The appeal of a physical, virtual and cloud combo

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	The appeal of a physical, virtual and cloud combo Physical and virtual but one view -- this goal continues to be a driving force as IT managers plot their ways toward increased use of virtualization technology across the infrastructure. Such was the case at TTI, a specialized electrical components distributor based in Fort Worth, Texas. Read More WHITE PAPER: ArcSight Building a Successful Security Operations Center This paper outlines industry best practices for building and maturing a security operations center (SOC). For those organizations planning to build a SOC or those organizations hoping to improve their existing SOC this paper will outline the typical mission parameters, the business case, people considerations, processes and procedures, as well as, the technology involved. 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Read Now 15 summer vacation ideas for geeks From Star Trek and Space Camp to baseball minutiae, vintage video games, anime, pirates, Harry Potter and They Might Be Giants, there's a vacation option for any type of geek this summer. Read More Finding gold in your log files Considering how much valuable information is available in log files, you'd think more companies would pay attention to them. Workstations, servers, firewalls, appliances, and other computer devices generate reams of event logs every day, and despite mountains of evidence showing their practical, cost-saving uses, logs often go ignored. A good log management system can help significantly with security, application troubleshooting, compliance, and systems management. If that's the case -- and it is -- why do logs and log management sometimes still get a bad rap? Read More Virtualization no cure-all for data center energy crunch Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with the demands of IT departments, speakers at an industry conference said Friday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Novell Efficiently Delivering Enterprise-Class File-Based Storage IDC: Read about the exponential growth in file-based storage. Learn how having intelligence on data stored can help storage managers make smarter decisions about data storage, protection, archiving, retention, and disposition. Read Now. VA scales back $500 million IT revamp The Department of Veterans Affairs has dropped a large portion of its work on a four-year, $500 million project to modernize its financial and asset management systems, citing cost concerns. Read More Intel's success signals a 'refresh' for tech industry When Intel Corp. posted its best quarter ever this past week, industry watchers noted that the good news extends beyond the chip maker and touches on the high-tech industry and possibly the U.S. economy. Read More Gain the upper hand on governance and compliance with SaaS-based SecureGRC Most of the governance, risk and compliance automation tools on the market are aimed at large enterprises with complex environments and deep resources. But smaller companies need governance and must meet compliance mandates, too. Now these companies have the option of a SaaS-based GRC solution that comes with a low subscription rate rather than a high purchase price. Read More WHITE PAPER: MessageLabs Employee Web Use and Misuse: This white paper examines a Web security solution that gives companies the ability to monitor and enforce their Internet usage policies, bringing site monitoring and URL filtering together while insuring security with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection. Read Now Offshore R&D spending grows, recession or not Engineering research and development spending increased overall during the recession, but more of this spending is moving offshore, according to a new study by Booz & Co. Read More Technology wins most US venture capital deals in strong Q2 The amount of money people put into U.S. venture capital investments nearly returned to pre-recession levels in the second quarter, with most deals going to information technology companies, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Read More Xiotech announces new array, management software Xiotech has announced new storage analysis software, along with two new versions of its enterprise-class storage array and storage management software aimed at virtual desktop environments with its ability to expand on the fly. Read More
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