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EMC acquires TwinStrata to push corporate data into the cloud
Storage vendor EMC has scooped up cloud storage management company TwinStrata, the companies announced Tuesday.The U.S.-based TwinStrata is the developer of CloudArray, a platform that allows enterprises to move their on premise stored data into over 20 public or private clouds. Data put on CloudArray is encrypted by default and automatically gets replicated or moved to a cloud service depending on a company's requirements.EMC plans to embed CloudArray into its new VMAX3 enterprise data service platform, helping companies get access to infrequently access cloud data for lower costs, EMC said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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Deliver Better Service and Support, More Efficiently
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Dropbox for Business folders can now be shared in read-only mode
Users of Dropbox for Business will now be able to share folders with colleagues without necessarily giving them rights to edit their content.Giving users read-only access to folders hasn't been possible until now: Dropbox for Business users by default granted edit rights to the people they shared the folders with.Dropbox makes this move as it faces heightening pressure both in the consumer and enterprise cloud storage and file share markets from rivals like Microsoft and Google.Dropbox hasn't rolled out the new feature to all of its business customers, but admins can turn it on for their users. The company plans to gather feedback from early adopters and make it broadly available later on.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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Leader in Forrester Wave evaluation of emerging MSSPs
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Microsoft boosts anti-snooping protection in Outlook.com, OneDrive
Microsoft has added encryption safeguards to the Outlook.com webmail service and to the OneDrive cloud storage service, in part to better protect these consumer products from government snoops."Our goal is to provide even greater protection for data across all the great Microsoft services you use and depend on every day. This effort also helps us reinforce that governments use appropriate legal processes, not technical brute force, if they want access to that data," Matt Thomlinson, vice president, Trustworthy Computing Security, at Microsoft wrote in a blog post.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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Rompetrol Case Study
After a successful acquisition and growth phase, Rompetrol turned its energy into improving global operations by consolidating IT operations and launching a series of IT initiatives including an SAP rollout and a move toward private cloud. Learn More

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How to recover after a cloud computing misstep
DreamWorks Animation knows the magic of the cloud. Since 2003, the famed studio has held its product development, design and manufacturing functions in a hybrid cloud environment, long before the storage option was even called "cloud."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More

What planet does Larry Page live on?
When I read the quotes attributed to Google CEO Larry Page, I thought perhaps they were taken out of context. But you can listen for yourself starting at minute 16 of the video, or skip to the excerpts below. "I totally believe we should be living in a time of abundance. … If you really think about the things that you need to make yourself happy—housing, security, opportunities for your kids … it's not that hard for us to provide those things," he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More

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