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IT Skills – The Never-Ending Challenge

Apr

23

2013

This was originally posted on HP. This post was written by Nina Buik, CMO of Connect. Technology never stops innovating. Every few months there seems to be a new hot IT trend. As a result, IT professionals are struggling to “stay current” in their field and many companies are unable to source the expertise necessary ...

Top Storage Predictions for 2013

Apr

23

2013

This was originally posted on Symantec. By Dan Lamorena, Director, Product Marketing, Storage and Availability Management Group A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Kevin Haley posted theTop Five Security Predictions for 2013. Today we share with you the top storage predictions for 2013. As we share them, we realize that we don’t have solutions ...

Microsoft’s Open Source Company Is a Year Old. But What Is It?

Apr

22

2013

This was originally posted on Wired. Microsoft’s Gianugo Rabellino. Photo: Federico Moretti / Flickr Last week, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. quietly turned one year old. The birthday passed without fanfare, but next week, Microsoft plans to host a birthday party at its Silicon Valley campus. Microsoft Open Technologies is a bit of an odd duck: It’s an independent ...

INET Denver considers Internet life without IPv4 addresses

Apr

22

2013

This was originally posted on Arstechnica After Asia and Europe, North America is next in line to run out of IP addresses. Ian Westcott On Wednesday, the Internet Society, the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force, and others organized “INET Denver: IPv4 Exhaustion and the Path to IPv6.” After seeing the same scene play out in Asia in ...

Intel’s switching dreams will be Cisco’s and Juniper’s nightmare

Apr

18

2013

This was posted originally on Gigaom SUMMARY:Intel has big plans in the networking –plans that will upset the status quo from merchant silicon vendors like Broadcom to box makers like Cisco and Juniper who are dependent on custom ASICs. Intel may be struggling on the PC side of its business, but the chip giant is making ...

Internet Security: Google discovers 9,500 new malicious sites daily

Apr

11

2013

Between 12 and 14 million daily searches return at least one hacked site, the company says By Katherine Noyes | PC World | Published: 15:16, 20 June 2012 Google published statistics yesterday that revealed 9,500 new malicious websites are discovered every day through its Safe Browsing initiative. Niels Provos of the Google Security Team said: ...

A look at the cost of SSL certificates

Apr

11

2013

Time and time again on forums and on Twitter we see comments from people questioning why SSL certificates cost money and why brands like “Symantec” are much more valued than others that do the same thing. I thought I’d take the liberty of writing this post so I have a go to resource each time ...

Our awesome new Control Panel – coming in OnApp Cloud v3.0!

Apr

11

2013

As we get closer to the 3.0 release of OnApp Cloud, I’d like to whet everyone’s appetite a little by showing a few screenshots of our brand new UI. We’ve already highlighted some of the new functionality in v3.0, with VMware support, cloud boot, CDN and storage features. One thing we haven’t talked about in detail is our ...

What’s the optimal hardware spec for OnApp Cloud?

Apr

11

2013

We’ve been so busy in the last couple of years, and time has flown by so quickly, that sometimes it’s hard to believe that we have deployed well over 1,000 clouds for our customers. I’m pretty darn proud of how fast our platform has been adopted, and used to run such a huge range of public ...

With OnApp Cloud v3.0, storage isn’t boring any more

Apr

11

2013

It’s difficult to write a blog post about OnApp Cloud v3.0, released today. There are so many new features that it’s hard to know where to begin. Maybe we should talk about our new VMware support. That’s at the top of the list for a lot of our customers. Perhaps it’s the addition of video to ...