Virtualization is still gaining steam in data center, and is moving to the desktop as well. However, many IT managers are finding that they have to tiptoe around licensing issues and deal with vendors independently to secure the best deal and not break the law.
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Tiptoeing Through Virtualization Licensing Minefield
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Certes Unveils Cloud Encryption Virtual Appliance
Concern about the security of their cloud-based data is a big issue for enterprises. A number of technology companies, now joined by Certes, are trying to allay customer concerns about data security by giving them control of the keys that protect their data in the cloud.
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ASC Addresses Key Workload Automation Issue
Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. is expected to ship in June a new version of its ActiveBatch Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software. Version 9.0 of the product adds integrated capabilities to join reactive and predictive forms of resource management to optimize service level agreements (SLAs) for enterprise business services.
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How To Tackle The Big-Data Challenge (Part 1)
Big data is a term getting bandied about a lot these days for the phenomenon of information that keeps growing in organizations, thanks in part to the growth in social media. According to InformationWeek’s Research: The Big Data Management Challenge survey of technology professionals, regardless of industry, the five top data drivers are financial transactions, email, imaging data, Web logs and Internet text and documents.
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New and Improved SkyDrive Is a Threat to Dropbox
Microsoft is shaking things up with SkyDrive. The new features and capabilities move it out of the Microsoft-centric shadows and pit it more directly against Dropbox, and possibly the imminently rumored Google Drive. However, Microsoft also announced a change to SkyDrive that many won’t appreciate.
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HP: When ‘Good’ Security News Isn’t!
HP is just the latest in a long list of security vendors touting its comprehensive cyber security report showing what the most recent threats are, how they’ve changed and — sometimes subtly, sometimes not — how their security technology can protect you. But its study is another illustration of how the tech industry is constantly playing catch up with the criminals. HP’s report also illustrates how seemingly good news can turn out to be bad.
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Verizon, Partners Push OpenFlow, SDN
The telecommunications giant Verizon has joined with other top technology partners to collaborate on a software-defined networking (SDN) demonstration that is based on the OpenFlow protocol. The news of the collaboration was made at an Open Networking Summit being held this week in Silicon Valley.
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Help Desk Replacement Cuts Costs By $100,000
Customer service is a key watchword in business today. With a system upgrade looming on the horizon, Optimal Payments decided to look for a more efficient way to service its customers than its existing Remedy help-desk solution from BMC Software. After the payment software and service supplier went out to the marketplace in search of alternatives, it purchased a solution–Zoho’s ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus–that reduced its operating costs by $ 100,000 annually.
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OpenStack Surprises Involve Hyper-V, Solid State
One measure of how fast the OpenStack open source code project has gained mindshare is the appearance of two developments that few in the OpenStack community thought likely or even possible. They’ve been created by independent third parties, one a member of the project and another outside it.
In the first instance, Hostway.com sought to link Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor and OpenStack clouds. There is no team of developers or subproject within OpenStack devoted to creating the link, even though many small and midsize businesses rely on Hyper-V. The project’s leaders concluded they couldn’t do everything, so they decided to drop what had been poorly maintained Hyper-V support from the recent Essex release. (Essex became available this week at the OpenStack Design Summit, attended by an estimated 1,000 developers in San Francisco.) The OpenStack project managers decided to focus on VMware’s and Red Hat’s open source hypervisors, reflecting the greatest use in OpenStack supporters’ customer bases.
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It’s A Solid State Symposium
Next week I’m off to sunny San Jose for the first Solid State Symposium and Storage Field Day. While Storage Field Day follows the general blogger’s tech-day format, the Solid State Symposium is a public event on Wednesday where we’ll try to wrangle the future of solid state storage out of the sponsoring vendors and industry luminaries.
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