Simon Crosby, the godfather of Xen, on virtualization, security and wimpy private clouds

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	Simon Crosby, the godfather of Xen, on virtualization, security and wimpy private clouds Bromium is a well funded startup that promises to tap some little-used inherent strengths of Xen virtualization to secure public clouds, opening up the possibility of greater cost savings for businesses that will be able to trust more data to these services. Read More WHITE PAPER: MegaPath Today's Network: Make It a Strategic, Future-Proof Asset Today's small and mid-sized organizations support dozens of applications and hundreds of devices and mobile workers. Network congestion has become a risk, as users change offices, work from home and add devices at will. SMBs need simplification in the form of network convergence. And a managed service provider can help. View Now In this Issue CCIE vs. MBA vs...? IBM illuminates solar power system aimed at data centers Japanese supercomputer blisters 10 quadrillion calculations per second Security Professionals Believe That APTs Represent A Threat To U.S. Vital Interests WAN optimization hardware vs. WAN optimization services Security roundup for Nov. 4: virtualization is key to public cloud security; China, Russia accused of cyber-espionage; More Duqu for you Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push WHITE PAPER: Intel Enhance virtualization with HP and Intel The rapid adoption of virtualization-enabled servers has created a major increase in I/O overhead. This paper describes a balanced platform approach that addresses virtualization enhancements and hardware assists even at the I/O and networking device levels. Click to continue CCIE vs. MBA vs...? When CIOs look to add talent to their staffs right now, who should they be recruiting: employees with deep technical skills or deep business skills? That's one argument raging in corporate IT departments over the benefits of hiring staff with technical certifications such as Cisco Certified Internet Expert (CCIE) or business degrees. Read More IBM illuminates solar power system aimed at data centers IBM said today that is rolling out a solar-power array system designed to run high-voltage data centers. IBM has installed the first iteration of the system on the 6,000 square-feet of rooftop of its India Software Lab in Bangalore. The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average of five hours a day. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Accelerate WAN File Transfers by 50x According to Taneja Group research, 83% of IT managers are considering a move to the cloud a top priority. This paper highlights their research and provides guidance on how to overcome cloud adoption barriers and further leverage virtualization and consolidation efforts by strategically deploying WAN optimization. Read now! Japanese supercomputer blisters 10 quadrillion calculations per second The Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers broke its own record this week by hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops), according to its operators, Fujitsu and Riken. Read More Security Professionals Believe That APTs Represent A Threat To U.S. Vital Interests One of the objectives of the ESG Research Report, "U.S. Advanced Persistent Threat Analysis," was to gauge what security professionals thought. Was "APT" nothing more than a marketing term? Did security professionals really believe that APTs are dangerous? To make sure that security respondents were on the same page, we presented them with the NIST definition of APT for starters. Respondents had... Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Streamline Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Solutions To succeed and thrive, today's organizations must create network environments that enable them to continue operations or recover in the shortest possible time. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions. Read More WAN optimization hardware vs. WAN optimization services The two best things about WAN optimization are that it practically guarantees better response times for applications while at the same time either reducing the need for WAN bandwidth or at least staving off for a while the need to boost it. Read More Security roundup for Nov. 4: virtualization is key to public cloud security; China, Russia accused of cyber-espionage; More Duqu for you Ever been in an argumentative mood? Well, last week we were, with editors here coming up with 33 red-hot arguments, such as open source vs. proprietary, or which browser is better. Read More Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push Cisco today announced a former VMware executive will head up the newly formed Cisco Security Group at Cisco, which combines two formerly separate units into one security-focused group. Read More
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