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AWS Glacier: Grinding Down the Competition? August 29, 2012 
Hardly a day goes by that one IT vendor or another fails to announce one "fastest/biggest/bestest" achievement or another, attempting to poke in the eye or drive straight into a ditch any and all previous claims. But it is ironic that some of what have become IT's most transformative solutions and services began with little, if any, braggadocio.
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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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Dropbox Two-Steps Into Double-Knotted Security August 27, 2012 
Dropbox has unveiled an experimental build that adds two-factor authentication to subscribers' accounts. Subscribers can try out build 1.5.12, and Dropbox is asking those who are experimenting with it for their comments. The response so far appears to be overwhelmingly positive. Dropbox plans to roll out two-factor authentication as an option to all subscribers' accounts in the future.
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New Amazon Glacier Service Keeps Data in Deep Freeze August 21, 2012 
In nature, glaciers are slow but steady masses of ice that flow as they melt. They take many years to accumulate and often just as long to deform. In other words, a glacier is typically here for eons, and fittingly "Glacier" is the name of Amazon's new data archive service aimed at enterprise and small businesses.
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Big Data and the Deep Blue Sea August 20, 2012 
A fascinating global ocean studies initiative helps best define some of the IT superlatives around big data, cloud computing and middleware integration capabilities. The Ocean Observatories Initiative and its accompanying Cyberinfrastructure Program aims to provide an unprecedented ability to study the Earth's oceans and climate using myriad distributed data centers and literally oceans' worth of data.
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IBM Asks Electrons to the Big Dance August 14, 2012 
Researchers from IBM and European university ETH Zurich have announced they have directly mapped the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time. They observed how electron spins move in a semiconductor while rotating, like couples doing a waltz. This will let them manipulate the spin, which is a crucial step toward developing spin-based transistors that can be electrically programmed.
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SAP Innovation Day - Setting a Standard for the Next 40 Years August 14, 2012 
When SAP's five founders launched the company in June 1972, it's unlikely they
foresaw where the IT industry would travel in the decades to come. SAP's core business applications, including enterprise resource planning solutions, continue to support tens of thousands of companies globally -- but how those organizations and their employees work, communicate and collaborate is changing.
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How to Keep Hackers Off of Your Cloud August 08, 2012 
As digital horror stories go, Mat Honan's is a doozy. The Wired reporter had his iCloud account hacked and had his digital life wiped from cyberspace. Honan's attackers used a combination of tech savvy and social engineering. They used his public LinkedIn page to obtain his Gmail address. Then they used Gmail to display his account recovery page. That's when they hit gold.
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Hybrid Service Has Its Head in the Cloud but Keeps Its Feet on the Ground August 06, 2012
The traditional understanding of cloud computing as segments of
infrastructure services has undergone changes. "The converged cloud is
really about three things for us," said HP's Paul Muller. "The first is
having greater levels of choice. The key point ... is that you can't
afford to live in the world of 'it's just public; it's just private; or
I can ignore my traditional investments and infrastructure.'"
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Hackers Use Stolen Passwords to Jimmy Into Dropbox August 01, 2012
Dropbox says reused passwords are to blame for a wave of spam that's hitting subscribers to the service. The company found that usernames and passwords recently stolen from other websites were used to sign in to some Dropbox accounts. One of these accounts belonged to a Dropbox employee, and it contained a project document with some users' email addresses.
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DeepField Maps the Intricacies of the Cloud July 31, 2012 
The cloud -- as in, the offsite storage of data -- is becoming as vast and ever-changing as clouds in the sky, but DeepField Networks announced an analytics tool that could allow the flow of cloud-based data to be mapped. This would include tracking traffic patterns, application performance and cost structure of networks for cloud computing companies as well as content providers and carriers.
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Big Data and the London Olympics Cybersecurity Challenge July 27, 2012 
Security has been a top concern of the Olympic Games ever since that fateful day in September of 1972 when terrorists killed members of the Israeli Olympics team. Since then, each Olympics has only increased its level of security consideration. The more recent games have had to focus as much on cybersecurity as they have on physical security.
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Learning the Social CRM Data-Management Ropes July 23, 2012 
Every time people post an update, "like" a page, or otherwise engage with social media, their movements are tracked, followed and recorded. For businesses, this data is a gold mine of information about consumer thinking, preferences and opinions. "Businesses should view social media as a treasure trove of data and insights," said Wilson Raj, global customer intelligence director with SAS.
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5 Interesting Things You Can Do With PostgreSQL July 17, 2012 
PostgreSQL is one of the most versatile, powerful and reliable object-relational database systems available. The enterprise-class open source database is in use by some of the largest companies in the world, handling exceptionally large workloads. But you knew all of that already, so let's talk about a few features in PostgreSQL you probably didn't know about already.
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With Data, Oldies Aren't Always Golden June 27, 2012 
I spent most of last week in Boston at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, where I was honored to be the sales and marketing track chairman. Next year it will be called "E2 Social" and will bookend the other conference that has been held in Santa Clara, which will become known as "E2 Innovate."
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Feds' IT Report Card: Good Effort but Incomplete June 19, 2012 
In the heyday of harvesting forests in the U.S., lumberjacks often used dynamite to break up clusters of timber that formed when thousands of logs were floated on rivers to market. In the last 18 months, the U.S. government has floated hundreds of pages of proposals into a river of policy "reforms," dealing with innovative information technology.
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The New MacBook Pro Aims for the Heart, Not the Head June 14, 2012 
With a heavy heart, I have decided not to the buy the gorgeous new MacBook Pro with Retina Display. I lust after the idea of 2,880 by 1,800 pixels gloriously showing off my awesome photos of the Grand Tetons, Half Dome and small children running from the cold droplets of a sprinkler system under a hot summer sun.
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Data Management: The Next Generation June 11, 2012 
Businesses clearly need a better approach to their data recovery capabilities -- across both their physical and virtualized environments. The current landscape for data management, backup and disaster recovery too often ignores the transition from physical to virtualized environments and sidesteps the heightened real-time role that data now plays in the enterprise.
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3 Database Bugaboos Facing Platform as a Service June 01, 2012 
Platform as a Service solutions for the cloud are continuing to pop up all over in the world of software due to their simplicity, efficiency and strong developer orientation. Several different PaaS platforms are being built for specific technology stacks. At the application level, most PaaS solutions provide a suitable way to scale the application to deal with fluctuating demand or changing needs.
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