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	19 free cloud storage options The cloud is full of free storage, if you know where to look.From relatively new companies such as Box and DropBox, to heavyweights Google, Apple and Microsoft, many vendors use free cloud storage as a way to entice users into their clouds in hopes that they will pay more for additional volumes and services. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. Who's Spying on You? You're aware of the threats of malware to your business but what about the ever-changing ground rules? Cybercriminals today are launching attacks against businesses by copying sophisticated malware and techniques used to target governments and high-profile organizations. View Now In this Issue 9 hot enterprise storage companies to watch How to set up Amazon Web Services for your small business Log management is leading use case for big data Cloud startup Zettabox touts privacy and local storage to appeal to EU customers I knew it: Commissioner Gordon and EMC Chief Joe Tucci are twins after all! First look: Couchbase's new SQL for NoSQL WHITE PAPER: LogMeIn Bridging the Gap Between Users and IT The BYOA trend is accelerating, as more users are ditching their current solution and introducing their own collaboration apps into the workplace, often without consulting IT. Read this study to learn four ways IT pros can regain control of collaboration. Learn More 9 hot enterprise storage companies to watch   Amidst all the venture investments this year in startups that generate gobs of data -- from those focused on everything from apps to drones to the Internet of Things to Big Data -- are a batch of newcomers aiming to help organizations store and access all that information. Yes, storage companies are pulling in big bucks in 2015, as they did in 2014, and a couple have even double-dipped this year and announced two rounds of funding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How to set up Amazon Web Services for your small business Cloud computing technology has matured significantly over the years, and now offers a compelling list of advantages over on-site deployments, especially for small businesses and start-ups that may not have the capital to purchase servers and other hardware appliances.Cost aside, the public cloud delivers well-established capabilities such as scalability and elasticity. Even more importantly, businesses can leverage the public cloud to quickly set up infrastructure in a timeframe that is measurable in minutes as opposed to the weeks or months required to set up physical infrastructure.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 Free Cloud Storage options We take a closer look at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most popular cloud services today, in order to examine how it can be leveraged to benefit small businesses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Dell Inc. Infographic: Change Your Desktops, Change Your Business View this infographic for tips on how to lower IT costs and boost employee productivity for a competitive edge. View now Log management is leading use case for big data Companies that have deployed Big Data solutions are most likely to be using them for log management, according to a study released last week by the SANS Institute. This security use case was followed closely by data archiving, operational data storage, advanced analytics, data discovery, and search. According to the survey of more than 200 professionals in IT, security and compliance, more than half of the 55 percent of organizations that have deployed Big Data projects use the technology for log management. In addition, of those who plan to deploy Big Data in the next two years, 58 percent said that log management is a priority.MORE ON CSO: What is wrong with this picture? The NEW clean desk test Log data, intrusion alerts, and other types of security-related information is a perfect fit for Big Data systems, said Sam Heywood, director of the Cloudera Security Center of Excellence at Cloudera, which sponsored the report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Cloud startup Zettabox touts privacy and local storage to appeal to EU customers Anticipating the approval of stricter data protection rules in the European Union, cloud storage startup Zettabox bets it will be able to compete against bigger rivals by guaranteeing customers that their data will be housed in Europe.Zettabox, whose service came out of beta on Wednesday, is entering a market dominated by U.S. cloud providers. To differentiate itself, Zettabox is setting up storage space in data centers across the continent so companies and governments can store data in their home countries if they want to.Zettabox has offices in London and Prague and was founded by James Kinsella and Robert McNeal, U.S. executives who have been working on the service for over two years.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More : Dell Inc. Creating Efficiency through Private Cloud - Infographic Private clouds provide IT with the ability to quickly scale and deliver continuous services to multiple business units while maintaining control over their information and processes. This Infographic highlights the four key steps to building a private cloud foundation. Learn More I knew it: Commissioner Gordon and EMC Chief Joe Tucci are twins after all! I've suspected for years that EMC chief Joe Tucci and Neil Hamilton, who played Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s Batman TV series, were one in the same. And now, thanks to a Microsoft brainiac's website, I've been sort of vindicated.Apparently, there's a 78% chance that the two are related.The site, TwinsOrNot, uses Microsoft's newish Face Recognition API, which was introduced at Build 2015. TwinsOrNot is the machine learning-enabled creation of Microsoft employee Mat Velloso, who reportedly built it in 4 hours.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More First look: Couchbase's new SQL for NoSQL Couchbase might seem like a bit of an outsider in the world of NoSQL datastores. After all, MongoDB grabs most of the limelight, while Cassandra and HBase have sewn up most of the big data world, and Redis has pretty much supplanted Memcache as the key/value cache that people reach for by default. But Couchbase has not been sitting on the sidelines looking in. You might not know it from Hacker News, but the use of Couchbase Server has been growing steadily for the past couple of years.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Big data's biggest challenges More to the point, the new, recently released Couchbase Server 4.0 has some features that will continue to improve its standing in the enterprise world. Its most important introduction, a SQL-like query language called N1QL, might even get Couchbase noticed by the technology hipsters.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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