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Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be computer service technicians

Posted April 24, 2013 - 11:47 am

According to a new ranking of careers, programming jobs are desirable, but computer support roles not so much
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Amazon looks to move security appliances to the cloud, says CISO

Posted April 24, 2013 - 5:52 am

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking to expand its security offerings with hosted intrusion protection appliances and more extensive encryption features, as it looks to increase the level of protection users can get in its cloud.
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Business students to get HP-designed technical course for cloud, mobile, security issues

Posted April 23, 2013 - 9:19 pm

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.
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Next up in public cloud: Tiered SLAs

Posted April 23, 2013 - 2:18 pm

Cloud service providers are mulling the idea of offering different levels of SLAs
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'Good enough' Microsoft Hyper-V starts turning more heads

Posted April 23, 2013 - 2:07 pm

About three years ago Embotics jumped into developing support in its private cloud management platform for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, hopeful that the VMware virtualization challenger would take off. When that takeoff initially stalled, Embotics curtailed its Hyper-V work to focus resources elsewhere.
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Cloud Integration: A Comprehensive Solution

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm
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Oracle Database Cloud Service

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm

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The Benefits of Cloud Without Compromise

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm

This white paper looks at why, when evaluating your cloud strategy, it's important to consider the level of control and choice you will either maintain or have to give up to achieve some of these benefits.
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Managing Data with Cloud Computing

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm

This Oracle and InfoWorld article looks at data center best practices for managing data with cloud computing. Cloud computing is a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed.
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OpenStack's hottest products right now

Posted April 23, 2013 - 1:45 pm

At the OpenStack Summit last week, a variety of companies made product and services news. Here's a roundup of the best.
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Aereo ruling could impact Pandora

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:50 am

If the courts keep ruling that Aereo doesn’t violate copyright laws, it could affect other services that stream content, and might prompt Congress to step in
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What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:43 am

As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year and a half since becoming executive vice president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.
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Jive enterprise social product gets group templates for business tasks

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:39 am

Jive Software has upgraded its enterprise social collaboration product to make it easier to tailor group sites for specific business tasks and flag member comments to trigger specific actions.
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EMC tackles big data, cloud skills gap among IT business leaders

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:36 am

There's a shortage of executives and business leaders with the skills to manage big data and cloud teams. EMC is seeking to change that with a new series of courses.
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Amazon's data warehouse, high storage instances come to Europe

Posted April 23, 2013 - 8:41 am

Amazon Web Services has made data warehouse service Redshift available from its European data center, allowing information that for regulatory reasons has to be stored locally to be moved to the service.
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Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform

Posted April 23, 2013 - 8:06 am

Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com.
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Microsoft says Office 365 adoption accelerating, but questions remain

Posted April 22, 2013 - 8:02 pm

When Microsoft reported its third-quarter financial results last week, company officials trumpeted several metrics about sales and adoption of Office 365, the cloud subscription suite for email and collaboration.
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SAML 101

Posted April 22, 2013 - 5:00 pm

Identity federation solves these challenges by providing a secure, private mechanism for organizations to share user identities, removing the need to maintain separate user profiles for every enterprise application.
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Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamoring for enterprise customers

Posted April 22, 2013 - 4:28 pm

Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.
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Google cloud open for business – includes $400 cover charge

Posted April 22, 2013 - 4:26 pm

Google earlier this month opened up its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering to customers and removing the beta tag from the service. One catch is that customers who sign up for the service need to buy a "gold-level" support package -- which costs $400 per month.
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Why Centralized Cloud Identity Management is Crucial for the Enterprise

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:45 pm

Now that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to use online SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manage employee identities.
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6 Enterprise Solutions for Successful Identity Management

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:45 pm

Our simple, proven and secure solutions address six use cases for cloud application access, cloud user provisioning, native mobile apps, secure API access and social identity integration.
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Extending Security to the Cloud with Adaptive Federation

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:45 pm

As IT administrators and security architects face a morass of on-premise and hosted applications, user communities, multiple devices and disparate identity sources, there is a demand for greater protection of both identities and business resources.
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How OpenStack should prepare itself for the enterprise

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:27 pm

With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.
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IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows

Posted April 22, 2013 - 1:03 pm

A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors.
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