SaaS Security Is Still Sticking Point but Doesn’t Have to Be
FBI Threatens to Sue Wikipedia over Seal Use
The Federal Bureau of Investigation asked the Wikimedia Foundation to take down an image of the FBI seal from its popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia because it violates a U.S. law.
An attorney for the Wikimedia told the FBI it’s reading of the law was "idiosyncratic" and "incorrect" and vowed to fight for the right to use the seal in court.
This Web page describing the FBI seal does clearly state that "unauthorized use of the FBI seal is subject to prosecution under federal criminal law."
Use of the seal is permitted only by the FBI director.
Was SAP Too Slow on SaaS? Maybe, Maybe Not
Several publications are reporting the results of a small survey of British and Irish SAP users, in which nearly three-quarters of the respondents knocked SAP for being too slow to bring its software-as-a-service offerings to market. But what is too slow?
Six Critical Questions CIOs Should Ask Before Entering the Cloud
System Building and the Cloud: It’s Time to Prepare
For system builders who sell custom infrastructure and systems to SMBs, the proliferation of hosted applications and services is likely a troubling trend. After all, the more popular cloud computing gets, the less hardware SMBs will need to buy.
So what can system builders expect in the coming years? How much erosion of sales will there really be as the cloud grows? And are there any opportunities?
Standardisation ‘can improve data quality’
The most common way to improve and ensure data quality is through standardisation techniques.
This is the view of a recent report on the issue of product data by The Data Warehousing Institute (TWDI), reports Information Management.
It stated that regardless of the type of data being examined, standardisation can help to support the diverse and complex standards of business information.
The report added that product data quality can be further enhanced with the addition of as much extra information as possible.
NTT America adds storage to its enterprise cloud offering
NTT America (NYSE: NTT) is following up its U.S. cloud computing debut with its new offering Cloud Files, a cloud-based storage solution.
Cloud Computing Is More Likely for Low-Risk Systems: Report
Convirture Aims to Be VMware for Linux Data Centers
VMware’s ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT systems. And some IT people believe that number is too conservative.
Microsoft’s Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in use but its market share is still mired in the single digits. That leaves 10 to 15 percent of all the rest deploying other virtual systems middleware, mainly the open-source XenServer and KVM hypervisors that come bundled in most Linux distributions.
Nasuni Looks to Educate SMBs about Data Security in the Cloud
Cloud-based storage innovator Nasuni is looking to provide SMBs with better information about security in the clouds. The company’s latest white paper on the subject, “Understanding Security in Cloud Storage,” covers some of the basics of securely storing data over the Internet.