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Security firm Codenomicon has found a new Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) flaw in the GnuTLS open-source cryptographic library. Codenomicon rose to notoriety in April as the security firm that found and branded the Heartbleed flaw in the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library. GnuTLS is not as widely deployed as OpenSSL, but it is part of many […]

Microsoft is coming off a hectic month in delivering “customer-requested features” to the company’s cloud-enabled Office 365 productivity software suite. In a Nov. 1 blog post, Office 365 technical product manager Andy O’Donald announced that now everyone can “join Lync mobile meetings, even those without Office 365 accounts.” He added that administrators “can now purchase […]

While some organizations are using public cloud services for specific applications such as Sales Force Automation, most organizations will start their move to the cloud with a private cloud effort. Over time, they will migrate more and more of their critical applications to public cloud services. Thus, for the foreseeable future, the majority of IT […]

Sustained by complexity and explosive growth, the network beast has become ever harder to tame. Add to that condition the shortage of qualified network experts and it becomes easy to see that maintaining enterprise networks has become an almost impossible task without numerous hardware and software tools to monitor and troubleshoot network performance. But now […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—NetApp confirmed the availability of a new a Flash-based storage array, enhancements to the company’s flagship storage array and the availability of server-caching software that promises to increase storage performance by 80 percent while reducing storage latency by 90 percent. Manish Goel, NetApp’s executive vice president of product operations, announced the products Feb. […]

Dell’s acquisition of SonicWall has started to bear fruit, at least with the latest edition of SonicWall’s Secure Remote Access product line. The new SRA 4600, which started shipping in early November, is now emblazoned with Dell’s logo along with the established SonicWall brand name. Beyond the new packaging, the SRA 4600 is still all […]

Test 23

Public cloud adoption has moved beyond the testing and development phase in many companies, according to a study of 243 IT and business professionals in North American and Western Europe. The study, commissioned by virtualization specialist VMware and conducted by analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), found 67 percent of the midmarket and enterprise companies […]