paradigm shift. The emphasis in the cloud is on elasticity, scalability, agility and open. Not just open standards but open APIs and open source. The delivery of software is also going through a paradigm shift. Open so...May. 18, 2013 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,452 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,524 |
 A week after it confirmed the existence of the thing, Microsoft Tuesday disclosed a few more tidbits about its Windows 8 upgrade, codenamed Blue.
The widgetry’s gonna be called Windows 8.1, as suspected, and it’s gonna be free for existing Windows 8 and RT customers.
A preview wi...May. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 850 |
 Twitter has bought a little four-man Palo Alto start-up called Ubalo that was started in early 2011 “to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience” according to its web site.
The object was to scale coding on multiple machines using the same widgetr...May. 16, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,350 |
 Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before.
There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000.
Apparently ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,387 |
 Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round led by Devonshire Investors, the pri...May. 15, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,664 |
 Dell Tuesday moved up its fiscal Q1 earnings call up five days to this Thursday May 16 at 4:45 p.m. ET. It didn’t say why it changed the schedule.
CNBC’s David Faber, who was first out with the news, said he heard Dell is going to come with earnings below consensus and that the miss ...May. 15, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,461 |
 MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Be...May. 14, 2013 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,284 |
 IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in...May. 14, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,337 |
