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AWS Marketplace to sell cloud apps and services from IBM, SAP, others

Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced a new online marketplace that allows customers to buy software and services from a variety of vendors at hourly rates through its cloud infrastructure platform.
HP releases tools for enterprise mobile app development

HP announced on Tuesday the release of several tools aimed at simplifying the enterprise mobile application development and deployment processes.
Avast antivirus support firm apologises for mis-selling

The Indian company suspended this week by antivirus company Avast for mis-selling support contracts during customer phone calls has apologised and offered to refund users unhappy with the service.
Quest goes private in $2 billion stock buyback

Enterprise software vendor Quest Software is becoming a private company, and is also seeking a buyer, the company announced Friday.
The Open Group previews security standard for supply chains

The influential Open Group has published the first preview of a new document it hopes will turn into a global standard for protecting against ?counterfeit and tainted? software and parts entering technology supply chains.
CA SiteMinder tied in to data loss prevention tools

CA Technologies has put forward product plans for linking its data loss prevention (DLP) technology with its identity access and management to dynamically restrict individuals from accessing information deemed off limits, in this case, data held in Microsoft SharePoint.
Mozilla demands authorities revoke corporate SSL authority

Mozilla has asked all certificate authorities (CAs) to revoke subordinate CA certificates currently used for corporate SSL traffic management, offering an amnesty to any CAs that had breached Mozilla's conditions for having their root certificates ship with its products.
Symantec criticises Google for stripping security certificate checks from Chrome

Stripping OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) and CRL (certificate revocation list) checks from Google Chrome could have dangerous implications because it will turn Google into a single point of failure, according to security vendor Symantec.
RSA denies flaws in security algorithm

After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this week by prominent researchers in a paper they made available online, EMC's RSA security division struck back by saying the paper's results don't indicate a fundamental flaw in the RSA algorithm but more likely a problem with implementing it.
Mozilla asking CAs to revoke SSL-spying certificates

Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.

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Self-signed SSL certificates can be secure

Given the recent problems with SSL certificates provided by third party companies, one has to wonder why we place all this trust in these vendors. We allow them to process and produce "trusted" certificates for our websites, but in the end even Google, Microsoft and state and federal governments are falling victim to fraud.
What's next for Dell?

Dell's formation of a new software group last week could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
Citrix targets virtualisation, orchestration layers instead of "cloud washing"

With scores of new cloud companies popping up and so many existing players jumping on the cloud bandwagon, we wondered where the traditional enterprise networking vendors stood?
Juniper sticks to strengths with cloud strategy

Juniper has a three-pronged cloud strategy that includes selling networking gear in the data centres of most major IaaS players, providing secure connections between virtual data centres and cloud customers, and orchestrating how virtualised resources get allocated to cloud application services.
Cisco catching up with the cloud

The only place Cisco plays directly in the cloud is in the SaaS arena with its WebEx collaboration, video and telepresence services, which account for about $1 billion of Cisco's $40 billion in annual revenue.
Five reasons agents are wrong for application performance management

Despite rapid evolution in the application performance management (APM) market, few enterprise IT organisations would say they have sufficiently solved their application performance problems. If anything, the complexity challenges posed by virtualisation, agile development practices, multi-tier application architectures and other IT mega-trends are outpacing the capabilities of legacy APM products.
Father of SSL says despite attacks, the security linchpin has lots of life left

SSL/TLS, the protocol that protects security of e-commerce, has taken a beating lately, with news items ranging from the violation of certificate authorities to the discovery of an exploit that beats the protocol itself.
Are security failures undermining faith in the Internet?

Recent attacks could reverberate and undercut the public's faith that the Internet is a trustworthy medium for doing business.
How server virtualisation creates a network security blind spot

Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualisation, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems don't cut it anymore.
Virtual machine deployments: When to stop

There appears to be a challenger to 'VM sprawl' as the scourge of virtualisation success - a problem I call 'VM stall'.

How-tos

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How to protect online transactions with multi-factor authentication

How to manage multivendor virtualisation

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How to choose a Certificate Authority for safer web security

This white paper looks at the role of CAs in web security, including what measures a CA can take to promote trust in its certificates and the criteria to consider when choosing the best CA for the job.
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Mobile economic time

Mobile Economic Time is no longer restricted to Smartphone users just texting, making phone calls, playing music or social networking. Over the next few years, more Smartphone and Tablet PC users than ever will be using their ?always-on? devices to transform the way they interact with businesses. The benefits for nearly every kind of organisation are endless ? from increased customer retention and acquisition of enormous revenue generating and market growth opportunities. We hope you find this summary of the key findings of the ?Mobile Economic Time Zone? of value.
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Putting performance first

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