Month: May 2010

Microsoft Official Calls For Updating Two Key Computer Laws

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Smith says updating both laws will help provide greater legal certainty related to cloud computing.

While lawmakers, industry, public interest groups and others debate how to update ECPA, there has been little discussion of also updating the CFAA. In an interview following his speech to the Gov 2.0 Expo this week, Smith noted one area that an update of CFAA could address is the ability of cloud service providers to sue those who may attack data stored by an indivdual in the cloud operated by a third party.

During a Senate Judiciary hearing late last year on legal issues related to cyber attacks, at least one witness also cited the need to update the CFAA.

“This includes the right of private response to computer penetrations, such as cyber counterattacks, by our government or private individuals or companies in retaliation for cyber intrusions.”

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/05/microsoft-official-calls-for-u.php

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BMC Software Comes Out with Its Own Cloud-Building Tool Kit

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In the original UCS partnership scheme, BMC provided the provisioning, change management and configuration software in the stack. Cisco, of course, provided the networking and a new central server. EMC and NetApp provided the storage capacity, VMware and Microsoft added their virtualization layers—depending upon the choice of the customer—and Accenture shaped the individual product deployments for customers.

Since then, UCS has added vBlocks, smaller modules of some of the aforementioned components, which can be integrated on a smaller scale and are not as daunting as a full-blown forklift overhaul to existing midrange and enterprise IT systems.

“This is a completely new product featuring a user self-service portal that people expect in private or public cloud environments,” Herb VanHook, vice president of strategy in the office of the CTO at BMC Software, told eWEEK. “It’s a bunch of out-of-the-box workflows to basically address one of the common use cases around setting up private or public clouds, and it’s also a lot of function extensions to existing products.”

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/BMC-Software-Comes-Out-with-Its-Own-CloudBuilding-Toolkit-142120/

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Private Cloud Computing Takes Off in Companies Not Keen on Sharing See full article from DailyFinan

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But Bryan Byun, general manager of cloud applications at Palo Alto, Calif.-based software company VMWare (VMW), says there’s something to the concept, at least for enterprises. “For a large company, we do see this as being different,” he said on May 25, where he, Stevens and other software executives convened for the Morgan Stanley Cloud Computing Symposium.

Software companies, which have focused most of their cloud computing efforts on public applications such as messaging and media, see increasing opportunity in the corporate world. “You may be more familiar with [Akamai] in the media and entertainment spaces, but you should become increasingly familiar with us in the commerce, the retail, the enterprise business-to-business portal,” said Chris Schoettle, executive vice president for products at Akamai Technologies (AKAM), the Cambridge, Mass.-based Internet infrastructure company that serves customers such as Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes.

For now, though, big companies are going to spend a lot of money building their own private clouds because the comfort level with public clouds isn’t high enough.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/private-cloud-computing-companies-not-sharing/19494957/

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Symantec to Move Security to Phone, Smart Devices

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Dave Cole, senior director of consumer products at Symantec, noted that the familiar Norton security products on the PC are directly related to Symantec’s enterprise-level products – the new initiative has no such connection. “We saw all the new stuff popping up, funky new devices just using the Internet as a utility, digital picture frames, Blu-ray devices that you hope will get updates online, and so on,” said Cole. “We have to make a big statement, enter the market quickly, and adjust quickly.”

The company will refresh this product and “make it more fabulous,” releasing a beta in June.

Also that month, Symantec will release a beta version of Norton for Android with features like scanning for bogus apps, remote wipe and lock, and caller blocking.

Site blocking at the DNS level means Norton can block malicious sites for any device – it also potentially extends the parental control offered in OnlineFamily.Norton to connected devices like game consoles.

The third element of the Norton Everywhere initiative is smart device security.

Mocana’s existing platform works with 35 operating systems and 70 different CPUs.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364208,00.asp

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