Dasha Bushmakin on Dec 31, 1969

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Industry Trends and Vision: Evolution toward Data Center Virtualization and Private Clouds

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 16, 2013

IT managers across the world are struggling to make their networks meet performance benchmarks, despite ongoing investments.

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Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Industry Trends, Vision, Private Clouds

DCIM Platforms - On the Verge of Tremendous Growth

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 12, 2013

"The recent proliferation of cloud services, and the rush among telcos to provide them, leaves the DCIM market potentially on the verge of tremendous growth."

~Martin Courtney, research analyst with Heavy Reading Service Provider IT Insider

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Tags: DCIM Platforms, Growth

Does Privacy Have a Future?

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 11, 2013

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin 

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Tags: privacy, future

Public Cloud Choices For Developers

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 10, 2013

Analysts James Staten, John Rymer, Vivian Brown and Phil Murphy interviewed 28 developer organizations published in "Forrester Wave: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q2 2013."  IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) options for developers were considered.

* A variety of providers were considered. PaaS platforms included Salesforce.com's Force.com, Microsoft's Azure and Google's App Engine, and runners-up IBM, Rackspace and Verizon Terremark.

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Tags: Public Cloud, Choices, Developers

Cloud and Human Resources Management

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 9, 2013

Planning around cloud involves manpower planning, recruitment, employee management, provision of materials, job leveling, compensation administration, training, timekeeping, etc.

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Tags: Management, Cloud, Human Resource

Creating a cloud security policy

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 8, 2013

As you are creating a list of questions for information security, what questions should you ask? Here is a list from Net Security from Creating a cloud security policy.

Perhaps a differentiation is the level of the organisation such as small business vs corporate. These considerations mainly apply to corporate organisations.

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Tags: Cloud, Security, policy

Microsoft plans for $677M data center expansion in Iowa

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 5, 2013

Microsoft has received tax incentives to help it with a $677 million expansion of west Des Moines, Iowa data center.

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Tags: Data Center, Microsoft, expansion, Iowa

End-to-end cloud security

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 3, 2013

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new encryption technique.

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Tags: cloud security

Kaspersky Lab’s "The evolution of phishing attacks 2011-2013"

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 2, 2013

According to the results of Kaspersky Lab’s "The evolution of phishing attacks 2011-2013" survey:

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Tags: Kaspersky Lab’s, phishing attacks

Characteristics of low-carbon data centres

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Jul 1, 2013

“IT efficiency (which includes higher utilization and performance improvements as well as purchasing efficient hardware) is the important issue on which to focus.”

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Tags: low-carbon, data centres