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Look around. The pace of change is stunning, driven largely by additions, reductions, disruptions and innovations to business ecosystems that were once in silos. From manufacturing to retail to the technology sector itself, entire businesses who called themselves enterprise are being transformed as conventional...
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Every now and then in a decade we see what’s referred to as a “ black swan event ” when disruptive phenomenon occurs due to a new technology, characterized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, The Black Swan . The advent of the Cloud is one such trend which has shaped the “ubiquitous...
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May 2, 2012
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Hot of the tail of BrainShare - where 2,000 customers and partners converged for a first-hand look at our latest offerings and consumed 23,000 slices of bacon, 486 gallons of beer, 5,600 brownies , and more than 200 technical sessions - the first week of November was busy. We've just got back from...
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Nov 7, 2011
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Regardless of how you feel about Sony - and many folks on the consumer side feel that the company is out of touch with its buyers and the world around them - hearing about their recent network hack isn’t an incident any of us would relish. According to reports worldwide , 77 million users on the...
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Let’s begin today’s article with the premise that you’re interested in finding solutions to house and access your data. You have some understanding of how cloud computing works and probably have been using some cloud application security measures, some virtualization and a bit of a...
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Apr 14, 2011
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A lot of cloud security and cloud application security focuses on control. As any IT professional can attest, if you have your applications or your data on a device that’s sand-boxed or standing alone, not connected to any network, it’s likely going to be safe. But the world doesn’t...
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The RSA Conference is done. Five days worth of sessions, keynotes, networking and related events left hundreds of brains abuzz with facts, figures, theories and maybe even a headache. Since I follow the IT security industry so closely, my time at RSA was spent jumping from room to room trying to ferret...
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Feb 22, 2011
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Twitter was hacked last week, resulting in thousands of user accounts affected when hovering the mouse over its web pages. Hovering the mouse unleashed a malware that stealthily propagated messages by automatically filling out a form for the user that posts a message to all followers. So, how did this...
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A growing number of federal agencies are using cloud computing, but nearly all lack policies around securing data hosted offsite , according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). 22 of 24 major federal agencies reported that they are either concerned or very concerned about...
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Despite a dire need for belt tightening among government agencies, the public sector still lags well behind the private sector when it comes to virtualization. In fact, more than 80 percent of public agencies surveyed said they aren’t using virtualization to its fullest extent, according to the...
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The cost and flexibility of cloud computing make it particularly appealing. So what’s holding businesses back from moving to this agile new environment? In my opinion, it comes down to trust and technology. The number one hurdle is trust. Before we can consume cloud applications, we need assurances...
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There are three essential components of intelligent workload management (IWM): An operating system that enables us to perform a task or set of tasks Systems management tools to deploy and move workloads The ability to make each workload self-aware, so that it knows its own limitations It’s this...
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There is an old law of network security which says, if the bad guy can get you to run his program on your machine just once, it’s no longer your machine. Likewise, if the bad guy is able to upload just one program to your website, it’s no longer your website. And, worse case scenario, if...
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The cloud can look pretty simple, especially from the perspective of the regular end-user who basically sees a hosted application that is available whenever they want it. Indeed, this user pretty much only wants and expects two things from the cloud: perpetual up-time and seamless scalability. Meeting...
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Depending upon whom you talk to, Cloud Computing is either an overhyped term destined for obscurity or the greatest promise for the future of Information Technology. While certainly there is a great deal of fanfare associated with the Cloud, we believe that in the long run, this hype will prove to be...