I simply do not understand how Net neutrality detractors think that the proposed rules the FCC wants to put into place could hurt innovation. Even a cursory read of the rules shows that they are trying to set a level playing field, ensuring that those who control the last mile cannot arbitrarily limit or restrict access to Internet services. Open access does not stifle innovation. Open access to Internet services is the catalyst to innovation. Let’s face it: Telcos and cable companies are the least innovative companies around. They only innovate to protect their turf.
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Think Net Neutrality Will Kill Innovation And Jobs? Think Again
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CSA Updates Cloud Security Framework
The question isn’t will cloud computing become the future of IT, but when. According to MarketsandMarkets (M&M), the global cloud computing market will reach $ 121.1 billion by 2015 (“Global cloud computing market: global forecast, 2010-2015″). Although it represents just a portion of the overall IT cloud market, public cloud providers’ revenues will reach $ 45 billion by 2013, according to IDC. This represents a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent, more than six times the forecast growth rate for traditional IT spending. But IDC also says that businesses are more concerned about the risks involved, including security, availability and performance, than the benefits of flexibility, scalability and lower costs.
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When Hashes Collide
If there was any doubt in my mind that data deduplication is a mainstream technology, it was wiped out when I saw–in the business section of The New York Times last week–a full-page ad from Symantec touting its deduplication technology. Even so, I still occasionally run into people who consider deduplication to be a dangerous form of black magic that is likely to mangle their data and end their careers. This attitude represents an overestimation of the likelihood of a hash collision in deduplication and of the reliability of more traditional backup media.
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IT Hiring Picture For 2011 Mixed
A survey of various IT sector hiring forecasts for 2011 show a mixed bag, with companies planning to bring in more people but still relying, at least in part, on contract or temporary workers rather than making permanent hires. The technology consulting firm Janco Associates reports a slight increase in hiring in some IT areas, but not enough to offset the job losses in IT during the recession. But a survey of hiring managers and recruiters by the tech employment Web site Dice.com reveals six in 10 plan to hire workers in the coming year, although it does not distinguish between permanent and temporary hires.
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WAN Issues Drive Application Deployment And Architecture
If you’re in the hospitality industry, nothing is more central to your business than ensuring premium service and accommodations for your guests. This goes beyond offering attractive living suites, fine restaurants, and every imaginable personal and business convenience. It also includes friendly customer service and ease of booking reservations. Sometimes the best option is to re-design your IT systems.
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Core Security Offers Enterprise-Level Automated Pen Testing
Core Security Technologies has released an automated penetration testing product that leverages its flagship Core Impact Pro technology on an enterprise scale. Core Insight Enterprise enables enterprises to launch multiple automated pen tests (based on algorithms and user data developed from the company’s experience with Core Impact) and generate high-level vulnerability/risk posture and trending reports for operational security personal, as well as for executives and auditors.
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Cisco’s FabricPath and IETF TRILL: Cisco Can’t Have Standards Both Ways
Standards are standards for a reason. Standards allow customers to interconnect products with a hope that they will all work together easily and simply. It’s how the Internet was built, though not without some problems, and how all the networking vendors built their businesses. No vendor, not even Cisco or Hewlett-Packard, can go it alone in enterprise networking. Even the whisper that a vendor is not standards-compliant can ruffle feathers and get danders up, so vendors come up with ways to give lip service to standards compliance when they really want to push their proprietary protocols. Vendors should innovate and address customer needs, but they should do so in a way that doesn’t force customers into choosing either proprietary methods or standard protocols, something that Cisco seems to be doing with FabricPath and Transparent Connection of Lots of Links (TRILL).
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What Comes After RAID? Erasure Codes
As I mentioned a few blog entries ago, the basic math behind parity based RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives) solutions is starting to break down. While I think it’s important for those of us that spend our days thinking about these things to raise the alarm, it’s more important to think and write about the technologies that can take us past parity RAID. One major contender is Reed-Solomon erasure codes, which vendors are starting to use as an efficient alternative to parity or mirroring.
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EMC Boosts Its Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform
EMC has enhanced its Atmos cloud service with the EMC Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform, which provides Atmos users, such as Internet service providers, with functionality such as provisioning, metering and billing so licensees don’t have to provide those capabilities themselves. The product means that the Atmos users can deliver cloud services to their own customers more quickly and with smaller in-house development teams. In addition, EMC has enhanced its Atmos service by improving its multitenancy capabilities to boost security and operational efficiencies. The company has also added consulting services to help users develop storage-as-a-service offerings.
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Cloudkick Deal Turbocharges Rackspace Cloud Management
Just days after announcing a managed cloud service, Rackspace Hosting is upping the ante with the acquisition of Cloudkick and its cloud-server management tools portfolio. Serving more than 1,500 customers, a number of them from the more than 100,000 using Rackspace, Cloudkick helps administrators navigate the cloud world. Customers can manage and monitor their servers across multi-tenant virtualized servers and dedicated hardware, including from multiple providers, within a single dashboard.
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