HP puts compute, storage, and networking in a single box so Salesforce.com customers can run private instances of its sales, service, and marketing clouds. Salesforce.com announced a strategic partnership with HP on Monday so that it will bring financial services, healthcare organizations, government agencies, and other large, security-sensitive organizations an choice to run private instances of the Salesforce sales, service, and marketing clouds. HP is contributing the hardware for all-in-one, appliance-style Salesforce Superpods in order to run in Salesforce.com datacenters but which are designed to offer large, demanding organizations their very own instance of Salesforce and, thus, a brand new level of control services impossible with a traditional instance from the vendor’s multi-tenant public cloud. “The salesforce.com and HP partnership is a breakthrough in cloud computing,” Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, said in a statement. “The Salesforce Superpod will allow individual customers to have a dedicated instance inside the Salesforce multi-tenant cloud, powered by HP’s technology and entirely managed within salesforce.com’s world-class data centers.”... Read More »

Lookout’s analysis of the mobile threat landscape suggests businesses should specialise in curbing risky online behavior. 16 Top Big Data Analytics Platforms (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) As more companies allow employees to bring their very own devices to work, they’re opening the door for cybercrime. Based on its review of 2013 data from greater than 50 million users of its Android mobile security software, Lookout expects cybercriminals this year to attack mobile devices because the weak link in heavily monitored enterprise networks. “The borders that traditionally protected companies at the moment are more porous because individuals are bringing their phones from homes to work day after day,” said Jeremy Linden, security product manager at Lookout, in a phone interview. “This enables attackers to get behind your firewall. We do think this type of thing turns into more prevalent in 2014.” Apple’s iOS presents less of a priority than Google’s Android on this regard, through malicious links and phishing are issues whatever the... Read More »

The US government now offers greater than 100 handy apps for mobile devices. Investigate new apps users rate highly. (Image: USA.gov, Apple) If you ever wondered in regards to the speed of your mobile broadband, there is a new app which could assess its performance and share the important points right for your smartphone. Speed Test, released as portion of the Federal Communications Commission’s “Measuring Broadband America” program, is only one of greater than 100 apps available from the government. Because it collects data, that’s then utilized by the FCC to create an in depth picture of mobile broadband performance nationwide, Speed Test raises some questions on user privacy. The FCC says its aim with this system and the app is to create open information, a top goal of the Digital Government Strategy. The agency claims that it won’t collect personally identifiable data within the process; instead, it is going to use the anonymous results to enhance both cellular and WiFi speeds on mobile devices.... Read More »

Hosting services giant enters cloud sector, aims to distinguish itself from competitors with high-speed, performance-guaranteed block storage. Internap Network Services moved into the general public cloud realm in November with its AgileCloud, and it’s now offering compute and storage services from its data centers located in key worldwide communications hubs. Internap is called large supplier of hosting services from its datacenters; that is answerable for the infrastructure, and its customers supply an application to run on it. Its services include both virtual servers and bare-metal servers devoted to a single customer. It has been edging as much as cloud services because it bought Voxel, with its automated management software, in late 2011. On Nov. 21, it announced it now offers “hybridized cloud services.” In its lexicon, this suggests that is offering customer self-service for infrastructure-as-a-service that may include multitenant hosts or bare-metal servers. Either option would be activated by customers throughout the OpenStack set of cloud APIs. If a customer uses Internap to construct out... Read More »

Startup’s “revolutionary” pCell wireless networking technology, which provides each device its own discrete bubble of wireless energy to enhance speed, could change industry.   Lost Smartphone? 6 Free Tracking Apps (click image for larger view) As he describes his company’s pCell wireless networking system, entrepreneur Steve Perlman, CEO of Artemis Networks, appears to be channeling Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. “I’m here to inform you about an incredible, revolutionary new technology in wireless,” declares Perlman in a video on his company’s website. The jargon comes straight out of Apple, where the words “amazing” and “revolutionary” are commonplace in company press releases. Perlman, who previously worked at Apple, has borrowed not just the superlatives favored by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, but in addition Jobs’ attire — an easy black shirt and jeans — to convince the area that his company’s pCell technology changes everything. Former Apple CEO John Sculley meanwhile has turned to Google jargon to endorse the technology. “pCell is an authentic ‘moon shot’ disruptive invention, a... Read More »