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Cisco at Citrix Synergy LA 2013 : Expanding the Relationship

— Our bags are packed and the demos are built, as Cisco heads out to Citrix Synergy LA 2013 in Anaheim next week. [...]

May 17 11:51:42 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

To Cybercriminals, The Size of a Company No Longer Matters

— Gone are the days when it was thought that size of the company matters to the cybercriminals. The latest PwC Information Security Breaches Survey 2013 shows that there has been a significant rise in the number of small businesses that were attacked by an unauthorized outsider in the last year...

May 17 12:30:57 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Cisco UCS – Changing the Economics of the Datacenter

— Cisco UCS has fantastic technology that technical decision makers are demanding. But what about business decision makers? It doesn’t matter how great [...]

May 16 07:10:16 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Groove Theory of GRC – Postulate #1: Musicality or Performance?

— Welcome to my second in a series of blogs based on what I term “The Groove Theory of GRC.” As you may or may not know (or infer from this series), I have been a musician for much of my life. Starting in grade school playing in the school band, I have enjoyed the gift of making music o...

May 16 12:30:24 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterprise

— Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify -- the Cambridge, MA cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services -- is shutting down TweetBackup, a company originally founded in Sweden that Backupify acquired in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Tweetbackup has posted a note ab...

May 15 10:30:21 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With 3 Million Applications, New Pricing And PHP

— Google announced today at I/O that it made Google Cloud Platform generally available, marking a milestone for the cloud community and the real arrival of a giant to contend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its pay-as-you-go pricing.

May 15 08:34:36 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Software Security Training for All

— Fifteen years ago, a common representation of the hacker was a computer science college student hacking systems from his or her dorm room. Nowadays hackers operate on a different scale; they are more often affiliated to criminal organizations or to nation states than to colleges or universiti...

May 14 02:30:24 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Zapier Launches API-Monitoring Service To Catch Issues And Outages

— Zapier, a service that automates tasks between online services, has launched a tool that monitors 200 APIs, sometimes catching an outage before the provider does. The new tool monitors the uptime and downtime of every API on Zapier. It is designed to monitor the realtime status of popular web APIs and their impact ...

May 13 06:12:58 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

Adaptive IAM: On the Front Lines of Cyber Security

— Like most technologies, Identity and Access Management (IAM) has been challenged by new business and IT trends that are causing serious disruptions in how we approach information security. The exponential growth of digital identities coupled with the increasing use of software as a service an...

May 13 01:00:42 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Open Networking and SDN perspectives with Dr.Jim Metzler

— As the hype cycle around aspects of concepts like software-defined networking continue, customers are continuing to sift through and educate themselves [...]

May 13 12:45:59 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

Combining Tools for Ultimate Malware Threat Intelligence

— Last year I gave a talk at a number of different conferences called "The Magic of Symbiotic Security: Creating an Ecosystem of Security Systems" in which I spoke about how if we can break our security tools out of their silos, then they become far more useful. Lately, I've been doing a lot of work [...]

May 07 03:41:40 pm GMT / Web Admin Blog»

Cloud 2020 Summit: Perturbing the Punditocracy

— Two independent analysts who have contributed an unvarnished voice of pragmatism to the cloud conversation are Ben Kepes of Diversity Limited and Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot. They’ve made a name for themselves in providing points of view that everyone might … Continue reading →

May 02 03:03:23 pm GMT / Cloudscaling»

Separation of Control and Data is a Key design Center for Hitachi IT platforms

— My colleague Michael Hay recently provided a deeper dive into our primary dedupe capability for Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS), and HUS VM. He explains the differentiated architecture, which enables Hitachi Data Systems to provide primary dedupe without compromise. In his post he describes...

Apr 23 06:15:29 pm GMT / Hu Yoshida»

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Hybrid Cloud

— Ok, so I exaggerate. I want to draw your attention to a webinar entitled Hybrid Clouds: So Challenging yet so Promising that I’ll be holding with CloudVelocity CTO and Co-Founder Anand Iyengar. It will be live via the vanity link above at 9AM (tomorrow) on Wednesday, April 17. We will talk about a refined definit...

Apr 17 12:58:05 am GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

CloudCheckr Research: Public Clouds Require Specialized Tools

— I received an email from the team at CloudCheckr with some recently conducted public cloud useability survey research findings. While I cannot directly vouch for the accuracy and the findings themselves I did find them compelling enough to share with Archimedius readers. The data certainly plays to the argument t...

Mar 26 09:41:12 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

Lessons Learned from Participating in my First CTF

— Yesterday I finished competing in my first ever Capture The Flag (CTF) tournament. It was called Kommand and Kontroll Revenge of the Carders and was run by Rod Soto of Prolexic. I'm going to caveat this post by saying that this was my first ever CTF competition so I have absolutely no baseline of comparison. [......

Mar 23 07:07:28 am GMT / Web Admin Blog»

Malware is Using TOR to Bypass Your Domain Blacklists

— About a week ago I turned on a new rule on our IPS system that is designed to detect (and block) users who are using TOR to make their activities on our network anonymous. You can say that TOR is about protecting a user's privacy all you want, but I'd argue that while using corporate [...]

Mar 20 09:41:25 pm GMT / Web Admin Blog»

Getting the Real Administrator Access to Time Warner RoadRunner’s Ubee Cable Modem

— This post is going to be short and sweet as it's something I meant to put up here when I found it sometime back in mid-2011. I'm not even sure if Time Warner is still using these Ubee cable modems for their RoadRunner offering, but I'm sure that there are at least a few people [...]

Mar 17 12:08:35 am GMT / Web Admin Blog»

Intel TPM: The Root Of Trust…Is Made In China

— This is deliciously ironic. Intel‘s implementation of the TCG-driven TPM — the Trusted Platform Module — often described as a hardware root of trust, is essentially a cryptographic processor that allows for the storage (and retrieval) and attestation of keys. There are all sorts of uses for this tec...

Feb 22 06:56:48 pm GMT / Rational Survivability»

Survey Analysis (Part 2): Mobile App Marketing

— This is part 2 of my analysis of the data collected from a survey I conducted a few weeks ago. Last week I published the survey results in the form of an infographic. Part 1 of my analysis was published in a blog post earlier this week. Forty-one survey participants were asked about the marketing activities that they ...

Dec 13 03:11:05 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

On Puppy Farm Vendors, Petco and The Remarkable Analog To Security Consultancies/Integrators…

— Imagine you are part of a company in the “Pet Industry.” Let’s say dogs, specifically. Imagine further that regardless of whether you work on the end that feeds the dog, provides services focused on grooming the dog, sells accessories for the dog, actually breeds and raises the dog or deals with cle...

Dec 05 11:31:09 pm GMT / Rational Survivability»

Back to the Real World

— I have not made a post in some time. My excuse is that I have returned, for a period, to the “real world”. I am taking a break from teaching for Learning Tree to pursue a very interesting consulting opportunity that has come my way. I am now working with a streaming media application providing synchronous ...

Oct 10 11:31:31 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

Getting your business plan through screening

— Vishal Gulati, a VC in the healthcare sector, spoke to my MBA cohort today and gave a few tips on mistakes commonly found within business plans… Competition is a good thing. Statements such as “We have no competitors” signals that either you don’t know your market or you’re making somethi...

Jan 14 05:41:10 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

I went home and cried realizing that I was about to spend all of the money I'd made

— Two years ago I sat down with John Keagy and David Hecht from ServePath (most widely known for GoGrids.com now). Unfortunately later that day I had a hard drive failure, with little recovered. About six months ago I found a VIM swap file of my notes with them, and today decided I should post what I have. My hope is t...

Jun 09 11:04:46 pm GMT / mhalligan's blog»

Blue Cross Blue Shield grows their data center without adding space

— When Blue Cross Blue Shield was faced with the challenge of expanding their datacenter, they realized they were literally out of room. They could not add anything further to their power grid or physically in the room itself. They turned to HP and the new c-Class Blade System.

Jun 14 12:14:01 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

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