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  • HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

    Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.

  • Amazon adds to developer choices with JavaScript SDK for Web Services

    The general release of the AWS (Amazon Web Services) SDK for Node.js is available for download, allowing developers to build server-side applications in JavaScript that then can run on Amazon's cloud.

  • FAQ: Phishing tactics and how attackers get away with it

    Phishing attacks on enterprises can be calamitous in terms of compromised networks or damaged brand names, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which aggregates and analyzes phishing trends data worldwide, offers some of the best insight from industry into what's occurring globally in terms of this cybercrime.

  • Colt unveils cloud ICT offering for SMEs

    Telco Colt has launched a new range of "simplified" on-demand cloud comms services for SMEs.

  • Amazon Web Services aims to simplify roll-out of Node.js apps

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud.

  • Qualys beefs up security tool for Amazon Cloud users

    For many IT managers, moving your company's backbone to the cloud brings a certain sense of freedom. However, the task of caring for and protecting your assets remains. After all, the operative word in "virtual server" is "server"; virtual or not, it's still a fully functioning server from an operational sense, carrying the same risks and vulnerabilities inherent in physical servers. You'll need vulnerability management tools to ensure those servers are secure.

  • STEC increasing storage on enterprise SSDs to 2TB

    Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors.

  • Skytap hopes to simplify Hadoop adoption with cloud

    To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud.

  • Lush cosmetics rolls out 'gamified' training programme on Memset cloud

    Handmade cosmetics firm Lush is using infrastructure from British cloud provider Memset to roll out its game-based, interactive, digital staff training programme across Europe.

  • PostGres offered as a cloud cluster service

    Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud, hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers.

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