Blogs | Page 4
Gartner Data Center Trends
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-28
I had a chance to attend a Gartner Local Briefing yesterday in San Francisco where I heard David Cappuccio, Research Vice President speak for two hours about data center trends for 2012 and the next couple of years.
Cappuccio threw out a number of interesting tidbits including such rules as
ODCA Provider Assurance Gets New RFP Teeth
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-21
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Provider Assurance (PA) usage model update takes the detailed specifications of the first generation PA and puts it in the language of an Request for
... Read More
... Read More
Lions, Tigers, Bears--Oh My! Nat'l Geographic Goes Nirvanix
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-03-20
Nirvanix, one of the most progressive of the new enterprise cloud storage providers, has been making news lately.
First of all, whenever a customer with the international
... Read More
... Read More
Salesforce.com Makes Site.com Generally Available
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-15
Site.com, a CMS (content management system) that equips business users with drag-and-drop tools for building websites, was made available today at the Salesforce.com CloudForce event in San
... Read More
... Read More
Open Data Center Alliance, Security Monitoring Rev. 1.1
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-13
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Monitoring usage model supports and depends heavily on work being done at the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit. Both of these groups
... Read More
... Read More
ODCA RFP Tool Advances Usage Models
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-09
On March 1 the Open Data Center Alliance updated five of the eight usage models that the organization released for the first time in June 2011. You can see my blog series about the models here. The updated usage models gained an RFP (Request for Proposal) tool that provides sample
Informatica transforms Data Masking
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-08
I named Informatica one of the top 21 vendors to see at the RSA Conference that was held last month in San Francisco.
Informatica has been around for a while, but this is the first time the company has exhibited at RSA Conference. The main reason they showed up this
Farewell, Google Watch
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-08
This is my final post on Google Watch. Today, I've moved on to the next leg of my career at the Wall Street Journal, where I'll be writing content for CIO Journal.
So Google will move from the center of my coverage galaxy to somewhere on the periphery.
The New iPad in the Enterprise
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-07
When it ships on March 16th, the new iPad will have a wide ranging wireless capabilities and greater integration with Apple’s iCloud online storage service making it tempting for endusers and challenging for IT managers.
The iPad (the new one announced on March 7 and referred to by Apple as
Google Play Geared to Boost Google's Digital Content Services
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-07
The Google-watching world has been abuzz since yesterday about Google Play.
No, it's not a new streaming music service from the search giant, though you'd be forgiven for thinking so.
Actually, the irony is that the moniker is indicative of how Google is trying to rationalize some
OneLogin First Look at Cloud SSO
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-06
2012-03-06 My first look at the cloud-based single sign-on tool OneLogin left me impressed and wanting to see more. I’ll be conducting a head-to-head review of OneLogin and competitor Okta in the
... Read More
... Read More
Google Assistant, Majel Rumor Par for the Course
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-06
Far be it for me to throw cold water on the prospect of exciting new software from Google, but the Google-is-building-a-Siri-rival meme is wearing thin on me. I noted last year how the smart speech-recognition service would be called Majel. Now TechCrunch says that name has changed to,
Chrome Enables Browsing for U.S. State Department
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-05
Google's Chrome browser adoption can be counted in the 200-plus million download range, but it helps to have big organizations embrace the browser. This is super challenging at a time Microsoft Internet Explorer remains the de facto browser for the Windows PCs that orgs and businesses buy.
NASA Repeatedly Attacked, Jet Propulsion Lab Compromised
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-03-04
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was under heavy attack over the past two years, as adversaries tried to infect machines with malware or use advanced
... Read More
... Read More
FBI uses Made in China at RSA Conference 2012
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-03-02
While covering the RSA Conference in San Francisco I needed a pen, so I grabbed one from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) booth. Even as a clicked the pen to jot some notes I couldn’t help wondering (not too seriously) if the pen was bugged or loaded with a
