Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks

	Census Bureau counting heads in the cloud | Survey finds storage systems underutilized as companies add more capacity
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	Secrecy of cloud computing providers raises IT security risks Despite how attractive cloud computing can sound as an outsourcing option, there's widespread concern that it presents a security and legal minefield. Cloud service providers often cultivate an aura of secrecy about data centers and operations, claiming this stance improves their security even if it leaves everyone else in the dark. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AccelOps Virtualization & Cloud Blindspots? Having VM triage and optimization issues? Exploring private/hybrid clouds? How can you assure service quality and performance reliability? AccelOps integrated monitoring delivers end-to-end visibility, proactive control, reduced MTTR and service intelligence. See Yankee Group's webcast/paper "Managing the Shift to Enterprise Private/Hybrid Clouds" In this Issue Census Bureau counting heads in the cloud Survey finds storage systems underutilized as companies add more capacity IBM acquires BigFix for data centers EMC shuts down online cloud storage service Cisco's TRILL drill: FabricPath beats IETF standard to market RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Insight/Oracle Oracle Sun Servers: Designed With Your Business in Mind Oracle® Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M3000 servers offer the highest efficiency in power and cooling, the broadest offerings in virtualization and consolidation, seamless scalability, unmatched investment protection, and best-in-class price/performance. Isn't it time to invest in technology that provides the tools your business needs? LEARN MORE Census Bureau counting heads in the cloud Web-based apps and infrastructure-as-a-service are a hit for 2010 Census Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: AT&T AT&T Enterprise Embrace Rich Media Development with ECDNs Click to continue Survey finds storage systems underutilized as companies add more capacity A survey of 1,165 IT decision makers showed that while storage utilization rates remain low, the amount of data storage capacity is expected to almost double over the next five years. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Is your WAN designed with your applications in mind? WAN sourcing has been based on the cost of bandwith and availability. The focus is increasing on sourcing WAN solutions that can meet business needs for application performance. Read about Gartner's structured methodology to design a WAN that both performs well and is cost effective. Read Now IBM acquires BigFix for data centers IBM announced Thursday that it plans to buy systems management software vendor BigFix. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter, were not provided. Read More EMC shuts down online cloud storage service EMC today announced it is shuttering its Atmos Online storage service and it will not offer any guarantees that anyone who has already stored data through the hosted service will be able to retrieve it in the future. Read More Cisco's TRILL drill: FabricPath beats IETF standard to market Cisco this week expanded its data center arsenal with software, switches, modules and services all designed to scale the infrastructure to meet the demanding needs of virtualization, application complexity and cloud computing. Read More
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