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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud

Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup | New Cisco core router boasts 10X capacity of original

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Gartner: Start security monitoring in the public cloud
Security monitoring — the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) — can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to think about doing it. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Verizon

Building the Best Network for the Cloud
In this Verizon Knowledge Vault, you'll learn from videos and other downloadable resources how to move large amounts of data reliably and securely, how to increase performance for the cloud and how to balance risk and opportunity in the cloud era with the help of Verizon Network and Cloud Solutions. Learn More

WEBCAST: IBM Corporation

Give Your Users What They Want with Cloud and Mobile
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM EDT You will learn: - How moving to the cloud can help accelerate mobile adoption in your organization. - The benefits of combining the power of cloud with the freedom and functionality of mobile. Learn More.

Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup
Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. Read More

New Cisco core router boasts 10X capacity of original
Cisco this week is upgrading its Internet core routers with the CRS-X, a system whose capacity is 10x that of what the initial CRS offered when introduced 10 years ago. Read More

Google chases Amazon, both drop cloud prices
It's become a common scene in the cloud industry nowadays: Every few weeks or months a cloud vendor announces a price reduction on its services, and then within a couple of days at least one other competitor announces a price reduction as well. Today, it took just hours. Read More


WEBCAST: Egnyte

Enterprise File Sharing: All You Need to Know
Security. Scalability. Control. These are just some of the many benefits of enterprise cloud file-sharing that you'll discover in this KnowledgeVault, packed with short videos, white papers and demos. View Now!

HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems
On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be obtained by purchasing HP systems. Read More

Startup touts private cloud as a service
You can buy pretty much anything in IT today "as a service," and now it's come to this: 2011 startup company named Metacloud claims to be one of the first to offer a cloud-based service of cloud computing resources. Read More

Facebook, Twitter support Google's call for transparency in surveillance requests
Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have joined Google in asking for greater transparency in surveillance requests, following widespread criticism of the U.S. government's surveillance programs and the role of the Internet companies. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors

Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization
In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now!

Microsoft's ambivalence about Office on the Web gives Apple shot with iWork on iCloud
Almost as an afterthought, Apple on Monday announced it was working on browser-based versions of its iWork productivity applications, a move one analyst said challenged Microsoft's Office behemoth. Read More

VMware: We're building one of the biggest SDN deployments in the industry
VMware hopes to make the networking components of its soon-to-be-released vCloud Hybrid Service one of its biggest selling points, and in doing so the company plans to build one the largest software-defined networking (SDN) deployments in the industry. Read More

PCI Express-based fabrics: A low-cost alternative to InfiniBand
By building on the natural strengths of PCI Express (PCIe) -- it's everywhere, it's fast, it's low power, it's affordable -- and by adding some straightforward, standards-compliant extensions that address multi-host communication and I/O sharing capabilities, a universal interconnect now exists that substantially improves on the status quo in high-performance cloud and data center installations. Read More

Microsoft protects cloud with directory-integrated two-factor authentication
Microsoft is upping the security on Azure with Active Authentication, a new service now in preview which allows enterprises to secure access to hosted applications such as Office 365 with two-factor authentication. Read More



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