VMware Updates Story on VDC-OS and Private Cloud
VMware is widely expected to announce the next step in its road to its previously announced Virtual Data Center operating system in a webinar on Tuesday, April 21st.
View ArticleVMware, ISVs Square Off on Fault Tolerance
Among the consequences of VMware's battery of vSphere 4 announcements Tuesday about its new virtualization infrastructure and add-on components, third-party software vendors specializing in...
View ArticleServer Virtualization: Top Five Security Concerns
In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those...
View ArticleVirtualization security: protecting unique IP
Moving to a nearly fully-virtualized infrastructure in 2008 made Joel Braverman a lot more confident in both the physical and digital IT infrastructure at his (relatively new) employer Universal Audio....
View ArticleNovell, CA push to secure identity, security in cloud
Two major identity management companies are forging ahead with products designed to satisfy what a cloud-computing consortium calls one of the trickiest problems preventing secure and automated...
View ArticleCA ties management suites to Amazon's cloud
There's no question that cloud-computing infrastructures will become a significant part the IT plans of large corporations, according to analysts. The question, at least right now, is how well those...
View ArticleDisaster-proof virtualisation on a dime: how I did it
Most companies virtualize servers to save money, save space and act faster on IT requests from the business. Human-resources outsourcing service The Sullivan Group virtualized its servers partially...
View ArticleCloud Computing Poses Control Issues for IT
Though most U.S. companies still list customer and other corporate information as their most valuable assets, many keep pushing this data farther from safe lockdown in the data center--and are about to...
View ArticleMany apps flunk security check before move to cloud
CEOs and the technologists who work for them like to say the applications they rely on -- especially the kind custom-written by specialists at banks and investment companies with fortunes behind them...
View ArticleE-discovery: How a law firm slashes time and costs
It's no secret that corporations are drowning in data. IDC estimates the volume of computer data worldwide will reach 1.2 million petabytes during 2011. A November, 2010 Gartner study found data growth...
View ArticleFour virtualization security basics to watch
While mobile and smartphone security is the hot topic of the moment among virtualization security gurus, plenty of other virtualization security topics demand IT's attention right now. At the recent...
View ArticleIf you use it, mobile malware will come
IT people who try to secure mobile devices in a big company face three big conceptual problems.
View ArticleMac desktop security: The landscape is changing
Only about 20 percent of Americans think Macs are vulnerable to viruses, compared to more than half who describe PCs as "vulnerable" or "very vulnerable" to attack by viruses, according to Alex Stamos,...
View ArticleDNA hack could make medical privacy impossible
It may now be possible for anyone, even if they follow rigorous privacy and anonymity practices, to be identified by DNA data from people they do not even know.
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