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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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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
Microsoft System Center 2012 RC--part 1 SC VMM
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-20
In advance of the System Center 2012 Release Candidate announcement on January 17, I attended a reviewer workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. As I have predicted for many years,
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Servers 3.0 Released
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-18
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 was released today with many of the changes from version 2.2 focused on improving management features.
The open source, KVM-based (Kernel Virtual
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Calif. Community College's Computers Compromised Beyond Belief
By P. J. Connolly, P.J. Connolly | Posted: 2012-01-13
SUMMARY: Colleges and universities across the country are trying to do more with less these days, and in most states, the community colleges are at the end of the funding train. Unfortunately, the last decade of belt-tightening at the City College of San Francisco has led to a state of
Taming Online Identity Management
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2012-01-10
The beauty of cloud-based applications is that any employee with a credit card (and sometimes not even that) can provision really useful corporate services on the fly.
The ugliness of cloud-based
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Should Internet Access be a Right?
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2012-01-10
Last week, Vint Cerf, one of the undisputed fathers of the Internet, published a controversial op-ed piece in the New York Times that confronted the emerging belief that access to the Internet is a human
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Things I'd Like to See from the Appleverse in 2012
By P. J. Connolly | Posted: 2012-01-05
Santa was pretty good to me at Christmas, but what does he have in store for 2012? Here's my roundup of what I want from the folks in Cupertino and elsewhere. (I hate listicles, but 'tis the
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