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Bugat Joins The Mobile Revolution: BitMo Hijacking SMS-Borne OTP’s #INTH3WILD
In somewhat tardy fashion, Bugat joins the lineup of banking malware that makes use of SMS capturing mobiles apps. The first occurrences of such malware were observed in use by Zeus and SpyEye Trojan...
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A Dark Side Of Big Data Reveals Itself
Through the lens of history, every technological innovation has been a two-edged sword. Fire cooks -- and burns. Oil powers our economy, and fills the air with carbon. Nuclear power can deliver...
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Top 3 Skills Your IT Team Needs to Prepare for the Cloud
I just wrote an article for the vCloud blog which is titled “Top 3 Skills Your IT Team Needs to Prepare for the Cloud“. Although it is far less technical then I normally post here, it might still be...
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Thanks for making the book promotion a huge success!
I just want to thank everyone for making the vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive book promotion a huge success. Thanks for sharing the news with your colleagues / friends / readers! Frank...
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Available now: VMware Technical Journal, Summer 2013
For those like me who love reading research papers by developers you might want to head over to labs.vmware.com as today a new version of the VMware Technical Journal was released, the summer 2013...
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RSA Archer Shines in SC Magazine Review
So far June is proving to be a celebratory month for RSA Archer. This week, SC Magazine published a review that deemed the platform as “scalable, enterprise-focused, and content-rich.” We’re honored...
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Contribute: Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations
Most of you have probably seen the announcement Frank did yesterday… Frank, Cormac, Vaughn and I are working on this book project called “Tweet sized vSphere Design Considerations” and we need YOU,...
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Business Analytics As A Service: A Real World IT Journey
IT refashions itself as the internal service provider of choice: creating services that business people want to consume. But -- once this model gets past the garden variety stuff: better end-user...
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Dissecting a Cybercriminal Heist – Podcast #248
In May 2013, the U.S. Dept. of Justice indicted several members of a cyber criminal gang allegedly responsible for the largest coordinated cash heist from thousands of ATMs across 26 countries. The...
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When Public Cloud Isn't Cheaper
The economics of various cloud models has been hotly debated back-and-forth for over four years. Are public clouds cheaper? Are private clouds cheaper? Under what circumstances is one form of cloud...
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From Storage Products To Storage Workloads
We, as technology vendors, are collectively obsessed with products and technologies -- not only our own, but those of our competition. Our fixations on debating the merits of Product A vs. Product B,...
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When Enterprise IT Met Macroeconomics
I came across a fascinating read that juxtaposes two of my favorite subjects: enterprise IT and macroeconomics. In "How The Internet Is Making Us Poor", Christopher Mims reprises an excellent case...
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Offering Your Users Hadoop-As-A-Service
It's great to see so many businesses start to experiment with Hadoop and its unique toolset. But I'm sure all this exciting experimentation is creating more than one headache for the IT team. Today,...
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Going To EMC World? Interested In Software-Defined Storage?
EMC World is right over the horizon (May 6-9 in Las Vegas) and we’re all busy making preparations. If you're debating whether or not to attend, I'd strongly recommend it -- every year the event is...
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Escaping The Channel Partner Vise
One of the more interesting things I've done recently was speak with the executive leadership of one of EMC's valued channel partners. They were going through a strategic planning cycle, and wanted an...
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NYSE Technologies and The Community Cloud
Almost two years ago, I wrote about how NYSE Technologies was launching a "community cloud" targeted at the financial trading community. At the time, it was a brave experiment, with powerful ideas...
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My Thoughts On HP's Moonshot
This morning, HP took a bold step forward with formally unveiling their "Project Moonshot" -- a new class of servers targeted at (apparently) hyperscale web server farms. While I'm certainly a big fan...
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The New "How Can We Help?"
Historically, I've done a *lot* of direct customer and partner interaction. I've always found that you can't fully appreciate what's really going on in the IT marketplace unless you spend a lot of...
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Open Group’s New Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard: How Trustworthy...
The English saying “You are what you eat”, just like many other aspects of culinary history, has its origin in France and more precisely from Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s “The Physiology of Taste:...
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GE Invests $105 Million In Pivotal
Occasionally, we get very clear signs that significant change is in the air. When large sums of money unexpectedly change hands, people take notice that something interesting and perhaps unexpected is...
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