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Kroll Ontrack embraces subscription-based pricing model for data wiping software

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:15 +0000

Kroll Ontrack has announced a new subscription-based pricing model for its enterprise data eraser solution, Ontrack Eraser 4.0.

Big data is a big but young market

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:12 +0000

A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.

Channel partners embracing the cloud in a big way -- but still need help

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:10 +0000

Channel partners are bullish about their growth prospects. In fact, in a recently conducted Forrester survey in North America (NA) and Europe, 59% of channel partners expect to grow by more than 10% in each of the next two years. However, partners will need help and handholding as they aim for greater sophistication and higher growth targets, especially around cloud based services.

Intel's McAfee brings biometric authentication to cloud storage

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:07 +0000

Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition.

Survey highlights growing market for and proven benefits of deduplication in production environments

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:09:05 +0000

Deduplication has entered the mainstream and is effectively addressing the backup and data storage issues caused by exponential data growth, finds the results of quick poll conducted by IDG Research Services.

Understanding hypervisor-based disaster recovery

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:20 +0000

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

A little security for Big Data

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:17 +0000

Bringing the issue of security into the Big Data discussion often produces two divergent schools of thought from IT professionals − categorical denial that Big Data should be treated any differently from existing network infrastructure, and an opposite response towards over-engineering the solution given the actual (or perceived) value of the data involved.

HR consultant Gemini Personnel employs data protection and disaster recovery solution from FalconStor

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:47:58 +0000

HR consultant Gemini Personnel has completed the deployment of a data protection and automated disaster recovery system to ensure continuous business operations.

In just two days, the company deployed FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution with RecoverTrac automated disaster recovery (DR) technology.

BYOD and ITSM: What you need to know

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:47:30 +0000

Highly functional personal devices are increasingly being adopted as technology tools in enterprise IT environments. This represents yet another challenge for CIOs and senior IT managers trying to use standards and frameworks-based IT service management (ITSM) processes for better governance and business benefits.

BT expands cloud cover across four continents

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:46:23 +0000

BT is accelerating its push into cloud computing all round the world by launching BT Cloud Compute, an enhanced service that allows CIOs far greater control in terms of designing, building, buying and operating a cloud solution that is tailored to their specific needs.

Disk and Cloud adoption leaving tape in the dust: CloudRecover

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:46:07 +0000

Businesses are more open to using the Cloud for outsourcing tech components of their infrastructure than ever before, according to CloudRecover CEO, Mac Thompson.

For that reason businesses are turning to third party providers to do their backup, even if they have their own proprietary infrastructure.

HK Mercantile Exchange joins BT's cloud community

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:45:48 +0000

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has joined the BT Radianz Cloud community. HKMEx is now offering access to trade its range of commodity futures products as well as its market data feeds to BT’s financial cloud community, further attracting liquidity from international investors and strengt

SAP introduces SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:45:05 +0000

In response to strong global customer demand, SAP AG has announced the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service.

Actuate integrates BI and SaaS platforms with Amazon's cloud service

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:44:24 +0000

Actuate Corporation has integrated ActuateOne – a suite of commercial products for development and deployment of custom business analytics applications – and BIRT onDemand – a SaaS version of ActuateOne – with Amazon Redshift, AWS’s new petabyte-scale cloud warehouse service.<

Ease of use and implementation top criteria when choosing database security: survey

93e9b7b5a0095a2b42fb6cbe770a706d — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:53:05 +0000

Ease of use and implementation is the most important criteria when choosing a database security solution, finds a survey conducted by GreenSQL, a database security company. Almost half (42.72%) of respondents indicated this as the main criteria when making a decision.