The Cloud Security Alliance, which is looking to gather up information on how cloud service providers are securing their services. The truth of the matter is that it is not secrecy that builds effective security; it is adopting and adhering to best practices and standards that create a secure environment.
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The Cloud Security Alliance Looks To Bring Transparency To Security Practices
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LSI SSD Caching Software 2.0: The Write Stuff
The second generation of LSI’s caching software for its MegaRAID 9260, 9261 and 9280 series 6-Gbps SATA+SAS controller cards can now do writes and should “significantly accelerate application I/O performance of hard-disk-drive-based arrays by intelligently caching frequently accessed, or ‘hot spot,’ data to solid-state drives (SSDs),” says the company.
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Nexsan Unveils First Homegrown Turnkey SME NAS Solution
Storage vendor Nexsan says that the latest member of its E series NAS system now offers new levels of storage density and power efficiency for virtual operating environments with FASTier, which delivers SSD-based cache for virtualized computing environments such as VMware, Xen and Hyper-V. Consisting of five members, the E5000 series is a very dense – up to 180 TB in a 4U rack, affordable – ranging from $ 15,000 to more than $ 420,000, and efficient – up to 85 percent reduction in power requirements.
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Economic Meltdown Impacts IT Plans
The economy has seen better days. Many IT departments started 2011 with cautious optimism and grand plans to modernize and expand, but amid the turmoil of the past month or so those plans have been whittled away.
Uncertainty. Even before the current economic crises caused by the political extortion over the debt ceiling, and the subsequent historic downgrading of the credit rating of the United States, the economy was on a shaky recovery at best. In a survey of 563 IT professionals conducted by nCircle in March, 48 percent of respondents claimed the economic downturn had impacted security initiatives in their organization–up 11 percent from 2010.
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Raining On Cloud Bursting’s Parade
Cloud bursting–the ability to dynamically move processing temporarily to a cloud provider in response to some excess demand–sounds like such a great idea. If successful, you can continue to handle the excess burst without having to acquire new hardware, software, and licenses and, equally important, you can do it right now. But before you start popping champagne corks and taking a celebratory lap, you will likely have some significant hurdles to get over.
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SBC Vendor Edgewater Branches Out To The Data Center
Edgewater Networks is expanding its reach into the data center with a new line of session border controllers (SBCs) that connect, protect, optimize and monitor IP-based communications. Together with Edgewater Networks’ EdgeMarc branch offering, EdgeProtect Enterprise Session Border Controllers “provide a VoIP and video-aware NAT/firewall, protocol harmonization for interoperability of VoIP and video devices, active VoIP line testing, call quality monitoring, survivability and QoS,” says the company.
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EMC Introduces Multipurpose Tape Alternative
With declarations of the death of tape celebrating their 50th anniversary, disk-storage leader EMC is unveiling its first integrated solution for all mainframe tape use cases. While the company admits that the belief that tape is dead is probably never going to be true, it says the challenges with tape are real and that the tape market will continue to shrink as it evolves to satisfy very specific workloads, like long-term archival storage.
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21st Century Automation And What It Means
For the first time in history, we have an economic recovery without corresponding rehiring because corporate automation and other factors are allowing companies to function leaner. It’s a frightening change for some, but it also opens opportunities for IT professionals who are gifted in analytics, workflow re-engineering, vendor management and integration. One case in point is warehousing, and what has happened there to allow companies to respond rapidly to market conditions while keeping costs down with IT.
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Google+, Day 3: Filling In the Circles
On Day 2 of 30 Days With Google+ I walked through the setting up a Google+ profile once you get an invitation to join the limited Field Trial. Having done that, though, it is now time to start adding some contacts to make it a social network instead of just a profile page. To add contacts in Google+, I first have to grasp the Circles concept.
Understanding Circles
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SDOs ‘Battling’ For Cloud Supremacy?
It seems there is no shortage of standards and requirements principals for cloud computing, with the latest to join the fray being the Open Cloud Principles document just published by the Open Cloud Initiative at OSCON 2011. In early June 280 companies joined together as the Open Data Center Alliance and released a set of proposed standards for cloud providers. That was a day after the members of the Cloud Standards Customer Council announced a project to create a “Practical Guide to Cloud Computing.”
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