VMware steps up competition with Amazon Web Services by hiring away its international technology evangelist. IT Jobs: Best Paying Titles Of 2014 (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Simone Brunozzi was named chief technologist and senior VP for VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service. He was recruited from Amazon Web Services and said he’ll miss working with “great people like (CTO) Werner Vogels,” but can’t resist going over to the opposite side. VMware has urged its third-party partners to step up and compete more effectively with Amazon for cloud customers. At its Partner World in April, president Carl Eschenbach urged them to bypass being beaten by a would-be technology company “that sells books.” Now VMware is recruiting former booksellers into its own ranks: among his other credits, Brunozzi said he used to be a novelist. VMware announced Friday that Brunozzi has resigned from Amazon as a senior technology evangelist to aid VMware establish the cloud credentials of its vCloud Hybrid Service. Brunozzi grew up in Assisi,... Read More »

Eric Chiu, co-founding father of HyTrust, says cloud operations would require “layered security” and encrypted virtual machines when at rest. Much was written recently about how willing enterprises are emigrate a number of their operations into the cloud. That move to the cloud would proceed much faster if security weren’t still an overpowering worry and consideration. In the second one half 2013, Forrester Research conducted its usual Forrsights Hardware Survey and located enterprise hardware buyers greater than willing to utilize cloud servers, but they were limiting their use as a result of unresolved concerns over security. In that survey, 73% of IT decision makers were considering public cloud security, and 51% were thinking about their very own private cloud security. The cloud now represents not just concentrations of compute power and storage, but in addition a concentration of security, given the possibility of mischief or disaster if those centralized resources fall into the inaccurate hands. Whether it is a private cloud within the virtualized enterprise... Read More »

UK agency’s effort to gather facial images via Yahoo chat sessions brings in too many other body parts. 9 Android Apps To enhance Security, Privacy (Click image for larger view.) The Five Eyes, a term used to explain the transnational intelligence-gathering alliance between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the united kingdom, and the united states, will be more aptly named the Million Eyes, to mirror more accurately the agencies’ ability to access webcam communications. The UK’s GCHQ intelligence service, with the aid of the NSA, reportedly grabbed snapshots from millions of Yahoo users’ webcam chat sessions in recent times, about 7% of which contained “undesirable nudity.” On Thursday, in line with documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Guardian published information about an intelligence-gathering program called Optic Nerve, which began in 2008 and continued a minimum of through 2012, designed to check facial recognition technology and to spot persons of interest. [Should Google Glass users learn self-defense? Read Google Glass Prompts Attack, Woman Claims.] Optic Nerve... Read More »

Unlikely partners team to present Desktop-as-a-Service on Google Chromebooks. Will pricing lure users to head faraway from Windows XP systems? 6 Ways SDN Shakes Up The Enterprise (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) VMware has teamed up with Google to produce virtualized Windows desktops on Chromebooks. The move comes at a time when many enterprises, uncertain of what desktop to adopt next, have delayed moving off Windows XP or moving to Windows 7 or Windows 8. VMware and Google executives claim companies can save $5,000 a head over other PCs with their joint arrangement. Which can entice the estimated 29% of enterprise users still running Windows XP. Microsoft has announced it would end technical support for XP on April 8. VMware and Google announced the partnership at VMware’s Partner Exchange show this week in San Francisco. Windows applications haven’t previously run on Chromebooks, a skinny Web client whose slimmed-down Linux operating system was designed primarily to display feedback from applications running on Internet servers.... Read More »

Tech companies, advocacy groups, and Internet users rally to demand that governments limit online surveillance. 20 Great Ideas To Steal (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) On Tuesday, a coalition of businesses and advocacy groups have scheduled a sequence of events around the globe to induce governments to reform surveillance practices. The protest against mass surveillance, inspired by the months of revelations in regards to the reach of the usa National Security Agency and designated “The Day We Fight Back,” was announced last month at the anniversary of the death of technology activist Aaron Swartz. It’s also intended as a reminder of the defeat two years ago of the Stop Online Piracy Act, a up to date high-water mark for online activism. By midday Pacific Time, the coalition’s website said that it has facilitated more than 37,900 calls and over 86,000 emails to legislators. A Google lookup the JavaScript code particular to the coalition’s protest banners suggests almost 1,000 of them has been put on websites.... Read More »