Researchers’ discovery could lead to super crypto chips

Posted by admin | Posted in Data Security, News, Security Central, Storage, Storage Management | Posted on 01-03-2010

Researchers at Florida State University have discovered crystals that could lead to super security chips as well as contribute to the discovery of materials that expand the capacity of electronic storage devices by 1,000 to 1 million times.

The security chips could store encrypted data written two different ways — electrically and magnetically — making extraction of the data more complex and so more difficult for attackers to decrypt.

Cisco, NetApp, VMware team up on virtualization security

Posted by admin | Posted in Cisco Systems, Netapp, News, Security, Security Central, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, VMware, Virtualization | Posted on 26-01-2010

Cisco, NetApp, and VMware Tuesday announced a project to improve the security of virtualization deployments, with a focus on isolating applications that use the same physical network, server, and storage resources in multi-tenant systems.

InfoWorld’s 2010 Technology of the Year Awards

Posted by Doug Dineley | Posted in Application virtualization, Applications, Blogs and wikis, Collaboration, Data Explosion, Data Management, Data center automation, Database Management Systems, Desktop Virtualization, Developer World, Development Environments, Development Frameworks, Development Platforms, Development Tools, Endpoint security, Green IT, Hardware, Infoworld, Infrastructure Services, Mobile Platforms, Mobilize, Network virtualization, Networking, News, Power Management, Processors, SAN, Security Central, Server Virtualization, Server hardware, Storage, Storage Management, Storage virtualization, Systems Management, Video and Web conferencing, Virtualization, Web Services, Windows, cloud computing, social networking | Posted on 06-01-2010

If you caught “InfoWorld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies” in November, you had a running start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our list of top products as well.