Thursday, December 01, 2011
Never mind the Patriot Act, watch your thumb drives Businesses that think storing their cloud-based data north of the border protects them from government intrusion are wrong, a panel says. Why thumb drives are the real threat to info security
Friday, November 18, 2011
AWS gets integrated status monitoring Amazon's Web services tool will tell users about upcoming scheduled operational activities that will affect the availability of its cloud
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Hitachi updates cloud storage infrastructure and services Through recent acquisitions, Hitachi has rounded out its cloud storage solution with two new services and a scalable structure up to a converged infrastructure
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The threat cloud providers pose to corporate IT If AOL can get a server up in eight seconds, and the IT organization takes two weeks, it's going to be seen as hopelessly ineffective-and ripe for a complete teardown.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Stikeman Elliott streamlined its data with DataCore Using DataCore’s SANSymphony V, corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott was able to re-purpose valuable storage devices and add new units into the chain without risking downtime
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Five trends that will transform the IT department Application and infrastructure management are out, and vendor management and business analysis are in, according to Info-Tech Research Group
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
European data concerns cloud outlook for US vendors European governments consider excluding U.S. bids due to concerns over the Patriot Act
Monday, September 19, 2011
CA updates Service Operations Insight to 3.0 The company has updated SOI by adding a new feature set and upgrades to its existing oversight software
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Is your private cloud strategy flawed? The founder of Ottawa-based private cloud management company Embotics Corp. gives change management advice for enterprises making a shift to the private cloud
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Cloud security starts on the ground, not in the sky Cloud security remains a key concern for many businesses looking to leverage hybrid infrastructures. Find out what the vendors are doing to help, and why it's also a matter of smart decisions and time
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Moving to public cloud increases project complexity: Study New research by Ovum shows a 13 per cent increase in need across the next two years for project and portfolio management as public cloud deployments get underway. An Info-Tech Research analyst estimates it will be even higher: 25 per cent
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
CA and HyTrust partner on cloud security, compliance CA Technologies strengthens its policy management technology offering by collaborating with HyTrust. Where analysts see the value for customers in this partnership
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Building applications in the cloud: A tour of the tools In-cloud development hasn't taken off as many would have expected. Many cloud apps are still coded, tested, and prepped on local machines and then deployed using whatever tools their public, hybrid, or private cloud has. A summary of the online tools
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Java 8 to ‘set the scene’ for the cloud: Expert Following the release of Java 7 Standard Edition, Oracle and members of the Java Community Process have started mulling over what features to include in the next version of the programming language, such as modularity and multi-tenancy
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
CIOs lack adequate cloud computing knowledge A survey of cloud providers and outsourcers returns some embarrassing scores on the cloud skills of IT executives
Monday, August 01, 2011
CA equips management tools for cloud environments AppLogic, Business Service Insight and other CA management applications have been updated to work with public clouds
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Peer 1’s CloudOne storage gets scalability from EMC Atmos The Vancouver-based infrastructure services provider partners with EMC on its self-service, metered cloud storage offering to help customers with dispersed storage and large data centre environments
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Microsoft talks cloud CRM, ERP at partner conference WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE Redmond is to announce a fourth-quarter update of its CRM Online, and move its Dynamics ERP to Azure
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
VMware to launch cloud infrastructure suite VMware has bundled new versions of its vSphere, vCenter Site Recovery and other products into an integrated suite
Monday, July 11, 2011
Cisco will be leaner, faster, more attentive, Chambers pledges CISCO LIVE 2011 Cisco's CEO says the company will focus on five strategic areas, become more customer friendly, and shed 5,000 to 10,000 jobs
Friday, June 24, 2011
Think SOA when building, running apps on cloud: Forrester Infrastructure-as-a-service platforms will improve. But enterprise architects, too, have work to do in taking an SOA approach to the business apps they build to run in the cloud. Plus, comparing the ROI from CRM, ERP and business productivity apps in the cloud
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Vendor targets pain of legacy health care cloud integration Iguana v5 from Interfaceware could bridge the gap between aging hospital infrastructure and the cloud. Why cloud storage and access remains on “shaky ground”
Monday, June 06, 2011
New multi-gigabit WAN optimization appliance New unit, aimed at large enterprises and cloud service providers, can produce up to 2.5Gbit/sec of WAN bandwidth, and allows up to 256,000 simultaneous sessions.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
E-health raises issues of data management, privacy: panel While electronic health records means more lives will be saved with broad access to patients’ medical information, a panel of experts discuss the challenges brought on by going digital. Plus, Ontario Shores’ cloud journey
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
VMware debuts sign-on service for cloud applications The federated sign-on service synchronizes with LDAP and Active Directory so no passwords or user names are exchanged. How Horizon App Manager offers more control over users of cloud-based services