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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems

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Here is an excerpt of the report IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems 2014 Vendor Assessment ( 21 pages, $15,000) written by analysts Eric Sheppard, Iris Feng, Kevin Permenter and Jed Scaramella. IDC opinion Over the past several years, the IT infrastructure market has been on a path of rapid evolution and consolidation. As customer priorities […]

No Longer Practical For Google To Update Android's Critical Security Flaw

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Google's Adrian Ludwig has taken to Google+ to talk about the security issues around the new policy of not supplying patches and support to exploits of WebView on devices running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or older. While it does explain Google's thinking behind only supporting the last two major versions of Android, it abandons a significant majority of Android users because "it was no longer practical."

Don't blame sharks for Asian Internet problems, experts say

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It may not be Shark Week, but don’t tell that to people in Vietnam.Internet connections in the South East Asian nation have been affected by problems with the Asia America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable system for the fourth time in a year, according to local news outlets. The cause of the outages? Sharks, if you believe some online reports.As AAG has the highest capacity of cable systems linking to Vietnam, faults can have big consequences for its international Internet bandwidth.Vietnam’s latest woes aren’t the first time sharks have been made out to be a threat to the Internet.

VMware Rolls Out vCloud Air Enhancements

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Despite being the home of virtualization, one of the core technologies on which the cloud is built, VMware had, until recently, been a little slow building a credible cloud offering. Its vCloud Air family of products however changed this and started to offer some real cloud-value, especially to customers that already lived [...]

Next Generation Authentication: Meeting the Needs for Today’s Service-Oriented IT

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Next generation authentication solutions are being designed and introduced as a reaction to a number of interconnected IT megatrends. These trends have created a situation in which traditional authentication solutions don’t meet enough of the demands of changing IT service delivery. The rise of mobile computing, delivery of IT services through a mixture of on-premise…
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