The center will undertake carefully developed use cases—comprehensive requirements and test plans to address specific cybersecurity challenges—that will lead to practical, interoperable cybersecurity approaches for real world needs of complex IT systems.
Calling All App Developers
ACTA is incompatible with the EU’s fundamental rights and freedoms, such as freedom of expression and information or data protection and the right to property in case of intellectual property
These principles will enable enterprises to experience the value that cloud can provide and help ensure that internal and external users can trust cloud solutions
Alibaba Proposal offers shareholders HK$13.50 in cash per share a 60.4 percent premium to last 60-day trading average closing price
Hospitals turn to Mobile Clinical Computing to secure information and manage proliferation of mobile devices
In Cloud Computing Space Software as a Service (SaaS) most-used category, with 57% citing adoption vs. 27% engaging infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers
Program’s Creator Merijn Bellekom Endorses Open Source Move
Verizon Enterprise Solutions will offer integrated voice and data solutions, while Motorola Solutions’ product portfolio will allow enterprise and government IT organizations to capture and analyze critical data.
Customers can extend Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid subscriptions to Amazon EC2 via Red Hat Cloud Access
Fully converged private cloud solution powered by OpenStack and run by Rackspace
Apica LoadTest 2 boasts simplified testing set up and reporting, expanded load testing geography clusters
Atos to create Canopy, as a One-Stop-Shop Company for Advanced Cloud Services; EMC and VMware to Invest Alongside Atos to target Cloud Computing for Enterprises and Government Space
The Federal Reserve missed an important opportunity to impose meaningful requirements on this merger that would benefit California and other communities across the country.
Dasher Technologies to Contribute to a Solution That Enables Enterprises to Validate Hosted Private and AWS-Compatible Hybrid Clouds
Cloud-based expense management solution designed for the Japanese market features support for the IC card, the smart card ticketing system for public transport
ADC Virtualization Capabilities Will Support KPN’s Hosting, Private and Public Cloud Environments Using Clear Segmentation and Isolated Environments for Each of its Customers
Open Networking Summits, is the nonprofit conference focused on bringing together thought leaders, creators, innovators of OpenFlow & Software Defined Networking.
Cloud Connect will feature tracks on Cloud Security, Risk, Governance & Mitigation, Big Data, Mobile Cloud, WAN, Private Clouds, and Infrastructure.
Leading futurist, author and business adviser Dr. James Canton, CEO, Institute for Global Futures, has released a report on the top global trends for 2012. The Global Futures Forecast 2012 is an annual trend report that predicts the newest developments coming in the year. Organizations worldwide use this yearly forecast as a barometer for what challenges, [...]
Adds Leading Talent Management Cloud Offering to the Oracle Public Cloud
Should it matter to you if your physician is using an electronic health record (EHR)? Here’s one perspective.
nivio has announced it has secured $21 million in funding, hot on the heels of its US launch at Macworld|iWorld.
SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has announced it has received two governance, risk and compliance (GRC) Technology Innovation Awards from Corporate Integrity for its “bow-tie” builder, part of the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Risk Management application, and its mobile GRC applications, which include the SAP® GRC Access Approver and SAP® GRC Policy Survey mobile apps. Corporate Integrity, a respected analyst firm focused on helping organizations understand and [...]
A number of prognosticators have decreed that blogs are in varying degrees of death, fueled last year by Pew Research Center studies in 2010 and 2011, which suggested that young people are gravitating toward social networking; and by study from The Center for Marketing Research(UMass – Dartmouth) that suggested corporations are following suit. When I look at the [...]
To mark one year anniversary of its trademark registration “BizCloud”, BizCloud launches a cloud photo contest
A Highlight Cloud Standards Customer Council Quarterly Meeting March 19-20, 2012; Reston, VA
Rodney F. Chase Named Non-Executive Chairman
Microsoft Corp. and 24/7 Inc. has announced an agreement to jointly bring the power of natural user interfaces (NUIs) and data analytics at cloud scale (Big Data) to enable the future of customer service for businesses. The agreement includes Microsoft merging its interactive self-service assets (clients, people and technologies) into 24/7 Inc. The agreement also [...]
IBM is unveiling three free volunteer kits to better educate students, parents and teachers on Internet safety.
Salesforce.com , the enterprise cloud computing company, has announced that its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2012 results will be released on Thursday, February 23, 2012, after the close of the market. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 PM (PT) / 5:00 PM (ET) to discuss the financial results with the investment community. A live web broadcast [...]
Top Mobile Security Experts Come Together to Address Some of the Toughest Mobile Security Issues including BYOD, Hacking, Mobile Vulnerabilities and Exploits To help InfoSec professionals better prepare for and fend off security risks associated with mobile devices, SANS Institute will host its first Mobile Device Security Summit, March 12-15 inNashville, TN. This one-of-a-kind event brings together some of the best [...]
Microsoft Corp. has announced that Microsoft Dynamics CRM will release its next service update in Q2 2012.
Platform as a service is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets, according to Gartner, Inc.
In addition to 100k in funding, support and office space, the UpTech winners will also receive support from faculty, staff and graduate assistants and two student interns per company fromNorthern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics along with on-campus informatics labs and facilities for collaboration, events, and seminars.
Michigan man also arrested for criminal copyright infringement, operated websites that distributed copyrighted sporting events
Uniserve Cloud offers Joyent proven technology with all the security, scalability, reliability & support required by the Canadian dev & enterprise markets
Now every business can deliver personalized customer service through Twitter, Facebook, phone, email and web. Desk.com puts a mobile help desk in every employee’s pocket, letting companies help customers anywhere, anytime. Thousands of fast-growing companies, including Bonobos, Klout, and Spotify, are wowing their customers using Desk.com. It is available today, starting at $49 per month Salesforce.com, [...]
ShoreTel Inc. (NASDAQ: SHOR), a provider of IP phone systems has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire M5 Networks (“M5”), a hosted Unified Communications provider. As a result of the acquisition, ShoreTel will be able to provide customers a choice between on-premise and hosted UC solutions.
How to use Internet Marketing and Web 2.0 technology to deliver ROI. Property owners are looking for new ways to attract tenants and improve the financial performance of their investments, without spending precious capital.
Software company Majitek has introduced a new extension to its line-up of software for facilities managers and building owners.
Majitek sets new record for community launch: 15,000 residents in 40 apartment towers at Jumeirah Beach Residences in Dubai, UAE – the world’s largest single phase residential development.
CA Technologies has announced CA Private Cloud Accelerator for Vblock™ Platforms, a new solution that drives Business Service Innovation by enabling IT to provide rapid, predictable and secure provisioning and delivery of cloud infrastructure and critical IT and business services. This is the company’s fifth solution certified for use with VCE Vblock Infrastructure Platforms, all of which are based on [...]
Finland, Israel and Sweden Lead the Pack in First Global Report on Cyber Defense – Written by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA), the Report Reveals Major Challenges in Cyber Readiness
A couple of firsts in the smartphone market developed in Q4 2011, now that most of the major handset manufacturers have reported their results. Apple topped the smartphone market, finally Android suffers its first decline in share The 4th quarter totaled 150 million smartphones shipped, representing a record high penetration of 36% of [...]
Hadoop Summit 2012 Announced to Showcase Apache Hadoop as Next Generation Enterprise Data Platform
Google’s recent changes to its privacy policy allowing it to combine information about users pulled from the entire range of its online products raises serious privacy concerns for Google Apps For Government (GAFG).
Certificateless secure information exchange simplifies encryption of emails, files and documents for the cloud; works on all things Internet
Bravais connects users with the learning content they need, when they need it, anywhere on any device
AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage for seamless integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS storage infrastructure.
Hot-Swappable, Battery Modules Provide Maximum Protection from Power Interruptions
Additional 32% evaluating; among naysayers, half cite cost as main inhibitor
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, has announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round.
The City of Sterling Heights, Mich. oversees a virtual mountain of data – everything from municipal records to system backups. As the amount of data increases, the challenges and expense of data storage do too.
Privacy Forum will Feature U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Brill and Digital Industry Leaders from Comcast, eBay Inc., Intel, Facebook, AT&T, and Mastercard Worldwide The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit cybersecurity awareness and education organization and official coordinator of Data Privacy Day, has announced that it will celebrate Data Privacy Day 2012 by hosting [...]
Three IT trends will shape the life sciences in 2012, according to an analysis by SAFE-BioPharma Association. They are the expanded use of standards-based interoperable digital identities, cloud computing in clinical trials, and the use of electronic trial master files for clinical trial management.
Twilio’s Voice API is now available in Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, and Poland.
According to IDC, these new cloud solutions are developed in-house or are commercially developed private clouds, dedicated to govrnment use & designed to meet specific standards.
Company’s Vblock Ready Management and Automation Solutions Help Customers to Accelerate Private Cloud Deployments
Fully managed database service removes administrative burden of operating distributed databases and provides seamless scalability
In an online broadcast today from Microsoft Corp. headquarters, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, laid out how Microsoft’s private cloud solution will help businesses move faster, save money and better compete in 2012.
The women activists of the Arab Spring converge in Cairo for the first Yahoo Change Your World Summit on the Arab Spring
Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.
The Protect IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act have generated intense opposition because of their attack on Internet freedom.
The Green IT Council continues to help corporations and Federal governmental agencies cut expense, save time, and reduce energy waste with Green IT solutions
SAP AG has announced its intention to acquire software and relevant assets from datango AG, a leading provider of workforce performance support software.
Transitioning to a Hosted Secure Private Cloud Solution will make it easier for CSU’s students, faculty & employees to access university-wide system simultaneously
The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy.
Withings provides fitness cloud platform that allows user’s dashboard to incorporate all of their health & wellness information by integrating data from fitness tracking devices
Google implemented two methods of search, global and personalized. While global still functions for any user that is not signed in, personalized search will show the content related to your Google+ network.
The partnership supports Morphlabs’ goal of providing a global platform for delivering the ideal hosted private cloud solution to the enterprise.
Kroll Ontrack looks at key security developments for 2012
Compiled by Gartner analysts, the Magic Quadrant examined 19 vendors of IT services for business communications systems worldwide, employing two main evaluation criteria. These include ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’.
IBM announced it has completed the acquisition of Platform Computing, a privately held company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Financial terms were not disclosed. On October 11, 2011, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a global leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software for distributed computing environments. [...]
-CSC (NYSE: CSC) announces CSC CloudCompute™ for Government (CCFG), which provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for CSC’s new federal community cloud that is built using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines and allows for future as a service offerings. Designed primarily for U.S. federal agencies and government personnel, this multi-tenant community cloud delivers [...]
WeVideo, cloud based video editing platform, which anounced integration with YouTube couple of months ago, exited their beta period today (started in fall of 2011) and officialy launched for commercial use.
Following 22,000+ Laptop Recoveries in 88 Countries, Memorable Cases Illustrate the Benefit of Dedicated Theft Recovery Support for Absolute’s Customers Vancouver, Canada and Las Vegas, Nevada: January 9, 2012 – In celebration of CES 2012, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, Absolute® Software Corporation (“Absolute” or the “Company”) (TSX: ABT), the leading provider of firmware-embedded endpoint [...]
Hollywood stars, sports legends, musical icons and entertainers will attend the 2012 International CES® to showcase and promote the innovative products and technologies shaping consumer technology. The 2012 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology tradeshow, is scheduled January 10-13, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Actress Eliza Dushku will represent the Entertainment Matters at CES program as [...]
Awareness of Mobile Platform Strengths and Weaknesses Empowers Mobile Users to Take Appropriate Steps to Keep Smartphones Secure
How are small and mid-market organizations responding to trends like cloud computing, mobile deployments and increasingly complex IT requirements?
Software Testing in the Cloud Helps Customers Reduce Cost, Improve Quality
“As the internet enables populations to converse, inform and organize, we see social change unfolding before our very eyes,” said Gustaf Björksten, Access Technology Director. “But with authoritarian governments using increasingly sophisticated and subtle forms of online repression, we need to raise a red flag to activists and their allies, so they can better prepare for in 2012.”
Facebook & Social media helps, but hands-on contact is key tool in annual job hunt
Valuable advice on how to protect your identity and other personal information from hackers and other would-be cyber criminals.
Amazon.com has announced that 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family as customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers. Authors also continue to benefit from the success of Kindle — the #1 and #4 best-selling Kindle books released in 2011 were both published independently by their authors using Kindle Direct [...]
comScore has released a report on U.S. online holiday spending for the holiday season-to-date, and revealed that consumers spent record $35.3 billion online, up 15% from the same period last year. During the most recent week ended December 25th, consumers spent $2.8 billion, a 16% increase versus the same week in 2010.
McAfee today unveiled its 2012 Threat Predictions report, outlining the top threats that McAfee foresees for the coming year. The list indicates that emerging threats from 2011 are on track to become the major players for cyberactivity in 2012, including mobile banking, “legal” spam and virtual currency. McAfee Labs also predicts that attacks involving political motivation or [...]
According to the new report from customer experience analytics firm ForSee, Amazon is the top online retailer in terms of customer satisfaction in 2011. Netflix on the other hand plummeted in customer satisfaction due to the company’s “well-publicized blunders.” After competing for the number one spot in the ForSee’s Index for seven years, the two online retailers are now heading in the opposite directions.
Google+ user base is growing at a fast pace and is currently counting 62 million users, according to Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com and Google+ unofficial traffic analyst. The search giant’s social network is adding 625,000 new users each day, Allen says.
Microsoft’s mobile app marketplace has surpassed 50,000 app submissions, according to All About Windows Phone blog. This number may not seem significant when compared to the number of apps in the Android Market or Apple’s App Store but still it is a sign of growth for the Windows Phone Marketplace which added 10,000 apps in little over a month.
MIT has launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform.
Global nonprofit IT association ISACA has shared recommendations for managing three of the trends widely cited to dominate the IT landscape in 2012: Big Data, the consumerization of information technology (BYOD) and the growing dominance of mobile devices. Big Data–Coaxing Order Out of Chaos “Big Data” describes not only the extremely large volumes of data being [...]
The University of California at Berkeley recently made a decision to depart from its old email system CalMail due to the system outages and has selected Google Apps over Microsoft’s Office 365 for its campus email and calendar services. In an official statement, Berkeley officials said that after an extensive evaluation process the university decided to move its entire campus community to Google Apps for Education Suite during 2012.
Hong Kong healthcare aims to monitor business performance in over 600 medical centers using IBM Cognos BI.
comScore has released the report It’s a Social World: Top 10 Need-to-Knows About Social Networking and Where It’s Headed. The report analyzes the current state of social networking activity around the globe, providing key insights into how social networking has influenced the digital landscape and implications for marketers operating in this social world. “The emergence and widespread [...]
Using a combination of technologies to monitor Santa’s progress as he speeds through the skies. They can call upon a satellite-tracking dish, located in Los Alamos, and use sensors on the Lab’s FORTE and Cibola Flight Experiment satellites. The U.S. Air Force also will use its nine tracking stations around the world to help monitor Santa’s trek.
