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	Ex-Sun CEO Schwartz launches medical-records startup Having been largely out of the public spotlight for the past two years, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz emerged today with a startup dedicated to helping families keep the important medical records of loved ones online in a way that he says will ensure their privacy. Read More WEBCAST: VMware Introduction to Virtualization This video webcast is designed to help those with little to no virtualization experience understand why virtualization and VMware are so important to driving down both capital and operational costs. View Now! In this Issue 6 cool uses of near-field communication EMC and VMware team with Atos to create European cloud company Canopy Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud Startup Porticor launches with encryption technology for cloud computing Rackspace enlists Redapt for private cloud installs Are self-signed SSL certificates as insecure as they say? OCZ launches 16TB flash card Rackspace soon to partner with developers of private OpenStack distros SaaS, APTs and asymmetric risk take spotlight at Security Threats 2012 RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Infoblox Time-to-Value Through Network Automation IT is essential to business competitiveness, particularly in financial services and health care. But virtualization, cloud computing, mobility, IPv6 and tight budgets are applying pressure. IT execs need automation tools that deliver rapid time-to-value by enabling dynamic network services, liberating IT staff to pursue strategic goals. Learn more now. 6 cool uses of near-field communication NFC is about much more than Google Wallet and corporate ID badges. Read More EMC and VMware team with Atos to create European cloud company Canopy EMC and VMware are teaming with French IT services company Atos to create a European cloud infrastructure provider, Canopy, the companies announced Wednesday. Read More Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud Zynga has moved most of its users away from Amazon Web Services and onto its private cloud in a move to maximize the reliability and performance of its social games network. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quantum Meet "Big Data" Backup Challenges Are you experiencing a data explosion? The trend toward leveraging Big Data for competitive advantage helps IT professionals successfully meet business goals. Learn how to reliably manage, store and access vast amounts of archived data while protecting it and keeping costs low. View Now Startup Porticor launches with encryption technology for cloud computing Israel-based startup Porticor launches this week with technology aimed at giving enterprises a way to encrypt data held in cloud computing services, including those from Amazon and Rackspace. Read More Rackspace enlists Redapt for private cloud installs Rackspace hopes to make it easier to use its OpenStack private cloud offering by partnering with Redapt, a company that procures, configures and ships servers to customers. Read More Are self-signed SSL certificates as insecure as they say? Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third-party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted" certificates for our websites, but in the end even Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud. Read More WEBCAST: NetIQ Disaster Recovery Planning and the Cloud Find out how virtualization is the stepping stone to the cloud and how to leverage virtualization technologies today to reduce the cost and improve the performance of your disaster recovery plan. Learn More! OCZ launches 16TB flash card OCZ Technology released a PCIe-based NAND flash card that offers five times the capacity and three times the performance of its previous generation card. The product is aimed at cloud environments by speeding up I/O performance in servers. Read More Rackspace soon to partner with developers of private OpenStack distros Rackspace expects to soon announce commercial private OpenStack distributions that it will support as part of its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition set of services. Read More SaaS, APTs and asymmetric risk take spotlight at Security Threats 2012 What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company's security exposure? CIO.com's Bernard Golden recaps the provocative discussions entertained at the Security Threat 2012 conference. Read More
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