Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Dropbox security chief defends security and privacy in the cloud

Barracuda jumps into the file sync and share space | Cloudera soars to $100M in revenue and 100% year-on-year growth

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Dropbox security chief defends security and privacy in the cloud
Patrick Heim is the (relatively) new head of Trust & Security at Dropbox. Formerly Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, he has served as CISO at Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corporation. Heim has worked more than 20 years in the information security field. Read More


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There is no understating the impact of security and network connectivity on today's cloud environments. Yes, clouds can scale, expedite processing, and reduce costs, but they also incur risks associated with multi-tenancy, availability, and access control. Learn More

Barracuda jumps into the file sync and share space
CudaDrive. It's not exactly a name which rolls off the tongue. Indeed, when I first heard it, I thought the PR person was referring to some new product to protect against head lice. Upon a deeper dive, however, I realized that CudaDrive is the name of Barracuda's new file-sharing solution. Read More

Cloudera soars to $100M in revenue and 100% year-on-year growth
Looks like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook can produce a winning combination. Those are the companies the Cloudera founders -- Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah and Jeff Hammerbacher -- all came from (in order) when they created the Big Data software that runs on the Apache Hadoop software framework. Read More

Researchers find way to steal Windows Active Directory credentials from the Internet
An attack using the SMB file sharing protocol that has been believed to work only within local area networks for over a decade can also be executed over the Internet, two researchers showed at the Black Hat security conference. Read More


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This white paper outlines 12 critical success factors to consider when outsourcing IT to managed hosting or the cloud. To compile this list, we drew from the 15+ years of hands-on experience Rackspace has gained helping hundreds of thousands of customers move workloads to managed hosting or the cloud. Learn More

FireLayers provides granular real-time mitigation for cloud- and web-based applications
As you go about your daily business online, think about the limitations you encounter that are designed to reduce risk. Various controls verify who you are, require your express permission to go ahead with a questionable transaction, or deny an action if there's too much risk. Read More

IBM's new $1B acquisition will help Watson 'see'
IBM plans to buy Merge Healthcare in a $1 billion deal that promises to bring new image-focused capabilities to its Watson Health platform. Read More

How one startup hopes to solve server underutilization
Only 20% to 50% of in-house server capacity is actually used, even with virtualization gains, according to numbers from MIT-connected startup Jisto. The company says it has a solution, though, which will save enterprises money. Read More


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GE cloud could make sense of massive IoT data storm
While the Internet of Things can give a company a massive influx of information, it then faces the problem of wrapping its corporate arms around all that data to make meaningful use of it. That is where General Electric, the fourth-largest company in the world, is hoping to come into play. Read More

Salesforce taps Instagram's new API with tailored marketing tools
Users of Salesforce's Marketing Cloud on Tuesday gained easier access to Instagram's roughly 300 million users thanks to an integration made possible by a new API. Read More

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