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Over Half of Big Data & Cloud Projects Stall Because of Security Concerns

Over Half of Big Data & Cloud Projects Stall Because of Security Concerns

The majority of IT professionals within large and mid-size corporations worry about the security of big data and cloud projects Cupertino, CA – May 21, 2013 – Voltage Security®, the world leader in data-centric security, today announced results of a recent industry survey in which 76% of senior-level IT and security respondents said the inability [...]

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How to Apply ICT to the Power Grid: OSIsoft’s Way – Part 2

How to Apply ICT to the Power Grid: OSIsoft’s Way – Part 2

This is a continuation from Part 1. Interfaces required to multiple domains I think their decision to keep themselves a software infrastructure company is smart. In this way, they can apply their systems to many market segments where operations are involved. When operations are performed, some kinds of data are generated and often times those [...]

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How to Apply ICT to the Power Grid: OSIsoft’s Way — Part 1

How to Apply ICT to the Power Grid: OSIsoft’s Way — Part 1

Smart grid is where power, IT, and communications meet. In this blog, IT and communications technologies are grouped as ICT. These days, most industry areas have become so complex that we cannot cope with problems without applying ICT. When smart grid was first introduced, Cisco declared that the power grid would be much bigger than [...]

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May Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

May Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

Microsoft has announced their May 2013 advanced notification.  The May edition of Patch Tuesday will include 10 security bulletins. Microsoft is working to have the Internet Explorer Security Update to address the issue described in Security Advisory 2847140, supplementing the currently available Fix it. Security Bulletin breakdown: 2 bulletins are rated as Critical 8 bulletins [...]

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Ayla Networks Promotes Device Connectivity for Internet of Things

Ayla Networks Promotes Device Connectivity for Internet of Things

A previous blog explained how the connectivity of end devices leads to intelligence. Simply connecting the devices does not by itself produce intelligence, but connecting them to a bigger system that aggregates, stores, and analyzes their data does. Many details still need to be worked out. An ecosystem for intelligent systems consists of several players, [...]

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Wind River’s View on M2M, Intelligent Systems, and the Internet of Things

Wind River’s View on M2M, Intelligent Systems, and the Internet of Things

I hear more and more about intelligent systems. Are they different from M2M and the Internet of Things? In a recent Design West, one of the themes was intelligent systems. What is it, and how is it different from M2M and the Internet of Things? I attended one informative session by speakers from a research [...]

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April 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

April 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

Microsoft announced their April 2013 advanced notification for Patch Tuesday.  The April edition of Patch Tuesday will be bringing nine security bulletins. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 2 bulletins are rated as Critical 7 bulletins are rated as Important 2 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead to Remote Code Execution 5 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead to Elevation [...]

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vCenter Protect 9.0 Beta is Live!

vCenter Protect 9.0 Beta is Live!

Hey All, We have a big week this week.  We have a HUGE release coming with vCenter Protect 9.0.  The product is in public beta as of yesterday.  We have many amazing new features like Cloud Agents, Hypervisor Patching, 64 bit Edition, a host of UI and usability improvements, the list goes on and on. [...]

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Game Changer? Beyond Realizing Hybrid Clouds—Part 2

Game Changer? Beyond Realizing Hybrid Clouds—Part 2

This continues the discussion of CloudVelocity’s hybrid cloud technology. In this blog, I would like to talk about what’s under the hood. Some technical details As a former technologist, I wanted to open the hood and find out more about the underlying technologies. For this, Anand Iyengar, CloudVelocity’s founder and CTO, gave me a chalk [...]

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March 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

March 2013 Patch Tuesday Advanced Notification

Microsoft announced their March 2013 advanced notification for Patch Tuesday.   The March edition of Patch Tuesday will be bringing seven security bulletins, six of which will be supported in vCenter Protect.  The seventh is a patch on Office for Mac. Security Bulletin Breakdown: 4 bulletins are rated as Critical 3 bulletins are rated as Important 3 bulletins address vulnerabilities that could lead [...]

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