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EU-funded open source cloud toolkit to arrive in June

The European Union is funding the launch of a new open source toolkit, designed to help European service providers build and run applications in the cloud.
Jive creates enterprise social app for intranets

Jive Software has developed a version of its enterprise social collaboration software designed for intranets, the latest product it creates for specific workplace scenarios.
National Security Agency creates security design based on Android

America's intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), today disclosed how it's going to handle mobile security.
Aruba launches corporate mobile device management tools

New software from Aruba Networks lets IT groups secure and manage the influx of employee-owned devices to the corporate network.
Carrier IQ issues document to explain controversial tracking software

Carrier IQ last night released a 19-page document describing its technology in what appears to be a belated attempt to quell continuing concerns over its controversial tracking software.
Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centres

Rackspace plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls of an enterprise or third-party commercial data centres, the company announced yesterday.
Sensible Cloud launches cloud-efficient software using Java

UK company Sensible Cloud on Tuesday began offering software designed to help companies take greater advantage of the benefits of cloud computing.
Adobe upgrades Photoshop, Premiere Elements for 10th anniversary

Adobe has released new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, its consumer photo and video-editing applications, respectively, aimed at imaging enthusiasts. Each program costs $100 and includes the companion Elements Organizer asset-management utility.
Comodo CEO accuses nation state of sponsoring SSL certificate attacks

An attack on a Dutch company that issues certificates used to authenticate websites was state-sponsored, according to the chief executive of Comodo, a company that also issues digital certificates and suffered a similar setback in March.
McAfee blames North Korea for DDoS attack

The cyber attacks that paralysed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, according to computer security company McAfee.

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Your IT security action plan for 2012

Rather than a comprehensive list of everything an IT security organisation should plan on doing in the new year, I'm going to share with you some of the things that many probably haven't even considered for their 2012 action lists.
Top business applications for iPad

So far, Apple has sold more than 3 million of its iconic iPads, making it the bestselling tablet on the market. A runaway success? Absolutely. But an out-of-the-box iPad can be a disappointment for business tasks. Its rudimentary word processor, email client, contacts directory and calendar are slim pickings, especially for those who want to use the device for work on the road.
Intel Itanium at a crossroads

Intel reaffirmed its commitment to developing the Itanium processor, but also said it wants to grab market share with Xeon server chips in high-performance computing, where Itanium also plays.
Will the cloud take your IT job?

As software becomes more complex, and demands the scalability of the cloud, IT's auto mechanic of today, the sysadmin, will disappear. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.
Now is the time to buy a new mainframe

Mainframe customers haven't always had much leverage to negotiate with Big Blue, but now may be the perfect time to strike a new contract with IBM.
Cisco and HP gear up for battle in data centre

Cisco's foray into the server market has been talked about for some months now. What has not been so widely discussed is HP's attack on Cisco's territory with a new range of ProCurve switches - it all adds up to a tasty battle.
Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask before you say yes

Proceed cautiously - teleworking can change office dynamics in ways you hadn't anticipated.
The LAN is 30

The idea behind ARCnet - the first LAN - came to an engineer while he was eating a meatball sandwich.
CCTV moves online

Video surveillance is an increasingly digital world, and now it's starting to link in with other IP-based security systems.
Power supplies go digital

Using DSPs - digital signal processors - to control power supplies can make IT equipment more energy-efficient and reliable. It could even be cheaper, claims digital power chip developer Texas Instruments.

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While service oriented architecture (SOA) has become a ubiquitous buzzword, the word component ? or object ? is not used as widely. Yet an effective SOA-based enterprise application relies on the use of well-defined, modular software components. What is a software component? For that matter, what, really, is an SOA?
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The WebEx Operational Support System

WebEx Communications developed the MediaTone Network, a global, dedicated infrastructure, to deliver 24x7x365 collaboration services to its large and increasing user community. The MediaTone Network resembles a modern telecommunications carrier and very large Internet Service Provider combined into one. In order to manage this infrastructure, WebEx employs a comprehensive Operational Support System (OSS) that touches and synchronizes every session, data path, and device comprising the service. This paper illuminates the process and benefits of the system while highlighting some of the important solutions in everyday use.
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GignoMDA - Generation of Complex Database Applications

Complex database applications feature a large amount of structural and content-related aspects, and with each project, these aspects either have to be implemented completely again or must be realized by adopting and adjusting available program code. Based on the MDA concept (Model-Driven Architecture), the GignoMDA Project aims at the enrichment of the automatic generation of complex 3-layer applications through the consideration of non-functional properties. Aside from the automation aspect, the optimal mapping of annotated UML models to multi-layer architectures plays a central role here. That means, our approach provides a single point of truth describing all aspects of database applications (e.g. database schema, project documentation, etc.) with a great potential of cross-layer optimization. These new cross-layer optimization hints as non-functional properties are a novel way for the challenging global optimization issue of multi-tier database applications.
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Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition review

Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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Fusion 4 is the newest version of VMware's virtualisation solution for the Mac, which allows you to run multiple operating systems within Mac OS X. Since we reviewed Fusion 3, VMWare has added support for Lion and the ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines, reduced the consumption of system resources to zero when you aren't running a virtual machine, redesigned the settings window, and much more. read more...

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