Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Consumer devices create security, management headaches for IT

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Consumer devices create security, management headaches for IT
It seems the debate about whether or not employees will be allowed to use personal devices for work purposes is over; the practice is already rampant, according to new research. In a survey of 741 IT professionals, 87% said the employees at their companies are using personal devices for work purposes. But that doesn't mean IT is happy about it. Read More


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Microsoft woos developers with Windows 8 demonstration
Microsoft took the wraps off Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 on Tuesday, revealing a dramatically different Windows for both users and application developers. It validated some of the rumors about the new OS and squashed others. Read More

Cisco unveils dual role-data center
Cisco this week opened up a new data center in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with a dual role: application development and disaster recovery (DR) for its production data centers in Texas. Read More


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7 hot cloud companies to watch
By now we're all familiar with the big names in the cloud computing industry, such as Amazon, Rackspace and VMWare. But there are also a whole host of cloud startups that are coming online to help you manage your cloud services provided by the big players. Read More

Dome9 launches automated firewall management service
Startup Dome9 Security is introducing automated management of firewall settings on servers in physical and virtual environments with the aim of keeping servers locked down with less manual configuration. Read More

Five hot startups at Demo Fall
The economy is still in the doldrums but it's not such a bad time to be a startup. Cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services have made it less costly for new companies to get off the ground, and 70 of them will be at the Demo Fall conference in Silicon Valley this week to launch new products. Read More


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SAP upgrades application management platform
SAP is hoping to spark more adoption of its Solution Manager platform for managing and monitoring SAP software environments, a new version of which was announced during the Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas. Read More

New EU agency to manage large IT systems with citizen data
The European Union's General Affairs Council approved plans to establish a pan-European agency to manage its large-scale IT systems. Read More

Two collaboration tools to help wrangle your rogue team: Teambox and TeamLab
If your team organization is more "herding cats" than "well-oiled machine," maybe it's time to consider a new approach to collaboration. Teambox and TeamLab are two team-centric tools worth considering. Read More

Cernam raises the bar for capturing and preserving online content as evidence
When it comes to using online content as evidence in a lawsuit, it's not sufficient to have a screen capture or other image of the content. Cernam is introducing new "capture and preserve" technology that precisely captures online content and its metadata and other properties so the content is valid as evidence. Read More



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