The annual InformationWeek security survey finds wiggle room for lesser-known vendors in large IT shops, but it’s a lack of mobile device security strategies that should raise eyebrows.
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Kaspersky And Sophos Top Security Vendor Survey
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Starboard Seeks To Be The iPhone of SME Storage
Starboard Storage Systems, a relatively new entrant into a very competitive SME storage market, believes its initial product, which delivers double the performance of legacy SAN/NAS products at half the cost, will help it stand above the crowd. The company says its AC72 (Application-Crafted Storage) system dramatically simplifies managing mixed workload environments that include unstructured, virtualized and structured data.
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Citrix Cloudstack 3.0: Better Networking, Bigger Community, Improved Orchestration
Cloudstack 3.0 adds support for Xen Server 6.0 with tighter integration to the hypervisor and tight integration with Citrix’s Netscaler application delivery controller.
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Surprise! Windows 8 for ARM Will Come with ‘Office 15′ Apps
Since Microsoft shared the first obscure hints of expanding the architecture horizon to include running Windows 8 on ARM processors, there has been rampant speculation and anticipation of what that will really mean when the OS finally launches. Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky is providing some more clarity about Windows 8 on ARM (WOA), including the fact that it will have “Office 15” apps built in.
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Google “Drive” Could Step on Cloud Partners’ Toes
Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing “people familiar with the matter” says the new “Drive” service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?
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EMC’s Lightning Strikes
The storage cognoscenti have been all a twitter this morning as EMC announces the details of “Project Lightning”, the flash-based server cache solution they previewed last May at EMCworld. The first version of the renamed VFCache is now available and it’s clearly a version 1.0 product. Hopefully EMC will get some of the roadmap items out the door, and the just announced Thunder, soon.
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Could You Be Liable for Charges Resulting from Google Wallet PIN Crack?
The Google Wallet system appears to be under siege. Over the past couple days, two different methods of potentially cracking or circumventing the PIN security protecting Google Wallet have been revealed. What’s worse is that you could potentially be liable for fraudulent charges racked up with Google Wallet.
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Cloud Application Management Complexity A Growing Challenge
IT organizations are already using cloud in highly sophisticated ways in spite of the added level of complexity it introduces in managing applications. That was one of the surprise findings from Enterprise Management Associates’ Radar for Application Performance Management for Cloud Services: Q1 2012, according to the report’s author, Julie Craig, research director, application management, at EMA.
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Riverbed’s Granite Virtualizes Branch Office Storage
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed’s new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed’s calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
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Good Project Management The Difference Between Success And Failure
Demand – and budgets – are growing for IT projects in 2012, but the lack of proper project management typically results in a failed project, according to a new report from InformationWeek.
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