10 keys for building private clouds
One of the toughest parts about implementing a cloud strategy isn't choosing the underlying technology to power the deployment; it's having the processes in place to manage an effective migration to the cloud, says Thomas Bittman, a cloud analyst for Gartner. "While cloud technologies are just now maturing, that's one of the easier challenges to solve," Bittman said during a webinar sponsored by Gartner discussing how to build private clouds.
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Security startup Vaultive tackles cloud-based encryption
Office 365 is the Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications and hosted versions of Microsoft's server products delivered and accessed over the Internet.
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Nearly a fifth of U.S. PCs have no virus protection
A McAfee study of PCs around the world found that 17 percent had no antivirus protection, and the U.S. outpaced the average with 19 percent of PCs unprotected. The study counted as unprotected machines those that had no antivirus protection installed, or whose antivirus subscription had expired. In the U.S., 12 percent of PCs did not contain any antivirus program, and 7 percent had software that was expired.
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Rumored Facebook purchase of Face.com spotlights facial recognition
Whether or not Facebook acquires facial recognition services provider Face.com, as rumors say it will, the persistence of the speculation calls attention to the expanding use of the technology in social applications.
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Windows 8 Release Preview leaks to Web
A Chinese edition of Windows 8, reportedly the same build that Microsoft will launch in the next week as the Release Preview, has leaked to file-sharing sites. On Tuesday, links to Build 8400 of Windows 8 appeared on multiple sites and discussion forums, many of them Chinese-language destinations.
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HP: Net-Zero Energy Data Center cuts power usage by 30 percent
HP today unveiled the blueprints for its HP Net-Zero Energy Data Center, an architecture designed to automatically match energy supply with a facility's IT workload energy demands.
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Moonlight goes dark as Silverlight wanes
Moonlight, an implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet plug-in platform for non-Windows systems, is no more, the lead developer of the project said this week.
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Oracle prepares to enter PaaS wars
Oracle may lay out how it plans to become a player in the burgeoning PaaS (platform as a service) market next week during a webcast event featuring CEO Larry Ellison and co-president Mark Hurd.
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Gartner predicts huge rise in monitoring of employees' social media use
Corporations are starting to embrace technologies used to monitor employee Internet use, with 60 percent expected to watch workers' social media use for security breaches by 2015, according to a new report from Gartner. Less than 10 percent of companies now monitor their employees' use of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social media sites for security breaches, although many companies monitor social media for brand management and marketing purposes, said the report, released Tuesday.
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Samsung Galaxy S III: The reviews are in
The Samsung Galaxy S III arrives this week in Europe, and the first reviews are in to give you an idea of what to expect from the smartphone when it hits the U.S. shores ... whenever it hits: Samsung and the cellular carriers have yet to announce when the Galaxy S III will be availabl in the U.S.
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Fedora 17 takes to the cloud
The newest release of the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux distribution includes a number of technologies that haven't made their way into RHE: (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) yet, including a new version of the OpenStack cloud platform, code-named Essex, that the company plans to adopt in future editions of its flagship distribution. Fedora 17, released Monday, also includes the latest version of the Gnome -- version 3.4 -- as the default user interface.
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Google tries again with a more PC-like Chrome OS
Samsung will launch this week two new Chrome OS-based computers, a laptop and desktop that have been designed to be significantly faster and more versatile than previous models. The new Samsung models will be available online today in the U.S. and May 30 in the U.K., and they will be for sale also at select Best Buy stores in the U.S. in June.
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Dell reaches for the cloud with new prototype ARM server
Dell on Tuesday announced a prototype low-power server with ARM processors, following a growing demand by Web companies for custom-built servers that can scale performance while reducing financial overhead on data centers.The proof-of-concept server is code-named Copper and is the first one from Dell that is based on the ARM processor. Dell will not sell the server, but will install prototypes at specific locations so customers can kick the tires around ARM, whose processor designs are found in most smartphones and tablets today.
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