Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and de...
A US Patent and Trademark Office re-examination has found a basic RPost proof-of-delivery patent valid.
In a sweeping decision all 89 of its claims have been left standing against challenges of prior art. Patent holders dream of such things.
It is understood to be a so-called “fina...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...
Security concerns are the biggest thing holding back cloud adoption, but Intel says it’ll take it and its pricey $7.68 billion McAfee acquisition at least another five years to bring cloud security up to the best-in-class traditional enterprise security available now.
Not very reassu...
For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ...
“We are very pleased to build the next generation of secure cloud computing with HP Cloud Services, and to be the first vendor to manage HP Cloud Security Group policies leveraging the OpenStack API,” commented Dave Meizlik, Dome9 VP of Marketing and Business Development, as Dome9 Secu...
While cloud-based communications include a complex web of ports and protocols, typically 85 percent of the traffic flowing in and out of an organization through the cloud is email and web, including identity services. Taking more of your business and business processes to the cloud beg...
Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, and reduce OPEX? We can.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jason Silverg...
Information Security and Risk has become a top concern of IT organizations and consumers alike. Concern about inadequate Info Security remains the #1 obstacle to greater adoption of Cloud Computing, according to Intel’s research. The rapid growth of Mobile and IP-connected Embedded dev...
In the early years of cloud computing, the idea was just to get there – to start achieving some of the promised efficiencies. But now, as cloud initiatives mature, the focus has turned to ensuring data security and privacy – no small feat, given the range of threats and global regulati...
VMTurbo has added application delivery visibility to its intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments.
The new Operations Manager 3.1 basically assures companies that it’s okay to virtualize business-critical applications because it can ensure servic...
Enterprises want to mix the best of their own data centers with private and public cloud services without compromising security and uptime. Making internal information assets available to work across private and public clouds requires a management layer that can stitch together dispara...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Application Gateways for SOA integration, cloud connectivity and API management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Conv...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, on Monday announced that it has taken two additional steps in its commitment to maintain the strictest control standards as it relates to both financial reporting and the protection of sensitive data such as Personally Ide...
Independent industry security expert Gunnar Peterson provides the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice when evaluating Security Gateways.
Guide describes security architecture capabilities, common business use cases, and deployment considerations....
VMware has confirmed that one of its ESX hypervisor source code files was posted online.
Iain Mulholland, director of VMware’s Security Response Center, posted the following event-minimizing message:
“Yesterday, April 23, 2012, our security team became aware of the public posting of...
“Our new instant access app for Google Chrome makes it unbelievably easy to get secure access to any server, on-the-fly,” said Zohar Alon, Co-Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security, which announced on Wednesday the availability of Dome9 Instant Access for Google Chrome, a new browser-based ...
"Our strong results show that we are addressing the major trends in clouds, big data, and trust," said EMC's CFO David Goulden, as the company reported first-quarter 2012 revenue of $5.1 billion, up 11% over last year's $4.6 billion.
I took great pleasure in reading the release below regarding the reconstitution of the Terrorism Research Center. The founders of the Terrorism Research Center (Matthew Devost, Brian Houghton, and Neal Pollard) are all highly regarded national security professionals and thought leaders...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, has announced that Alert Logic Threat Manager for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is among the first security solutions available directly through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Participation in AWS Marketplace ...
Alert Logic (www.alertlogic.com), a provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, has announced GAAP revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 2012 of $6.7 million, up 45 percent from the first quarter of 2011, and up nearly 10 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011.
Dri...
The mystery of where Australia Post’s recently promised digital mail system is coming from has been solved.
It’s going to use Volly, the sight-unseen system that Pitney Bowes announced 15 months ago but has yet to put on the market.
Australia Post said so last week making it the fi...
"As more companies realize the benefits of cloud-based services, the demand for data centers that provide enhanced offerings and greater security has skyrocketed," noted Kip Turco, Windstream Hosted Solutions' senior vice president of data center operations. Windstream Hosted Solutions...
Regulation of consumer and corporate data is increasing in response to the growing movement into cloud service offerings. Coupled with high-profile intrusions by groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, the necessity for a standard way to assess the security of cloud service providers bec...
PerspecSys is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada that specializes in eliminating the security barriers that inhibit enterprise companies from embracing cloud computing. Many companies want to move to the cloud for operational business purposes but are concerned about how...
Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) a provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, released today the results of their developer survey, finding that over 90 percent of developers agree that unit testing is an effective practice to reduce software bugs. Typemock surveyed devel...
Modular Data Protection Services (DPS) Inc., a provider of cloud data protection for the channel servicing the SMB/SME market, on Tuesday announced a new and innovative program for IT Services Providers looking for new methods to address growing customer demand for cloud data protectio...
As many IT organizations continue to expand to the cloud outside of the Software as a Service space, they are faced with a significant security challenge – how do you meet your security requirements in the cloud provider's environment with its increased complexity and functionality tha...
Cybercriminal attacks are increasing at a significant pace. In response, organizations should adopt constant and never-ending improvement (CANI) in their practices and technologies to stay ahead of these threats. Conventional IT/network security measures (such as security devices) and ...
Modular Data Protection Services (DPS) Inc., a leader in cloud data protection for the mid-market, today announced availability of its new comprehensive cloud data protection strategy, Modular 360° Partner Program™ for anytime, anywhere recovery-on-demand. Designed to speed deployment ...
Cloud delivered security, often called Security-as-a-Service, has quickly gained popularity over the past couple of years. Parallel with this growth, corporations have continued to do more with less, while addressing the challenge of keeping up with today’s evolving threat landscape. O...
McAfee has announced the availability of a free open source audit plug-in for MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their databases. The free-of-charge plug-in was created and developed by McAfee as part of a new set of features for its award-winning da...
Zumbox, the American digital mail start-up, has changed its overseas strategy. Rather than try to involve the local postal operator – as it has once with New Zealand Post – it’s going to go it alone.
It’s starting in Australia where its wholly owned licensing arm, Zumbox Software Inc...
Opscode,a provider of cloud infrastructure automation, on Monday announced that it has secured $19.5 Million in Series C funding. The lead investor for this round was Ignition Partners, with follow-on investments from Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The financing round, w...
Dome9 Security on Thursday announced that its cloud security firewall management service protects cloud servers from today’s serious cloud server security threats, including the recently publicized Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability. Dome9’s cloud security service th...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, on Tuesday announced general availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and ActiveWatch for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS customers using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) interested in an added layer of network protecti...
Swiss Post has reneged on statements it explicitly made to the Commercial Court in Zurich last year claiming it stripped the proof-of-delivery functionality that infringes an RPost patent out of its IncaMail secure e-mail service.
After RPost touted Swiss Post’s apparent concession la...
Dell said Tuesday that it’s buying firewall maker SonicWall on undisclosed terms to buck up its own security software and services.
It wants SonicWall’s network security and data protection tools.
The new head of Dell’s Software Group John Swainson said the purchase would give Dell...
Dell on Tuesday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SonicWALL, Inc., a provider of advanced network security and data protection. SonicWALL’s industry-leading Next-Generation Firewalls and Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls complement Dell’s security soluti...
Under legal pressure from Los Angeles-based RPost, Swiss Post says it has dropped proof-of-delivery functionality from its IncaMail secure e-mail service, a move that leaves the critical widgetry in a pickle.
To deliver official documents – like IncaMail’s been doing – it has to be c...
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In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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Nearly every enterprise is evaluating cloud computing solutions either today or in the near term. Many have already made the leap, and many more are getting close to putting that first toe in the water. But there are key considerations that should be made, questions to be asked, and de...
A US Patent and Trademark Office re-examination has found a basic RPost proof-of-delivery patent valid.
In a sweeping decision all 89 of its claims have been left standing against challenges of prior art. Patent holders dream of such things.
It is understood to be a so-called “fina...
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now only four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...
Security concerns are the biggest thing holding back cloud adoption, but Intel says it’ll take it and its pricey $7.68 billion McAfee acquisition at least another five years to bring cloud security up to the best-in-class traditional enterprise security available now.
Not very reassu...
For many of the same reasons that Software-as-a-Service is catching on with enterprise buyers, delivering web services on top of Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures is appealing to the SaaS developers. Operational agility, lower CapEx, and a broad array of tools and services are ...
“We are very pleased to build the next generation of secure cloud computing with HP Cloud Services, and to be the first vendor to manage HP Cloud Security Group policies leveraging the OpenStack API,” commented Dave Meizlik, Dome9 VP of Marketing and Business Development, as Dome9 Secu...
While cloud-based communications include a complex web of ports and protocols, typically 85 percent of the traffic flowing in and out of an organization through the cloud is email and web, including identity services. Taking more of your business and business processes to the cloud beg...
Want to save your business money? Of course you do. What if we could show you a way to use the cloud in and around your office, get your workforce mobile, make communication faster and easier, and reduce OPEX? We can.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jason Silverg...
Information Security and Risk has become a top concern of IT organizations and consumers alike. Concern about inadequate Info Security remains the #1 obstacle to greater adoption of Cloud Computing, according to Intel’s research. The rapid growth of Mobile and IP-connected Embedded dev...
In the early years of cloud computing, the idea was just to get there – to start achieving some of the promised efficiencies. But now, as cloud initiatives mature, the focus has turned to ensuring data security and privacy – no small feat, given the range of threats and global regulati...
VMTurbo has added application delivery visibility to its intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments.
The new Operations Manager 3.1 basically assures companies that it’s okay to virtualize business-critical applications because it can ensure servic...
Enterprises want to mix the best of their own data centers with private and public cloud services without compromising security and uptime. Making internal information assets available to work across private and public clouds requires a management layer that can stitch together dispara...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of Application Gateways for SOA integration, cloud connectivity and API management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Conv...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, on Monday announced that it has taken two additional steps in its commitment to maintain the strictest control standards as it relates to both financial reporting and the protection of sensitive data such as Personally Ide...
Independent industry security expert Gunnar Peterson provides the analysis and decision support that will enable you make an informed choice when evaluating Security Gateways.
Guide describes security architecture capabilities, common business use cases, and deployment considerations....
VMware has confirmed that one of its ESX hypervisor source code files was posted online.
Iain Mulholland, director of VMware’s Security Response Center, posted the following event-minimizing message:
“Yesterday, April 23, 2012, our security team became aware of the public posting of...
“Our new instant access app for Google Chrome makes it unbelievably easy to get secure access to any server, on-the-fly,” said Zohar Alon, Co-Founder and CEO of Dome9 Security, which announced on Wednesday the availability of Dome9 Instant Access for Google Chrome, a new browser-based ...
"Our strong results show that we are addressing the major trends in clouds, big data, and trust," said EMC's CFO David Goulden, as the company reported first-quarter 2012 revenue of $5.1 billion, up 11% over last year's $4.6 billion. 
I took great pleasure in reading the release below regarding the reconstitution of the Terrorism Research Center. The founders of the Terrorism Research Center (Matthew Devost, Brian Houghton, and Neal Pollard) are all highly regarded national security professionals and thought leaders...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, has announced that Alert Logic Threat Manager for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is among the first security solutions available directly through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Participation in AWS Marketplace ...
Alert Logic (www.alertlogic.com), a provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, has announced GAAP revenues for the quarter ending March 31, 2012 of $6.7 million, up 45 percent from the first quarter of 2011, and up nearly 10 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011.
Dri...
The mystery of where Australia Post’s recently promised digital mail system is coming from has been solved.
It’s going to use Volly, the sight-unseen system that Pitney Bowes announced 15 months ago but has yet to put on the market.
Australia Post said so last week making it the fi...
"As more companies realize the benefits of cloud-based services, the demand for data centers that provide enhanced offerings and greater security has skyrocketed," noted Kip Turco, Windstream Hosted Solutions' senior vice president of data center operations. Windstream Hosted Solutions...
Regulation of consumer and corporate data is increasing in response to the growing movement into cloud service offerings. Coupled with high-profile intrusions by groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, the necessity for a standard way to assess the security of cloud service providers bec...
PerspecSys is a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada that specializes in eliminating the security barriers that inhibit enterprise companies from embracing cloud computing. Many companies want to move to the cloud for operational business purposes but are concerned about how...
Typemock, (http://www.typemock.com/) a provider and pioneer of easy unit testing solutions, released today the results of their developer survey, finding that over 90 percent of developers agree that unit testing is an effective practice to reduce software bugs. Typemock surveyed devel...
Modular Data Protection Services (DPS) Inc., a provider of cloud data protection for the channel servicing the SMB/SME market, on Tuesday announced a new and innovative program for IT Services Providers looking for new methods to address growing customer demand for cloud data protectio...
As many IT organizations continue to expand to the cloud outside of the Software as a Service space, they are faced with a significant security challenge – how do you meet your security requirements in the cloud provider's environment with its increased complexity and functionality tha...
Cybercriminal attacks are increasing at a significant pace. In response, organizations should adopt constant and never-ending improvement (CANI) in their practices and technologies to stay ahead of these threats. Conventional IT/network security measures (such as security devices) and ...
Modular Data Protection Services (DPS) Inc., a leader in cloud data protection for the mid-market, today announced availability of its new comprehensive cloud data protection strategy, Modular 360° Partner Program™ for anytime, anywhere recovery-on-demand. Designed to speed deployment ...
Cloud delivered security, often called Security-as-a-Service, has quickly gained popularity over the past couple of years. Parallel with this growth, corporations have continued to do more with less, while addressing the challenge of keeping up with today’s evolving threat landscape. O...
McAfee has announced the availability of a free open source audit plug-in for MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their databases. The free-of-charge plug-in was created and developed by McAfee as part of a new set of features for its award-winning da...
Zumbox, the American digital mail start-up, has changed its overseas strategy. Rather than try to involve the local postal operator – as it has once with New Zealand Post – it’s going to go it alone.
It’s starting in Australia where its wholly owned licensing arm, Zumbox Software Inc...
Opscode,a provider of cloud infrastructure automation, on Monday announced that it has secured $19.5 Million in Series C funding. The lead investor for this round was Ignition Partners, with follow-on investments from Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The financing round, w...
Dome9 Security on Thursday announced that its cloud security firewall management service protects cloud servers from today’s serious cloud server security threats, including the recently publicized Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerability. Dome9’s cloud security service th...
Alert Logic, a provider of Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, on Tuesday announced general availability of Alert Logic Threat Manager and ActiveWatch for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS customers using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) interested in an added layer of network protecti...
Swiss Post has reneged on statements it explicitly made to the Commercial Court in Zurich last year claiming it stripped the proof-of-delivery functionality that infringes an RPost patent out of its IncaMail secure e-mail service.
After RPost touted Swiss Post’s apparent concession la...
Dell said Tuesday that it’s buying firewall maker SonicWall on undisclosed terms to buck up its own security software and services.
It wants SonicWall’s network security and data protection tools.
The new head of Dell’s Software Group John Swainson said the purchase would give Dell...
Dell on Tuesday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SonicWALL, Inc., a provider of advanced network security and data protection. SonicWALL’s industry-leading Next-Generation Firewalls and Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls complement Dell’s security soluti...
Under legal pressure from Los Angeles-based RPost, Swiss Post says it has dropped proof-of-delivery functionality from its IncaMail secure e-mail service, a move that leaves the critical widgetry in a pickle.
To deliver official documents – like IncaMail’s been doing – it has to be c...
