Can you handle big data?
Big Data is the latest industry buzzword. It's just another way of saying you as a network manager are being inundated with data and you better figure out a way to manage, secure, and analyze it. A survey by LogLogic showed that 49 percent of organizations that responded were somewhat or very concerned about managing big data, with another 38 percent not even sure what big data is. One expert said the key to controlling the data is log management.
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Bluestacks emulator runs Android apps on Windows PCs
Software company Bluestacks is trying to close the gap between Microsoft's Windows and Google's Android OS with its App Player application, which was released in beta today. App Player is an emulator that allows Android applications to run on Windows 7, Vista, and XP OSes. Users can install the software in Windows and then run about 450,000 Android applications, including Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, the company said.
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Google working on advanced Web engineering
Google is working on a number of advanced programming technologies to ease complex Web application development, a Google engineer revealed at a conference for software developers. "We're getting to the place where the Web is turning into a run time integration platform for real components," said Alex Russell, speaking at the EclipseCon, being held this week in Reston, Virginia. At Google, Russell works on the Chrome browser. He is also the creator of the widely used Dojo JavaScript framework.
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Lenovo debuts Android tablet App Shop for larger businesses
Lenovo announced an enterprise-focused app storefront for tablets running Android 3.1 or higher. The Lenovo Enterprise App Shop offers larger businesses the ability to buy third-party apps for employees in volume at lower cost. It also is a site where workers can find company-approved apps to download, Lenovo said.
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Graphics Properties sues Apple, Samsung, among others
Top mobile device makers including Apple and Samsung were sued on Tuesday by GPH (Graphics Properties Holdings), which is alleging that the smartphone vendors infringed on a single graphics-related patent in their smartphones and other consumer electronics. Formerly known as Silicon Graphics, GPH is seeking damages and has filed six separate cases against Apple, Samsung, Research In Motion, HTC, Sony and LG with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.
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Study finds major weaknesses in single sign-on systems
The single sign-on protocols that allow users to sign in to a range of websites with their Google or Facebook accounts suffer from security flaws that could allow scammers to log in as somebody else, security researchers have reported. The researchers, from Indiana University Bloomington and Microsoft Research, say they have found a number of serious flaws in OpenID and the single-sign on system used by Facebook, as well as implementations of those systems at several popular websites. Google and PayPal are among the users of OpenID.
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DotCloud adds vertical scaling to its PaaS offering
DotCloud has become the latest PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider to add features typically associated with IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offerings, this time by enabling vertical scaling, the company said Tuesday. Typically, PaaS providers allow horizontal scaling, where customers deploy code on multiple servers and add more servers as they need them, with traffic distributed across the servers.
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Gartner: SaaS market to grow 17.9 percent to $14.5 billion
Global spending on SaaS (software as a service) will rise 17.9 percent this year to $14.5 billion, according to figures released Tuesday by analyst firm Gartner. SaaS market growth will remain strong through 2015, when spending on the software is expected to hit $22.1 billion, according to Gartner.
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Microsoft downs Zeus botnet but can't name names
Microsoft won court permission to seize servers Friday that took down a deployment of the Zeus botnet, and it even detailed the corporate structure that enabled using the zombie network to steal cash from victims. The downside is it can't name any of the perpetrators.
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The Grill: Internet pioneer David D. Clark
When the American Academy of Arts and Sciences decided to explore the complex issues of security and privacy in cyberspace for its academic journal Daedalus , it tapped Internet pioneer David D. Clark to serve as guest editor. Clark's credentials certainly made him a worthy selection. He has been involved in the development of the Internet since the 1970s and served as chief protocol architect and chair of the Internet Activities Board from 1981 to 1989.
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Windows 8 shutdown made easy, by way of Microsoft
Shut down, restart, and log-off used to be simple actions from the Start menu in Microsoft Windows, but in Windows 8, the Start menu sleeps with the fishes, and turning off your PC f
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Microsoft extends app building to the cloud
Microsoft on Tuesday will preview a cloud-based application build service and improvements to its Visual Studio IDE to make it easier to build SharePoint programs. Through an extension planned to the company's Team Foundation Service platform, developers can build source code on the Windows Azure public cloud. Team Foundation Service is basically a cloud-based version of the company's Team Foundation Server application lifecycle management server.
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Study: Open source libraries propagate security flaws
Although companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Mozilla have raised awareness of secure programming practices in recent years, getting developers to adopt best practices to weed out vulnerabilities in program code remains a challenge.
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