Thursday, March 31, 2011

With IE judgment expiring, Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google

Man-in-the-Browser attacks target the enterprise | Make Your Own Tech Accessories

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With IE judgment expiring, Microsoft files antitrust complaint against Google
Nearly a decade after settling an antitrust case regarding the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft is on the verge of putting the case behind it for good and is pursuing antitrust claims of its own against Google's dominant search engine. Read More


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Man-in-the-Browser attacks target the enterprise
With firewalls, antivirus and other security mechanisms protecting corporate networks, how do attackers manage to penetrate enterprise computer systems? Simply by exploiting the weakest link in the security chain. One of the newest methods is tunnelling in via employees' browsers using an attack known as "Man-in-the-Browser" (MitB). Read More

Make Your Own Tech Accessories
Dashboard mounts, tablet stands, mouse pads--why buy them when you can build your own? Here's how to save money by creating your own tech accessories out of common home or office materials. Read More

How to Move E-mail to the Cloud: 7 Planning Tips
Cloud computing providers can take enterprise e-mail off your to-do list, but how can you ensure a smooth transition? Forrester Research shares seven best practices. Read More


WEBCAST: Iron Mountain

Success in the cloud: strategies revealed
View this webcast with IDG senior editor Jim Malone and Martin Tuip of Iron Mountain to learn the primary considerations and best practices for storing, archiving, protecting and managing your most important information in the cloud. View now

VIPRE maker explains false positive on Samsung laptops, apologizes
The maker of the VIPRE anti-spyware tool is taking responsibility for a false positive that misidentified a legitimate Windows folder on Samsung laptops as a program that secretly logs keystrokes. Read More

Tablet sales to soar as prices drop through 2015, says Gartner
Gartner has revised upward its forcast for global IT spending through 2015; cites soaring tablet computer sales Read More

Google Doodle honors Bunsen, chemistry class
Today's Google Doodle honors the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen, he of Bunsen burner fame. Not being familiar with the whole of the man's work, I went to Wikipedia to read up on him (such inspiration being the singular most valuable feature of the Doodle) and learned that the burner he co-invented with a laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, was actually a mere footnote in his distinguished career as... Read More


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Top 3 Ways to Become Cloud-Ready
Discover how to bring cloud computing in-house successfully. Learn how to tackle standardization, automation and virtualization challenges, and fast-track your cloud education. Also, examine the Top 3 keys to making your organization cloud-ready. Read More!

Cisco Announces ASA Service Module for the Cat6K
Today Cisco announced the ASA Services module for its Catalyst 6500 switching line. This module runs the same code as the other Cisco ASA form factors so going forward you'll have the same code base across all of your ASA platforms. Here are the specs for the ASA-SM firewall as taken from their datasheet: With twice the performance and four times the session count of competitive network security... Read More

To Whom Should The CISO Report?
I met with some security professional friends last night for ribs, beers, and lively security chatter. One of our discussion points was about the organizational position and role of the CISO. Read More

Amazon Cloud Player & Cloud Drive stores movies, files, photos and streams music
Amazon introduced the cloud based services on Tuesday, offering 5 GB of free storage to users. Read More

What a cyberwar with China might look like
If there is a cyberwar with China, as described in a new hypothetical scenario, it will not necessarily involve power grids being knocked offline and planes falling from the sky. Read More



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No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers
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  1. Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
  2. Samsung responds to installation of keylogger on its laptops
  3. FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes
  4. Google building fiber network in Sprint's backyard
  5. Microsoft to raise license price, add software rights
  6. FTC puts Google on 20 years of 'privacy probation'
  7. Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage
  8. Hacker group defends exposing McAfee website vulnerabilities
  9. Dell draws derision for dissing iPad
  10. Microsoft researchers tout programmable prototype switch

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SLA? Don't forget FRF.13

Google gigabit network going to Kansas City | Telcos advise EU regulators on fiber networks rollout

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SLA? Don't forget FRF.13
One of the most important and most often-discussed aspects of ensuring that you have a robust infrastructure is making sure there is an appropriate accompanying Service Level Agreement (SLA). And in a recent newsletter, we discussed the fact that adding cloud-based services to transmission services that are already dynamically shared can make any service "guarantees" difficult to define and to enforce quite a challenge. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Aerohive

Economics of Cooperative Control: Protocols are Free
Inter-AP protocols are free, but controllers are not. Aerohive's Cooperative Control controller-less WLAN architecture delivers an immediate and extremely significant CAPEX decrease. This paper explores the expansive economic benefits of Aerohive's unique approach. Read now!

WHITE PAPER: Coyote Point

Equalizer approved for Load Balancing
Coyote Point is one of the select manufacturers on Microsoft's approved vendor listing for load balancing MS Exchange Server 2010. See this and other deployment guides that show how easy it is to add performance and availability to the Microsoft applications you rely on every day. Read More

Google gigabit network going to Kansas City
Kansas City is the lucky winner of a 1Gbit-per-second broadband network that Google plans to build. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Making the Promise of Cloud a Reality
Whether a business builds out its own cloud or buys cloud services from someone else, they need to be sure the end results are optimized for the speed users require. This paper identifies where the limitations of cloud computing exist and provides actionable strategies to unleash cloud performance. Read now!

Telcos advise EU regulators on fiber networks rollout
European regulators should focus on making the economics work for fiber roll-out and avoid political deals with dominant firms, say telecommunications companies. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Palo Alto Networks

10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do
As the leader and pioneer of the next-generation firewall category, Palo Alto Networks would like to share what we have learned from securing over 3,500 enterprise networks in the past few years. Download our guide that depicts the top 10 requirements you should demand in your next firewall purchase. Read now!

Most approve of hosting games on company gear, survey finds
Only about a third of more than 1,000 respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players. Read More

Free Android Apps: 11 Great Utilities for Your Google Phone
You can never have too many Android apps...especially when they're free. Here are 11 downloads that deserve a spot on your device, each designed to add functionality to your Google phone and enhance your overall Android experience. Read More



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The nine youngest billionaires in technology run the gamut from a social networking entrepreneur to the creator of the online coupon company, groupon.com. Think you know them all? Let's find out.

No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers
In this slideshow we'll take a look at some of the most notorious applications that were banned or removed from the big-name app stores.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes for murder mystery
  2. Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
  3. Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage
  4. Health provider wants algorithm that can predict illness
  5. 'Apple doesn't break,' declares healthcare CIO
  6. FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography
  7. How to quit your job the right way
  8. McAfee's Web site full of security holes, researcher says
  9. BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants
  10. No conspiracy theory needed: Tor created for U.S. gov't spying

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Amazon, Apple, Google play 'chicken' over cloud music lockers

Microsoft researchers tout low-cost, programmable prototype data center switch | New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

Network World Cloud Computing

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Amazon, Apple, Google play 'chicken' over cloud music lockers
Amazon beat rivals Google and Apple to the punch Tuesday when it launched its Cloud Drive digital music storage service, but the rivals are probably happy to let Amazon take the lead, an expert said today. Read More


WEBCAST: Riverbed

5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
Mapping out a 5 step consolidation process can ensure that the goals of IT consolidation are achieved. Read this white paper to learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs. Read More

WHITE PAPER: Siemens

Secure, enterprise-class collaboration with OpenScape
Bring web collaboration in-house for lower costs and greater security with OpenScape Web Collaboration. Learn More

Microsoft researchers tout low-cost, programmable prototype data center switch
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with a programmable, low-cost prototype switch they say could help support cloud or other network-delivered services. Read More

New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name -- and a lot of hype -- for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Google Postini

Archives vs. Backups
While many organizations may consider their nightly backup to be an archive, backups and archives are not interchangeable. Read this Osterman Research report to learn the strategic value of email archiving and why organizations of all size should give serious consideration to a cloud-based model for archiving. Read now!

Amazon Cloud Drive: 7 key facts
Here's a look at why Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player might be perfect for your online storage needs...and why it might not. Read More

Cisco acquisition targets corporate cloud services
Cisco this week announced its intent to acquire privately-held newScale, a provider of software that delivers a self-service portal for IT organizations to select and deploy cloud services within their businesses. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Eaton

Maximizing UPS Availability
This white paper explains why, contrary to popular belief, modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail. Read More

Hosting firm taps software-based net tool to add granular cloud controls
Carpathia Hosting Inc., a provider of managed hosting services, recently added support for Vyatta software network appliances in its cloud service. The Vyatta net tools introduce an interesting new dimension to cloud computing because they can be evoked at will, where and when needed, something that is impossible with hardware, says Carpathia CTO Jon Greaves. Read More

How to move e-mail to the cloud: 7 planning tips
Cloud computing providers can take enterprise e-mail off your to-do list, but how can you ensure a smooth transition? Forrester Research shares seven best practices. Read More

Accellion proffers secure cloud collaboration workspaces
The company hopes to provide CISOs rattled by more users turning to consumer cloud-based services a way for more controlled cloud workspaces. Read More

OpenStack continues quest to be "the cloud standard"
OpenStack took another step on its way to becoming the standard for cloud platforms today. Dell, Rackspace (via a new unit called Cloud Builders) and Equinix have opened up OpenStack test environments in 3 data centers across the US. At these locations customers can sign up for free trials to test OpenStack. Read More



GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Tech's youngest billionaires
The nine youngest billionaires in technology run the gamut from a social networking entrepreneur to the creator of the online coupon company, groupon.com. Think you know them all? Let's find out.

No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers
In this slideshow we'll take a look at some of the most notorious applications that were banned or removed from the big-name app stores.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes for murder mystery
  2. Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
  3. Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage
  4. Health provider wants algorithm that can predict illness
  5. 'Apple doesn't break,' declares healthcare CIO
  6. FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography
  7. How to quit your job the right way
  8. McAfee's Web site full of security holes, researcher says
  9. BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants
  10. No conspiracy theory needed: Tor created for U.S. gov't spying

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Kaminario, Intel roll out new DRAM, SSD products

Japanese DRAM makers' woes echo rest of industry after quake | My Two Cents On Cisco's Big Data Center Announcement

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Kaminario, Intel roll out new DRAM, SSD products
Two vendors, Kaminario and Intel, introduced solid state/DRAM storage devices this week. Kaminario rolled out a new appliance, the K2, which uses DRAM and offers a total capacity of 12TBs. The K2 is now available for $50,000 and is intended for use with I/O intensive applications such as online transaction processing or databases. Read More


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Tape's Evolving Data Storage Role
Industry research shows that the best technology for a company's storage needs is a combination of technologies. Join Greg Schulz, founder and senior advisor of The Server and StorageIO Group, for a discussion of trends and perspectives of the storage industry, and how you can gain more value out of your IT data center resources. View now!

Japanese DRAM makers' woes echo rest of industry after quake
Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory on Monday said its factories are operating "at close to normal levels" two weeks after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan, and that it has "sufficient parts and materials to continue supplying out customers as usual until the end of July." Read More

My Two Cents On Cisco's Big Data Center Announcement
Lots of technology vendors have been poking at Cisco lately with new technologies, architectures, and even out-and-out badmouthing (didn't one CEO say that his company would "kick Cisco's butt?). Well Cisco fired back today with a soup-to-nuts data center announcement covering virtual servers, physical servers, Ethernet switches, and storage. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Dell

Elements of a Proactive Data Security Solution
See all the survey results along with more data security resources, including an expert Webcast outlining six vital security steps, in the security KnowledgeVault. Learn more.

Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage
Cisco this week is expanding its data center product portfolio with a new switch, extensions to existing ones, and enhancements to its servers and software. Read More

Cisco releases security, network convergence upgrades for storage switches
Cisco today announced encryption and network convergence features across its entire Data Center Business Advantage portfolio, including its Nexus and MDS storage switches, its Unified Computing System, Data Center Network Manager and its data center operating system, NX-OS. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Siemens

Enterprise-class collaboration for any environment
Enterprise-class collaboration can be easily added to most legacy communications networks with OpenScape Conference Xpress. Start saving now; migrate when it makes sense for your business. Learn More

Amazon Cloud Drive: 7 Key Facts
Amazon.com beat Google and Apple to punch this week with the unveiling of its hosted consumer-storage service, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Web-based music-player, Cloud Player. Read More

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GOODIES FROM THE SUBNETS
Up for grabs from Microsoft Subnet: a Windows 7 Enterprise Technician class for three people. From Cisco Subnet: 15 copies of VMware ESXi books. Enter here.

SLIDESHOWS

Tech's youngest billionaires
The nine youngest billionaires in technology run the gamut from a social networking entrepreneur to the creator of the online coupon company, groupon.com. Think you know them all? Let's find out.

No joy for would-be baby shakers and drunk drivers
In this slideshow we'll take a look at some of the most notorious applications that were banned or removed from the big-name app stores.

MOST-READ STORIES

  1. FBI wants public help solving encrypted notes for murder mystery
  2. Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
  3. Cisco data center revamp cuts across switches, servers, storage
  4. Health provider wants algorithm that can predict illness
  5. 'Apple doesn't break,' declares healthcare CIO
  6. FBI: How to be an expert at the black art of cryptography
  7. How to quit your job the right way
  8. McAfee's Web site full of security holes, researcher says
  9. BP employee loses laptop containing data on 13,000 oil spill claimants
  10. No conspiracy theory needed: Tor created for U.S. gov't spying

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