IT professionals concerned about the viability or open source nature of the substitutes Microsoft suggested when it stops supporting AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server on April 2, 2016, have at least one long-time commercial alternative. ScaleOut Software, which has been shipping since 2005, supports more than 400 customers over 10,000-plus servers, CEO Bill Bain told ...Full article
Security startup TruStar Technology has launched a global platform for participating enterprises to anonymously share cybersecurity incidents. By collaborating without attribution, worry over legal issues, or concerns about damaging their reputation, TruStar expects members will become more educated about threats and responses, react faster, and be better prepared to thwart vulnerabilities. The San Francisco-based company ...Full article
They say security breaches are like heart attacks: You don't start exercising until you've had one. It appears that a lengthening series of high-profile security breaches using increasingly sophisticated attacks have prompted IT vendors and their customers to hit the gym. According to a recent survey of IT trends, security experts have replaced programmers, developers ...Full article
Well-established cloud service providers remain enterprises' partners of choice, but challengers are nipping at their heels as more organizations turn to cloud for myriad infrastructure needs, a new report found. Enterprise IT purchasers kept Amazon Web Services (AWS) atop the provider list for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), according to the 451 Research Vendor Window assessments for IaaS. ...Full article
In-memory computing proponents are citing use examples like online retail shopping to make their case for what they claim is an emerging infrastructure based on in-memory data grids. Among them is GigaSpaces Technologies, the New York-based middleware vendor that rolled out the latest version of its XAP in-memory computing platform this week. Among the new ...Full article
Juniper Networks today unveiled new hardware for its SRX5800 Services Gateway that doubles the device's available Internet Mix (IMIX) firewall throughput to 2 terabits per second (Tbps) and addresses enterprises' need to manage bandwidth-hungry and unpredictable network environment. Scheduled to ship in the first half of this year, the new hardware includes third-generation input/output cards ...Full article
Some big numbers are flying around as technology investors sink more venture capital into startups promising to beef up security in datacenters and cloud infrastructure. The latest example comes from Illumio, the developer of a security platform for datacenters and the cloud that is designed to be independent of network or hypervisor. The company, based ...Full article
There's a temptation to view the many flavors of cloud as the solution to all an enterprise's network, storage, and infrastructure challenges. But simply transitioning existing processes to the cloud without scrutinizing every element from a security perspective compounds current vulnerabilities and creates new problems. Despite the risks, between 40 percent and 60 percent of ...Full article
Application container specialist Docker Inc. announced its latest and greatest funding round this week totaling $95 million, attracting such heavyweights as financial services giants Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Company executives said the cash infusion, which follows hot on the heels of a September 2014 funding round, would allow it to address the needs of ...Full article
Information security is a perennial concern for the enterprise. Long before cloud computing came on the scene, maintaining the integrity of data and IT infrastructure was critical to success in an increasingly digitized economy. But worrying about security and understanding the nature of the threats that confront modern data environments are two very different things. ...Full article
Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. Dubbed Redirect to SMB, Carnegie Mellon University CERT disclosed the vulnerability after working privately with vendors for the past six weeks to help them mitigate the ...Full article
The rapid and continuing rise of the U.S. dollar against most currencies will put a dent in global IT spending during 2015, a new forecast concludes. Market researcher Gartner called the rapid and largely unexpected rise of the dollar a "currency shock" that would reduce worldwide IT spending by 1.3 percent this year to $3.66 ...Full article
The development of an ecosystem around application containers and related lightweight virtualizations technologies may be gaining traction as promoters of the technology move beyond the hype and focus on actually transitioning the technology to production environments. One manifestation of the critical mass being achieved by Linux containers are gatherings in which key players can get ...Full article
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes live next year. Late last month, Total said SGI would upgrade Pangea, its existing supercomputer, with an additional 9.2 petabytes of storage; 4,608 more nodes based on the ...Full article
Despite a steady stream of storage technology advances, IBM scientists insist there is still plenty of life left in left in tape storage along with new cloud applications like object storage. IBM Research this week claimed a new storage density record of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch on inexpensive particulate magnetic ...Full article
The waterfall of unstructured data pouring into datacenters is fueling the need for data and object storage approaches that retain all that stuff while at the same time making "useful' data accessible if and when needed. Emerging storage vendors zeroing in on the big data market often refer to this approach as making storage "data ...Full article
Spurred by private sector awareness, political turmoil, and cybercrime, Asia-Pacific organizations will spend $22 billion on critical infrastructure technologies by 2020, ABI Research estimates. Spending is expected to increase 17.7 percent between 2014 and 2015, the strongest growth rate globally compared to all other regions, London-based Michela Menting, Digital Security Practice director at ABI Research, ...Full article
IT infrastructure and the applications they deliver along with emerging open-source web frameworks remain the most attractive targets for hackers and cyber-criminals, according to new web security research data. Cisco Systems' annual security report released this week also found that security vulnerabilities are beginning to shift away from Java exploits, long the most prevalent and ...Full article
Cisco Systems launched its software-defined networking protocol called OpFlex last year as a counter to OpenFlow, a move that drew a growing list of partners. Among them is Embrane Inc., a Cisco SDN service partner and a "provider of application-centric network services." As Cisco fleshes out its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) effort, it announced plans ...Full article
Dell today (April 7) released the latest edition of Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS), its scale out network attached storage (NAS) solution. Version 4 – available now on the FS8600 with the Compellent platform and sometime later this year on EqualLogic – was designed to help customers manage the number and size of user files; ...Full article
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