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Nvidia shaking up cloud-based gaming

Posted May 16, 2012 - 8:30 am

Nvidia claims they can eliminate lag from cloud-based gaming while reducing costs for the game providers.
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Finding the right cloud solutions for your organization

Posted May 15, 2012 - 4:10 pm

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Building Cloud-Optimized Data Center Networks white paper

Posted May 15, 2012 - 4:10 pm

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Why even the least geeky are hot for solid-state drives

Posted May 15, 2012 - 2:46 pm

High cost and a reputation for flakiness limited sales of SSD flash drives as alternatives to hard drives. Cost and flakiness are still a little high, but both are dropping, making SSDs waaaay sexier to consumers than cloud or virtual storage, no matter what geeks think about it.
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Converged Storage: Utility Storage - The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing

Posted May 15, 2012 - 11:40 am

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The Best Way to Build a Cloud -- HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Utility Storage provide solid, flexible foundation

Posted May 15, 2012 - 11:40 am

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Yahoo launches big data analytics tool for online advertisers

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:55 pm

Yahoo today launched Genome, a new tool that allows online advertisers take advantage of the company's extensive experience with big data analytics.
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Where did 'cloud' come from?

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:30 pm

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)
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Kaspersky doubles up slam at Apple, Mac OS X

Posted May 14, 2012 - 9:11 pm

Two Kaspersky Labs top execs publicly and explicitly slammed Apple for poor security in recent weeks as Apple customers go through the pain of growing into malware targets and Kaspersky makes a big push to round up new customers for its cloud security service. Apple users, maybe.
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Cloud Computing Owner's Manual

Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:50 pm

One of the significant benefits of cloud computing and one of its greatest drawbacks is the astonishing variety of configurations available. To name a few, there's SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, not to mention the cloud CIOs fear most - IT as a service (ITaaS). Not bad for a technology that's been around a relatively short while, but has already upended every major product segment in the computer industry, and cut corporate IT departments loose from a 50-year tradition of responsibility for, and control over information, and the technology that manipulates it.
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IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage ~ Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing

Posted May 14, 2012 - 4:50 pm

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The real limits of cloud computing

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:33 pm

Is Google Drive the functionality that will harbor a new age of personal cloud computing?
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Security Strategies to Virtualizing Internet-Facing Applications

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

The IT organization at Intel has set a goal to transition their enterprise to a private cloud for their Office and Enterprise applications. The goal is to virtualize 75% of the environment by the end of 2012. This paper highlights the steps they are taking to overcome security challenges of virtualizing Internet-facing applications.
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Cloud Security Planning Guide

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

Cloud security considerations span protecting hardware and platform technologies in the data center to enabling regulatory compliance and defending cloud access through different endpoints. This guide provides recommendations for strengthening data, identity, and platform protection and will also walk you through seven key steps to plan your cloud security strategy from the ground up.
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Cloud Security Vendor Round Table

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

This vendor round table guide will help you to evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Compare their answers to questions on data protection, compliance, ROI and more.
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Planning Guide - Technology for Tomorrow's Cloud

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

This cloud planning guide will introduce you to data center technologies that address challenges of networking, storage, security, and power management. It's based on Intel's experience working with IT managers, cloud providers, and security and power management vendors-as well as the experience Intel has gained building and deploying its own cloud technology.
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Cloud Security Insights for IT Strategic Planning

Posted May 14, 2012 - 1:20 pm

The survey results of 200 IT professionals highlights the key business and technology drivers behind implementation plans, the importance of security, and the level of investment in security required. This benchmark data can be used for your own cloud security planning.
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Startup uses DDOS to confuse BitTorrent sites

Posted May 14, 2012 - 10:51 am

New "Pirate Pay" Russian-based startup, partially funded by Microsoft, monitors illegal files and stops the download process.
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Dish Network DVR will now 'Auto-Hop' commercials

Posted May 11, 2012 - 11:02 am

Replays of the major network shows during primetime will automatically "hop" over commercials.
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Google shares Codie award for best cloud application/service

Posted May 10, 2012 - 8:49 pm

Keynote Systems and Scribe Software in three-way tie with Google Apps; best integration solution also sees two winners
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Up next for the cloud: Big data analytics?

Posted May 10, 2012 - 4:59 pm

In an effort to diversify its cloud offerings, NaviSite - a Time Warner Cable cloud computing and managed hosting company - announced plans to offer storage service for customers in what one analyst says could the beginning of service providers looking to offer big data analysis from the cloud.
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IDC White Paper: Delivering an Integrated Infrastructure for the Cloud

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:50 pm

In an IDC White Paper sponsored by HP, IDC covers how cloud computing is one of the prevailing IT trends today and how HP is helping organizations address this trend. By providing greater levels of provisioning and automation, cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and efficiently allocate their compute resources.
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HP has all the ingredients for software defined networking, almost

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:38 pm

HP says it has all of the necessary orchestration tools for its software defined networking strategy - the big question is, will it build its own controller?
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5 outsourcing trends to watch

Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:30 pm

The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics.
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Is your cloud provider exposing remnants of your data?

Posted May 10, 2012 - 11:36 am

Security researchers report that incorrectly configured hypervisors can lead to a separation of data issue in multi-tenant environments that can expose data remnants. However, you can prevent hosting your data on 'dirty disks.'
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Cloud Computing Owner's Manual

One of the significant benefits of cloud computing and one of its greatest drawbacks is the astonishing variety of configurations available. To name a few, there's SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, not to mention the cloud CIOs fear most - IT as a service (ITaaS). Not bad for a technology that's been around a relatively short while, but has already upended every major product segment in the computer industry, and cut corporate IT departments loose from a 50-year tradition of responsibility for, and control over information, and the technology that manipulates it.

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IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage ~ Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing

Server virtualization has transformed corporate IT -- companies have enjoyed major cost savings and have gained flexibility and efficiency. But this has also led to a proliferation of virtual machines and servers that threaten to overwhelm data movement and storage technologies. In this IDG Tech Dossier, learn how utility storage makes for massive consolidation, flexibility and scalability, so IT departments can reduce storage infrastructure and lower costs while improving their ability to respond to fast-changing needs of business units.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Security Strategies to Virtualizing Internet-Facing Applications

The IT organization at Intel has set a goal to transition their enterprise to a private cloud for their Office and Enterprise applications. The goal is to virtualize 75% of the environment by the end of 2012. This paper highlights the steps they are taking to overcome security challenges of virtualizing Internet-facing applications.

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Cloud Security Vendor Round Table

This vendor round table guide will help you to evaluate different cloud technology vendors and service providers based on a series of questions posed to three cloud infrastructure providers, three managed or hosted infrastructure providers, and three cloud technology providers. Compare their answers to questions on data protection, compliance, ROI and more.

White Paper

Cloud Security Planning Guide

Cloud security considerations span protecting hardware and platform technologies in the data center to enabling regulatory compliance and defending cloud access through different endpoints. This guide provides recommendations for strengthening data, identity, and platform protection and will also walk you through seven key steps to plan your cloud security strategy from the ground up.

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