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Report: Mobile Game Devs Need Out-of-Band Marketing November 14, 2012 
App developers, and especially developers of mobile games, are familiar with the cutthroat world of the app store. To get attention, developers must deploy marketing campaigns. However, it's essential for developers to do more than just app store promotions to drive mobile game downloads, concludes a report released Tuesday by Inside Network.
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Disaster Planning on an SMB Shoestring November 13, 2012 
For folks on the East Coast of the United States, the past few weeks have been pretty intense. Between hurricane Sandy and the associated fallout -- flooding, lack of public transportation, power outages, dark cell towers -- many firms in impacted areas have experienced firsthand the value of their BCP -- business continuity planning -- and DR -- disaster recovery -- planning efforts.
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Google to Developers: You Have the Con October 16, 2012 
Google on Monday made its new Android developer console available to devs everywhere on Google Play. The console was announced at Google I/O in July, and devs were invited to test out a beta version. "The developer tools and portal are key areas of enablement for any application platform," said Al Hilwa, program director for applications development software at IDC.
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Secure User Authentication: Might Makes Right October 13, 2012 
While the benefits of adopting Bring Your Own Device as your mobile policy are appealing -- from increased productivity to lower costs -- a BYOD policy can also leave your corporate network more vulnerable than ever. The breaches regularly featured in the news remind us that all networks, no matter how large or small, risk being exposed to unauthorized users every day.
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Box Embed Tools Tear Down Content Walls October 09, 2012 
Box on Tuesday unveiled Box Embed, a new HTML5-based framework, at its Boxworks 2012 conference in San Francisco. This lets users embed Box's various features -- uploads, search, comments, sharing and file edits -- easily in their website, forum or blog. The company also announced that 10 enterprise software partners, including Oracle, SugarCRM, NetSuite and Zendesk, will use Box Embed in their apps.
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Mobile Security: A Moving Target October 02, 2012 
The threat to enterprise security is increasing as the BYOD phenomenon gains ground in corporate America. The amount of Android malware out there has gone through the roof, and hackers are leveraging Twitter to create command and control servers for mobile botnets, according to McAfee's Q2, 2012 threats report. Existing approaches to security don't work well, and new solutions are required.
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The Fox in the FOSS Henhouse October 02, 2012 
Oracle's proprietary posture may have soiled the welcome mat and vilified its good standing in the FOSS community as CEO Larry Ellison has pushed the balance point between servicing his customers and nickel-and-diming them to turn a higher profit. Clearly, since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems -- and with it OpenOffice and Java -- the company has not acted very neighborly with open source developers.
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Automating Complexity Out, Efficiency In October 01, 2012 
Cloud infrastructure and hosted IT services provider Savvis has been able to automate out complexity and add deep efficiency to its operations using a range of performance, operations orchestration and Business Service Automation solutions from HP. Savvis has improved its incident resolution and sped the delivery of new cloud services to its enterprise clients.
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Easing the Pain After a Security Breakdown September 28, 2012 
With each major public data breach our attention focuses on how to prevent these incidents. A good example is the recent security breach at LinkedIn, in which millions of passwords were stolen. Industry experts and the media immediately started to dissect what LinkedIn had done wrong or what methods or tools should have been used to prevent the incident.
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Heins Stokes BlackBerry Embers September 26, 2012 
RIM Chief Executive Thorsten Heins on Monday told a crowd of developers that BlackBerry was still very much a player in the mobile world. He made the somewhat startling pronouncement that the company's subscriber base had risen to 80 million from 78 million over the most recent quarter, despite the lack of new products or major initiatives.
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How Much IT Policy Is Too Much? September 25, 2012 
As almost everyone has probably already noticed by now, there are some radical changes going on in the way that organizations purchase, manage and use technology. Since IT is by its very nature adaptive, this is not totally unexpected. However, even though we expect technology to change, there are periods when it changes faster than others. And right now, changes are coming quickly.
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On the Road to Ubiquitous Encryption: Are We There Yet? September 22, 2012 
In the not too distant future, all data, whether it is data at rest or in transit on a network, sensitive or not, will be encrypted. However, the performance overhead associated with encryption and decryption is one of the few remaining roadblocks to enterprise-wide adoption of this technology. Fortunately, new approaches such as on-chip acceleration are making the ubiquitous use of encryption feasible.
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Weak Planning Cripples IT Leadership in Federal Agencies September 18, 2012 
As IT innovation comes in rapidly evolving cycles, continuity and consistency remain important factors in managing change. The adoption of innovative IT calls for a certain amount of management stability to transition from old to new methods in productive ways. In turn, that stability depends on an organization's ability to provide orderly management succession planning and execution.
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Analyst: Flame Devs Used FOSS to Help Them Hide September 17, 2012 
The developers of the now-notorious Flame malware used command and control servers running the 64-bit version of Debian and the OpenVz virtualization technology in their work. They wrote most of the server code in PHP, researchers at Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have found during continuing investigations into the malware.
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Island Dispute Prompts Violence Against Japan's Tech Titans September 17, 2012 
Japanese electronics company Panasonic halted some of its operations in China after protesters -- apparently upset about Japan's claim to disputed islands -- attacked a pair of Panasonic factories. Protests also forced Japanese electronics company Canon to close three of its four Chinese plants.
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VMworld 2012: Passing the Torch - and the Ammunition September 11, 2012 
Chief executive transitions in the IT industry often tend toward melodrama or at least bald quirkiness: The number of ignominious CEO departures at HP and Yahoo could qualify both companies for their own telenovelas. After successfully acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle unceremoniously booted CEO Jonathan Swartz, an event he noted by tweeting a Zen-like haiku.
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New vCloud 5.1 Brings Data Centers Into the Virtual Fold August 28, 2012 
VMware has launched what it claims is the first solution to deliver what it calls the "software-defined data center" -- its vCloud Suite 5.1. This integrates the company's virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one bundle. It lets users set up their own virtual data centers, consisting of virtual compute, storage, networking and security resources.
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How Secure Is the Cloud, Really? August 28, 2012 
Cloud security skeptics were given yet another reason to doubt the fortitude of online storage when the strange tale of Mat Honan emerged earlier this month. Through the clever use of social engineering, a hacker was able to wreak havoc on the Wired journalist's digital life.
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An Intrepid Expedition Into the Wilds of Virtualization August 27, 2012 
The latest BriefingsDirect end-user case study uncovers how outerwear and sportswear maker and distributor Columbia Sportswear has used virtualization techniques and benefits to significantly improve its business operations. We'll see how Columbia Sportswear's use of deep virtualization assisted in rationalizing its platforms and data center.
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Facebook Kisses HTML5 Goodbye With Rebuilt iOS App August 25, 2012 
Facebook has released a new version of its iOS app, one that the company rebuilt from the ground up using Apple's Xcode integrated development environment. In doing so, it got rid of HTML5, on which the previous version of its iOS app relied. The move to native iOS has sped up the app's performance, Facebook stated.
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