How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

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	How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: GFI Software Save time & cut costs by simplifying your company's IT today GFI Cloud™ is the easy-to-use IT management platform that gives busy IT admins a single place for patch management, antivirus, server and workstation monitoring and asset tracking, with remote support capabilities. With subscription-based pricing, it's perfect for small and medium sized businesses. Start a 30 day free trial now. 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Learn More Google rolls out by-the-minute cloud billing, introduces a new NoSQL database Google, attempting to build its reputation as an enterprise and developer-focused cloud computing provider, today said its cloud platform is open for anyone to signup for, and can be used with a new by-the-minute billing scheme. Read More Testing firm: Internet Explorer tops browsers for malware protection Mirror, mirror on the wall, what browser blocks malware best of all? The answer to that question is Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, at least according to the latest test results released by NSS Labs. Read More Dell 'refining' plans for OpenStack-powered public cloud Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specializes in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems The Cisco Unified Workspace The Apple iPad started something. While revolutionary in itself, it was also a tipping point for many industry trends that had been emerging over the last few years. Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront Learn More Syria disappears from the Internet again Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. Read More Rackspace to help customers debug their programs Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform. Read More Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax The U.S. Senate has, by a wide margin, supported a bill allowing an Internet sales tax, but the legislation appears to be a tougher sell to the public. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Content Analytics Explained Content Analytics Explained - Listen to Bob Foyle, Sr. Product Manager, IBM talk about Content Analytics and the Analytics Imperative. Learn More. FBI/IC3: Impersonation, intimidation and scams, yep that's the Internet The FBI and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued their annual look at the state of the dark side of the Internet which is indeed thriving with all manner of scams and intimation tactics being used by criminals. Read More Feds' offensive fueling hacker underground, report says The U.S. government is contributing to the Internet's underground economy by scooping up hacker tools to incorporate into offensive cyber weapons, a report from Reuters says. Read More SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere. Read More SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio. Read More
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