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Time to ReThink Network Security
On August 15, 2012, Saudi Arabia's national oil and gas company, Aramco, suffered a debilitating cyberattack. More than 30,000 computers were rendered inoperable by the Shamoon virus. US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described this virus as the most destructive weapon ever used against the business sector. Network security is a growing problem in the IT industry today. The very trends that have revolutionized users' access to data are the same ones that are leaving networks vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals.
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Upload
In what may be a prophetic view of our future, Upload focuses on a time where cyberspace and virtual reality have converged, showcasing both the promising potential and the dark underside of these new technological wonders.
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Content Insider #270 - Dull, Necessary
Whether it's at CES or the recent MWC devices get people excited and ready to whip out their credit card. Tell em there's more storage available and they yawn. No matter what we tell you we can't get you excited about storage options even though for all your creative work you still have to put that content...somewhere. storage in the device, portable or home storage, storage in the cloud -- they all rely on solid state, hard drives, tape, optical to keep your stuff. It's not glamorous...it's a fact of life!
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Content Insider #267 - Data Work
Cloud storage is a lot like the fifth dimension. You can think about it, talk about it but unless you're a real IT storage expert, hacktivist or cyberbad person you're not really certain what you're describing. Well you are because you know it's where you put all your really great stuff - photos, videos, fantastic ideas. Of course your really important stuff can be gone in the slightest wind shift but that's not important right now. You know you're doing your part in working and playing with only a little environmental impact because you're using the cloud in another dimension....
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Paring Blu-ray Archiving with the Cloud
Government agencies around the globe are faced with major tasks, major responsibilities -- preserve and protect data, content, information -- and major challenges - do more with less and minimize their IT footprint. It can be done with a creative mixture of technologies
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Working in the Cloud and On the Job
Professionals who work in the service field often have to juggle several tasks at once. Service techs have to make sales presentations and deal with customer service and still fix the problem they were hired for! They're basically a one-man show that travels from site to site, the ultimate multi-tasker, with so many projects and phone calls to handle that a person can't help but wonder how most even survive each day! But there's something out there to help these guys out with their busy life. By working in the cloud, contractors and techs can gain an extra pair of arms to make each day count. When working in the cloud, there are no risks or compromises, only faster, better, and more accessible tools for communication. The smartphone becomes just as important as the wrench in a plumber's toolbox.
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Optical Archiving in the Cloud
Data, content archiving is often considered as one complete solution but it is actually two phases. There is the active archiving where content is saved but frequently accessed. Then there is long-term or true archiving where content is safe, secure, available for 10s of years. It takes both solutions working in harmony.
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Petabytes are the New Terabytes
Digital storage plays an enormous role in the creation, distribution and use of rich media content. In addition, higher resolution content places increased demands on content archiving. The 2013 Storage Visions Conference (SV 2013, www.storagevisions.com), a partner event to the 2013 CES in Las Vegas, taking place January 6 & 7, 2013 will explore the implications to digital storage of all elements of the content value chain. The conference theme, based upon the growth in storage demand to meet rich media requirements, is "Petabytes are the New Terabytes." This article will explore trends driving the storage requirements for rich media that will be among the topics discussed at SV 2013. Much of the content here is extracted from the 2012 Digital Storage for Media and Entertainment Report from Coughlin Associates (http://www.tomcoughlin.com/techpapers.htm).
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DT Daily: Facebook takes aim at Craigslist, Halo 4 reviews arrive
Facebook takes aim at Craigslist, Halo 4 reviews arrive, the U.S. government launches a stolen phone database, Kim Dotcom reveals more details about his new cloud storage service, and Walmart teams up with streaming video company Boxee.
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In-House, In Cloud
While organizations large and small struggle to handle and manage Big Data they often find the sheer volume of video, data, content is overwhelming without carrying out some level of tiered storage to prioritize and add value to the information, video and audio.
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