Category: News

Grazed from Infosecurity-Magazine. Author: Editorial Staff.

The US is home to 44% of all malware hosted domestically. A new report from Solutionary shows that it hosts approximately five times more malware than the second-leading malware-hosting nation, Germany, which is responsible for just 9% of the world’s malware. "The information in this report will show our readers how widespread the malware problem truly is and how close it hits to home," said Solutionary SERT director of research, Rob Kraus, in announcing the research.

"We aren’t just talking about foreign espionage campaigns, APTs and breaches; many of these malicious activities are taking place within US borders." The rise of cloud computing and cloud services gives malware distributors fresh fuel: they are rapidly and widely adopting cloud computing, either via buying services directly or by compromising legitimate domains…

Grazed from ITBusiness. Author: Brian Jackson.

Microsoft Corp. will soon be renaming its free cloud storage and syncing service to be in line with its newly released video game console. SkyDrive, the cloud service that allows users to upload files and documents and then syncs them or makes them accessible across any number of PCs, tablets, and smartphones, will soon be renamed to OneDrive. Microsoft launched a new video game console in November called Xbox One.

Users of SkyDrive won’t need to do anything to migrate over to the newly branded service, writes Ryan Gavin, general manager of consumer apps & services for Microsoft, in a blog post. You’ll just notice the URL of the service will change one day and you’ll continue to use the service as you normally would…

Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: Jack Woods.

CIO’s are tasked with the challenge of determining the best way to store massive amounts of data in a safe, easy-to-access, cost-effective manner. Organizations can choose to purchase and deploy on-premises enterprise storage systems, store their data with an external cloud computing service, or they can form hybrid models by combining to two.

In this post, we’ve put our focus on cloud computing and compiled 20 statistics that every CIO should look to store in their memory for future reference or for ground to stand on when bringing a cloud proposal to the rest of their executive teams.

20 Cloud Computing Stats Every CIO Should Know:…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Chris Kanaracus.

Customer experience has emerged as one of the enterprise software industry’s hotter segments of late, as companies try to run marketing, sales and support across both traditional and digital channels. While Salesforce.com, Oracle, and other large vendors have generated headlines for their moves into customer experience, SDL is hoping to present itself as an independent alternative with a newly launched product suite.

The SDL Customer Experience Cloud brings together Web content management, campaign management, social analytics, e-commerce, language translation services and documentation, with a unified user interface, according to a company announcement Monday. The suite is the result of several years of work, according to SDL…

Grazed from DailyCaller. Author: Steven Titch.

Tuesday’s State of the Union address affords President Barack Obama another opportunity to address the government’s massive overreach in collecting data about ordinary Americans in the name of protecting us. Although Obama, a constitutional scholar, spoke at length in a January 17th address to the nation about balancing individual privacy and national security, even conceding that there is a "bias" within government to amass as much information as it can, he offered no guidance or framework to Congress as to how existing law can be strengthened to protect Americans from wholesale government intrusion into their online lives.

Fortunately, bipartisan efforts on Capitol Hill have been gaining ground. And while the scope of NSA and other government abuses defy a single solution, strengthening existing laws, particularly the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, is a great place to start. Even before news of the NSA’s surveillance programs broke last June, Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, had co-sponsored revisions of ECPA to extend Fourth Amendment protections to private data stored on servers on the Internet, or as it’s called current nomenclature, the "cloud."…

Grazed from NextGov. Author: Joseph Marks.

The agency in charge of HealthCare.gov bought an emergency cache of computing power from Verizon?s cloud division just days before the online insurance marketplace’s troubled launch on Oct. 1, 2013, contracting documents show. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services bought an additional $8.8 million in cloud computing power on Sept. 26 after stress tests revealed the site as it had been constructed could only handle about 10,000 concurrent users, far shy of its expected peak of 50,000 concurrent users, CMS said.

Verizon added that cloud space on Sept. 30, the day before HealthCare.gov went live, according to the notice posted on Friday to the Federal Business Opportunities contracting website. The move could add fuel to arguments the government was ill-prepared for the HealthCare.gov launch…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Dan Woods.

The expansion of Software-as-a-Service offerings, mobile devices, and all variants of managed and cloud computing mean that the definition of the data center as an expensively provisioned room, with lots of power, a raised floor, incredible cooling is obsolete. The entire Internet is your data center now. CIOs are playing catchup in learning how to manage this new world.

When a company had just a few SaaS applications that were not mission critical, and one or two APIs or cloud based apps, this was all manageable. Many firms are just leaving this stage, prompted by adoption of more SaaS apps, and especially by Microsoft Office 365, which is going to present a host of new challenges for many CIOs…

Grazed from BaselineMag. Author: Dennis McCafferty.

A "state of the IT worker" survey from ScienceLogic contains mostly good news: Information technology employees expect that their organizations will spend more money on IT initiatives in 2014. They also think that the enterprise network, IT applications and the data center will likely emerge as the top areas of future investment.

The IT pros also confess that they make pretty good money. In fact, some of them even feel that they are overpaid, and they anticipate making even more next year. But these workers are less encouraged by their preparation for what’s ahead, especially when it comes to their educational grounding in cloud-focused developments…

Grazed from Calligo. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud service provider Calligo has launched two new products, CloudAnalyser and CloudCentre, to assist client’ moving to cloud computing. Written in-house by Calligo’s software development team, these two solutions give Calligo clients visibility into their own environments to help them decide whether to move some, or all, of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, along with making the on-going management simpler.

CloudAnalyser imports statistical data taken from existing systems and combines this with the results of a detailed questionnaire. The software then uses custom algorithms to evaluate the costs and benefits of using the cloud along with recommending the type of cloud technology the client should be considering for each of their business applications…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud computing is the newest wave in the world of data storage. Essentially, when a business uses a cloud server, their information isn’t in their office-instead they access their information through an Internet connection. Using the cloud has tremendous advantages for businesses of all sizes, particularly because it’s possible to access information from any location or computer, and the amount of storage space is nearly unlimited. With that being said, as with any data storage, there are security risks, and it’s important that business owners are prepared for a transition to the cloud that is safe and secure, otherwise they could jeopardize their entire business.

SecuritySystemReviews.com, a site that provides reviews of the top security companies in the country, including a newly updated FrontPoint security review and a Vivint security review, has created a list of tips for business owners that will help them better navigate the cloud transition…