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API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:37 +0000

Wired News - There was a time when APIs were just a way of building applications for a desktop operating system like Microsoft Windows. But in the age of the internet, they have the power to plug applications...

Cloudyn service monitors and optimizes AWS cloud usage

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:28 +0000

InfoWorld - Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs. The service is available initially...

Cloud Computing Is Still A Leap Of Faith

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:26 +0000

InformationWeek - IT's jumping into cloud services with way too much custom code and way too little planning, our annual State of Cloud Computing Survey finds.

FBI call gives clues into Anonymous, LulzSec probes

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:25 +0000

CRN Australia - Hackers listen in on top secret communication.

LibreOffice making steady progress

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:24 +0000

iTWire - A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter...

Symantec Declares Better Backup for All Sized Organizations and Calls for 80 Percent Reduction in Operating Costs

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:19 +0000

Marketwire - Computers and Software - New Survey Data Reveals That the Current Approach to Backup Modernization Is Broken

Symantec NetBackup Ends the Backup Window With 100 Times Faster Backups

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:18 +0000

Marketwire - Computers and Software - Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the latest edition of Symantec NetBackup 7.5 to help enterprise organizations overcome their data...

Symantec Releases Backup Exec Dedicated to 100 Percent Virtual Environments and Expands Data Protection for Small Businesses

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:17 +0000

Marketwire - Computers and Software - Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced Backup Exec 2012 to help users eliminate complexity, perform backups in 100 percent virtualized...

Alcatel-Lucent Selected by Telmex as a Key Supplier to Build Latin America's Largest and Fastest Broadband Access Network

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:14 +0000

PR Newswire: Business Technology - Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced the launch of one of Latin America's largest broadband access networks with Telmex. Alcatel-Lucent has been selected as a key supplier...

Doyenz Partners with Symantec to Power Cloud-Based Recovery Service for Virtual Environments

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:12 +0000

PR Newswire: Business Technology - Doyenz Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based recovery services for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced that its cloud-based recovery technology was selected by Symantec...

McAfee Strengthens Partnership With Crossbeam Through Resale Agreement To Secure High Assurance and High Performance Networks

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:10 +0000

Business Wire: Networks - McAfee and Crossbeam Systems today announced that McAfee will resell Crossbeam's X-Series platforms on the McAfee Firewall Enterprise solution for comprehensive and scalable network security....

Hosting.com Expands Server and Application Performance Monitoring Offerings

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:09 +0000

Business Wire: Networks - Hosting.com Server and Application Performance Monitoring Offering delivers deeper visibility in application performance - helping drive availability and performance requirements.

Cloudyn Ends Need for Rampant Over-Provisioning in the Cloud

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:08 +0000

Business Wire: Technology News - Cloudyn's announcement of the general availability of the next generation in cloud cost management solutions, a SaaS solution for dynamically optimizing the costs of cloud computing resources.

Hortonworks Recognized as a Leader in the Enterprise Hadoop Solutions Industry by Independent Research Firm

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:07 +0000

Business Wire: Internet - Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop projects, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. found the company among the leaders in the February 2012 report, "The Forrester Wave(tm):...

Richardson RFPD Introduces High Power Brazed RF Resistor from Anaren

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:01 +0000

Releases - G400B50W5 Ideally Suited for High Reliability, Pulse Power Applications

Richardson RFPD, Inc. today announces immediate availability and full design support...

IBOCO introduces newly designed DINOSAUR series of flexible duct: The DN Series

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:58 +0000

Releases - The IBOCO Corporation has announced a newly designed version of its popular DINOSAUR series of flexible duct. The new version of DINOSAUR duct permits cable to be added or removed even more...

New feature on ElectronicProducts.com places important industry developments front and center

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:56 +0000

Releases - Electronics Products, the largest publisher of product information to the electronics industry, has recently added a new feature to ElectronicProducts.com:...

CA continues improving ERwin accessibility with two new solutions

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:54 +0000

eChannelLine USA - CA Technologies has continued the strategy it began last year with CA ERwin Data Modeller R8 of improving the data modelling solution's accessibility to the general user with two new solutions,...

Platform-as-a-service on cusp of strategic growth

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:53 +0000

eChannelLine USA - Gartner thinks PaaS is finally on the verge of taking off, even though the industry is still immature and lacks established leaders and core best practices.

4 Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Effects

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:52 +0000

ESJ - Enterprise - These four best practices will help government and political organizations mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks.

SoftLayer to Support True Hybrid Cloud Hosting using Flex Images

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:51 +0000

CDN Advisor.com - Last Wednesday (on February 1, 2012), SoftLayer Technologies, the leading provider of dedicated and cloud-based hosting services, announced the launch of Flex Images, its new Unified Server...

San Francisco Conference observations: Enterprise transformation, enterprise architecture, SOA and a splash of cloud computing

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:50 +0000

ZapThink - Jason Bloomberg described Representational State Transfer (REST), which many now see as a key foundational principle for cloud architecture.

Ubuntu One Online 'Notes' Feature To Be Removed in Feb

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:56 +0000

Omg! Ubuntu! - Committed users of the 'notes' feature on the Ubuntu One website will want to make a note of 'February 28th' - it's the date that the handy feature will be retired from the U1 web interface.Ubuntu...

China government reportedly plans to raise import tariffs for LCD panels

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:51 +0000

DigiTimes - The China government plans to raise import tariffs for LCD panels by 3-5% in the second quarter of 2012 in order to safeguard the development of the domestic flat panel industry, according...

iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:46 +0000

CNET News.com - Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell.

Conversations On Cybersecurity: The Trouble With China, Part 2

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:43 +0000

Forbes - Technology - Guest post by Alan Paller

AMD's Risky and Disruptive Ultrathin Notebook Strategy

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:28:42 +0000

Forbes - Technology - Last week, I attended AMD?s annual Financial Analyst Day at their Corporate Headquarters in Sunnyvale. They outlined their future corporate and product strategies as well as rolling out their...

Compact High-Power LED Solutions - With OSLON Square from Osram & EBV

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:12:41 +0000

EBVElektronik - YouTube - In this video on EBVtv you learn how EBV supports its customers in designing complete lighting solutions. Meanwhile, our...

Blue Horseshoe's Supply Chain Suite for Dynamics AX Certified for Dynamics AX 2012

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:12:36 +0000

Marketwire - Computers and Software - Blue Horseshoe, a solutions services firm based in Carmel, Indiana, announces its official release of Supply Chain Suite for Dynamics AX 2012 and its...

Quest(r) Recognized by Cisco for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction in the USA

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:12:34 +0000

Business Wire: Data Management - Quest received a Cisco Customer Satisfaction Excellence Gold Star. Quest's 30 year commitment to excellence is evidenced in long-term satisfied customer relationships as shown in this recognition.

Radware Security Report Debunks Prevailing Myths About Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:12:44 +0000

PR Newswire: Computer and Electronics - Contrary to conventional thinking that large bandwidth cyber attacks wreak the most damage on enterprises, security experts at Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) a leading provider of application...

Arrow Adds Power To Global Elbow

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:12:31 +0000

DistiBlog - Arrow Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Triune Systems, a fabless analogue and mixed-signal technologies company. Triune develops solutions for ultra-low power energy-harvesting,...

Is 'Command and Collaborate' the New Leadership Model?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:39 +0000

Harvard Business Blogs - The theme at Davos this year was 'The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models.' One of the models up for discussion...

Startup Turns Data Crunching into a High-Stakes Sport

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:23 +0000

MIT Technology Review - Kaggle organizes contests for organizations looking to make valuable predictions from mountains of data.
Some things-fog in San Francisco or traffic in New York City-are easy to predict. Others,...

2011 Security Predictions in Review

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:18 +0000

WatchGuard Podcast -

What is a User Story

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:16 +0000

Better Projects - I have been at Wikipedia again. This time at the User Story page. I didn't like the contents as usual, and this time I drafted a variation on the Wikipedia page and published it in the Business...

Encrypted? Check. Strong passphrase? Check. Mailing them together? Oops.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:15 +0000

Naked Security - Encryption only helps secure your data when the keys are a secret, a lesson learned the hard way by Ernst and Young and Regions Financial.

The Inevitability of Security-as-a-Service

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:12 +0000

Secure Cloud Review - It is hard to argue that we are moving towards the consumption of everything IT as a service. That is what is driving the cloud in all of its flavors. Both because of this and for this it...

Come for the PaaS Functional Model, stay for the Cloud Operational Model

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:11 +0000

William Vambenepe - The Functional Model of PaaS is nice, but the Operational Model matters more. Let's first define these terms. The Functional Model is what the platform does for you. For example, in the case...

The Importance of Customer Engagement For Cloud Companies

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:10 +0000

Thinking Out Cloud - In July I wrote about the public beta launch of Totango and how it promised to help increase SaaS sales by better understanding customers, and especially their interaction with online channels,...

CloudLink Now Available to All GoGrid Customers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:09 +0000

GoGrid Blog - CloudLink, a dedicated, private connection between GoGrid data centers, is GoGrid's newest product that comes with some exciting new features. After being in private beta for several months,...

Exploring NoSQL: Memcached

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:08 +0000

Cloud of Innovation - Memcached might seem an odd place to venture in an exploration of NoSQL databases. It is not a database. It provides no persistence. It purges items from memory to free space as needed. And...

id Software Consolidates Open-Source Code

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:07 +0000

Linux.com - While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet.

NetSuite looks to a bright 2012

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:06 +0000

Irregular Enterprise - NetSuite had a solid Q4 in 2011. Larry Dignan has the headline numbers. During the analyst call, Zach Nelson, CEO NetSuite fleshed out some of the company's achievements during the quarter.New...

FBI Confirms Cybercrime Conference Call Hacked

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:05 +0000

ChannelWeb - Cybercriminals hacked a conference call between the FBI and British law enforcement officials and posted it on the Web. Anonymous claimed responsibility.

Security Best Practices Pay Off

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:02 +0000

Baseline - Well-prepared companies fare significantly better than their competitors when faced with IT security threats. - IT security concerns never go out of style.
The recent data breach at Zappos.com...

Ziff Davis Enterprise, Channel Insider, eWeek Sold: Now What?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:13:00 +0000

The VAR Guy - Ziff Davis Enterprise (publisher of eWeek, Baseline Magazine, CIO Insight Magazine and Channel Insider) has been sold. The buyer has yet to be publicly disclosed but multiple sources on Twitter...

Interview: The Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Agile Adoption

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:12:58 +0000

InfoQ - Are there repeated patterns of failure on Enterprise Agile Enablement efforts? Does success at the team level always result in success at the organization level? Sanjiv Augustine and Arlen...

The sys admin's daily grind: PortSentry

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:12:54 +0000

Linux Magazine - To celebrate 10 years of his column, Charly sets up a sensitive detector that measures the cosmic background radiation of the Internet.

Are We Generations Apart?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:12:52 +0000

EBN Online - Building a successful business relationship requires an understanding of how different generations communicate and approach transactions.

HP Recalls Fax Machines Due to Fire and Burn Hazards

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:27:40 +0000

CPSC.gov - The fax machines can overheat due to an internal electrical component failure, posing fire and burn hazards.

Microsoft Announces Layoffs

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:47 +0000

redOrbit - Tech - Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday that it had laid off some 200 employees as part of a major restructuring aimed at eliminating redundancies in its marketing division, the Associated Press...

Infosys to create 13,000 jobs in Madhya Pradesh

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:46 +0000

India Times - The project likely to be completed in five years will generate 13,000 jobs.

IBM's Watson is changing careers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:45 +0000

CNN - Technology - Beating lowly humans on Jeopardy was just the beginning. IBM's famed Watson supercomputer will soon be available as a commercialized analytics tool for data-heavy industries like...

Tellabs Reports Fourth Quarter Revenue Losses and 530 Layoffs

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:38 +0000

TMCnet - Mobile Internet solutions company Tellabs released its fourth quarter financial results today, and the news isn't good. The company's fourth quarter revenue totaled $317 million, as opposed...

Salesforce.com and Dun & Bradstreet Form Alliance to Deliver B2B information

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:36 +0000

TMCnet - Many businesses struggle with poor information management. If they do not get the right information from the right source in a timely fashion, they may end up with a loss of clients and sales....

Cisco earnings eyed for more improvement

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:12:35 +0000

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal - Cisco Systems Inc. earnings on Wednesday are being watched for more signs of improvement for the networking equipment giant.

Analysts expect the San Jose-based company (NASDAQ:CSCO) to post...

BMC Software's CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:23 +0000

Seeking Alpha -

Arrow Electronics' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:22 +0000

Seeking Alpha -

BMC Software: A Strong Prospective Short Play If It Declines After Tonight's Earnings

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:19 +0000

Seeking Alpha - By Brooks McFeely: BMC Software (BMC) is scheduled to release Q3 earnings tonight. The average of analysts' estimates collected by Thomson Reuters is for a profit of $0.82 per share on revenue...

Seagate Technology PLC's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:15 +0000

Seeking Alpha -

Unisys' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:14 +0000

Seeking Alpha -

Tellabs' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:12 +0000

Seeking Alpha -

Shrunken Servers Aim to Make the Internet Greener

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:08 +0000

MIT Technology Review - Intel teams up with a startup to create a server twice as efficient as those that power websites and apps today.
As the cloud becomes more pervasive-driving everything from social networking...

Ingram pledges to keep cloud momentum going

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:05 +0000

MicroScope - Just days before it holds cloud education seminars for resellers Ingram Micro has vowed to keep putting muscle behind its efforts to educate partners about the hosted world.As one of the key...

Arrow supply chain back to normal, targets network growth

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:04 +0000

MicroScope - Distributor Arrow has said it has largely overcome a number of issues, including the lingering impact of last March's Japanese tsunami, that affected the components supply chain during the...

Go ahead, use pcAnywhere again -- after you update

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:29:02 +0000

Betanews - A week after telling users to disable its pcAnywhere, Symantec says the remote computing software is now safe to use, with a few caveats. First, the app must be upgraded to version 12.5, and...

More Than Half Of Cyberattacks Come From Asia

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:44 +0000

Dark Reading - DDoS attacks worldwide on the rise, report finds

Cray Inc. to Present at Stifel Nicolaus 2012 Technology and Telecom Conference

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:42 +0000

Cray - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) announced today that Brian Henry, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,...

FLOSS Weekly 200: Autotest

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:41 +0000

FLOSS Weekly - Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Dan Lynch

We talk about Autotest, the testing framework used by the Linux kernel itself, and more.

IBI Group Integrates Oracle Advanced Security into Toll Operation Application

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:40 +0000

Oracle Database Podcasts - Global independent software vendor, the IBI Group are a provider of integrated services in Urban Land, Facilities, Transportation and Intelligent Systems. In meeting customer demands to comply...

Microsoft Announces 20th Anniversary of Microsoft Certifications

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:39 +0000

Microsoft - Top Stories - Certification continues to expand employment opportunity in global IT industry.

IBM Announces New Software to Secure the Influx of Mobile Devices to the Workplace

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:38 +0000

IBM - IBM today introduced new software to help organizations better manage and secure the explosion of smartphones and tablets in the workplace, while also managing laptops, desktops and servers.

Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:37 +0000

The Fridge - Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable...

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 250

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:36 +0000

The Fridge - Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #250 for the week January 23 – 29, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this Issue we cover: Introducing the HUD. Say...

Gartner Says Platform as a Service Is On the Cusp of Several Years of Strategic Growth

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:35 +0000

Gartner - Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according...

Citrix and Intel: Developing Innovative Client Virtualization Technology

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:34 +0000

Citrix - We spoke with Rick Echevarria of Intel and Mitch Parker of Citrix on their collective perspectives around the partnership and the market for desktop virtualization.

Top 5 A/P trends for 2012

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:33 +0000

SunGard Blogs - The current economic climate is forcing companies to pursue lean operations as strongly as ever. It's a message that we hear at SunGard, and that you may hear from your employer as well. ...

Red Hat Offers New Exam Designed to Enhance Developer Proficiency with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:32 +0000

Red Hat - by Middleware Team

Technology Trends, and Regulatory & Compliance Environment Compel Organizations to Invest in Enterprise Applications, but the Economic Conditions are not Ripe Enough, Says IDC

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:31 +0000

IDC - Results of the latest IDC Asia/Pacific Semiannual Enterprise Applications Tracker show that the enterprise applications (EA) software market experienced...

IDC: The Economic Rollercoaster Will Continue to be Felt in 2012 Prompting Less Talk and More Action for New Zealand ICT

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:29 +0000

IDC - After several years of talking about the benefits of ICT innovations and industry transformation, 2012 will be the year that organisations take action on transformational change.

Oracle PartnerNetwork Provides Specialized Partners Strategies for Success at Inaugural Oracle Partner Executive Summit

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:28 +0000

Oracle -

Auditors: A problem to CSP transparency

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:27 +0000

Gartner Blog Network - I'm pretty vocal when it comes to challenging Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) regarding increasing the amount of public transparency they share with not only customers but with prospects. ...

Megaupload's Black Swan Song

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:26 +0000

Gartner Blog Network - Last November, Gartner analyst Richard Hunter and I published research entitled 'Black Swans' Are Sure to Fly in the Public Cloud. Based on ideas popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The...

Pushing the Envelope - SeaMicro Introduces Low-Power Xeon Servers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:25 +0000

Forrester - Infrastructure - Ops - In late 1010 ago I noted that startup SeaMicro had introduced an ultra-dense server using Intel Atom chips in an innovative fabric-based architecture that allowed them to factor out much of...

ITIL Adoption: 5 Steps That Can Help With Success

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:24 +0000

Forrester - Infrastructure - Ops - ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework, is now in many ways bigger than its "master" -- IT service management. From its origins in the UK government, its use has grown...

Microsoft's Brad Smith Talks STEM Education with NASA, White House Jobs Council

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:23 +0000

Microsoft on the Issues - This morning, Brad Smith, Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft, joined NASA Administrator Charles Bolden...

Connecting the Generations Safely

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:22 +0000

Microsoft on the Issues - Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Jody Holtzman, Senior Vice President of AARP Thought Leadership. The post is focused on a new nationwide survey that examines the growth of social networking...

Seagate Technology Reports Second Quarter Financial Results

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:21 +0000

Seagate - Please click here to view the financial release Q2 FY2012 Financial Results.

WebCast Replay Available: Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Configuration

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:20 +0000

Oracle E-Business Suite Technology - I am pleased to release the replay and presentation for the latest ATG Live Webcast:

Long Time SUSE Executive Joins Open Source File Sharing Company

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:19 +0000

ownCloud - ownCloud co-founder Holger Dyroff joins as vice president, sales and marketing

Announcing Code Generator For vSphere Java API

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:18 +0000

DoubleCloud - As I tweeted last week, there would be a big announcement when the open source VI Java API gets 20,000 downloads. It hit target today. To celebrate it, I decide to release the code generator...

Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:17 +0000

The Diversity Blog - Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes...

BMC Heads Down the Foodchain and To The Cloud with Numara Acquisition

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:16 +0000

The Diversity Blog - BMC Software yesterday announced the acquisition of mid-market IT management provider Numara Software. It's an interesting move for this decidedly enterprise-level provider and one that sees...

Cybersecurity Report Stresses Need for Cooperation

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:15 +0000

Network World - A lack of honest information-sharing between public and private sectors and among nations hampers cyber defenses, warns a new report by McAfee and the Brussels-based Security and Defense Agenda.

Brocade Opens Up Cloud-Optimized App Delivery Switches

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:14 +0000

NewsFactor - Brocade and Cisco are making a big splash in cloud-optimized switches this week. While Cisco is pushing 100-gigabit Ethernet capabilities to its switch portfolio, Brocade is rolling out advancements...

IBM Rolls Out Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:13 +0000

NewsFactor - IBM just got into the mobile management game. Big Blue rolled out software based on its 2010 BigFix acquisition that helps organizations manage and secure smartphones and tablets in the workplace...

Apple in the Enterprise: Corporate Demand Is Growing

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:12 +0000

NewsFactor - Microsoft's corporate Windows business is losing ground to Apple. Apple is hiring sales executives across the U.S. to get more of its products into Fortune 1,000 companies.

Microsoft has traditionally...

Android: Not So Insecure After All

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:13:09 +0000

CIO - Blogs - Symantec recants its scary Android malware warning, as Google's new app security system, called Bouncer, makes the Android Marketplace more secure. Do security companies hype their warnings?...