Corporate Executives Are Clueless on the Impact of Internet of Things

The convergence of the cloud, mobile, big data, social and other sensors, is generating huge new opportunities for companies to offer their customers and employees services and modes of interaction…

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ENISA Publishes Security Framework for Public Cloud Adoption in Europe

The evolution of global standardization bodies and government policy is paving the way for businesses and government agencies benefit from the use of the cloud. Each region of the world…

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Is it time for virtual reality to influence the data centre?

The part virtual reality (VR) can play in the evolution of the data centre has been mooted as far back as 2013 – but now the future looks good so…

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Dell SecureWorks Offers New Intrusion Detection Tools at RSA

At RSA, Dell’s SecureWorks launched two new offerings aimed at detecting intrusions. One is a hosted solution that offers new, managed end-point detection, and the other is a series of…

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Google’s New Encrypted Data Storage System

After almost a week of Google’s announcement that it will start to encrypt by default its Cloud Storage application, it is now being implemented.  It initially encrypted the server-side of…

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A warning shot: Why cloud security remains more important than ever

With all the recent well-publicised hacking and malware attacks, not to mention numerous meteorological events that have affected companies around the globe over the last year, IT leaders are very…

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Verizon Challenges Amazon With Verizon Cloud Storage and Compute

Verizon has finallymade public in the New York Interop Show the details of its new business cloud service, the Verizon Cloud. The company fearlessly announced last October 3 that the…

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SQL Server 2016 Running On Linux Signals Positive Change For Microsoft

Microsoft is expanding the potential user base for the soon-to-be-released flagship database server: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 will be able to run on Linux. Yes, you read that right. Microsoft…

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OpenStack cloud adoption continues to rise but challenges remain

The adoption of OpenStack is going up and increasingly seen as a cost effective alternative to public clouds, according to a new survey released by cloud software provider Talligent. The…

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Microsoft Continues its Move Towards Enterprise Cloud with Windows Azure

A Forrester reportrevealed that when it comes to enterprise cloud devs, the industry leader is still Amazon Web Services, which isn’t surprising to say the least, as Amazon has consistently…

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