network security

Gravity of Real-Time Security Issue in Today’s Cloud Environment The security has always been the core issue of the information technology since the advent of the concept of e-commerce and electronic transactions. There are the hundreds of thousands of security related threats that our networks encounter daily. If we analyzed the so-called big data, we would be astonished that billions of security events take place in our network elements daily. In fact, there are more than one billion events recorded just in a single Firewall network element. Is existing network security capable of dealing with the information in real time?

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How Cloud Computing Companies Make Their Data Centers Hacker-Proof Cloud computing naysayers have long cited security and privacy as their number one concerns. While more and more companies are adopting cloud services, many corporations and small businesses are still hesitant to embrace the cloud because of concerns about lax security and hacker attacks. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon claim to have extremely strong security and have never reported a major security breach. But smaller companies like Dropbox and Zappos have, but the breaches were typically due to internal programming bugs. The question is, should consumers believe that their data

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Cloud Anti-spam as an Alternative Anti-spam Technology Organizations with the flexibility to take advantage of cloud-based technologies, and without any legal or policy requirements to keep their email servers in-house, can find that cloud anti-spam solutions are a great fit for their messaging hygiene. Spam, phishing, and malware can consume significant resources when it comes to the bandwidth to transfer them, the disk space to store them, and the CPU and RAM required to scan them, and ultimately you are going to delete almost all of that junk. With cloud anti-spam, you can keep all that digital trash as far

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2012 Will Be All About the Data, and How We Manage It … Just as Julie Andrews taught us in Sound of Music (yes geeks can still like musicals), let’s start at the very beginning, which in this case is the data. We have all seen the stats about the astronomical data growth. IDC says we will be in the Zettabytes by the year 2020, and other experts think that will happen more quickly. Even if you are not dealing with “big data,” everyone in the coming year will face a cascading rise of digital data across a wide range of

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Evolution and Revolution with Cisco Data Centre Fabric Flexibility, scalability and security are the words most used in relation to cloud computing. However, flexibility and scalability are usually mentioned as advantages and security as a possible problem, but which the cloud computing industry is managing well. Data centers are all about scale and security, which forms the base of Cisco’s recent announcement, introducing innovative data centre fabric. The solution is presented as the most scalable and secure fabric in the industry, ready for physical, virtual and cloud environments. So what does it mean for cloud computing? Scalability and flexibility –

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