While attending UBM TechWeb’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston last week, I heard lots of conversations about the benefits and potential pitfalls of enterprise social networking. One theme that I heard repeated more than a few times was that enterprise social networks can create a greater security risk.
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Enterprise Social Networks And Security Risks
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Share And Share Alike With HomePipe
HomePipe puts an interesting twist on sharing files across your own device fleet. But is HomePipe ready for the business network world? That probably depends on your sense of adventure and willingness to try new ways of doing things.
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Yahoo Spins Out Hadoop Startup
A core development group at Yahoo is being given venture capital backing and will be spun off to further the rapid enterprise-style development of Hadoop. Within a few days, “something over 20″ core committers and architects of Hadoop code will move off the Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, Calif., into offices nearby to form Hortonworks, an independent company, said Eric Baldeschweiler, Yahoo’s VP of software engineering for Hadoop.
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Romonet Offers Predictive Modeling Tool For Data Center Planning
UK-based Romonet is introducing software for data center predictive modeling, which assesses how a data center would operate — particularly what its energy consumption will be — even before it is built. One industry analyst says that, while most modeling software delivers trends-based modeling, primarily studying prior performance, Romonet’s predictive modeling on data centers that are still on the drawing board is a first.
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FlashSoft Says Not When Flash, But Where
It’s no longer a case of if flash will become a major component of enterprise storage, but where, says Silicon Valley start-up FlashSoft. The company is exiting stealth mode with what it calls the first commercial offering for ‘flash virtualization’, FlashSoft SE for Windows Server 1.1.0, an all-software, hardware-independent, ‘tier minus one’ caching approach that eliminates the IO bottleneck without the cost of putting all data onto flash memory and without disrupting server-tier applications, data structures, or underlying storage infrastructure.
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Goodbye Dropbox
I’ve been a heavy user of Dropbox ever since I moved DeepStorage Labs back to the beautiful New Jersey Meadowlands at the end of 2009. Dropbox life was easy, giving me access to all my recent work wherever I was, but a constant stream of security problems is driving me to find another solution.
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Determining a Private Cloud Delivery Model
When designing a private cloud infrastructure as part of next generation data center strategy there are several options to choose from for a delivery model. In some cases the IT service delivery will be some subset of true private cloud. In other cases a full cloud model will be more appropriate and delivery will typically be in an IaaS or PaaS model, with possibilities of a mixed model.
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E-Discovery Needs To Move To The Cloud Survey Finds
Respondents to a recent unscientific survey on e-Discovery indicated that they were particularly interested in adding e-Discovery support for cloud applications and social media in their organizations, but that they typically did not think that their organization was prepared to perform e-Discovery in the cloud. In addition, they seemed more interested in monitoring potential legal
challenges from social media than they did in controlling their employees’ use of social media in the first place.
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SolidFire Aims SSD System At Cloud Providers
As fast as Dell and EMC can buy them up, startup vendors keep coming up with new ideas and solutions aimed at the specific needs of targeted markets. SolidFire’s new all SSD, scale-out, 10-Gbps iSCSI array that’s targeted directly at the cloud storage provider market is a case in point.
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Ipanema Guarantees Cloud App Performance
Ipanema Technologies is guaranteeing application performance in the cloud with the latest release of its Autonomic Networking System. In addition to native SLA enforcement for popular SaaS applications, ANS 7.0 features enhancements to SALSA, the ANS multi-tenant management platform, including central application performance dashboards (with an iPhone/iPad version) able to monitor the performance of SaaS applications.
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