Organizations continue to remain challenged when it comes to ensuring data is adequately protected and recoverable, even though advances have been made in backup and data protection technology, industry observers say. Among the reasons cited are that data protection processes don’t get reviewed frequently enough, there are few SLA requirements, and a lack of visibility into the results of data protection activities.
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Virtual Backup Challenges Enterprise IT
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Google Privacy Fiasco Lesson: There Is No Privacy
Google is in some hot water for bypassing privacy controls on the Safari Web browser in iOS devices–and allegedly on Internet Explorer as well–to surreptitiously track users’ online activities. While Google deals with the backlash and regulatory scrutiny from the FTC, there is an important lesson to be learned: privacy is dead.
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EMC VFCache: Project Lightning Strikes
EMC’s recent announcement of the culmination of the code-named Project Lightning resulted in the new VFCache solution, a server-based flash cache, which may be used as a complement or alternative to flash storage that appears as if it were a disk drive. This lightning strikes twice, though not in the same spot. The first is dramatically improved I/O performance for customers and the second is the challenge that VFCache brings to competitors trying to distinguish their own flash storage solutions.
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Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform Release Raises Questions
Nicira, which has just emerged from stealth mode, says it has cracked the code to deliver true network virtualization. The company claims its Network Virtualization Platform brings the capabilities and benefits of server and storage virtualization to the network, addressing what has been a physical barrier in the path to further virtualization progress. The news has been heralded as a “game-changer” and “the biggest change to networking in 25 years,” and a number of major companies such as AT&T, eBay, Rackspace and Fidelity are paying customers.
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Microsoft India Store a Victim of Poor Data Security, Not Hackers
The online Microsoft Store in India was hacked – allegedly by a group of Chinese hackers. The big story, though, isn’t that the site was hacked, or that customer data was compromised and exposed by the attackers, but that the Microsoft Store was storing the data in clear text and didn’t take basic steps to protect it in the first place.
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Centrify’s New MDM Strategy Priced To Move
The mobile device management space is relatively new, but is already showing signs of being a study in same-old, same-old. How much can you really do with Apple’s API for iDevices, after all? Judging by the current players, you’d think that all MDM solutions require a stand-alone management server and yet another console to administer. Though many MDM vendors put different faces on the same basic functionality, Centrify promises a unique methodology, at a price you won’t believe.
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Lighthouse Launches Next-Gen Cloud-Based IAM
Lighthouse Security Group is releasing the next generation of its Lighthouse Gateway cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service with new self-service and federated single sign-on features, in addition to updated identity and access intelligence.
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Apple Could Destroy Tablet Rivals with iPad Price Cuts
Rumor has it the iPad 3 will soon be here. The device will most likely be a tremendous success simply by virtue of being an iPad, but if Apple wants to put some of its $ 100 billion hoard to use and get “creative” with the pricing of its tablets it could virtually assure its dominance and force many competitors to abandon the market completely.
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New Windows 8 Logo Is Pure Genius
Microsoft unveiled a new look for the Windows logo for Windows 8. There seems to be a dramatic rise in branding and style experts online, and some significant backlash around the Internet, but all of that misses the point of why the new Windows 8 logo is a brilliant move.
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Cisco’s Rumored Quasi-Proprietary SDN Strategy Irks Some, Surprises Few
Cisco Systems’ hint that it may introduce software-defined networking (SDN) technology that would not be based on the OpenFlow protocol prompted complaints from competing networking vendors and the OpenFlow community that Cisco was making another vendor lock-in play by offering proprietary technology, rather than standards-based products. Industry analysts say it’s to be expected that Cisco would go the proprietary route as a way to preserve its industry-leading market share, and rival vendors are pushing open standards because that’s the only way they can eat into Cisco’s share.
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