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Today at VMworld 2011, CSC announced that its CSC CloudCompute and CSC BizCloud offerings are now recognized by VMware as fully compliant with its standards for optimizing VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. According to CSC, they have effectively demonstrated leadership in utilizing the program’s suite of products for optimal cloud management. “CSC has standardized on the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services platform because we [...]

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Today at VMworld 2011, Symantec announced broad support across its storage and availability product portfolio for the VMware industry leading virtualization and cloud platform. In utilizing Symantec’s storage and platform management within VMware environments, customers can easily virtualize their business critical applications with full support for application availability, better and more powerful storage as well [...]

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Today at VMworld 2011, VMware announced a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a database as a service model for the enterprise. VMware vFabric Data Director will give IT the ability to control and manage a growing set of heterogeneous databases through policy-based automation. According to VMware, vFabric will also extend the [...]

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Nokia has suspended its developer forum website after it discovered a recent attack that resulted in members’ data being compromised. The database tapped by hackers included  member e-mail addresses and, in some cases, personally identifiable information such as birthdates, homepage URLs and screen names from messaging services such as AIM, Skype and Yahoo. Before the [...]

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Today at VMworld 2011, NetApp and VMware announced VMware cloud infastructure and management on NetApp. According to VMware, this new joint solution enables organizations to evolve to a secure cloud computing model at their own pace, gaining greater flexibility and efficiency without needing to rip and replace their existing infrastructure. Customers will be able to [...]

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Today at VMworld 2011, Dell and VMware jointly announced the availability of the Dell cloud based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services. Dell is one of the first providers authorized to provide VMware vCloud Datacenter Services for enterprise class, secure, public, private and hybrid clouds. “Dell is excited to announce with VMware our first Public cloud offering [...]

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Today at VMworld 2011, VMware announced several new vCloud offerings that will make it easier for enterprises to find, connect and manage cloud services from the world’s largest network of service providers. “There’s tremendous interest from VMware customers for reliable, high-performance, secure clouds that are compatible with their existing applications and datacenter operations. VMware and [...]

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Cisco today announced its acquisition of privately-held Versly. Versly is a San Francisco based company that integrates collaboration capabilities via a pug-in into Microsoft Office applications.Versly simplifies the way people work by enabling more effective collaboration around content in docucuments, spreadsheets, presentations and emails. “Collaboration is a top priority at Cisco. With this acquisition we’re [...]

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Security researchers have located an infected email suspected to be the culprit of the RSA SecurID hack in March. In March, unknown attackers tricked EMC staff with a legitimate-looking hiring message that contained a “backdoor,” allowing the culprits to invisibly lurk inside the company’s computer systems until they found the SecureID network login information.  Allegedly the [...]

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An annual Department of Defense report on Chinese military activies, released Aug. 24, warns that China’s cyberwarfare capabilities are growing.  The release of this report coincided with reports that the Chinese military may have acknowledged enabling cyber attacks in a documentary broadcast on state television. An official broadcast on China Central Television included six seconds of [...]

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