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Moving to the Cloud With NetApp

Friday, March 12th, 2010

burst-into-the-cloud-computingIn the face of current economic pressures, many IT organizations are turning to cloud computing (cloud computing). This solution is believed to reduce costs and increase efficiency in data centers.
In this case, the service provider / service (service providers) have an important role in the transformation of data centers and helps customers to realize the benefits of cloud computing.
To meet the increasing demand, NetApp launched new guidelines to the design and capabilities specifically oriented to service providers.
NetApp’s new solution will help service providers provide the difference in their cloud services, accelerate the time-to-market services, and to benefit in terms of cost and service levels.
Four new guidelines are:

* NetApp Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI): SOI using NetApp storage and serves as the basis for all IT design-as-a-service NetApp. SOI provides standardized and unified infrastructure that allows service providers to use storage, networking, and calculate the resources in a way over. This speed up the process time to market, increase flexibility, reduce costs and improve services.
* Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS): NetApp now provides a design guide that allows service providers to use rapid DPaaS, including archive and disaster recovery. This guide will help to reduce the cost and complexity and improve service and flexibility.
* Backup / Recovery as a Service (BRaaS): NetApp has joined with Asigra to provide design guidelines for running BRaaS solutions quickly and efficiently. The result is a BRaaS solution that allows service providers to meet customer demands that require service level agreements and cost reduction.
* NetApp Open Management: This capability utilizing the efficiency of NetApp storage solutions and storage services automation. Activation will be done by the NetApp Open SDK and API for web services and provide policy-based automation infrastructure. This allows service providers to connect IT service management and orchestration of the portal quickly and easily to the NetApp storage automation machines for service provisioning and storage protection is better and faster.

Various types of services can be supported by storage and computing solutions NetApp clouds. For example companies that Terremark provides cloud-based disaster recovery. Another example is, Softbank Telecom Corp.. which offers a hardware solution-as-a-service through the cloud. Supplier of energy-efficient data center famous in Japan, NTT Comware, also a NetApp storage users.

HP TRIM 7 Maximize SharePoint Server

Monday, March 8th, 2010

hp-trim7Microsoft SharePoint Server is gathering popularity of the company to manage the data. However, the explosion of large-scale data volume makes this business sometimes be difficult. Moreover, the present form of documents and information are not standard. Can be shaped blogs, wikis, discussion forums, forms, calendar, and work documents.
To optimize data management, recently introduced HP’s new solution, HP TRIM 7. This solution enables the identification, search, and management of all types of business information, either physical or electronic, is transparent. Supported applications include Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010 that will soon be launched
To help customers SharePoint Server, HP TRIM 7 provides two new modules:
* HP TRIM Records Management improve the management of business data by providing transparent access to all content stored on SharePoint Server in HP TRIM directly from SharePoint Server sites. In addition, the 5015.2 v3 certification from the U.S. Defense Department to HP TRIM shows that users have control of the highest level of data management for their enterprise content.
* HP TRIM Archiving help customers reduce the risk of losing data during the data pulled from storage and system resources from the SharePoint Server. This module maintains a list of perfectly specific objects in SharePoint Server, SharePoint site or the entire server, the HP TRIM. This is done behind the scenes so that users can turn off (offline) access to all SharePoint Server site, but can still access the information needed.
According to Tricia Bush (Director, Microsoft SharePoint), support for 7 HP TRIM Microsoft products demonstrate the two company’s commitment to openness and interoperability in the scope of content management.
Of course, it is beneficial for customers. For example the speed of implementation of solutions that take only a matter of weeks. In addition, increased search capabilities and pengindeksannya will reduce the search time critical information and reduce response time for the things related to the law, demands to comply with regulations, and audits. Efficiency can be achieved, according to some consumers who already feel it, can be up to 65 percent.

Beware Scam at World Cup 2010

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

symantecworldcupThe most prestigious soccer tournament, World Cup (World Cup) in 2010, precisely on June 11 next will be held.
With the presence of the World Cup, the 3.1 million tickets will be sold. In addition, there will be more than 400 million people worldwide who watch every game on television. Many fans who use the Internet to find tickets, accommodation, and flights. However, be careful. The problem cyber criminals such as spammers or scammers are scheming to attack Internet users to manipulate the World Cup.
Paul Wood (senior analyst at Symantec Hosted Services), said that the biggest football tournament this world would attract more than 1 billion fans, including cyber criminals. “According to history, sports events such as large-scale, this will lead to an increase in the number of cyber threats,” explained Wood.
“Phishing attacks increased 66% during the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Facts about put two undersea communication cables in the South African coast last July also exacerbate the threat level. History shows that evil activity increased in a country following the availability of new bandwidth, “added Wood through a written statement.
Therefore, users should be careful. The attack is called a 419 scam, spam, and phishing will disguise and woo Internet users through special offers related to the event. To avoid easy. “The rule is, if one looks very unlikely to be true, it probably is a scam,” beber Gordon Love (Africa Regional Director, Symantec).
These cyber criminals with some even picking up orek users’ personal information, the following bank account number, and credit card number for the user’s money drain. Sites that urge vigilance against any scam or spam is rampant.
Not wits, cyber criminals and then poison the user by displaying their fake web site on the first level of search results. “Users often assume that sites that appear first are legitimate sites / original, and perhaps to click these sites without first checking the source,” added Love. So, beware!

McAfee : Spammer at Tragedy News

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

mcafee.jpg“Jackson Still Life”, “Obama condemned the Pope”. That part of the subject that used to deceive the people through infected email.

Most, spam spread by “riding” on the topics of hot news, as reported in McAfee’s “Threat Report Q4 (PDF)” which was released in mid-February. The case of Air France plane crash and death of Michael Jackson in June 2009 continue to be a top theme for the email spammers during the year 2009, noted McAfee. Swine influenza (swine flu) also have contributed to the spread of malware to exploit the user.

Meanwhile, hacktivism (cyberattack political background) increased in the year 2009. In October of that year, the government of Poland reported experiencing an attack from Russia. Then the next interval of two months, namely December, a group calling itself the Army Cyber attack Iran to employees Twitter, Microblogging site that was up leaves.

Still in the same month, an email from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK are also affected by a hacker attack about two weeks before the ongoing climate conference in Copenhagen. Based on these events, some people believe that the attack launched by Russian hackers are hired to ward off global warming.

For the category of the world, the United States (U.S.) holds the title as largest spam producer. Followed by Brazil and India. Whereas most populous country in the world, China managed to bypass the United States and accused the suppliers of successful zombie botnet to infect computers to spread spam. “China has become a giant zombie with relying on SQL injection attacks,” explained Mike Gallagher (Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of McAfee Labs) in a statement.

Actually, the amount of spam last year had dropped in the fourth quarter by 24 percent over the third quarter. The volume of junk email (junk) in the whole world is still at an average amount of 135.5 billion per day. In conclusion, spammers still will rely on the news especially tragedy to trap victims.

Malware caused BSOD

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Again, rumors arose BSOD again. BSOD this time is not a Black Screen Of Death, but the Blue Screen of Death.
A rootkit detection Microsoft made Windows XP caused system crashes.
As a result of this news, many Windows users are starting to flood the Windows forum. Many of those who said after the Windows update on Tuesday (9 / 2), the computer BSOD tragedy they experienced. As a result, two days after a complaint is made through the forum, Microsoft had to stop update MS10-015, which is thought to be the main cause of BSOD.
Then, one day after the cessation of MS10-015 update, Microsoft finally issued a preliminary conclusion, which says that malicious software (malware) maybebsod be the cause. “Malware on the system may cause changes in behavior [computer],” wrote Jerry Bryant, a spokesman for Microsoft through the company blog. “However, we are still investigating other potential causes,” added Bryant.
Meanwhile, a Windows XP user named Patrick Barnes said that he would trace the problem to a malicious program known as the TDSS rootkit. In one of his posts to the Internet Strom Center, Barnes said that he had identified the files in nonworking system called atapi.sys. Surprisingly, when he analyzes the file, the file was changed to TDSS rookit. From a number of reports received, atap.sys is the most common cause of the tragedy blue screen in Windows.

Nokia Give A Secret Recipes in Bangkok

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

showcasenokiaCoinciding with Showcase Nokia 2010 event held on 22-23 February in Bangkok, Thailand, the Finnish mobile phone giant is to strengthen the foundation in providing business services.
In this case, Nokia and provide unparalleled solutions in a device to its customers.
Not only that. Hot news was revealed. In the month of March, was due to selling Nokia anyarnya devices, ie Nokia N900. Be oriented marketing itself in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Through the event, attended by more than 150 media, Nokia also revealed a deeper knowledge about the Ovi Maps version of “brand” it, even with digital design background as part of the program to the media for 2 days.
In accordance with the slogan “Connecting People”, Nokia’s success recipe is made from simple ingredients, the consumer satisfaction. Yes, the concept of customer satisfaction is always proven through a million applications downloaded per day so far in the digital shop Nokia.
Latest Ovi Nokia Maps can now be used also as a navigation feature driving and pedestrian covers 74 countries and 46 languages. Every day there is more than one download per second (24 hours a day), if In total there are around 100,000 download per day. The same applies also to Ovi Music. The average user WithMusic Comes to download 500 songs at no cost in the first week or for U.S. $ 600 when using iTunes. Catalog OviMusic to this news has revealed more than nine million songs.
Since launched in May 2009, Ovi Store currently has a “store” of choice for wireless developers in Asia Pacific. Southeast Asian region contributed the most with more than 30% Ovi Mail users worldwide. Meanwhile, Motorola Messaging services, push mail, and IM has been adopted pleh 8 operators in Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
“The benefits of global scale that Nokia offer to our partners such as operators, developers and vendors, is unrivaled,” said Chris Carr (Vice President of Sales, Southeast Asia Pacific, Motorola).
Carr also openly said that the competitor is Nokia even when no one offers a complete portfolio of services such as the world’s best maps, unique music solution with millions of songs, integrated IM solution, Push Mail, and much more.

iPhone Hacker Still Waiting

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

hackerAccording to surveys conducted by ESET-vendor anti-malware software from Slovakia, many owners of the iPhone-Apple smartphone debut-which is not so concerned about security of the smart phone.
“We do not see any serious protection among iPhone users,” explained James Abrams (Director of Technical Education at ESET) to CIO.com when Maxworld Expo event held in San Francisco.
Opinion was not merely made without proof. ESET’s because surveys the owner of the 1000 smartphone, with 35 percent are iPhone users, 32 percent of BlackBerry users, and the rest is the latest smartphone user mix. The result, smartphone owners do not care about security issues very seriously. In fact, as many as 55 percent of the iPhone and BlackBerry users never lock their smartphones.


Although they look cool for smartphone security affairs, 40 percent of them said that concerned with the existence of malware attacks in mobile devices. From the survey also found only one of four people who actually use anti-virus software. Actually, the iPhone user can be immersed in the anti-virus to her smartphone. Unfortunately, Apple does not allow this because it has provided its own spyware that has been sold through the App Store.
Another survey results ESET is one of four smartphone users make purchases online application. One of the three users access banking sites or applications. Abrams explains, one of the main attraction to tempt hackers smartphone is a feature that combined with social networking account and email. Not far from there, online Banking activity is also able to attract hackers to act further. If you have this, hackers stay a matter of time, right?

HTC will launch smartphone with Windows Phone 7 based

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

htc miniHigh Tech Technology (HTC), one of the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world-rumored to be soon launched the first smartphone based on Windows Phone 7.
So far known as the HTC smartphone manufacturer carrying the Windows Mobile operating system Microsoft and Google’s Android mobile.
Peter Chou (President HTC), said that the Windows-based smartphones Phone 7 will be enriched with the full feature. “We will release it in the fourth quarter of this year, but we can not say more about this,” Chou explained at a briefing ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona mid-February.
HTC has been too often the first chance to see the various new software technologies that will be immersed into the newer smartphone. In this case, Microsoft even has provided hundreds of brand-new applications on its site.
Since it opened in 1997, HTC has been working with Microsoft software in small devices, ranging from Windows CE for Pocket PC 2000 to Windows Mobile. Both also have an ally in popularizing the Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone in a slim design. The presence of Research In Motion (RIM) BlackBerry OS, Apple’s iPhone and Google Android OC also had a chance to make the two companies losing market share.
At the end of 2009 last year, market researcher Canalys announced that Windows Mobile was ranked fourth in the number of units in the global smartphone market. The number one market share is only 8.8 percent, down from 13.9 percent in 2008. While Google’s Android trailed in fifth, with 4.7 percent of the market, up 0.5 percent from the year 2008. Third place filled by Apple that jumped from 9.6 percent in 2008 to 15.1 percent in 2009. While RIM occupies second place with a jump of 16.5 percent to 20.8 percent.
Then, who was in first position? Symbian. Leading smartphone operating system is reaching the top position with a significant spike, although the market is pretty much the amount is also decreased from 52.4 percent in 2008 to 47.2 percent in 2009.

Fujitsu and Symantec: Better Collaboration

Monday, February 15th, 2010

handshakeIn order to provide integrated solutions to serve customers better, Fujitsu chose to walk with Symantec in a global strategic partnership.
Cooperation is particularly surrounding areas of data protection, storage management, and security information.
Fujitsu and Symantec in this regard will combine ETERNUS storage system and PRIMERGY servers, along with softwarede facto Symantec Endpoint Protection. supporters of NetBackup, Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery and Storage Foundation. Security solutions including
In addition, through this cooperation, both Fujitsu and Symantec will jointly identify the needs of customers who want to streamline data center management, also improve the utilization of IT investments. They also will provide solutions that are tightly integrated products and services of each party.
Departure from this strategic partnership, in turn opens opportunities for both companies to expand cooperation in areas targeted product development for global markets. Masami Yamamoto (Corporate Senior Executive Vice President of Fujitsu), says that with the merger of these two forces will rely on Fujitsu storage and server software combined with Symantec will be able to deliver competitive solutions to its customers.
In the end, cooperation is Fujitsu and Symantec wants to target the various layers of customers. Scale companies ranging from medium to large-scale enterprise. Another aim was to help reduce costs and meet the needs of information, as well as risk management.

Panasonic Moving into the Cloud Computing

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

cloudcomputingPanasonic Corporation, in the year 2010 it began to move toward cloud computing. It also helped IBM LotusLive thanks to the support that is useful for connecting employees.
Employees are also communicate and collaborate effectively with a network of customers, partners, and its global suppliers through a cloud-based community.
LotusLive.com services debutants Panasonic IBM adopted primarily to assist in web conferencing, file sharing, instant messaging (IM) and project management. In addition, LotusLive Connection also implemented to manage the business of social networking among employees, partners, and suppliers to share the right knowledge at the right time too.
As part of this program, Panasonic also mean employees migrated from Microsoft Exchange or other collaboration software to LotusLive for email, setting schedules, and so on.
“LotusLive an integral tool for our employees as a global company,” said Mitsuhiro Aoyama (Vice President, Corporate Information Systems Company Panasonic Corporation). “This will help us work more safely with our partners and our customers as if they were in the same location with us. Panasonic result can prove his promise to make trade and teamwork more quickly and efficiently throughout the world, “he added.
Some features are added LotusLive of language support to sustain LotusLive iNotes, IBM’s e-mail service, privacy, and security for millions of mainstream business users with the price of $ 3 per user per month. LotusLive offers social networking services, collaboration and integrated e-mail to simplify and improve the daily business interactions with customers, partners and coworkers. Ujinya version is available for free for 30 days here.
Meanwhile, the market estimates show that global cloud computing is expected to grow with a compound annual rate of 28% from $ 47 billion (in 2008) to $ 126 billion in 2012.