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12 hybrid security products to watch

Reports: Apple exploring watch-like devices

Six tips for the care and training of new users

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February 11, 2013
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12 hybrid security products to watch

Securing a hybrid cloud is not the same thing as deploying hybrid security products.

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Issue highlights

1. Reports: Apple exploring watch-like devices

2. Six tips for the care and training of new users

3. VMware's problems are deeper than just Microsoft

4. Hybrid clouds pose new security challenges

5. What President Obama CAN Do About Cybersecurity

6. Flickr privacy bug changes some private photos to public, then public to private

7. 10 Cisco partners you should get to know

8. Feds offer $20M for critical energy network cybersecurity tools

9. About that Facebook shutdown and those RFID implants

10. PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?

11. UK's accounting watchdog investigating Autonomy finances pre-HP deal

12. INSIDER ROI calculations done right can help IT projects

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Reports: Apple exploring watch-like devices

Apple is experimenting with watch-like wearable devices with some smartphone capabilities, as the company looks at new product categories for future growth, according to reports. READ MORE

Six tips for the care and training of new users

Got a new user? As a responsible IT organization you have to recognize that this is a big responsibility. READ MORE

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VMware's problems are deeper than just Microsoft

Remember this blog post? It's my now infamous "Bell tolls for thee" blog that I authored just after VMworld last year. This was the blog for which I was so soundly flogged by the VMware community in the comments section, and even received a few nasty emails. (By the way, I do want to thank all of the people who comment on my blogs. Whether you agree or disagree with me, it's always good to have... READ MORE

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Hybrid clouds pose new security challenges

If 2013 is the year enterprises begin implementing their hybrid cloud strategies, as the experts are predicting, then it follows that this will also be the year when hybrid cloud security takes center stage. READ MORE

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What President Obama CAN Do About Cybersecurity

When it comes to cybersecurity and public policy, I'm as big a cynic as anyone. Why? From a historical perspective, cybersecurity issues were first recognized during the Bush administration (41, not 43). Over the subsequent 20+ years we've experienced misinformed rhetoric, overlapping agendas, and inaction but little meaningful progress. READ MORE

Flickr privacy bug changes some private photos to public, then public to private

Across the web, you may frequently come across broken Flickr images replaced with "This image or video is currently unavailable." Flickr discovered a software bug that affected privacy settings; some users' private photos became public for 20 days, then as a precaution Flickr set public photos to private. The result is "bad" links all over the place that cause the "currently unavailable" error message.... READ MORE

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Feds offer $20M for critical energy network cybersecurity tools

The US Department of Energy today said it would spend $20 million on the development of advanced cybersecurity tools to help protect the nation's vulnerable energy supply. The DOE technologies developed under this program should be interoperable, scalable, cost-effective advanced tools that do not impede critical energy delivery functions, that are innovative and can easily be commercialized or made... READ MORE

About that Facebook shutdown and those RFID implants

The Snopes.com email newsletter has become something of a Sunday habit because I enjoy reading about the unbelievable nonsense that some people nonetheless manage to believe. Yesterday's featured a pair of doozies, and while neither is brand new, I feel they're worth sharing. The first one is funny. READ MORE

PaaS Primer: What is platform as a service and why does it matter?

Even most non-techies probably have an idea of what cloud computing is by now, but when you start getting into IaaS vs. SaaS vs. PaaS even those of us in the industry can struggle. READ MORE

UK's accounting watchdog investigating Autonomy finances pre-HP deal

The U.K.'s Financial Reporting Council has launched a probe into Autonomy's financial reporting over a period of more than two years prior to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE

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