By Chris Brenton During its March patch cycle, Microsoft quietly fixed a remote code execution problem with the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is the service used for remote Windows system management, as well as remote desktop services. Identified as CVE-2012-0002, the exploit can permit an attacker to execute any command on the target system…
CloudTimes recently visited Piston Cloud’s offices in San Francisco and interviewed CEO Joshua McKenty. Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is an enterprise OpenStack company. Founded in early 2011 by technical team leads from NASA and Rackspace, PistonCloud’s technology is built on OpenStack, the fastest-growing, massively scalable open source cloud framework. The company’s core product, Piston Enterprise OSTM (pentOS) is the first cloud operating system built…
CloudTimes is proud to announce the sponsorship of the upcoming Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The summit will be held on April 3rd, 2012 and is the largest Cloud Data conference in 2012. Why is the next technology revolution a Data Revolution? Connect to speakers from Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce Data.com, Experian, Intuit, Battery Ventures,…
CloudTimes is pleased to be supporting the Cloud Analytics Summit which will provide an executive forum for corporate decision-makers to learn about the latest Cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions and strategies that can help them harness their ‘Big Data’ sources and integrate their systems and applications into a more productive enterprise-wide resource to achieve their corporate objectives. The Cloud…
The statement to work on the cloud may previously mean to daydream or to fantasize over something. This may have worked for creative jobs like writing and designing, but today to work on the cloud has a whole new meaning. In fact, a latest survey released by IBM stated that more and more companies find…
Hewlett-Packard (HP) rolled out its new security products at the last RSA Conference, which included a new risk management tool to assess IT assets, threats and operations to speed up remediation actions. The new Security Intelligence and Risk Management (SIRM) platform will serve as baseline information for IT people to gauge vulnerabilities and risks for…
Over the past year, cloud computing has changed from a technology buzzword into the reality of business. Even companies outside of the technology space are learning that a cloud solution can give them a significant edge over their competition. This edge is only heightened for small and mid-sized businesses, as these companies are usually riding…
Quick interview with Jean Foster, VP Marketing of Neustar. Discussion about Neustar’s Intelligent Cloud solution which enables the delivery of mobile services across operator networks. Also, mobile service provider can enhance the service with additional opt-in context for the subscriber. Interview led by Martin Tantow, Editor-in-Chief, CloudTimes.
Quick interview with Dimitri Sirota, VP Marketing & Alliances of Layer 7 about their API management portal and future strategy. Discussion about how mobile is changing the needs of communication companies across the globe. While enterprise customers and service providers have very different wants and needs, they both share a desire for a secure way to…
Operators will be able to expand into new areas as connected devices become increasingly central to people’s lives – but they need to be agile in order to exploit these opportunities, warns Telefonica Digital director of global partners and devices, Steve Alder. Alder, who spoke in the ‘Consumer Devices: Riding the Next Wave of Smart…