10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014

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	10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014 Attacking car systems, Google Glass for password theft, using free cloud trials to launch botnets. Black Hat 2014: Is nothing safe? Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Boston IT Roadmap Boston – 7/17 Register Now! IT Roadmap is the one day, cost free, professional-level conference and expo that's full of job-ready solutions you can put to work now. IT Roadmap Boston is the place where IT leaders come to explore high-priority IT issues -- and learn how to meet today's requirements for anytime, anywhere business interactions. Click to continue In this Issue Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google Cloud and on-premises Microsoft email faced off in LA County: Guess who won Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark 10 security start-ups to watch SIP global roll-out to accelerate through 2019 Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private cloud Microsoft botched all aspects of Exchange outage response Hackers found controlling malware and botnets from the cloud Mark Hurd lays out Oracle's cloud progress, plan to be number one WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Making the Move to a Cloud-Based ITSM Platform Today's mature cloud-based ITSM solutions can give you the flexibility and agility you need—without sacrificing security, stability or performance. Learn More Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google MapR, which distributes a commercial software platform based off the Apache Hadoop big data management open source project, has secured a $110 million funding round led by Google. Read More Cloud and on-premises Microsoft email faced off in LA County: Guess who won In a scenario illustrative of Microsoft's tectonic shift to the cloud, Los Angeles County halted an on-premises Exchange upgrade to instead roll out Office 365 and its Exchange Online service. Read More Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations Migrating to Microsoft's Office 365 from an on-premises Office suite requires help, experts say, in order to navigate the vagaries of moving apps smoothly to the cloud, a task made more challenging if the transition is from alternatives such as GroupWise and Lotus SmartSuite. Read More WEBCAST: HP Meg Whitman presents Unlocking IT with Big Data Today, the industry is at an inflection point - driven by a triple storm of Big Data, cloud, and mobility; and in this new environment, security is paramount. The New Style of IT is about how businesses and IT leverage this rapid change for enterprise growth. Learn More Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software.Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for analyzing streaming data, much like the Google DataFlow service announced last week. Read More 10 security start-ups to watch Security start-ups arise because they have fresh approaches to fighting malware and cyber-espionage or combatting the insider threat through network monitoring. In this round-up of some of the newer security firms, Distil Networks, Observable Networks and Vectra Networks fit into that category. But two others just out of the gate, Exabeam and Fortscale, are part of another trend—squeezing more out of existing log management and security information and event management products. Read More SIP global roll-out to accelerate through 2019 SIP roll-out has picked and, by 2019, SIP worldwide traffic could be more than double today's volume. While 30% of worldwide network traffic today moves with the use of SIP, in 2019 76% of outbound call traffic will be SIP. Read More WEBCAST: IBM The Next Generation of Big Data Learn about IBM's new and expanded Information Management capabilities now delivered in the cloud. Learn More Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private cloud Last week was a big one for IaaS cloud provider Joyent - not only did the company pivot to offer a private cloud management software (previously it only offered public cloud services) but it also has cherry-picked a Cisco cloud executive to be the company's new CEO. Read More Microsoft botched all aspects of Exchange outage response Microsoft blew it Tuesday when its Exchange Online hosted email service went dark for much of the business day, an expert said. But he wasn't referring to Exchange's technical failure. "Three hundred and sixty-four days of excellent service can be undone on the 365th if a company doesn't communicate effectively," said Gene Grabowski, senior strategist at Levick, a Washington, D.C. firm that specializes in crisis communications. Read More Hackers found controlling malware and botnets from the cloud In what is considered to be a natural evolution of tactics used by cybercriminals to infiltrate corporate networks, security firm Trend Micro has new evidence that more botnets and malware are being not only hosted in the cloud, but controlled remotely from cloud servers. Read More Mark Hurd lays out Oracle's cloud progress, plan to be number one Being second isn't good enough for Oracle when it comes to cloud revenue, co-president Mark Hurd told investment analysts this week following the company's fourth-quarter and year-end earnings report. Read More
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