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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Tech CEOs’ first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver

Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access to user data | Amazon reportedly tested Wi-Fi network in new spectrum

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Tech CEOs' first jobs: Licorice maker, housekeeper, scuba diver
It can be a long climb to the top of the corporate ladder. With Labor Day in mind, we asked tech CEOs who've reached the highest rung to share their first job experiences. Some were entrepreneurs at an early age, offering lawn-mowing and scuba diving services. Others toiled in the fields and factories. Many got their hands dirty, scrubbing oil stains off asphalt, cleaning bathrooms, and shoveling monkey cages. Read More


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Secure, Stable Cloud Computing
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Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access to user data
Developers who were able to bypass Dropbox's security by reverse-engineering Python applications -- the language used by the cloud storage provider -- described their technique in a published paper. Read More

Amazon reportedly tested Wi-Fi network in new spectrum
Amazon has reportedly been testing a Wi-Fi network that's based on new spectrum, from satellite network vendor Globalstar. The result: a much improved Wi-Fi experience. Read More

VMware brings Suse Linux to newly launched cloud service
The newly launched VMware vCloud Hybrid Service will start offering a fully supported Suse Linux Enterprise Server by the end of the year, making it the first commercially supported Linux OS that the cloud service plans to offer. Read More


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HP StoreOnce Is "Better Together" with HP Data Protector 7
This paper looks at the benefits to be realized in the combined scenario of HP StoreOnce appliances being used with HP's own Data Protector 7 backup software while considering the topic of "where" the deduplication occurs. Learn More

Larry Ellison to talk in-memory database, Oracle PaaS at OpenWorld
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison typically uses his annual OpenWorld conference keynotes to deliver the company's biggest announcements and strategic positioning, and this year they will apparently involve an in-memory database and Oracle's PaaS (platform as a service) offerings. Read More

Top 10 Amazon cloud challengers
While industry analysts don't foresee any public cloud service vendor making a noticeable dent in Amazon's huge market lead anytime soon, Cloud Technology Partners, Forrester Research and Gartner do consistently name 10 providers that have a shot of picking up significant future revenue as the overall demand for public compute, infrastructure and storage services grows in the next three to five years. Here are the 10 companies and why they have a shot at challenging Amazon. Read More

Infor fleshes out its Inforce Salesforce.com integration
Infor has unveiled a new version of Inforce, a product that connects Salesforce.com's popular cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) software with its own. Read More


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Discussion: Doing VDI Better
VDI expert Lori Mac Vittie blogs about F5's commitment to providing unsurpassed VDI experience. She touches on key implementation concerns for Microsoft, VMware and Citrix solutions. Read on to learn about F5's ability to deliver all VDI solutions better, faster, and more efficiently than any other ADC solution. Learn More

When it comes to troubleshooting and threat detection, NetFlow wins over packet capture
With Internet connections to cloud services growing rapidly and cyber attacks becoming craftier and more sinister, the need for improved traffic visibility is in high demand. In the past, both layer 7 application awareness and malware detection capabilities have been major separators when choosing between flow capture and packet capture for traffic analysis, but today the decision is most often NetFlow in lieu of packet capture. Read More

How do you abandon the cloud?
For quite some time I was an advocate of boycotting various cloud services. Instead of Gmail, I opted to utilize an old-fashioned, desktop email client and POP server. Instead of DropBox, I went with a variety of file storage solutions that I could host myself (such as SparkleShare). Read More

Amazon lets developers make money by selling physical goods from Android apps
Developers can sell physical and digital items from Amazon.com within their apps using the new Mobile Associates API for Android-based devices. Read More


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