NetApp Introduces New Cloud Management Tools
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 8, 2010 - 8:26 AM
After a major
cloud computing partnership with Microsoft with in December, NetApp has now
announced a comprehensive set of management tools to enable service providers
to build private and public clouds for both storage and virtualization
customers. The latest products from
NetApp not only enhance functionality in providing services and apps for enterprise
clients, it bolsters functionality and security for IT service provider cloud deployments
for their customers. "NetApp has a
proven track record of successfully teaming with leading service providers to
power their cloud service offerings," Patrick Rogers, NetApp's (NASDAQ:
NTAP) vice president of solutions and alliances, wrote in a statement.
"Our strategy in this space is to enable the success of our solution
partners, not compete with them, and through them provide a broad and open set
of industry cloud services for enterprise IT customers."
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Symantec CEO Calls for Cloud Security AT RSA Conference
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 3, 2010 - 10:21 AM
Symantec CEO Enrique
Salem spoke at the 2010 RSA Conference and called for the need to provide a new
level of security as data in the cloud is made available to a host of mobile
devices. Salem said that enterprise
data has a 60% annual growth rate which needs robust security to be protected
from cybercriminals. "IDC says
there will be one billion cell phones accessing the Internet by the end of this
year. Right now, there are 1.3 billion PCs connected to the Internet. We need
to think about how we secure that device," he said as he spoke to an
audience at this week’s RSA conference.
Salem said that cybercriminals know the value of intellectual property
and there is a shift away from broad based attacks to precision attacks on
specific targets.
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Google Buys Picnik Photo-Editing Site
Author: John Duckgeischel
on March 2, 2010 - 8:42 AM
Google has
added the Picnik photo-editing to its string of recent acquisitions. The price paid for the small company was not
disclosed. Google already owns Picasa
which it bought back in 2004, which offers some similar photo organizing and
enhancing features. Picnik further
enhances Google’s abilities with the service which supports the ability to
import photos from Flickr, owned by Yahoo, as well as from Facebook. "Picnik [is] one of the first sites to
bring photo editing to the cloud," Brian Axe, product management director
at Google, blogged. "Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool
effects to your photos, all without leaving your Web browser. The first step will be integration of the
product with Google.
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Microsoft Granted Court Order against Waledac Botnet
Author: John Duckgeischel
on February 26, 2010 - 6:36 AM
A Federal
U.S. judge has granted Microsoft’s request for a court order against one of the
most infamous sources of internet spam the Waledac botnet, while will allow it
to cut of 277 associated domains. The
action is expected to wipe out the command and control servers utilized by
cybercriminals to control hundreds of thousands of infected PCs. It is most commonly believed that Waledec
botnet is the work of Eastern European spammers which is capable of generated
1.5 billion spam messages per day.
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