Category: News

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Security-as-a-service provider Proofpoint is extending its cloud-based security capabilities with the acquisition of Armorize Technologies, a provider of cloud-based anti-malware offerings. This comes just less than a month after Proofpoint signed a definitive agreement to acquire Armorize. Details of the transaction were not provided.

Armorize is an interesting company, at least from a security perspective. The company’s staff has more than 35 Certified Ethical Hackers on staff, and it specializes in cloud-based threat intelligence, detection of "zero-day" attacks and unknown vulnerabilities, real-time dynamic threat protection and advanced malware detection research…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jay Desai.

While new technologies are being adapted at lightening pace across all kinds of industries, one thing has not changed: IT departments are expected to use antiquated storage solutions to meet their new storage needs. Just as we wouldn’t expect anyone to use a twenty-year old phone to communicate effectively, it is unreasonable to expect IT professionals to use tape and proprietary storage arrays to store massive amounts of data, especially in this era of powerful cloud computing.

The simple fact is that it is impossible to manage today’s storage needs with yesterday’s storage solutions because of key trends that are disrupting the storage industry as we have known it thus far. These key trends include:…

Grazed from New York Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.

Let’s say it: Last summer was the beginning of the end for the old guard in what is still the biggest part of technology – business spending on everything from servers to software. This fall begins a new competition for the hearts and minds of corporate customers.

Consider a few of summer’s events. Dell started to go private in the face of eroding personal computer demand. Hewlett-Packard once again announced lower revenue, and had more executive reshuffles. Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, resigned, then in the last big weekend of summer bought the handset business of a deeply weakened Nokia…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Altair, a global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced the launch of HyperWorks Unlimited™, offering companies a fully configured hardware and software appliance for computer-aided engineering (CAE).

Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited, a state-of-the-art managed private cloud solution, offers unlimited use of all Altair software including HyperWorks® applications and PBS Works™ workload management tools. With HyperWorks Unlimited, users no longer have restricted access to HyperWorks software applications, making high-performance computing (HPC) far more accessible for the CAE community and paving the path to infinite exploration…

Grazed from RPI News. Author: Editorial Staff.

The petabyte—a quantity of digital information 12 orders of magnitude greater than the lowly kilobyte—looms large as a future standard for data. To glean knowledge from this deluge of data, a team of researchers at the Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is combining the reach of cloud computing with the precision of supercomputers in a new approach to Big Data analysis.

“Advances in technology for medical imaging devices, sensors, and in powerful scientific simulations are producing data that we must be able to access and mine,” said Bulent Yener, founding director of the DSRC, a professor of computer science within the Rensselaer School of Science, and a member of the research team. “The trend is heading toward petabyte data and we need to develop algorithms and methods that can help us understand the knowledge contained within it.”…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudLock, the leading information security suite for enterprises using cloud platforms, announced it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 audit. A leading independent auditor, EY (formerly Ernst & Young) conducted the audit, which verifies that CloudLock’s information security practices, policies, procedures and operations meet or surpasses the rigorous SOC 2 standards for security, availability, and confidentiality.

"Completing the SOC 2 Type 2 audit demonstrates our ongoing commitment to security and underscores the investment we’ve made to keep our customers’ data and systems safe," said Gil Zimmermann, CloudLock CEO and co-founder. "Our customers rely upon us to secure their more than 1.5 million users, who are responsible for creating the more than 55 million files currently stored in public cloud domains. Organizations faced with compliance requirements around sensitive data, like PCI, PII, and IP, can leverage CloudLock’s SOC 2 Type 2 as part of their compliance strategy."…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

SRA International, Inc., a leading provider of IT solutions and professional services to government organizations, today launched Stratify(TM), a secure cloud computing solution. The Stratify solution allows federal agencies to address cloud security and compliance gaps by delivering a practical cloud-centric architecture that enables mission success. SRA will be discussing the benefits of Stratify at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit on Sept. 10 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

While agencies across the federal government recognize the operational efficiencies that can be achieved by migrating applications or workloads to the cloud, chief information officers and chief security officers remain concerned about the risks of losing control and visibility of their systems and data. Stratify(TM) provides the architecture, tools and processes to help agencies quickly implement cloud security and reporting mechanisms while maintaining cyber situational awareness of their data, leveraging existing enterprise IT investments and meeting compliance requirements…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

The first thing I had to ask Paul Maritz, CEO of the VMware spin-off Pivotal, was whether he had received any interesting calls from the Microsoft board on the heels of Steve Ballmer’s departure. Not surprisingly, Maritz said he would go "nowhere near" that question. But here’s why he is considered a potential successor: During his14-year stint at Microsoft, Maritz oversaw the development and marketing of some of the company’s most successful products, including Windows 95, Office, and SQL Server, and later presided over four years of impressive growth as CEO of VMware.

Maritz comes under the category of "visionary" CEO, a classification few would associate with Ballmer. But vision is a tricky thing. With Pivotal, Maritz is building a PaaS (platform as a service) for developing the next generation of applications — infused with big data and the onslaught of events that will flow from the Internet of things. The release date for Pivotal One, which will combine Cloud Foundry and Hadoop among other technologies, is set for the end of 2013. Is Pivotal too far ahead of its time? Or is the moment just right for building a platform to underlie massively interconnected, highly adaptable Internet applications?…

Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

A March 2013 survey of 625 technical professionals across a broad section of organisations on their adoption of cloud computing has highlighted the importance of what it calls ‘cloud maturity’. That’s a measure of the experience organisations have with cloud computing, and the greater it is the more benefits they are able to derive from it and the better they are able to handle challenges of security compliance and governance.

The survey was undertaken by RightScale, a provider of cloud management technology. It concludes: "bottom line: as organisations move forward with cloud adoption and gain experience with cloud technologies, they’re able to unlock increasingly greater levels of value for their organisations."…