Monday 29 August 2011

Small businesses fail to address data risks in server virtualization

  Vendors as partners | DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams
 
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Small businesses fail to address data risks in server virtualization
A recent Symantec survey of adoption of virtualization within small businesses revealed that most companies are failing to take even the most basic steps to reduce risks to their data. Read More


WHITE PAPER: VMware

Global Cloud Computing Adoption
This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation. Learn more.

WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu

A New Look at Energy-Efficient Servers
The family of PRIMERGY® Intel® Architecturebased servers offers a wide range of capacities, performance, and configurations to fit almost any application service requirements. Read now!

Vendors as partners
Ken Piddington, CIO of Global Partners LP, an $8 billion energy company in the Northeast, recently implemented an innovative vendor partnership program that he hopes will improve the product and services the company gets from suppliers while helping those suppliers more efficiently serve the company and benefit from the relationship. He recently outlined the plan with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix. Read More


WHITE PAPER: GFI Software

Economics of Spam
Email security threats do not discriminate. Whether you're an organization with 50 employees or a global corporation with 50,000, the reality is that spam and viruses can wreak havoc on your business, drain users' productivity and take a major toll on IT resources. Read now

DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams
As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Kaseya

How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative
In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now

Brace for email-attachment malware spree
A sizeable spike in malicious email attachments is just subsiding, but if history is any indicator, several smaller spikes are about to follow that use even more deceptive means than their predecessors. Read More

Cloud CIO: What 'Consumerization of IT' Really Means to CIOs
The latest trend (or over-hyped term, if you like) is "consumerization of IT." As with cloud computing, the term is somewhat ambiguous and is applied to a number of things that are recognizably related, but which differ in details. Read More

IM, SharePoint tools will edge out email, CIOs say
Email's popularity is waning, and within five years it could be eclipsed by other communication tools favored by employees, new research suggests. Robert Half Technology polled 1,400 CIOs and asked if they think real-time workplace communication tools -- such as instant messaging, SharePoint and Yammer -- will become more or less popular than email among employees. More than half bet on the newcomers.... Read More

 
 
 

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  5. iPhone thief accidentally IDs himself via Photobucket
  6. Before the iPhone: The kings of mobile
  7. Top 10 made-in-China iPhone apps
  8. Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
  9. Tablets becoming popular bathroom activity, survey finds
  10. Palo Alto earns short list status
 

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Google to shut down Slide social apps; Linux at 20

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Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities | DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams

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Google to shut down Slide social apps
Apparently the age of "superpoking" social network friends and throwing sheep at them is coming to a close. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Schooner Information Technology

The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options
The Short Guide to MySQL High-Availability Options: An analysis of today's MySQL high-availability challenges and what asynchronous, semi-synchronous and fully synchronous replication offer toward reducing downtime, achieving full data consistency, automating failover, and simplifying administration. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Arrival of Cloud Thinking
Much is being made of the "the cloud." The money it will save. The agility it will bring to computing. What is less obvious is how IT departments are actively employing cloud services today. How they are reacting to both public and private cloud initiatives. What it will mean over the next couple of years for IT decision makers and implementers. Learn More

Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities
The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance. Read More

DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. Read More

Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue
China has long been a major hotspot for software piracy. Efforts to track unlicensed software use, however, are giving companies a chance to find the offenders and turn them into customers. Or in some cases, targets for lawsuits. Read More


WEBCAST: GFI Software

GFI MailEssentials Complete Appliance Demonstration
View a 20-minute product demo of this comprehensive email protection solution that combines antivirus, anti-spam and attachment filtering in a robust, highly scalable, easy-to-manage platform. View now

Close encounters with Steve Jobs
Have you ever met, talked with, or seen Steve Jobs? Famously private, the ex-Apple CEO is far from being a social butterly. But he's not a recluse, and he's been around for a quite awhile. And that means: human contact. Read More

Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked)
It seems that pretty much all of us are obsessed by our portable technology to what can only described as an epic degree and this has interesting and serious consequences. Read More

Potential pitfalls in Apple CEO transition, say experts
Apple's new CEO faces a challenge putting his own imprint on the company as long as Steve Jobs sticks around, a management expert said today. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Kaseya

Why Corporations Need to Automate IT Systems Management
In today's competitive business environment, corporations across all industries are looking to provide quality products and services while at the same time cutting costs, saving energy and doing more with less. Automated IT systems management is the ultimate facilitator for achieving these goals…and more. Read now

New AMD CEO faces challenges in mobile
Newly minted Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Read faces a challenge in turning around the company's mobile strategy to wage a competitive battle against rivals Intel and ARM. Read More

VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres
Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environment, the company announced Monday. Read More

Silver Peak unveils free WAN acceleration product
Silver Peak today announced free downloadable software that performs the same data acceleration functions as its enterprise-class product, but only for data replication between two sites and not multiple applications. Read More

Google+ lets users 'ignore' those annoying people
Google+ has a new option that will enable users to take a simple step to 'ignore' people on the social networking site. Read More



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  3. 21 Chrome Web Apps for Serious Work
  4. Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet
  5. iPhone thief accidentally IDs himself via Photobucket
  6. Before the iPhone: The kings of mobile
  7. Top 10 made-in-China iPhone apps
  8. Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
  9. Tablets becoming popular bathroom activity, survey finds
  10. Palo Alto earns short list status

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DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams

  IT security rundown for week ending Aug. 26 | Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue
 
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DHS warns that Irene could prompt phishing scams
As Hurricane Irene barrels toward the eastern seaboard, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is warning government agencies and private companies to be on the lookout for storm-related phishing attacks and other malicious cyberactivity. Read More


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Trend Micro: #1 in Virtualization Security*
Trend Micro enables you to fully realize the benefits of your virtualization and cloud computing investments. Find out how our Smart Protection Network and specialized "for the cloud" Server, Data Storage, and Encryption technologies help enterprises reduce risk while maintaining compliance and controlling costs. Go to: trendmicro.com/vmworld

WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Leveraging Cloud Security to Weather Threatening Storms
This paper assesses the current cyber threat environment and discusses the use of distributed cloud services as an effective means to protect against evolving, modern day IT threats. It takes a close look at DDoS defense in particular. Read now

IT security rundown for week ending Aug. 26
This past week in security news was highlighted by a hacking revelation out of China, bad news for banks, good news for Sony gaming customers and a curious email that might have been at the heart of the big RSA data breach. Read More

Software tracking could turn Chinese piracy into revenue
China has long been a major hotspot for software piracy. Efforts to track unlicensed software use, however, are giving companies a chance to find the offenders and turn them into customers. Or in some cases, targets for lawsuits. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell

IT Managers Face Security Challenges with Mobile Devices
A recent IDG survey reveals data security is the top barrier to supporting employees' mobile devices. Read more

Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked)
Gibbs ponder our obsession with our digital electronics. Read More

Mobile payment security apps coming to NFC-ready smartphones
Four major credit card companies are working with the Isis mobile wallet venture to install mobile payment security applications on upcoming NFC-ready smartphones in the U.S. Read More


WEBCAST: Cymphonix

Gain Complete Control Over Internet Bound Traffic
The Cymphonix Network Composer is the only network appliance that provides comprehensive clarity into all internet bound network traffic and simply powerful tools to manage that traffic with a holistic approach. Learn More Today!

Was this the email that took down RSA?
"I forward this file to you for review. Please open and view it." Read More

China yanks video that leaked hacking tool
The state-run China Central Television network has yanked a video that inadvertently included a short clip of a cyber-attack tool targeting Falun Gong websites. Read More

Hackers could reverse-engineer Microsoft patches to create DoS attacks
A security company has demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a Microsoft patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on Windows DNS Server. Read More

 
 
 

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  1. The world's geekiest license plates
  2. Future TSA: Track All 'Daily Travels To Work, Grocery Stores & Social Events'
  3. 21 Chrome Web Apps for Serious Work
  4. Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet
  5. iPhone thief accidentally IDs himself via Photobucket
  6. Before the iPhone: The kings of mobile
  7. Top 10 made-in-China iPhone apps
  8. Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
  9. Tablets becoming popular bathroom activity, survey finds
  10. Palo Alto earns short list status
 

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iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 26

  7 Ways to Use HP TouchPads After They Stop Working | MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks
 
  Network World Wireless

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iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 26
As Hurricane Irene closes in on the East Coast, iOSsphere rumors of iPhone 5 ticked up slightly to Category 2. Fueled by hot air, rumors broke out about iPhone 5 sales starting in October, a new battery design and audio jack flex cable, new carriers, Steve Jobs' cunning PR plot, and much less. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud
Akamai Chief Scientist and co-Founder Tom Leighton explores the major forces and technology layers driving the cloud computing movement, the types of architectural approaches emerging and an assessment of the challenges that must be overcome for cloud computing to broadly succeed. Read now

WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

Service Assurance Defined
This Forrester paper explains the concept of service assurance and highlights how it can address fundamental issues around managing application performance and business services. Learn More

7 Ways to Use HP TouchPads After They Stop Working
Hewlett-Packard's announcement that it is discontinuing its TouchPad set off a $99 fire sale. But without HP's full attention and support from developers, these devices won't live long. However, they can still be useful even after they're useless as a tech device. Here are some ideas. Read More

MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks
A new technique crafted by MIT researches can detect the tampering that's essential to man-in-the-middle attacks in wireless networks. Read More

Short Take: What's next for Apple after Steve Jobs?
Keith Shaw chats with Computerworld News Editor Ken Mingis about what happens at Apple following Steve Jobs' resignation as CEO. Will products change? What do we know about Tim Cook, the new CEO? What is Jobs' legacy at Apple? Read More


WHITE PAPER: BMC

Workload Automation Challenges and Opportunities
This Executive Brief discusses IDC's perspective on how enterprise workload management requirements are changing and highlights the ways that workload automation solutions can address these emerging requirements. Learn More!

Dutch court slams brakes on Samsung Android phone sales in Europe
A Dutch court Tuesday issued a European Union-wide injunction ordering the immediate halt of sales for Samsung's Android-based Galaxy smartphones. Read More

Survival kit considerations
Depending on where you are and when you read this, Hurricane Irene may be approaching. As I write, at press time, Irene has just unleashed her wrath on the Bahamas and is moving to the north and northwest toward the Mid-Atlantic Sates and New England. Read More

Ladies love e-readers, are less keen on tablets
Women have increasingly become the most frequent buyers of e-readers even as their interest in tablets and smartphones has remained relatively steady, according to Nielsen. Read More


WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel

A Vision for Emerging Customer Requirements
Learn how HP's Converged Storage strategy, including HP 3PAR Utility Storage, powered by Intel Xeon processors, establishes HP's unique approach to storage going forward. Read now

Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked)
Gibbs ponder our obsession with our digital electronics. Read More

Q&A: How tech patent expert Florian Mueller sees smartphone suits shaking out
A question-and-answer session with the writer of the FOSS Patents blog. Read More

A bigger desktop with your iDevice
Air Display lets you extend your OS X or Windows desktop onto your "Apple whatever you're using." Read More

Dish Network hopes to build LTE cellular network
Satellite TV provider Dish Network hopes to build a 4G cellular network, if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission permits it, according to a filing the satellite provider made on Monday. Read More

 
 
 

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The world's geekiest license plates
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MOST-READ STORIES

  1. The world's geekiest license plates
  2. Future TSA: Track All 'Daily Travels To Work, Grocery Stores & Social Events'
  3. 21 Chrome Web Apps for Serious Work
  4. Why You Shouldn't Buy a Discounted TouchPad Tablet
  5. iPhone thief accidentally IDs himself via Photobucket
  6. Before the iPhone: The kings of mobile
  7. Top 10 made-in-China iPhone apps
  8. Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake
  9. Tablets becoming popular bathroom activity, survey finds
  10. Palo Alto earns short list status
 

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