Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Cisco enterprise management tools take on new network realities

Verizon study: data breaches quintupled in 2010 | Smartphone security follies: A brief history

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TOP STORY:
Cisco enterprise management tools take on new network realities
Cisco this week broadened the security and management capabilities of its enterprise products to help IT shops get a better grip on mobile devices, video and changing workforce habits.


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Verizon study: data breaches quintupled in 2010
Criminals carried out more but smaller data thefts last year than in previous years, indicating a shift toward simpler exploits that run lower risk of punishment, according to Verizon's latest data breach report.

Smartphone security follies: A brief history
As smartphones have grown more powerful and complex, so have the threats against them.

Kodiak to Lion: 10 years of Mac OS X
Mac OS X, the tenth major version of Apple's operating system, and the most critically acclaimed of the bunch, is now 10 years old.

Microsoft's persistence brings software patent fight to Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on i4i's patent lawsuit against Microsoft, and the software industry is holding out hope that a pro-Microsoft ruling will help bring sanity to a software patent system run amok.

Microsoft's Office 365 cloud beta now public
Cloud-based versions of Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and other products became available in Office 365's public beta Monday.

Samsung to sell HDD unit to Seagate in $1.4B deal
Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a US$1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two companies, they said Tuesday.

Verizon's 12-step program for thwarting data breaches
Verizon's just-released "2011 Data Breach Investigations Report" says businesses could prevent most data breaches if they stick to security principles that are cheap and easy to implement.

Rackspace adds load balancing to cloud-based servers
Rackspace's cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability.

Should Oracle be blamed for OpenOffice.org pullout?
Is Oracle getting a bad rap for admitting defeat with OpenOffice.org already? Matthew Aslett seems to think so. While Aslett is right that Sun had the ball much longer, Oracle shouldn't be held blameless either.

China set to surpass U.S. in PC purchases
When it comes to IT, China likes to build big. Now, China is near to adding something else to its list of big tech things: the world's largest market for PCs.

Chipset provides more insight into network's physical layer
This week, a $12 billion maker of network connectors and panels will unveil a chipset to provide greater security and visibility in data center networks.

Microsoft prices, lack of help push one firm to Google
When manufacturing firm Cinram International migrated from Microsoft Exchange to Google Docs, the company saw 'a night-and-day difference,' according to Andrew Murrey, Cinram's vice president of IT Infrastructure.

5 legal gotchas in the cloud
Don't sign a cloud computing contract until you consider five areas that are fraught with risk in the cloud. The red flags include not only data security and privacy, but also e-discovery, search warrants and jurisdictional issues.

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