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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops prices

  Claranet buys cloud desktop specialist Star | McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim
 
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Google offers 10 times as many cloud computing options, plus drops prices
Google on Monday announced a significant ramp-up of its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud offering, upping the number of virtual machine sizes available on its platform across the United States and Europe from four to 40. Read More


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Claranet buys cloud desktop specialist Star
Managed service provider Claranet is acquiring cloud-based desktop software provider Star Technology Services. Read More

McAfee wants his guns back, admits poor aim
As we enter week three of this bizarre saga, please don't forget that reportedly on-the-lam John McAfee is a "person of interest" in the shooting death of his next-door neighbor. And I say that as much as a reminder to myself as anyone, given the seemingly inappropriate entertainment value that I am deriving from McAfee's frequent blog posts and tweets. Read More

Building a fortress in the cloud for your critical data
Businesses are in the crosshairs as military and spy organizations around the world step up their cyber-snooping techniques, and the shift to cloud is only exacerbating the risks. How can you be sure your cloud partner is capable of protecting your data from cyberattacks? Read More


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What Cisco and Dell's Cloupia and Gale acquisitions mean to the future of IT
As cloud technologies continue to disrupt the enterprise computing landscape the norms of the old are being swept a way to make room for new norms that will define the way organizations deploy and manage technology in the cloud era … at least until the next epochal shift. Read More

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How well can you see into the cloud? For many IT professionals, the view into the cloud isn't very clear, but new techniques and tools make visibility across multiple cloud systems clearer. Read More

Windows Server 2012 now runs in Amazon's cloud
Enterprises can now run Windows Server 2012 on the Amazon Web Services cloud, and take advantage of improved management features and new versions of IIS and the .Net framework. Read More


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What not to put in the cloud
The cloud promises unlimited capacity, pennies per hour to operate, 4+ nines of uptime and infrastructure managed by a dedicated staff. Even technical challenges around security and compliance can be achieved and are no longer suspect. So why wouldn't you send everything to the cloud? Read More

PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication
When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud. Read More

US, European agencies seize 132 domain names for selling counterfeit merchandise
U.S. and European agencies have seized 132 domain names that were allegedly used to sell counterfeit merchandise online. Read More

 
 
 

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