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Weekly Security Review: Dropbox Client Reverse Engineered, Hytrust Adds Secondary Approval
It’s been an eventful week in the cybersecurity arena. Security researchers have successfully reverse engineered Dropbox, a study confirmed that Android is the most targeted mobile operating system on the market, and Hytrust unveiled a new secondary approval solution at VMworld. Dhiru Kholia and Przemyslaw Wegrzyn recently announced that they have gained access to the ...
HP Storage Marketing Chief on the Software-Defined Data Center #VMworld
Craig Nunes, the vice president of marketing at HP Storage, hopped into theCube during the recently concluded VMworld conference to discuss software-defined infrastructure, virtualization and everything in between. Nunes starts the interview by providing his take on software-defined storage (SDS,) which he describes as the separation of storage management from the hypervisor and the underlying hardware. ...
Savvis Cloud Strategy Chief Shares Partner Angle on vCloud Hybrid Service
VMware hopes to earn a spot alongside public cloud giants Amazon and Google with vCloud Hybrid Service, a newly unveiled IaaS solution that offers full integration with on-premise customer environments. Jonathan King, the vice president of cloud strategy and business development at Savvis, discussed the impact of the service on his company in a recent ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Management and Healthcare Analytics
The Big Data space saw a lot of activity this past week. Zenoss announced that it has rearchitectured its data-driven operations management platform, Cleversafe and Panzura teamed up to make information more consumable for global enterpises, and PernixData introduced an SMB-optimized version of its flagship offering. In other news, Hewlett Packard revealed how the Vertica ...
Weekly Cloud Review: VMworld and the Software-defined Data Center
The cloud ecosystem marked many advancements at this week’s VMworld 2013 conference in San Fransico. VMware pulled the curtains back on half a dozen new cloud and software-defined data center solutions, a number of big name partners updated their offerings to support the latest releases, and Red Hat unleashed an upgraded version of its cloud ...
Internet of Things Review: Nokia Introduces Tablet, ARM Buys Sensinode
The Internet of Things is not slowing down anytime soon. Nokia announced a new Windows tablet, sources revealed that HTC is going after the Chinese market with a localized operating system, and ARM picked up a Finnish startup that develops software for connected devices. Apple, one of ARM’s biggest clients, also grabbed headlines with a ...
Tresata Open Sources “Ganitha” Machine Data Analysis Library
Big Data startup Tresata has released a set of algorithms that simplify machine learning and statistical analysis in large-scale Hadoop environments. Named “ganitha” after the Sanskrit word for mathematics, the library is built on the Scalding API for Apache Cascading, a Java-based data-driven development framework. The bundle includes Tresata’s homegrown K-Means clustering implementation and Apache ...
Broadcom Accelerates Internet of Things with Wearable WiFi Tech
Semiconductor maker Broadcom has introduced a new specification that enables connected devices to communicate over Wi-Fi without an access point or computer. The technology promises to open the doors for low-cost wearable gadgets that can exchange data via smartphones and tablets. Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) Direct, as the solution is known, has ...
Dell Goes All-in on Software-Defined Networking at #VMworld
Like many of its fellow IT titans, Dell announced a slew of new offerings at this week’s VMworld conference. The vendor unleashed an SDN-enabled switching platform and a set of improved network management tools, in addition to over a dozen integrations and product refreshes. Dell has expanded its S-series product family with the S6000, a ...
Samsung Unveils New Zero Client Stand at #VMworld
Samsung is showcasing its newest desktop virtualization solutions at this week’s VMworld 2013 conference in Fransisco. The centerpiece of the company’s exhibit is the NB-NH Cloud Stand, a recently launched zero client that packs a VDI-optimized Tera2 system on a chip (SOC) from Teradici. The NB-NH can hold any VESA-compatible monitor with a display size ...