Box unveils cloud service for iOS workplace mobile apps

Posted by on Mar 28, 2012 | Comments Off

Box, a provider of cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration and content management software, will announce on Wednesday a new service designed to consolidate in a single repository companies’ mobile applications and the data they generate. Called OneCloud, the new Box cloud service is designed to help IT departments better manage the mobile applications that their end users install on their tablets and PCs and use... 

DotCloud adds vertical scaling to its PaaS offering

Posted by on Mar 27, 2012 | Comments Off

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. Continued: Technology... 

Symantec details mobile device management plans

Posted by on Mar 24, 2012 | Comments Off

Symantec this week put the focus on its mobile security strategy with its announcement that it’s acquiring Nukona, the software provider for mobile application management. More here: Technology News copy  Read More →

Mobile malware: Beware drive-by downloads on your smartphone

Posted by on Mar 23, 2012 | Comments Off

While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of JAS Global Advisors, was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The “ad” looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file — malware — onto his Android... 

Cloud security registry slow to catch on

Posted by on Mar 22, 2012 | Comments Off

Last August the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas a registry that it hoped would serve as a place for prospective cloud users to go to easily inspect and compare cloud vendors’ security controls. But to date, only three companies have submitted their cloud security data, making the registry of limited use. Keep reading: Technology News copy  Read More →

Amazon comes out on top in cloud data transfer speed test

Posted by on Mar 21, 2012 | Comments Off

If your enterprise finds itself needing to transfer a lot of data in the cloud, beware: Depending on where the data’s being moved to, it can take a long time. A study investigating the amount of time it takes to transfer 12TB of data from one cloud to another shows there can be up to a 25 times difference in transfer speed among providers. Continued: Technology News copy  Read More →

Quantum unveils enterprise-class cloud backup services

Posted by on Mar 21, 2012 | Comments Off

Quantum today announced an enterprise-class backup service that includes data deduplication aimed at protecting data in virtual server environments. The new cloud service is built on Quantum’s vmPro virtual machine backup software and its new virtual deduplication appliance, the DXi V1000, which was also unveiled today. More here: Technology News copy  Read More →
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