Friday, December 16, 2011

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TechWeb Networking News Update -- Issue Highlights:
TOP STORY: Security Researcher Details New SCADA Bugs
ALSO SEE: Who Owns The LAN? We Rank Six Switch Vendors
ANALYTIC REPORT: The Evolution Of Enterprise Risk Management
WHITE PAPER: Watson - A System Designed for Answers
MOST POPULAR: 10 Essential Cloud Apps For SMBs
BLOG: Year In Review: Disk-y Business
WEBCAST: Evaluation Guide for Cloud ERP
RESOURCES: InformationWeek Reports: Now Free

TechWeb
NETWORKING NEWS UPDATE 
  Friday, December 16, 2011
REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS   |     MOST POPULAR   |     BLOG   |     WEBCASTS   |     RESOURCES  
TOP STORY
Security Researcher Details New SCADA Bugs
Supervisory control and data acquisition systems' programmable logic controllers could be remotely accessed and loaded with trojanized firmware.

ALSO SEE
Who Owns The LAN? We Rank Six Switch Vendors
Cisco leads our IT Pro Ranking with an overall score of 77%, but HP, Dell, and others are finding ways to compete.

Verizon Cedes Data Center Management To Terremark
Terremark, acquired by Verizon this year, showcases security, capacity of the data centers it will now oversee.

Cisco CloudVerse: Build One Private Cloud, Multiple Hypervisors
Cisco steps back from close partner VMware to help firms build a private cloud using Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX Server, plus Cisco blades.

VirtualSharp Upgrades Virtual Machine Disaster Recovery
ReliableDR 3.0 software targets enterprises and cloud service providers seeking simpler way to keep track of sprawling virtual environments.

10 Cyber Monday Site Speed Winners
J. C. Penney and Apple offered the fastest customer response on traffic-heavy shopping day, according to Compuware's Gomez, dethroning 2010 winner Dell.

  Digital Issue  
DOWNLOAD OUR GOVERNMENT DIGITAL ISSUE
Uncle Sam wants to tap into the benefits of cloud computing. Here's how 10 agencies are moving from planning to implementation.

Also:
- Smartphones At Work
- Data Center Challenge
- Smart Grid Oversight

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ANALYTIC REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS:
FEATURED REPORTS
The Evolution Of Enterprise Risk Management
In today's uncertain and highly scrutinized financial services industry, achieving effective risk management is vital for survival. The report examines the need for enterprise risk management, the benefits of holistic data management, and ERM best practices.
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Featured Report

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FEATURED WHITEPAPERS
Watson - A System Designed for Answers
Watson's success in the Jeopardy! challenge was inspiring, but the business impact of optimized systems design is just beginning. Watson's advances in deep analytics and its ability to process unstructured data and interpret natural language will now be tailored to fit the requirements of new solutions in science, healthcare, financial services and other industries. Download this white paper to learn about Watson's workload optimized system design.
 

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM:
10 Essential Cloud Apps For SMBs
Online tools let you get going fast and pay as you go, two factors that appeal especially to SMBs. From productivity to analytics, these 10 apps deserve your attention.

5 Moves Microsoft Must Make In 2012
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's to-do list for 2012 should include acquisitions, a strong tablet launch, and a move into services.

Microsoft Office 365 Vs. Google Apps: Compliance Clash
Microsoft dials up the rhetoric and says take that, unidentified competitor whose name begins with the letters "Google."

 

FROM THE NETWORK COMPUTING BLOG:
Featured  Blogger Year In Review: Disk-y Business
By Steve Wexler
The good news is that storage costs continue to drop, with third quarter disk capacity shipments up 30.7% year over year. Meanwhile, vendor revenues have increased only 8.5%, meaning enterprises can buy more storage for less money. The bad news is that information volumes are growing at a minimum rate of 59% annually, so that even with the cost per byte dropping rapidly, falling prices can't keep pace with increasing storage demands.

The Cable Conundrum Continues--Vendors Respond
By Howard Marks
After my initial adventures with 10 Gigabit Ethernet cabling, as recounted in "The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Cable Conundrum," I realized I needed to research this matter further. I put together a few simple questions about 10 Gigabit Ethernet connection technologies and sent them to some leading vendors to see what challenges a system administrator building a multivendor network would face in the real world.

Hitachi Boosts Private Cloud Storage Gateway
By Deni Connor, InformationWeek
Hitachi Data Systems announced on Wednesday that it has added new capabilities to its Hitachi Data Ingestor private cloud gateway that lets customers share data among themselves, migrate data between NAS devices and file servers to the Hitachi Content Platform, and restore previously deleted files.

 

WEBCASTS:

Evaluation Guide for Cloud ERP
Join this webinar to hear from the real experts -- the IT and finance executives who have implemented ERP in the cloud. Learn how they dealt with old systems and challenges, understand their evaluation process and the questions they asked, and hear how their deployments are today. It happens December 15.
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RESOURCES AND EVENTS:
InformationWeek Reports: Now Free
Good news, readers: We've changed the name of InformationWeek Analytics to InformationWeek Reports--and made the service free to registered users.
It happens March 25-29 in Orlando, Fla.


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