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Read Now In this Issue Sign up for MORE Network World newsletters Google fires back at Microsoft's claims of 785 returning cloud customers Cleveland Indians turn to SIEM in malware, botnet battle How to avoid 10 common Active Directory mistakes Instagram's Hyperlapse app gives videos a time-lapse effect Seagate scoffs at helium, ships world's first 8TB hard drive HP recalls 6 million laptop power cords that can pose fire and burn hazards Git legit in the enterprise VMware takes its best shot at cloud market Jive deepens integration with Cisco's WebEx and Jabber WEBCAST: IBM ING Transforms DevOps to Reduce Cost and Speed Delivery ING, one of the largest banks in Europe needed to reduce the high cost of isolated, inefficient application development. They chose IBM PureApplication System to move their IT infrastructure to a cloud-based shared service model. In this Webcast, ING executive, Mark Willemse, shares the lessons ING learned from this strategic initiative. Learn more Sign up for MORE Network World newsletters Daily News, Mobile & Wireless, Security and more... Read More   Google fires back at Microsoft's claims of 785 returning cloud customers Company claims 5,000 companies sign up for Google Apps every day, and thousands switch from Microsoft. Read More   Cleveland Indians turn to SIEM in malware, botnet battle For the Cleveland Indians' IT department, dealing with malware on behalf of hundreds of Windows-using employees at the baseball team's Progressive Field data center operations can be a little bit like a pitcher facing a stacked batting line-up: a constant battle. Using traditional anti-virus software from Sophos helps the team avoid infections, but can't keep pace with the boom in zero-day attacks. "When an Internet user goes to a website that has spyware, the system gets infected and tries to connect to a remote-control server somewhere," says IT Director Whitney Kuszmaul. "Most anti-virus doesn't catch a lot of things out there." + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Most websites are "One Day Wonders"—and that's worrisome +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   How to avoid 10 common Active Directory mistakes This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.Managing user privileges in a Windows setting presents numerous challenges for admins tasked with keeping everyone's information safe and secure. Serious damage can be accomplished by those with elevated privileges that have bad intentions, but sometimes vulnerabilities are introduced by IT admins managing Active Directory (AD). Below are 10 common mistakes:1. Everyday accounts with elevated credentials. Most security savvy organizations avoid this mistake by giving users with elevated privileges, such as a domain admin, a normal account to log onto their machine and a privileged, or, what many refer to as a .adm account, for elevated access. The reason for the separation is to avoid security breaches such as a spear phishing attack while logged into the account with elevated credentials.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Instagram's Hyperlapse app gives videos a time-lapse effect Instagram on Tuesday released Hyperlapse, a stand-alone app that will let people record longer videos and then speed them up for a time-lapse effect.The free app is currently available only in Apple's App Store for iOS 7 and up. The required APIs (application programming interfaces) are not currently available to launch the app on Android, an Instagram spokeswoman said. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012.Hyperlapse is designed to let people record video of longer events or experiences, such as a sunset, and then play them back in seconds. Users can play back videos up to 12 times faster.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Seagate scoffs at helium, ships world's first 8TB hard drive Seagate today announced it's shipping to enterprise customers the world's first 8TB hard disk drive, raising the bar against rivals such as Western Digital, which uses helium to boost its own drive capacity.Seagate's new 8TB drive comes in a 3.5-in form factor and is aimed at allowing corporate data centers to create more dense storage arrays for cloud content, object-based storage and data backups. Seagate Seagate's 6TB hard drive, announced in April, had an areal density increase that lept from from 831 bits per square inch in the previous 4TB drive to 1,000 bits per square inch.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   HP recalls 6 million laptop power cords that can pose fire and burn hazards   Hewlett-Packard has recalled more than 6 million laptop power cords that could pose fire and burn hazards.HP is recalling LS-15 AC power cords used with HP and Compaq branded laptops. The company is recalling about 5.6 million power cords in the U.S. and 446,000 units in Canada.The cord pulls out of one end of the AC adapter. It came with laptops and accessories sold between September 2010 through June 2012, HP said on its power cord recall website.There have been 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting, which led to claims for minor burns and property damage, HP and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Git legit in the enterprise Originally created as a distributed code management system for open source development, Git's popularity has skyrocketed as independent developers have adopted the tool for its speed, flexibility and powerful branch and merge features. The popularity has caught the attention of the enterprise, but Git has some hurdles to vault before it will work for everyone. Read More   VMware takes its best shot at cloud market VMware this week at its annual U.S. VMworld conference has focused intently on cloud computing, trying to prove that it is uniquely positioned as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider to deliver a consistent management platform across public, private and hybrid clouds. This builds on VMware's recent vow to become a Top 3 cloud provider. To back up its marketing, VMware this week has unveiled a slew of product news, including OpenStack support and new public cloud functions. It needed to do so, according to industry watchers and the company itself, since VMware is still in the earliest stages of executing its ambitious cloud strategy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Jive deepens integration with Cisco's WebEx and Jabber Jive Software has pushed out updates for the cloud versions of both its enterprise social networking (ESN) suite and its JiveX software for building external online communities.The main enhancement for the Jive ESN suite is what the company is touting as native integration with Cisco's WebEx and Jabber, following a partnership the vendors announced in May.Back then, Cisco said it was axing its WebEx Social ESN suite, formerly called Quad, and that it would resell the Jive suite instead.The bundle includes WebEx Meetings and Jabber for online meetings, Web conferencing, IM and audio/video communications, and Jive's ESN software. ESN lets employees build individual profiles with activity streams and do things like post status updates, blog, share and comment on documents, set up group workspaces and participate in discussion forums. The Jive-Cisco bundle was already live with some customers, like Thomson Reuters, but the vendors said they would better integrate their products.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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