June 17, 2011 Off

Is Your Company At Risk of a DDoS Attack?

By David
Grazed from Fox News.  Author:  Samuel Bucholtz.

U.S. companies face a significant and persistent threat from cyber attacks, and one of the greatest risks of all is what’s known as a “distributed denial-of-service” (DDoS) attack.

June 17, 2011 Off

VMware spells out limits to the cloud

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Anh Nguyen.

People and processes are barriers to cloud adoption, not technology and security, according to VMware.

“Technologically, the issues [around cloud adoption] aren’t significant. The biggest issues are people and process issues,” said Tod Nielsen, president at VMware, who was in London for VMware Forum 2011. 

“People ask about security and privacy. But when you get to the heart of the issue, those issues are about people not trusting each other. People want to control what they own.”

June 17, 2011 Off

New PCI Compliance Guidelines Set New Standards For Cloud Security

By David
Grazed from Dark Reading.  Author: Robert Lemos.

Companies unsure about the Payment Card Industry’s requirement to secure data in the cloud don’t need to wonder anymore.

On Tuesday, the PCI Security Standards Council clarified its guidance for storing and processing financial and transaction data in virtualized systems, a key component of almost all cloud architecture. In its "Information Supplement: PCI DSS Virtualization Guide," the group states that virtualization technology brings unique risks when used with cardholder data — data that goes into that cloud is still subject to the PCI Data Security Standard.

June 16, 2011 Off

Improving the Security of Cloud Computing

By David
Grazed from MIT Technology Review.  Author: David Talbot.

On-demand cloud computing and data storage can save companies money, but many businesses—particularly in finance and health care—are wary of handing data to third parties, fearing hacking, accidental data loss, or theft by rogue employees of cloud providers.

New security solutions are appearing: One verifies cloud providers’ claims that your data is safely lodged on its own server. Another protects your cloud-based data by using a math function to divide it into 16 segments, any 10 of which can be used to re-create the entire original set.

June 15, 2011 Off

VMware Launches vFabric 5 for Virtual and Cloud Environments

By David
Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

VMware announced vFabric 5, an integrated application platform for virtual and cloud environments.

The new vFabric 5 platform combines VMware’s Spring development framework for Java with the latest generation of vFabric application services to provide the core application platform for building, deploying and running modern applications, Dave McJannet, director of product marketing at VMware, told eWEEK.

June 15, 2011 Off

VMware to buy Digital Fuel Technologies for cloud cost management

By David
Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: John Ribiero.

VMware is to acquire Digital Fuel Technologies, a vendor of IT financial management software that helps companies determine the cost of IT services.

The terms of the acquisition, which is scheduled to close in July, were not announced.

VMware’s vice president of marketing, Ramin Sayar, said that it decided to acquire the company to provide its customers with better tools to manage IT systems.

June 14, 2011 Off

HP CIO Randy Mott leaves amid company management restructure

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author:  Jenny Williams.

Hewlett-Packard’s CIO, Randy Mott, has left the company amid an organisational restructure.

HP said its organisational changes will more closely align its corporate structure with its overall strategy to build its cloud and software services portfolio for customers.

As a result, HP has scrapped the chief administration officer role and plans to extend the role of the CIO.

June 14, 2011 Off

Will businesses opt for SaaS in next ERP lifecycle?

By David
Grazed from Computer Weekly.  Author: Jenny Williams.

As ERP systems near the end of a current lifecycle, CIOs are assessing upgrades or replacements. With firms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite and RightNow offering alternative software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP systems, should businesses move to the cloud?