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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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Secure POS Vendor Alliance Releases End-to-End Encryption Security Requirements

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Prepared by the association’s End-to-End Encryption Technical Working Group, the newly released SPVA guideline allows companies to engage different solutions and select products that can be trusted and are secure. The SPVA defines end-to-end as: the transmission of cardholder data in an encrypted form, from its point of presentment, such that it prevents the data from being known in plain text until the point of decryption.

Against this backdrop, our goal is to use existing published standards and provide an auditable set of requirements that creates a secure payment environment.” Its aim is to develop an end-to-end security framework and to enhance security elements of payment solutions which protect cardholder information and defend merchants and acquirers against security breaches, while helping reducing fraud and lowering risk for all electronic payment stakeholders.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS125798+27-May-2010+MW20100527

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