Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Microsoft upgrades Intune cloud service, includes free Windows 7

EMC, VCE announce tighter Vblock integration | SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

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Microsoft upgrades Intune cloud service, includes free Windows 7
Microsoft is rolling out an upgrade to its cloud software distribution and security monitoring service, Intune, seven months after it officially launched the first version. With Intune, Microsoft is giving away Windows 7 and practically giving away some of the tools previously reserved only for Software Assurance customers. Read More


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Application Delivery 2.0 Handbook
This comprehensive handbook offers guidance on ensuring application delivery with a systematic approach. Read More

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A Glimpse into IBM's Collaboration Future
This white paper focuses on the evolution of Notes and Domino and highlights the broader shift in the collaboration market toward a blending of traditional collaboration services with newer social constructs and business applications—all accessible via mobiles, browsers and rich clients. Read Now

EMC, VCE announce tighter Vblock integration
EMC and the Virtual Computing Environment alliance announced upgrades that more tightly integrate its management interface with VMware's vCloud director and vCenter Server tools. Read More

SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key
In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, SUSE president and GM Nils Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and Suse's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where Suse's partnership will Microsoft is headed. Read More

5 cloud security companies to watch
Security is one of the major impediments to enterprises moving their resources into the cloud. So, it's not surprising that numerous cloud security companies are springing up, attempting to address specific cloud security issues, like protecting virtual machines or encrypting data in motion. Read More


WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies

The Value of Service-Centric Visibility
IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More

The threat cloud computing providers pose to corporate IT
The biggest threat cloud computing providers present to IT organizations is that they raise the bar for IT management. If a cloud provider can get a server up in eight seconds when it takes the IT organization two weeks, IT will be seen as hopelessly ineffective -- and ripe for a complete teardown. Read More

Vint Cerf on Google's privacy practices and how getting tagged in a multitude of online media is disconcerting
Few companies inspire the awe — and the dread about privacy concerns — that Google does, because of its search engine, Google maps and its Street View imagery, its Gmail e-mail and other cloud-based services. Read More

HP's new virtualization servers provide path to cloud
Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced new servers that come preconfigured with Microsoft software to help companies deploy virtualized workloads more quickly. Read More


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

PCI should focus on the real problem
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standard gets a lot of press – but does it address the fundamental problems that still exist in the card/payments industry? Um, no, it doesn't. Not even close. Read More

Apple delivers iOS 5, upgrades Lion
Apple today shipped the long-awaited upgrades to its mobile and Mac operating systems that provide, among other things, access to the new iCloud service. Read More

Cloudmark tackles IPv6
Cloudmark is among the first messaging vendors to tackle the vexing issues related to integrating large-scale e-mail services with the next-generation Internet Protocol called IPv6. Read More

SGI to launch Cloudera Hadoop package
High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. Read More

Enterprises need to focus on data, enterprise culture
It's no secret that enterprise users are bringing more types of IT devices to work -- devices not necessarily condoned or managed by IT -- while they're also using more cloud-based services to store, manage and share their work related files. Read More



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