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Security
By Archie Hendryx  One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the ‘keeping the lights on’ approach of IT. Ultimately this lacks the economic benefit that makes cloud computing such an... Dec. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,352 | By James H. Wong  Designing and implementing a hybrid encryption application is a big challenge but without a supporting infrastructure it’s almost impossible. There are open source libraries that allow you to encrypt a file but only provide the translation technique. After the information has been encr... Dec. 9, 2012 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,509 | By Dana Gardner  Backup of enterprise information and associated data protection are fragmented, complex, and inefficient. But new approaches are helping to simplify the data-protection process, keep costs in check, and improve recovery speed and confidence.
If you look back 20 years ago, we had heter... Dec. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,387 | By James Carlini  Based on different reports of companies in New York still caught “off-guard” with their computer systems, it is hard to believe that corporate computer systems are down for some major companies – especially financial ones – and there are no redundant systems up-and-running.
What happe... Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,682 | By Dana Gardner  Businesses must exploit open collaboration advances in procurement and finance to produce new types of productivity benefits, say an industry analyst and Ariba executive.
And the benefits of improved data integration and the process efficiencies of cloud computing are additionally hel... Nov. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,780 | By Pete Cafarchio  The “consumerization of IT” is a topic we’ve heard a lot about recently – especially when it comes to “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” One area that is less talked about, yet a growing trend under the “consumerization” umbrella, is the use of free, consumer-type file transfer services i... Oct. 5, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,653 | By Gerry Grealish  Earlier this week, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Ear and Eye, Inc. (MEEI) agreed to pay a hefty $1.5 million settlement to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services for alleged HIPAA violations. According to MEEI, a personal laptop that contained unencr... Sep. 22, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,609 | By David Dodd  A penetration tester simulates an attack on a customer’s network by trying to find a way inside. Many such attacks begin using a scanning tool, such as NeXpose, Nessus, or Nmap, to look for network vulnerabilities; however, several of the leading Intrusion Detection/Protection systems ... Aug. 8, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,881 | By Jason Bloomberg  Identity theft, password breaches, viruses and worms, phishing attacks, Stuxnet—the more we rely upon technology in our increasingly connected world, the greater the risk that we’ll be hacked. Even worse, it seems that the rate at which hacking stories come across the wire is actually ... Jul. 19, 2012 09:51 AM EDT Reads: 2,724 | By Lacey Thoms  Today’s software development is geared more towards building upon previous work and less about reinventing content from scratch. Resourceful software development organizations and developers use a combination of previously created code, commercial software, open source software, and th... May. 4, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,207 | By Jennifer Walzer  Data explosion is one of the biggest issues facing IT today. The amount of data that organizations store has grown exponentially in the last 10 years. According to Gartner research director April Adams, data capacity on average in enterprises grows at 40 percent to 60 percent year over... Apr. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,504 | By Security News Desk  There's been a flurry of discussion this week among Internet and Web standards heavy-hitters around WebSocket, the new communications protocol supported in Chrome 4 and Safari 5. What was the main issue? Is there some kind of fundamental security vulnerability with the WS protocol? Web... Dec. 12, 2010 02:30 AM EST Reads: 19,741 |
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