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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

21 tips for supercharging your cloud storage

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21 tips for supercharging your cloud storage
Cloud storage isn't just for files and photos. With the right tools and services, you can do much more: organize data, or automate uploads and downloads. Synchronize, of course. Score extra space without paying an extra cent. Run a basic Web site from a cloud service, manage media, or even fax. Read More


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The Cisco Unified Workspace
Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how to integrate iPads, tablets, and smartphones into their business and IT models. In response, the Cisco Unified Workspace provides a solution for creating an organization-wide mobility strategy. Learn More.

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Eliminate Virtualization Management Challenges
A hosted private cloud can offer many advantages for organizations looking to benefit from a secure cloud model. This white paper details how the hosted private cloud can address security and compliance concerns, deliver scale-up and scale-down capabilities, reduce costs and improve IT utilization all while minimizing loss of control by IT. Learn more.

How big is cloud's impact? Depends on who's asking
Is cloud computing really catching on in the enterprise? Well, that depends on who you talk to, recent surveys have found. Read More

Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for use in mass phishing attacks
Cybercriminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Read More

Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business
Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced. Read More


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Controlling & Managing Super User Access
Privileged accounts help grant needed access to "superusers," but create huge security and compliance risks. What's needed is a way to give superusers access to only what is needed, when it is needed. Read this white paper to discover management solution for superusers. Read Now!

Security of hosted services is top priority for Adobe's first CSO
Adobe Systems has appointed Brad Arkin, the company's senior director of security for products and services, to become its first CSO. With a mature product security program already in place, the top priorities for Adobe's new security chief are to strengthen the security of the company's hosted services and its internal infrastructure. Read More

Pivotal puts PaaS in the spotlight
In launching Pivotal, the partnership of EMC, VMware and GE is attempting to refocus the conversation in the market about how a new generation of applications that use big data will be built. Read More

Business students to get HP-designed technical course for cloud, mobile, security issues
College business students need to gain a grasp of technical issues related to cloud computing, big data, security and other network issues they're likely to come across in their careers, so HP is now offering its first technical associate certification for them to cover these topics while in college. Read More


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Winning Strategies for Omnichannel Banking
Research reveals new ways for banks to prosper. Customers are ready for omnichannel experiences. Respond now-learn how to manage the transition to omnichannel banking and reap the rewards of delivering innovative services. Read Now

Software AG buys LongJump for cloud PaaS
Software AG has picked up cloud PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendor LongJump in a bid to give small and medium-sized companies a way to rapidly develop applications with less involvement from IT. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were not disclosed. Read More

Senate committee limits government electronic surveillance
A U.S. Senate committee has approved legislation that would give more privacy protection from government surveillance for data stored in the cloud. Read More

Assess risk before you ascend to the cloud
Risks to moving a company's data to a cloud provider are significant, but manageable, according to report released Tuesday by an international cybersecurity association. Read More

McAfee offers one-time passwords for single sign-on cloud service
McAfee Thursday announced it's providing a one-time password function as part of its Cloud Single Sign On service for more securely provisioning and de-provisioning hundreds of cloud-based services for enterprise use. Read More

 
 
 

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