Issue highlights 1. 6 Reasons to Pay for Open Source Software 2. Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever 3. Google Play shares too much personal info, app developer says 4. 10 Cloud Predictions for 2013 5. INSIDER Single sign-on moves to the cloud 6. Windows 8 book authors dish on Windows 8 7. Inmate data paroled from mainframe 8. Big Data is a solution looking for a problem: Gartner 9. Amazon's cloud-based data warehouse Redshift becomes generally available 10. Certificate authorities band together to boost security 11. 14 Tips for Selling Software and Services Online 12. Close the door for good on Web server backdoors |
| RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: WildPackets Packet capture is a fundamental tool for traffic analysis and debugging, and is critical for optimizing service uptime and performance. Watch this webinar to learn how to get real packets out of virtual environments and about the parameters of packet capture in public and private cloud. In this webinar, we will discuss the hidden traffic between servers and how this affects application performance. You will learn how and where to position packet capture in a virtual environment. |
| Open source software is free to download, modify and use, but that doesn't mean it's not worth paying for sometimes. If you're using open source software in a commercial, enterprise capacity, here are six reasons why you should pay for free software. READ MORE |
| A retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. READ MORE |
| WEBCAST: CDW Corporation Cloud computing is here to stay. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is particularly popular because it can lower cost while enabling business agility. But not all applications are suited to SaaS. In this Webcast you will learn the best applications for SaaS deployment and how to avoid SaaS pitfalls and cost overruns. Learn More. |
| Google is in the information business. But one app developer is accusing it of providing him with "TMI" -- too much information -- about his customers. And this sharing of user information from Google Play has reignited an online debate over privacy protection and notification online. READ MORE |
| WEBCAST: CDW Corporation In this Webcast you will learn now to gain control by effectively deploying people, processes and tools. And you will learn how to face a software license audit successfully with asset and lifecycle management software that is comprehensive, accurate and easy to use. Learn More. |
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| WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. |
| We are awash in passwords, and as the number of Web services increases, things are only going to get worse. Trying to manage all these individual passwords is a major problem for enterprise security. Many end users cope by re-using their passwords, which exposes all sorts of security holes. READ MORE |
| Writing a book about Windows 8 takes a peculiar combination of perseverance, insight, and a high tolerance for pain. Those who write books about Win8 get to dig into the heart of the beast -- they're exposed early and often to inconsistences and difficulties, and they're tasked with making the hard parts of Win8 accessible to regular people. Along the way, book authors acquire an enormous amount of experience with how the product actually works, going far beyond the stunted feature lists, glib reviews, and sound bites we've all come to expect. READ MORE |
| There were a number of glaring IT problems facing the Illinois Department of Corrections. The answer: A cloud-based replacement system. READ MORE |
| Big Data is forecast to drive $34 billion of IT spending in 2013 and create 4.4 million IT jobs by 2015, but it is currently still a solution looking for a problem, according to analyst firm Gartner. READ MORE |
| Amazon Web Services has made available to all users its cloud-based data warehouse Redshift, which it pitches as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise deployments. READ MORE |
| At a time when certificate authorities are under attack by cybercriminals, a group of companies has formed an alliance to try to improve the security of the CA infrastructure. READ MORE |
| Software--whether sold as a service (SaaS) or via CD or DVD--is a multibillion-dollar business, with new vendors and solutions popping up all the time. In a recent Market Trends forecast, Gartner predicted SaaS and cloud-based business application services alone would reach $32.2 billion in sales by 2016. READ MORE |
| Regular readers of Network World know there is a crime spree taking place in cyberspace. Hackers are coming into servers at will through backdoors and directing these servers or the websites they host to perform all sorts of malicious deeds. Incapsula just introduced a cloud-based service that can detect and mitigate the problem of backdoors that are surreptitiously planted on Web servers. READ MORE |
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