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Zeus Bot Appears in EC2 Cloud, Detected, Dismissed
A virtual machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud has been used as a command and control host for a password stealing version of Zeus, says a senior researcher in the Internet Security Intelligence Initiative, part of CA's security unit. "This is a particularly juicy target," says another security expert.
Eric Zeman
Motorola Droid Is Gadget Of The Year
Time Magazine has named its top ten gadgets of the year. To what I am sure is the bitter disappointment of Apple, Motorola's Droid took the top spot. Does the Droid deserve such honors? Who was left out?
Serdar Yegulalp
IBM's Big Iron Speaks Linux
IBM's new Linux-based mainframe says a lot about the way a company can make Linux a cornerstone of its business. It's an all-Linux machine, one which might well spell out a high-end strategy for other hardware vendors to follow.
Jonathan Salem Baskin
IBM's Sexy New Sports Car
IBM has announced a new chip that could help a supercomputer achieve 10 petaflops, which is calculating power tantamount to the speeds Nature uses to form bubbles in sea foam and keep planets in orbit.
George Crump
Why Stop At Automated Storage Tiering?
Automated tiering, the transparent movement of data based on activity or type, is quickly proving itself to be a hot consideration for storage managers but why stop at automated tiering? Can’t we make the entire storage ecosystem respond automatically based on environmental conditions and its available resources?
Nicole Ferraro
Judges & Lawyers Can't Be 'Friends'
Florida's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned friendships between lawyers and judges on Facebook... because it's that important
Tracey Hughes
Here's to the First Responders!
We admit to throwing around some pretty charged terms in a loose fashion. Sometimes we forget that not everybody is drinking the koolaid. We [assume] that words like paradigm, architecture, and model mean the same thing to everyone. Of course we are wrong (what they say about 'assume' is still in effect).
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We need to develop smart new ways to deliver the computing power employees require while ditching the fat desktop PC with its replacement cycle treadmill.
CIO Profiles: Marc Probst, VP And CIO Of Intermountain Healthcare
One of Intermountain's top projects: an enterprise picture archive communication system.
Down To Business: The 'Jobs Summit' And The Role Of Government
Policy makers don't 'create' IT and other jobs without introducing a ton of waste. They do best when they grease the skids of output and trade.
Practical Analysis: 802.11 -- The Blu-Ray Of Wireless
While useful, 802.11n is unlikely to be game-changing technology in most enterprise settings.
Rolling Review: Zinstall Runs Windows 7 and XP
If your users aren't ready to let go of XP as you upgrade to Windows 7, Zinstall can help.
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Bob Evans
Global CIO: Riverbed Sees Cloud Computing Boom In 2010
With CIOs looking to the cloud to help rekindle growth and CEOs dazzled by the economic promise, Riverbed is very bullish on cloud computing.
Robert L. Otto
Government CIOs Must Focus On Results, Not Data Centers
Data center proliferation entails unacceptable cost and risk, says the former CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. With cloud computing as an option, it's time to pursue a more sustainable strategy.
Rob Preston
Down To Business: The 'Jobs Summit' And The Role Of Government
Policy makers don't 'create' IT and other jobs without introducing a ton of waste. They do best when they grease the skids of output and trade.
Art Wittmann
Practical Analysis: 802.11 -- The Blu-Ray Of Wireless
While useful, 802.11n is unlikely to be game-changing technology in most enterprise settings.
Alexander Wolfe
Wolfe's Den: Intel CTO Envisions On-Chip Data Centers
Justin Rattner, chief technology officer at the chip giant, talks about the explosion of multicore processing, bringing security to cloud computing, and processor-based networking.
Fritz Nelson
Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent
An interview with the city's mayor and IT principals about DataSF.org and its groundbreaking applications
Chris Murphy
Global CIO: General Motors CIO On 4 Essential IT Skills
He'd like to hire people with all 4 into the new GM. But how can IT pros get this broad experience?
Brian Gillooly
Global CIO: Building A Brand Takes IT Flexibility
There are fundamental differences in how marketing and IT see their roles, and the world. And it's bad for a company's brand when the CIO and marketing execs don't get along.
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