Linux distributors duke it out in cloud OS market

	Mat Honan hack pokes holes in Apple iCloud | Apple stops password resets after iCloud hack
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	Linux distributors duke it out in cloud OS market Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers, but at least one analyst says the market is still split between the Suse, Red Hat and Canonical's Ubuntu. Read More WHITE PAPER: Attachmate Luminet Effective Techniques for Preventing Fraud Multi‐channel monitoring, application activity monitoring, and information security responses to suspicious activity. This chapter makes clear that the ability to monitor multiple applications and correlate events across diverse platforms is a key element of effective fraud prevention and detection. Learn More! In this Issue Mat Honan hack pokes holes in Apple iCloud Apple stops password resets after iCloud hack Does 'shadow IT' lurk in your company? Are enterprise collaboration tools all the rage? Avaya upgrades Aura; BroadSoft acquires Adaption Technologies Sprint to offer Microsoft Office 365 SaaS What's wrong with SaaS? Microsoft, NYPD develop counterterrorism and crime prevention system CSOs warned to watch for FinFisher spyware How Mozilla keeps its MySQL database tidy WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems 9 Reasons Why Citrix NetScaler Beats F5 Is your network ready for the Cloud? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. • 2x consolidation – for less • 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance • 5x capacity on demand – no new hardware. • All functionality, all devices, all the time. Download 9 Reasons Citrix NetScaler beats F5. Learn More Mat Honan hack pokes holes in Apple iCloud The hackers that hijacked Mat Honan's online life, took over his Twitter account(s), and wiped out his iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and Google accounts in one fell swoop showed some perseverance in achieving that goal. Not all attackers are quite that determined, but the hack still demonstrates some serious flaws in Apple's iCloud and the iCloud security model. Read More Apple stops password resets after iCloud hack Apple has told its support staff not to process password change requests that come in via the phones. An Apple customer service representative said that Apple was halting all AppleID password resets by phone. Read More Does 'shadow IT' lurk in your company? Business divisions are bypassing the IT department, making their own decisions to buy cloud-based application services or use mobile devices, raising the specter of so-called "shadow IT" that's outside the knowledge or control of the CIO and the IT staff. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Join the Scale Revolution in Cloud Networking Transform your enterprise data centers into a highly scalable enterprise clouds. Learn how to scale your cloud network for more elastic performance, seamless expansion and simple consolidation. Download whitepaper and enable multi-dimensional scalability for your enterprise cloud. Learn More Are enterprise collaboration tools all the rage? Talk to Dan Schoenbaum, the newly announced CEO of enterprise collaboration company Teambox, and he'll tell you the market for applications that let workers share files using cloud-based tools, collaborate instantaneously and access the software anywhere is ripe to take off. Read More Avaya upgrades Aura; BroadSoft acquires Adaption Technologies Two news announcements in the headlines today: Avaya has announced its latest offer with Avaya Aura Conferencing 7.0, while BroadSoft has acquired Adaption Technologies Ventures, a Texas-based provider of hosted business VoIP solutions. Read More Sprint to offer Microsoft Office 365 SaaS Sprint announced that it will deliver Microsoft Office 365 to small and midsize businesses this year. The latest service addition from Sprint marks the expansion of the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio which also includes support, office and field-productivity services. Microsoft will host the Office 365 platform, and Sprint will provide customer service and network access. Read More WHITE PAPER: Teradata Experts Share the Five Pieces of Private Cloud Success Private clouds are emerging as a way for enterprises to take advantage of many of the benefits of the cloud model, but with less risk. This eBook discusses why private cloud models are the best choice for many organizations today. Learn more. What's wrong with SaaS? The software as a service market is still in a state of flux and before SaaS can reach its full potential, service providers must overcome integration, customization and brokerage issues. Read More Microsoft, NYPD develop counterterrorism and crime prevention system Microsoft and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have jointly developed a counterterrorism and crime prevention system that will for example notify about suspicious packages and vehicles, and allow NYPD personnel to search for suspects using technologies like smart cameras and license plate readers. Read More CSOs warned to watch for FinFisher spyware Computers that appear to be running the commercially available FinFisher spyware sold to law enforcement and governments have been found in almost a dozen countries on five continents, a security researcher said on Wednesday. Read More How Mozilla keeps its MySQL database tidy Keeping track of a MySQL databases may have just gotten easier for Mozilla after installing a database management tool from ScaleBase. Read More
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