The network security company Palo Alto Networks™ has accomplished the 1,000th enterprise customer milestone, thus, meaning the company has won leading Fortune 1000 organizations such as Qualcomm and DTE Energy. Palo Alto Networks has vastly extended their technology and market leadership through their new next-generation firewall software and their customer acquisition.
As stated by Palo Alto [...]
Entries from February 26th, 2010
Are You Using an Insecure Password?
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Services, Security
Security firm Imperva recently released a warning to users of popular social networking website RockYou indicating that their accounts and passwords may have been compromised. According to the firm, a hacker may have accessed an alarming 32 million accounts. But what is more interesting in the wake of this news is an analysis made of [...]
Tags: Imperva·Managed Services·Password·RockYou·Security·Social Networking
Go Green!
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Green IT, Virtualization
These days there’s a lot of buzz about “going green” – helping preserve the environment, conserving energy, and looking for sustainable ways to grow the economy. The IT industry is doing its part as well, with “green computing,” which is basically computing by more efficient and sustainable means. You can get on board with some [...]
Tags: Carbon Footprint·Eco-Friendly·Economies of Scale·Going Green·Green Computing·Green IT·Machine Virtualization·Outsource IT·Virtualization
10 GbE Throughput with iSCSI SAN? Wow!
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
An exciting new product to check out is the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6510 series of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN storage with supporting 10GbE technology. As stated by a recent article from Dell™, the products versions PS6510E and PS6510X integrate “intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Business Critical Applications·Data Protection·Dell·Dell EqualLogic·Dell R710·iSCSI SAN·PS6510·Storage Consolidation·Streaming Workloads·Virtualization
Social Media Poses Security Risks
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Services, Security
Security company Websense released a survey of 1,300 IT professionals worldwide revealing that although social media or the use of “Web 2.0″ technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networks are already pervasive in business, a majority of IT managers seem ill equipped to manage its use, much less protect against security concerns associated with [...]
Tags: Blogs·Data-Stealing Attacks·Facebook·Security·Social Media·Social Networks·Web 2.0·Websense·Wikis
Are you Safeguarding your Data?
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
With the continuous proliferation of data and its increasing importance to business, it has become critical to implement measures to safeguard it. One such measure is to make sure you have a data protection, backup, and recovery system in place. The threat of data loss from hardware failure, malware, or disaster is very real. A [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Data Loss·Data Protection·Disaster Recovery·Hardware Failure·Malware·Recovery System·Safeguard Data·Security
Business Impact of a Major Data Loss Event
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Data breaches are costing companies more than ever, according to a recent study.
Data losses, which can result from theft or carelessness, are a downside of the information age. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), more than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the United States—47 percent more than in 2007.
How [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Data Breaches·data management·Disaster Recovery·Identity Theft Resource Center·Security·The Ponemon Institute
Cloud Computing Shifts During 2010
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Virtualization
An interesting article from Channel Web discussed the prediction of an increased volume of companies shifting towards cloud computing in 2010. In the article, numerous IT executives embraced private and public clouds in Boston this past Wednesday during the North American Conference held by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), an organization designed to create IT [...]
Tags: Analog Devices·Channel Web·Cloud Computing·Innovation Value Institute (IVI)·IT Budgets·North American Conference·Virtualization
Majority of Firms Struggle with Security as New Technologies are Adopted
February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Security
New research from the Ponemom Institute and Lumension, shows that a majority of firms are struggling to secure data as users quickly adopt new and emerging technologies such as mobile, cloud computing, and collaborative Web 2.0 technologies. The study, which surveyed IT security and IT operations practitioners, shows that many (44 percent) feel that their [...]
Tags: Budget·Cloud Computing·Emerging Technologies·IT Budgets·Ponemom Institute and Lumension·Security·Web 2.0
Web Application Security a Growing Threat for Businesses
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Security, Servers
A new report by security vendor Cenzic shares research indicating that security flaws found in Web applications continue to grow and should be a major concern for many businesses as more and more depend on the Web for their business. According to the report, almost 80 percent of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly [...]
Tags: Apache·Cenzic·Cross-Site Scripting·IBM·Mozilla·Safari·Security·Sun·Vulnerabilities