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Symantec: Cloud 3.0 Starts with Better Security

Related Content. Topic : Cloud Computing Software and data services are now viewed independently of distinct physical IT assets. Blog : Much Ado About Nothing with Cloud Security? Article : Will the Cloud Save the Virtual Desktop?
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The SDN Race for Developers Is On

Beyond supporting the emerging OpenFlow management standard on its switches and controllers from NEC and BigSwitch, Extreme Networks is rolling out a plug-in for OpenStack to manage network switches using the OpenStack Quantum APIs. In addition
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Cisco ASR 5500 Moves to Confront the Mobile Data Explosion

It has a “spin-in” startup called Insieme — a company that it is bankrolling and will have the option of bringing in-house — working on SDNs using the emerging OpenFlow standard. The ASR 5500 platform, apparently the first elastic packet core
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Four Advantages of Using PostgreSQL in the Cloud

Having Postgres run on Amazon, CloudBees, HP Compute Cloud, OpenStack and other platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service providers means end users are not locked in to any one cloud provider, but are free to move their database as their
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The White House Takes on Botnets

And I’m not talking about the cyber war against Iran, although this war is cybersecurity-related. Apparently, the Obama administration has made a commitment to join in the battle against botnets. Earlier this week, the Industry Botnet Group (IBG)
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The White House Takes on Botnets

And I’m not talking about the cyber war against Iran, although this war is cybersecurity-related. Apparently, the Obama administration has made a commitment to join in the battle against botnets. Earlier this week, the Industry Botnet Group (IBG)
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IDC: Software-Defined Networks Worth $2 Billion by 2016

Cisco’s OpenFlow initiative is one of the main approaches to SDNs. This eWeek story — a look ahead to Cisco’s users’ conference in San Diego next month — suggests that the company is being circumspect in the information it releases.
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Hardware in a Virtual World

HP is on the same track, having recently extended the OpenFlow protocol throughout its networking line. The thinking is that with an open-source framework in place, enterprises will be able to push virtualization and multi-tenancy across network
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CIOs Get More Options as Cloud Computing Goes Open Source

What’s interesting about Appfog isn’t that it’s a PaaS, but rather, that it’s based on VMware Cloud Foundry (available under the Apache 2.0 license) and is aligned with OpenStack, an open source infrastructure-as-a-service stack that’s competing with
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