Metalogix, a provider of content infrastructure software to improve the use and performance of enterprise content on Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, File and Cloud platforms, has announced the industry’s first dynamic email management suite to transparently migrate, store, secure and protect email and file content for on premises and hybrid cloud environments. The new solutions, Metalogix Archive Manager Exchange Edition 6.0 and Metalogix Email Migrator 1.0, operate in tandem to enable enterprises to achieve a dynamically scalable email and file archive which reduces complexity, mitigates risk and improves user productivity with the flexibility and control that enables them to adapt to changing enterprise needs.

«Today’s enterprise is under constant pressure to preserve, protect and produce business content to suit ever-changing international regulatory requirements,» said Christine Taylor, analyst at Taneja Group. «Archive repositories easily reach into petabyte scales and are constantly growing. This pace will not slow down. Companies need an adaptive email management solution that optimizes and simplifies massively growing volumes of data. This includes managing compliance and data retention, storage and migration, data protection, and discovery; turning huge email archives from black holes into valuable businesses assets.»

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Inside the world’s companies and government departments, IT organizations have traditionally focused on delivering to internal customers. This has created an environment where IT is expected to align the services it delivers with age-old business processes that have evolved over years of operation, and is focused on efficiency. Delivering innovation and new ideas has become fraught with unnecessary complexity and internal politics, and strategically IT remains a back-office function.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, things have changed. IT is now front of house, delivering to consumers via online and mobile apps, whose expectations are higher. IT is part of the customer relationship and, as a result, it is expected to deliver its service promise and for problems not to occur. Social media has meant that when there are problems, they occur publicly. In the time it can take to raise a trouble ticket on a service management system, a consumer problem can surge on Twitter and reach thousands, damaging an organization’s reputation. At the same time, organizations now have access to more information about their customers and services than ever before, which provides huge potential for transforming their services.

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Growth is good, but sometimes it may not feel that way when the business you love has outgrown your ability to manage it. When Post-It notes can’t support your customers, it’s time to change. When you’re apprehensive about winning that big, new account because you don’t have the capacity to manage it, it’s time to change. Change came to Old Mill Kettle Corn, a company that manufactures healthy corn-based snacks, when McKee Foods Corporation a national snack food manufacturer approached it with a distribution offer that the company couldn’t refuse.
Old Mill Kettle Corn had never used an ERP platform or a formal food safety management system (FSMS) but with the imminent expansion and new market opportunities, management realized it was no longer feasible to use paper spreadsheets and manual processes to manage product quality, inventory, supply chain communications and other processing operations aspects.

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There is so much happening in the Cloud Computing world and everyone seems to want a piece of the cloud. Though more and more users are positive about deploying a cloud solution for their business, they are still unclear as to how much they would need to shell out for it. Many organizations are still reluctant and feel they won’t get the expected returns.
But this is not true and Cloud Computing does deliver organizations measurable benefits. Businesses that have deployed Cloud solutions have been talking about how it has helped them save their IT costs and be profitable in such tough times as well. They have achieved good returns from their investments in the Cloud and also have saved a lot.
If any organization or individual needs to ascertain how much it will cost to implement a Cloud solution they can easily do so. The cost of moving to the cloud can be estimated in two forms: i) Cost of migrating and ii) the ongoing costs.

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The Internet is a dangerous place. There’s a new story on Ars Technica about a corporate or government hack almost everyday. So for those interested in how an enterprise-grade secure cloud backup solution handles data encryption, here is some background on a few of the security protocols used to protect customer data here at Zetta:

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS)
SSL is an Internet security protocol developed by Netscape in the late ’90s that is incorporated in browsers and web servers. The protocol uses the RSA public-key/private-key encryption system and digital certificates to establish a secure connection between the client and server over which data can be transmitted.

SSL has recently evolved into the TLS protocol, but both protocols are still in use. When you see a website that starts with https instead of http, it requires an SSL/TLS connection. Both protocols are IETF standards. While the SSL Working Group is no longer active, the TLS Working Group is, and has issued a number of documents on the protocol since the start of the year. SSL/TSL differs from a complementary IETF protocol Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) in that S-HTTP is designed for sending single messages, while SSL/TSL creates a secure connection over which any amount of data can be sent.

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There’s been lots of buzz on the enterprise hypervisor front over the past month … In August, Microsoft announced the RTM version of Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2, the latest major releases of the Windows Server and System Center families. In addition, at VMworld this year, VMware announced the latest edition of their vSphere hypervisor platform: VMware vSphere 5.5. In this article, I’ll provide a summarized comparison of the virtualization and Private Cloud feature sets provided by each of these latest releases using the currently available public information from both Microsoft and VMware as of this article’s publication date …

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The bad thing about price differentiation is that it is also the most easily countered. What happens if Cisco announces dramatically lower price-per-port when they spin Insieme in? They don’t even have to beat Arista; they just have to be close enough that the price part of the equation is roughly a draw. If Cisco does this, the most newsworthy element of Arista’s big product launch is largely neutered. That is not to say that Cisco will match on TCO but rather that their go-to-market strategy will effectively counter what Arista had previously launched.

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Finding the right tools is essential to any project. The good news is that there is already multitude of companies and products out there for supporting WebRTC developers–more than 70 and growing every week. WebRTC’s is still in its infancy, so this number could easily double in the next couple of years as adjacent industries and the laggards get on board. The bad news with the large number of tools out there means there are a lot of hard choices for developers and application architects to make. Complicating these decisions, WebRTC standards are still in progress with several contentious issues yet to be resolved.
In his session at the WebRTC Fundamentals Summit, Chad Hart, Director of Product Marketing at Oracle and Chief Editor of webrtcHacks, will provide some starting guidelines and observations to help developers get started with WebRTC.

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Regardless who you ask, regardless what study or poll you read and regardless of who you talk to, time and time again, the markets’ main concern with Cloud based solutions are shown in the form of security. Now, most Cloud computing security concerns come in a pretty standard worry: consumers are worried: – Their data will be hacked and stolen by evil doers – Data will be lost due to weather, blackouts, natural disasters etc While the former is possible – hacking does happen to even the largest, most well protected companies/government divisions, the latter is a misnomer of sorts. For the public, the Cloud is still viewed as a public utility, susceptible to power outages, floods, blizzards etc. To the public, the Cloud resembles local power supplies however this sentiment couldn’t be further from the truth. Cloud Security Concerns: Data Centers & Backups For the consumers worried about Cloud based security and moving your local IT solutions to the Cloud, we recommend you read our blog on Cloud Security Tips. Outside of Cloud security as seen through the lens of data centers, another aspect of Cloud computing security is how your provider handles backing up your data. To learn more about how Solar VPS backs up your critical data, view our Cloud Minute Vlog or simply watch it below: Now, time to flesh the Cloud Minute out. Cloud Security: Storage Space The first need for any Cloud host worth their salt is the amount of space they offer their clients to backup their Cloud server. In terms of Solar VPS, we offer our clients between 20GB – 200GB of storage space. This means, Solar VPS will backup the entire contents of your server in so far as the data amounts to 20GB – 200GB of storage or until the amount of data of your server eclipses the 200GB mark. Pretty straight forward, pretty simple to understand. Cloud Security: Full Followed By Incremental With storage limits established, the next thing you, as the consumer, need to know about/ask your provider is the process of backing up servers. By this we mean, is your Cloud server backed up fully? Is your server backed up in snapshots? Is your Cloud server backed up incrementally on top of a full backup? You need the answer to these questions. To answer those questions, here at Solar VPS we take a full backup of your Cloud server. Following this backup, anytime you add data to your server, we incrementally backup your server data layered on top of your original full Cloud server backup. This ensures all your Cloud data is backed up and stored securely. Cloud Security: Offsite Backups The first step is potential storage space. The second step is full followed by incremental backups. The third step is offsite data center storage. The truth of the matter is it’s great to have a provider backup your Cloud server however it is also vitally important for your provider to store your Cloud server backup in … Continue

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HP has announced new cloud-based analytics as a service built on HP’s HAVEn Big Data analytics platform, helping clients solve business problems and create new revenue opportunities. By leveraging HP HAVEn, clients can more effectively analyze and derive value from their information, such as increase sales with targeted client offerings, improve supply chain performance, detect fraud or discover security risks.
HP Enterprise Services delivers end-to-end Big Data and Analytics solutions to make information actionable for clients in key domains and industries. Solutions include: Customer Intelligence, Supply Chain and Operations, and Sensor Data Analytics in industries such as Communications Media and Entertainment, Consumer Goods, Retail, Travel and Transportation, and Public Sector.

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