Recent problems with certificate authorities have exposed major problems with the trustworthiness of web browser security. Rather than just simply trusting a signed SSL certificate, Convergence, a free Firefox extension, checks with several trusted certificate sites or notaries. If all of the notaries agree that the certificate is accurate, it gives the go ahead to use the site.
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Convergence Protects Against Fraudulent Web Security Certificates
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Survey: Three Of Four Companies Say They’re ‘Likely’ To Be Hit By Cyber Attack … Again
A survey by the research firm Enterprise Strategies Group shows that 59 percent of U.S. companies say that they’ve been hit by a cyber attack called an “advanced persistent threat” and that 72 percent of them believe they’ll be hit again. The report urges IT security professionals to educate company executives about the risks and urges vendors to develop security architectures offering centralized management and distributed enforcement.
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IBM’s IOD 2011: A Cornucopia of Solutions
IBM titled its Information on Demand (IOD) 2011 in Las Vegas as “The Premier Forum for Information and Analytics.” IOD featured innovation and a cornucopia of products and services that act a litmus test and checkpoint as to where the IT industry is and where it is going.
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Will Expense Tracking Speed Cloud Adoption?
When it comes to cloud adoption, the elephant in the room (apart from security) is the fear that a service could scale up so quickly that it blows out a cloud budget. While there are many cloud management platforms to address this issue, they tend to be designed for organizations that have fully adopted cloud services. They aren’t so great for companies taking initial, tentative steps towards online services. So, Cloudability’s open beta announcement about its freemium cloud spend management tool is welcome news.
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30 Days With the Cloud
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 1
I’m back. I didn’t take the month of October off from writing altogether, but I did take a break from the “30 Days” series. Now it’s November and I am ready to embark on another 30-day journey. This time, I am going to spend the 30 days in the cloud.
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Emulex Tunes Up I/O Monitoring And Analysis Solution
The new 2.0 release of OneCommand Vision delivers increased scalability, usability improvements, custom alerting, and added operating system and hypervisor support, says Emulex. The software, which addresses the proverbial ‘blind spot’ in the datacenter, namely I/O, analyzes end-to-end I/O latency, various protocol events and other critical performance metrics, says Emulex VP Shaun Walsh. “That has really been the key, understanding the latency; the more you eliminate latency, the easier it is to achieve SLAs.”
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Nimble Moves Up-Market With High-Capacity, High-Performance Hybrid Storage
Nimble Storage is rolling out a new top-end hybrid iSCSI storage array that combines flash and disk with 50% more capacity and double the cache, along with a new release of its operating system that simplifies the creation and management of storage for virtual machines in VMware.
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Hard Disk Shortage Driving Up Prices
Ever since Uncle Al Shugart presented the world with the ST-506, we could count on the fact that tomorrow’s disk drives would be cheaper, on a $ /GB basis, than the ones we can buy today. I’ve regularly advised clients to plan to buy disk capacity later, as it will be cheaper and the disk drives will probably hold more. For at least the next few months, we’re going to be facing a shortage of disk drives and prices are already headed upwards.
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Kroll Ontrack Offers E-discovery SaaS Option For Companies, Law Firms
Kroll Ontrack, a provider of software to conduct e-discovery projects for law firms and in-house legal counsel, is introducing a SaaS version of its product called the Verve do-it-yourself e-discovery platform. Kroll already offers a hosted platform on which a customer sends them raw data and Kroll organizes it and presents the client with the data relevant to a particular case. Now the SaaS option lets customers do that for themselves in the cloud.
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New Infoblox Appliance Manages Flood Of DNS Queries On Networks
Network infrastructure services management vendor Infoblox is introducing a new appliance that handles DNS queries five times faster than can current legacy systems. The Infoblox-4010 is designed to handle the explosion of DNS queries as more devices, including smartphones and tablet computers, seek access to corporate and service provider networks and more IP addresses are being created.
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