Right this minute your data center(s) are broken. You, monitoring systems or NOC may or may not know it. All of the blinky lights may be green, all systems reporting normal, but the data center is broken, and it’s costing you money and business agility.
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Your IT Is Broken
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Searching for a More Secure Internet
Have you heard of TIM? The Trustworthy Internet Movement is a new initiative launched a few weeks ago at the 2012 RSA Security Conference. The goal of TIM is to bring together experts, industry stakeholders, and others in an effort to build a safer and more secure Internet.
TIM was founded by Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. But, TIM is a non-profit organization that is entirely independent of Qualys.
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Adaptive Enhances HPC Scalability, Integration
For companies struggling with the complexity involved in using high-performance computing tools, Adaptive Computing is offering new releases – version 7.0 – of its Moab Cloud and Moab HPC product suites. The enhanced scalability and ease of integration, the company hopes, will enable more organizations to “gain the benefits of HPC,” and “expand the market,” especially as they move to the cloud, says Adaptive CEO Robert Clyde.
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Cloud Enthusiasts Worry About Data Security
IT professionals at companies around the world are all in for cloud computing, but they still worry about the risks the technology may present to their organizations, according to a new survey. The study shows that top challenges to adoption of cloud computing include security, compliance issues, bandwidth capacity and a lack of interoperability with existing applications.
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Evaluating Cloud-Based ID Management Solutions
The process of managing identity for enterprise applications and services is hard to begin with, but a lack of identity standards across cloud-based applications means that organizations looking to manage employee access to those applications will find it doubly hard.
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Cloud Focus For Alcatel-Lucent Upgrades
Network equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is introducing new switches and other feature enhancements to a collection of technologies it calls the “Application Fluency” network. This network platform recognizes the device seeking access to the network, authenticates a particular user and identifies the application they are running, and provides the appropriate degree of connectivity required. The company says these innovations are designed to enable enterprises to deliver cloud-based services.
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Finding Fault With App Management
According to the Fifth Annual State of the Network Study released by Network Instruments, 83% of IT professionals surveyed said problem number one with application management is “determining whether problems are caused by the network, the system or the application.”
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Capturing the Hidden ROI in Applications
When ROI (return on investment) is used in an IT context, it invariably boils down to how quickly a company can realize a return on hardware, software licensing and the day-to-day expenses of running a data center. Enterprises’ results in this area have been impressive, with many companies realizing cost-savings benefits in the tens of millions of dollars.
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Five Things You Need to Fix on Your Facebook Business Timeline
Facebook introduced the new Timeline layout for individual Facebook profile pages a few months ago, and now it is preparing to transform Facebook Business pages as well. There’s a lot of potential for businesses to take advantage of the new layout to share information and engage customers, but there are a few caveats and pitfalls you should be aware of.
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Adobe Adds PayPal Express Checkout to FormsCentral
Adobe launched FormsCentral just over a year ago. Now, Adobe is expanding the service by integrating PayPal Express Checkout so that users can accept payments or donations directly.
Adobe created FormsCentral to provide customers with a simple, online, hosted service that makes it easy to create and distribute forms. FormsCentral doesn’t stop there, though. Similar to survey or information gathering sites like Zoomerang or SurveyMonkey, FormsCentral also collects and compiles responses for tracking and analysis.
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