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CIO Challenge with BYOD: Don't Fall Down the Rabbit Hole
A recent slew of surveys about the bring your own device trend portray a topsy-turvy computing world shaping up in the enterprise. The CIO's ultimate challenge is to prevent the very real world of BYOD from becoming surreal. Employees want to use unapproved apps for things like social networking, a highly controversial worker-productivity killer. They want to read, send and store documents using cloud-based email or a cloud-based storage service provider, which is an IT security nightmare. They want to communicate over their personal IM that is presumably outside IT's purview...
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How to Virtualize Mission-Critical Applications
Many are lagging in transitioning their tier 1 applications—the mission-critical apps that could benefit the most from virtualization.
"What we find is that customers virtualize anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of their estate before they come to their business critical apps," says Parag Patel, vice president of alliances at VMware, though he notes that the majority of VMware customers are well over 50 percent virtualized at this point...
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Microsoft System Center 2012 Simplifies Virtual Systems Management Duties
Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System Center 2012 to manage and monitor applications and the infrastructure that supports them...
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Microsoft Patches Critical Windows Zero-Day Bug That Hackers Are Now Exploiting
Microsoft today delivered six security updates to patch 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and several other products, including one bug that attackers are already exploiting...
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Is Application Security the Glaring Hole in Your Defense?
When it comes to security, a large number of organizations have a glaring hole in their defenses: their applications. A recent study of more than 800 IT security and development professionals reports that most organizations don't prioritize application security as a discipline, despite the fact that SQL injection attacks are the highest root cause of data breaches. The second-highest root cause is exploited vulnerable code in Web 2.0/social media applications...
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Developers Say Application Security Lacking
Are enterprise applications really secure? It depends on whom you ask. Seven in 10 developers say security is not adequately addressed in their applications, but only half of security officers believe that. Almost 80% of developers said they have no process, or simply an ad hoc process, for building security controls into their applications. But, only 64% of security personnel said they have no formal process for building security into their enterprise applications...
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Google Drops the Price of Cloud Storage Service
Google has cut the price of its Cloud Storage, a hosted service designed for enterprise developers who want to store their applications' data in the cloud, as opposed to in their own servers.
loud Storage is intended as a cloud storage service for heavy-duty, enterprise applications that generate and contain massive amounts of data, not as an end user service where individuals can store files, like the Picasa Web photo manager, the Docs office productivity suite and YouTube for storing and sharing videos...
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Are Community Cloud Services the Next Hot Thing?
When Matthew Lodge, senior director of cloud services for VMware, looks out over the cloud landscape and envisions how it will continue to evolve, he sees community clouds playing a big role. Community clouds can be thought of as subset of public clouds that are tailored to a specific vertical industry, such as government, healthcare or finance, offering a range of services, including infrastructure, software or platform as a service....
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Simplifying Cloud Deployment
Moving enterprise applications to the cloud can be a complex and daunting task. What you want to find is a cloud provider that offers a high touch engagement process from beginning to end to smooth the transition.
A high touch process ensures you can engage with various members of the deployment team through the three stages of the on-boarding process, which consists of: readiness assessment; development of a migration, transition or transformation plan; and optimization for cost and efficiency.
We'll take a deeper dive on each...
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The Best Cities for Finding IT Jobs in 2012
Three national staffing firms—Modis, Robert Half Technology and Technisource—shared with CIO.com their lists of the best U.S. cities for finding IT jobs...
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Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It's All About Hyper-Hybrid
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud offerings for critical business operations from public and private providers, connecting them all back to the core of the business is becoming a challenge involving complicated integration, orchestration and rules management...
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Most Tweets Are Garbage, Twitter Users Say
Twitter has been celebrated for its ubiquity and impact on world events from natural disaster recovery to political uprisings. But researchers from a group of big time universities have found that useful tweets are few and far between...
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Microsoft 'Committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack Support While Support Grows to Delete the Code
(Read Full Article)The OpenStack community is considering dropping support for Hyper-V. Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack...
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FBI to Build Social Network Spy App
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to develop an application that can track the public's postings to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, in order to aid how it predicts and reacts to criminal behavior, including public disorder and terrorism...
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Amazon Adds More Spots for Connecting Directly to Its Cloud
Amazon Web Services has added four new locations (to the existing two) where enterprises can use its Direct Connect network service to communicate with its cloud, the company said on Tuesday.
The new AWS Direct Connect locations are CoreSite One Wilshire in Los Angeles, TelecityGroup Sovereign House in London and Equinix in Singapore and in Tokyo. The two existing locations are both in the U.S.
Direct Connect works as an alternative to using the Internet to access AWS cloud services. Advantages include more consistent network performance for applications that require real-time data and enhanced privacy for customers who may ...
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Consumerization Threatens IT Maturity
Adoption of cloud-based applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the enterprise could undermine efforts over recent years to boost security, compliance and basic infrastructure and application management - IT maturity - according to new research...
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When 'Tech Speak' Clashes With 'Business Speak'
Every IT professional has been here: A business person asks you a question, and your thorough answer just isn't good enough. You try to give more specific information in an attempt to break through the communication barrier. But the more you try, the worse things seem to get...
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IDC on 2012: Prep for Cloud Wars, Mobile Explosion, Higher IT Spending
Network World — Researchers at International Data Corp. say some big battles will be brewing in 2012 in the cloud, mobile and Big Data arenas, so much so that "companies like Microsoft , HP, SAP, RIM, and others -- including Apple -- will face 'crossroads moments' in 2012. By the end of the year, we should have a good idea which vendors will -- and won't -- be among the industry's leaders at the ...
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London Wires Up for 2012 Olympic Games
IDG News Service — While London's massive Olympic park is still very much a frenetic construction site, IT engineers are fine tuning the equipment that will be used to transmit scores, let athletes send e-mail and transmit high-definition ...
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Need Linux Skills? 12 Places to Learn Online
The Linux Foundation reports that skills are one of the top challenges named by companies already using Linux. IT employment site Dice.com shows that demand for Linux experience is growing at a rate of 31 percent year over year as opposed to just 20 percent overall...
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Siri Outages Indicate Apple Still Doesnt Get the Cloud
The recent downtime for Apple’s virtual assistant show the company still has a lot to learn about web services.
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Enterprise Alliance Formed to Direct Cloud Providers
The Wild West era of cloud computing is ending. So says cloud computing's new sheriff, a user group called the Open Data Center Alliance.
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Virtualization Wars
Ten years ago the argument over virtualization would have been a short one because VMware was the only game in town, but that early dominance is now being significantly challenged by Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat (KVM)...
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Great Video: Microsoft's Dazzling Future Vision
This cool video from Microsoft presents a dazzling vision of the future of productivity tools. Well worth the watch be sure to allocate a good 5 minutes.
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