The newest version of Symantec’s application high availability product for virtual environments provides tight integration with VMware’s disaster recovery capabilities and a dashboard for monitoring and managing multiple applications through the VMware vCenter Server console. AppHA, which came to market last fall, brings deeper application awareness to VMware, so that failed apps can be quickly detected and restarted.
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Symantec Improves Virtualized App Recovery With VMware DR Support, Dashboard Management
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Proprietary Is Not A Four Letter Word
Proprietary technologies are not inherently bad, but you do have to watch for vendors that interchange standards-based features with proprietary features in a fanciful shell game.
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Verizon Launches Service Based On Data Breach Report Methodology
Verizon Business is offering an security incident analysis service based on the Verizon Incident Sharing framework (VerIS), the foundation of its highly regarded annual Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). The aim of the service is to generate metrics of an organization’s security incidents over time to discover the root causes of vulnerability and take preventive measures.
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Of Course I Build My Own Apps. Doesn’t Everybody?
After a few weeks of getting peppered with emails about application creation portals, I caved in and decided to try a couple. Why not? I’m a pretty tech-savvy guy. So rather than stay wanting, I opted to try to build my own apps. And, so far, I must say the results aren’t that impressive.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 25: Tracking Personal Finances
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 25
Along with email, writing, Web surfing, and social networking, keeping track of my finances is one of the tasks I rely on my PC for, and that I need to figure out how to accomplish during my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. My experiment trying to get Quicken to work in Wine failed to deliver, so today I am looking at options in Ubuntu Linux to replace Quicken.
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Scality: Climbing The Cloud Storage Heights
The traditional storage business models of NAS and SAN have been worthwhile for many enterprises, but the question remains: Is NAS or SAN best for cloud computing environments? Scality, a storage vendor, asserts that, in many cases, the answer is no. Scality’s RING “organic storage software” is, according to the company, the first object-based storage platform to provide the levels of performance necessary for robust Web-based applications.
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Your Social Networks Could Jeopardize Your Next Interview
Your social networks are fair game. The Federal Trade Commission has given a startup called Social Intelligence the green light to conduct background checks on you based on your social network activity under the guidelines of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Think twice about posting that embarrassing photo on Facebook, and watch what you tweet, because it may make the difference in your next job or college admissions interview.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 24: More Secure By Default
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 24
As I have gone through the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux experience–and especially the past couple days as I have toyed with Wine and trying to get Windows software to run within Ubuntu–I have seen ample evidence of the security features of the OS. Simply put, Ubuntu Linux (and, I assume, Linux in general) is more secure by default.
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Businesses Have Tough Decisions To Make About Cloud Computing
A survey of attendees at a cloud computing conference this week shows that, despite ongoing concerns about what approach to take to the cloud, IT professionals and business executives know they have to adapt to the new technology. While debate continues about whether to adopt the private or public cloud model, or some hybrid, those attending the Cloud Leadership Forum 2011 say that by 2015, cloud will no longer be a concept but the status quo.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 23: Would You Like Some Wine With That?
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 23
Over the course of the three weeks I have been using Ubuntu so far for the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series, there have been sporadic comments suggesting that I just run this app or that app in a virtual Windows environment from within Ubuntu. So, today I am taking a look at Wine.
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