Thursday, April 28, 2011

IT News Head Lines (ComputerWorld) 28/04/2011





What does tiered storage really do to performance?
Enterprises are challenged to keep pace with mounting unstructured file data. While NAS represents the optimal choice for storing such data, the strain to scale NAS economically while preserving application performance is like trying to use your fingers to plug holes in a dam that has sprouted thousands of leaks.

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Battle of the Web browsers
Stop. Don't look up. Don't look outside of the box, the rectangle holding this text. Can you tell me which browser you're using? Did you choose it yourself for all the right reasons? Can you explain why you're trusting your precious HTML-encoded content to this browser, the way a major league batter can explain why maple or ash and a thin or thick barrel is absolutely the right choice for sending that ball into the bleachers? Are you sure this browser is the best choice for the tags and the metadata hurling toward your computer?

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Security Manager's Journal: Software security comes down to checking inputs
Our manager is surprised how little his company's developers know about making their software safer.

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CenturyLink to buy Savvis for $2.5B
CenturyLink has agreed to buy hosting company Savvis for about US$2.5 billion in cash and shares, the companies announced Wednesday.

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London Olympics website crashes during last-minute ticket race
The London 2012 Olympics sales website crashed offline last night, after people rushed to buy tickets during the final hours before the deadline.

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Nokia to cut 7,000 jobs through outsourcing, layoffs
Nokia will outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, transferring 3,000 employees to the company in the process, as it moves its focus to making phones running on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.

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Feds to remotely uninstall Coreflood bot from some PCs
Federal authorities will remotely uninstall the Coreflood botnet Trojan from some infected Windows PCs over the next four weeks.

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How to integrate with the cloud
All it takes is a credit card to spin up a SaaS application. But consider how you integrate with that cloud app, or you'll be condemned to create another silo

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Iron Mountain going back to roots in storage services
Iron Mountain is considering selling off its entire digital business and getting out of the software development business to refocus on its roots in delivering storage services.

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