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Can BitTorrent Live video streaming kill TV?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:46 am

Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, wants to replace television with P2P video streaming over BitTorrent.
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Moves to the cloud can spark turf wars

Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:13 pm

The decision to migrate company information-technology functions to the cloud or elsewhere is usually broken down as a set of specific cost-benefit calculations. However complicated the weighing of the startup savings and the longer-term returns involved in outsourcing IT, it at least appears to be a rational process.
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AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:31 pm

AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds.
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IPOs destined for the clouds

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:16 pm

While the focus last year was on social media IPOs, this year could be all about cloud-based companies going public.
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Citrix simplifies cloud service management

Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:26 pm

Citrix is shipping a new version of its cloud management software CloudStack that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision cloud services.
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Building an IDPS without big iron

Posted February 13, 2012 - 3:31 pm

Companies seeking to deploy intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) for network security have traditionally had to rely on proprietary appliances that cost from $15,000 to $50,000. That puts IDPS out of reach for many small to midsize companies, but SaaS-based alternatives might fit the bill.
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Best practices for scaling up SaaS

Posted February 13, 2012 - 1:08 pm

Use best practices to manage risks around security, uptime guarantees, compliance, limitations of liability, remedies and other contract details.
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Anonymous took down CIA.gov Friday, then didn't, then did, then did it again today

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:47 pm

Anonymous first took credit for the DDOS attack that downed CIA.gov Friday, then said it was just reporting the outage, before discovering it had, actually, been behind the attack. CIA.gov is down again today, though it would be wise to wait to give credit this time.
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Cisco's John Stewart on the latest security threats … and what enterprises can do to fight back

Posted February 13, 2012 - 11:17 am

Freelance writer Susan Perschke recently sat down with Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart for an in-depth discussion of the state of enterprise security.
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RIM: Revival possible, or dead man walking?

Posted February 13, 2012 - 11:07 am

RIM went from must-have 'crackberry' to now being pushed into the grave by some analysts.
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Nimbula adds support for VMware hypervisor

Posted February 13, 2012 - 11:04 am

Nimbula is hoping to better serve enterprises with version 2.0 of its operating system, which adds compatibility with VMware's hypervisor and other new features. "
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Hacked Microsoft online store saved passwords in plain text

Posted February 13, 2012 - 10:56 am

Getting hacked is not good. Getting hacked then outed for keeping customer passwords in plain text is an epic not good.
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UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:11 am

Uptime Software is the latest company aiming to help eliminate bill shock for cloud users.
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Google "Drive" could step on cloud partners' toes

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:51 am

Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing “people familiar with the matter” says the new “Drive” service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?
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Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:24 am

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.
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HP creates 150 high-tech jobs in Ireland

Posted February 11, 2012 - 9:24 pm

HP has announced the creation of 150 research and development jobs to expand its Irish operations, with funding from regional development agency IDA Ireland.
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'Intrigued' Kleiner Perkins mulls $100 million cloud services fund

Posted February 10, 2012 - 7:27 pm

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.
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Question

What are the chances that the cloud will kill off the PC?

Posted February 10, 2012 - 1:58 pm

More and more of the applications that I use are "in the cloud". As SaaS becomes more and more ubiquitious, there seems to be less and less need for a powerful desktop PC. Of course, there are still some things out there that do require significant on-site computing power, but this seems less and less common.
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NextAdvisor picks its top cloud storage services for consumers

Posted February 9, 2012 - 9:58 pm

Consumer and small business product review site NextAdvisor.com launched a new category, with reviews and comparisons of the best cloud storage services.
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Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform

Posted February 9, 2012 - 6:51 pm

Cloudscaling plans to introduce on Monday an OpenStack-based platform that enterprises can use to build private clouds.
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RIAA chief hits new heights of hypocrisy in pro-SOPA NYT op-ed

Posted February 9, 2012 - 12:43 pm

Confusing censorship of digital content with import of fake pharmaceuticals? Saying site owners wouldn't be responsible for policing copyrights even though they could lose their sites because of it? RIAA's CEO twists reality in sour-grapes parting shot at lost SOPA/PIPA fight.
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The patent troll suit over the entire Web

Posted February 9, 2012 - 11:09 am

Famous troll Eolas now says any "interaction with images inside a browser" is their patent.
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iPad trademark dispute in China may cost Apple $1.6 billion

Posted February 9, 2012 - 11:02 am

Proview Technology says they own iPad name, want money and apology from Apple.
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Google's GDrive Reportedly To Launch As Dropbox-rival 'Drive'

Posted February 9, 2012 - 9:38 am

Google's long-rumored GDrive that would let you upload and store files to its servers and be able to access them from anywhere you have an Internet connection may finally be close to launching in the coming weeks as a more cheaply priced Dropbox rival.
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Oracle buying Taleo for US$1.9 billion in direct hit at SAP

Posted February 9, 2012 - 8:28 am

Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly US$1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for US$3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close.
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