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McAfee Launches Cloud Security Platform Updates
Cloud computing security specialist McAfee announced the latest enhancements to the company’s Cloud Security Platform. The platform, which can be deployed as an on-premise appliance, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or a hybrid combination, includes Cloud Identity Manager, also available from Intel as Expressway Cloud Access 360, which expands integration with SAML aware and traditional log-in cloud applications.…
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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Gaining Ground in Midmarket: Gartner
By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the…
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IBM zEnterprise System to Bring Windows to the Mainframe
IBM has made good on its promise to deliver Windows integration with the IBM mainframe via the zEnterprise System. When IBM introduced the zEnterprise in July 2010, the company also announced plans to deliver additional general-purpose blades for the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension including IBM System x-based blades running Linux in 2011. IBM also suggested…
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CSC Google Apps Deal Delayed Over Compliance
When CSC first landed the work to transform the City of Los Angeles email system from Novell GroupWise to Google Apps in 2009, it was lauded as a signal of major disruption in the productivity software world. But two years later, only a little more than half of the city’s workers are actually using Google…
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Bocada Launches VM Backup Monitoring Solution
Data-protection software maker Bocada on Nov.2 added a new product for those struggling in the virtual IT world with the introduction of a VM monitoring software package. Bocada Vision provides insight into the data-protection operations of virtual environments. Users can monitor backup methods, performance, success and failures, problem and resource management, virtual environment recovery, configuration…