Thursday, March 28, 2013

10 Geeky and Foolish Ways to Celebrate April Fools' Day

Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers

Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds

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March 28, 2013
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Issue highlights

1. Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers

2. Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds

3. Air Force exploring systems that safeguard spacecraft network security

4. Windows 'Blue' shows desktop's days are numbered

5. iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 26

6. U.S. to scrutinize IT system purchases with ties to China

7. It's twilight for small in-house data centers

8. Sabotage suspected in Egypt submarine cable cut

9. Airport's CIO Turns to Mobile App Helps Harried Travelers

10. 10 Ways Tech Is Making Fast Food Personal

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Spamhaus attacks expose huge open DNS server dangers

Massive distributed denial of service attacks on Spamhaus this week focused widespread attention on the huge security threats posed by millions of poorly configured Internet Domain Name System servers. READ MORE

Equinix, NetApp, Amazon team to enable hybrid clouds

A new partnership will allow customers to host dedicated NetApp storage infrastructure in Equinix data centers to provide fast connections up into Amazon Web Service's cloud. READ MORE

Air Force exploring systems that safeguard spacecraft network security

How are all manner of spacecraft development from the space parts supply chain to actual space operations protected from those who would try to penetrate or disrupt the networks involved in that process? READ MORE

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Windows 'Blue' shows desktop's days are numbered

Microsoft won't back away from a radical overall of Windows, and is determined to kill the decades-old, decades-rich desktop, analysts agreed today. READ MORE

iPad 5 rumor rollup for the week ending March 26

In the iOSphere one doesn't need sources for rumors. Just unhinge one's imagination, propose a couple of untenable hypotheses, and deduce. READ MORE

U.S. to scrutinize IT system purchases with ties to China

Certain U.S. federal agencies could be hindered from buying information technology systems made by companies with links to the Chinese government under the new funding law signed by President Barack Obama earlier this week. READ MORE

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Data's Journey to the Cloud

As IT environments evolve to hybrid cloud computing, strategic IT oversight and best-practices life-cycle data management are key imperatives to help ensure oversight, service levels, and security. This white paper examines cloud options as it relates to storage and explains the benefits a cloud-enabled storage architecture can offer. Learn More

It's twilight for small in-house data centers

Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. READ MORE

Sabotage suspected in Egypt submarine cable cut

Egypt said it has arrested three men suspected of slicing a crucial undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, causing widespread problems from Kenya to Pakistan. READ MORE

Airport's CIO Turns to Mobile App Helps Harried Travelers

Dallas-Fort Worth airport's smartphone app makes it easier for customers to find their gate, food and a parking place READ MORE

10 Ways Tech Is Making Fast Food Personal

Fast food restaurants want to use technology--theirs and yours--to create a highly intimate customer experience. Your personal device and the restaurant's own systems will exchange data, for your convenience and their profit. Fast food becomes not so much a destination, but a service that follows you from mealtime to mealtime. READ MORE

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This paper looks at new approaches to service delivery management to allow IT organizations to deliver better service quality, performance and user experience, and to be more predictive with application performance management and network performance management. Learn More.

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