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Jul 28th, 2011 |
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The application-layer DDoS threat actually amplifies the risk to data center operators. That’s because IPS devices and firewalls become more vulnerable to the increased state demands of this emerging attack vector – making the devices themselves more susceptible to the attacks. Moreover, there is a distinct gap in the ability of existing edge-based solutions to leverage the cloud’s growing DDoS mitigation capacity, the service provider’s DDoS infrastructure or the dedicated DDoS mitigation capacity deployed upstream of the victim’s infrastructure.
Current solutions do not take advantage...
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Jul 27th, 2011 |
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Check out the linked article from popsci.com. It reviews how researchers at Microsoft propose using servers installed in office buildings and apartments as “data furnaces” to keep people warm, effectively using what is today waste heat. This kind of thinking can help to prevent implementing “Super Cool Biz” programs in your city, as documented by John Hamalka, the CIO of Harvard Medical Center, who is attending Trend Micro’s Direction Conference in Japan. (I was planning to be there as well but my physician – not from Harvard – grounded me for a week or...
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Jul 21st, 2011 |
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Riverbed just announced the acquisition of virtual appliance and cloud load balancing company Zeus Technologies. Zeus is an almost 15 year old startup that competes directly with F5 and Citrix Netscaler. I have a unique perspective on this, as I was Director of Product Management at NetScaler, responsible for the advanced acceleration features of the load balancer, and then for the acquisition of Orbital Data, which became WANscaler, Citrix’s competitor to Riverbed. As if that wasn’t enough, then I went to work for Zeus to replace their departing CTO. I ended up running marketing for Zeus,...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security
Jul 17th, 2011 |
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Cloud computing has a capacity problem. A big one. No matter how many data centers we build, we’ll always be behind the curve of demand for capacity. I’ve been predicting since 2008 that ambient clouds will become the dominant way of delivering cost-effective, performant cloud capacity. It’s the only way I can imagine serving every human on the planet with cloud computing without exhausting our electrical generation capacity for data centers. In fact, one of the reasons I’m working for Trend Micro is that we have our own sizeable ambient cloud that handles more than 5 billion transactions...
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Jul 7th, 2011 |
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What awesome news. OpSource just got acquired at a premium by Dimension Data, itself a part of NTT. I’ve been an OpSource fan since Treb Ryan founded it as an MSP about a decade ago. Treb’s previous company, SiteSmith, was a major competitor to Mark Andreesseen’s company LoudCloud, which morphed into Opsware before it got acquired by HP. I took a hard look at acquiring SiteSmith for Exodus Communications and would gladly have done the deal if AboveNet hadn’t swooped in with an acquisition price so stratospheric it made my nose bleed. But I really liked Treb because he understood operations...
