Cloud services vendor Egnyte is attempting to take the mystery out of cloud storage in all of its forms (local, private, hybrid and hosted) by making storage easier to provision, manage and secure. Case in point is Egnyte’s Personal Local Cloud 6.0 service, a storage solution that falls outside of normal definitions.
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Egnyte Brings Simple File Sharing To Local Clouds
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New HP Server, Storage And Networking Products Aimed At SMB Market
HP this week is targeting the small-to-midsize business with new IT products that the company says are feature-rich but low-priced. The new servers, storage appliances and network switches are designed to address the unique challenges of SMBs’ as they look for technology that grows as their businesses grow but is affordable for companies that are guarding cash flow.
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ServiceNow Makes Help Desk Social
ServiceNow.com, which delivers service desk functionality in a SaaS model, now includes a runbook automation process pack for Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud, more updates to its ServiceNow IT service management platform services, and two new applications–one for data certification and one for giving users better access to managed documents. The company’s ServiceNow Live feature has also been improved to add more social media capability.
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Private Cloud Automation, Orchestration, And Measured Service
Many infrastructures are labeled ‘private cloud architectures’ when they really just comprise a subset of what a private cloud is. The key points they tend to miss, based on the NIST definition, is on-demand, self-service, and measured service.
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Ubuntu Linux, Day 22: Spread Out and Get Comfortable
30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 22
When I grow up, I want to have one of those desks that looks like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise–where there are three 23-inch monitors side by side, and I can extend my workspace and work seamlessly across all of them. That dream may not happen any time soon, but with the virtual workspaces in Ubuntu Linux I can essentially simulate the same thing.
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Zenoss Prescribes Cure For The Common Cloud
Zenoss Service Dynamics both unifies and automates impact and root cause analysis for IT services that span private and public IT infrastructures. It gives service providers and enterprises visibility into the health of their hybrid IT services from a single console that is easy-to-configure and automatically updated in real-time as workloads migrate and relationships change, states the company.
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IBM Pushes New Backup Services Into the Cloud
IBM has launched two new cloud based solutions that are geared towards the data protection and data recovery markets. The new services, which are branded IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery and IBM SmartCloud Archive, are available under IBM SmartCloud Resilience services.
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GreenSQL Brings Enterprise Edition To Database Activity Monitoring Market
GreenSQL has introduced an Enterprise Edition of its database activity monitoring (DAM)/database firewall product. The new release features data masking and high availability, in addition to other features available in the GreenSQL Pro product, including reporting, auditing, user rights management and support for multiple database instances.
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Uptime First To Solve Cloud Cost Complexities
A new service, uptimeCloud, features dashboards to monitor and measure the cost of cloud deployments in real-time, predict future cloud costs based on real workloads, provide automated cloud cost saving recommendations for cloud deployments and help IT departments ensure cloud deployments are perfectly fitted to capacity needs.
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Four Reasons Facebook Needs an iPad App
There is mounting speculation that a Facebook app for the iPad is imminent. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s assertion that the “iPad isn’t mobile,” the demand for a Facebook app and the success of alternative Facebook apps for the iPad suggest otherwise.
Here are four reasons that Facebook needs to recognize the iPad as a unique platform and develop an app for it:
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