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With the Endpoint Manager, IBM is offering organizations a single platform capable of securing desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the enterprise, regardless of who owns it. - IBM is beefing up its mobile credentials to help organizations manage the influx of mobile devices into the enterprises as part of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend. IBM rolled out an endpoint manager for mobile devices running Apple iOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian, and Microsoft Windo...

Sumo Logic, a startup providing cloud-based log management and analytics services, has emerged from stealth mode with $15 million in funding. - Startup Sumo Logic has emerged from stealth mode to unveil its cloud-based log management and analytics service that leverages big data to deliver real-time IT insights. Sumo Logic's software-as-a-service (SAAS) solution eliminates the need for expensive premises-based solutions, time-consuming...

The new cloud storage system is powered by Altix scale-up and scale-out clusters, as well as Altix XE hybrid systems, which all run on Intel's Xeon or Itanium processors. - SGI, which focuses exclusively on the high-performance computing market and large-scale workloads with its clustered Altix servers, Jan. 31 unveiled a new integrated server and storage platform for cloud and data storage use. Dubbed SGI Modular InfiniteStorage, the core platform will be availab...

SeaMicro's SM10000-XE will complement the Atom-based systems the company has launched over the past 18 months for scale-out data centers. - SeaMicro, which has been selling low-power microservers running on Intel's Atom processors, is now rolling out its newest system powered by Xeon processors. At a press event Jan. 31, SeaMicro CEO Andrew Feldman unveiled the SM10000-XE, a Xeon-based system with the same unique designed introduce...

The threat of cyber-war and cyber-attacks is serious enough that countries need to beef up their defenses as part of their military strategy. - Cyber-security experts are concerned about the prospect of cyber-war and the growing number of cyber-threats, according to a recent report released by McAfee. Over half, or 57 percent, of cyber-security specialists surveyed in the quot;Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules quot; r...

Pentaho announces it has open-sourced its Pentaho Kettle big data management and analytics tools under the Apaches 2.0 license. - Pentaho announced that it has open-sourced its big data analytics tools, known as the Pentaho Kettle project, under the Apache 2.0 license. Pentaho said it has made freely available under open source all of its big data capabilities in the new Pentaho Kettle 4.3 release, and has moved the entir...

NEWS ANALYSIS: Much has been written about SOPA and PIPA, the dual piece of controversial legislation that could change how copy rights are enforced. As both bills have been shelved, now is the chance to look at some common-sense ways to protect intellectual property. - I have written three books, and I still get royalty checks from my publishers. I open the envelope typically every six months to find money that rewards me for my original work. It's like someone is printing money and sending it to me. Although my royalty checks are printed from a rather small ...

One of the most talked-about Android smartphones unveiled at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show three weeks ago was the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. The Maxx can mean a lot of things a bigger screen, faster processor or more apps. Instead, Motorola used the Maxx branding to describe the Android 2.3 Gingerbread-powered phone's world-beating battery life. The Razr Maxx touts a power supply of 3,300mAh, or roughly twice what you get from most high-end handsets in the market today, including its Droid Razr predecessor, which has a 1,780mAh power supply. This is crucial because the Razr Maxx churns data on Verizon's 4G Long-Term Evolution network. Anyone who has ever tested or owned a 4G LTE Verizon phone, such as the HTC ThunderBolt or Samsung Droid Charge, knows how rapidly those smartphones with 4G radios burn through battery charges. The Razr Maxx, which has a 1.2GHz processor, casts aside the rapid-battery-drain concerns and offers a whopping 21.5 hours of talk time and nearly 16 days of standby time. So you can play as much Angry Birds and watch as many YouTube videos as you want in a workday, and your Maxx should still be rendering data at the end of the night. This eWEEK slide show takes a closer look at the Droid Razr Maxx. Droid Razr Maxx Boasts Best Android Smartphone Battery - ...

Microsoft's Office 15, the next version of its popular Office software, has entered the technical preview stage. - Microsofts next version of Office has reached its technical preview stage. Codenamed Office 15, the platform is being distributed to a select group of testers; a public beta will reportedly arrive this summer. Office 15 is apparently an ambitious project. “For the first time ever, we will simultane...

Security is often cited as a primary cause for concern when considering cloud deployments. To overcome these concerns, companies moving to public cloud services might look to some emerging standards for help. FedRAMP establishes a baseline of security requirements for government contractors interested in providing the federal government with cloud services. NIST has developed a roadmap and a reference document about cloud architecture covering interoperability and security. Providers who work with the federal government will need to beef up their security offerings to comply with these initiatives. Businesses that use these same providers will reap the benefits of this enhanced security.
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