Companies high on virtualization despite fears of security breaches

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Network World Virtualization Alert Apr 25, 2016 Companies high on virtualization despite fears of security breaches While no one thinks security problems will go away, companies are willing to tolerate the risk in the name of agility, flexibility and lower costs. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Fave Raves: 29 tech pros share their favorite IT products • OpenStack's director: Why open source cloud should be the core of your data center • Top drone startups find venture capital flying their way • How IT teams navigate unlimited vacation policies • Magic Leap adds virtual reality head-tracking and possibly hand-tracking • Using AI to multiply the efforts of human InfoSec analysts • How to use intelligent automation to drive better cloud resource management • What is Amazon cloud's Lambda and why is it a big deal? White Paper: Neustar Inc April 2016 Security Operations Center Report In recent years, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks evolved from a novelty used to create a minor nuisance to a stealth weapon capable of crippling digital infrastructures. Read More ▶ Fave Raves: 29 tech pros share their favorite IT products IT pros' favorite tech products keep people productive and enterprise assets safe. Read More ▶ OpenStack's director: Why open source cloud should be the core of your data center OpenStack has cemented itself as the dominant open source IaaS platform. But at the same time, more proprietary offerings from vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and VMware reign in the market. OpenStack Foundation Director Jonathan Bryce makes the case of why open source cloud should be the foundation of your data center. Read More ▶ Top drone startups find venture capital flying their way With unmanned aerial vehicles (i.e., drones) here to stay, entrepreneurs are pouncing on the opportunity to safeguard people from having these flying machines drop in unexpectedly and venture capitalists are buying in. Read More ▶ How IT teams navigate unlimited vacation policies As more companies adopt this new benefit, IT leaders have the unique challenge of balancing employee time off requests with ensuring that essential tech functions -- like the help desk -- are sufficiently staffed. Here's how Akamai, CA Technologies and VMware make it work. Read More ▶ Magic Leap adds virtual reality head-tracking and possibly hand-tracking After more than a year and raising over $1.4 billion, the secretive venture offered a second sneak peek into its VR technology called mixed reality. Read More ▶ Using AI to multiply the efforts of human InfoSec analysts A system that mimics a human can be thought of as a system that generates an army of virtual analysts, but armies need leaders to direct and train them Read More ▶ How to use intelligent automation to drive better cloud resource management New tools allow enterprises to manage and coordinate virtually every aspect of IT, especially cloud resouces Read More ▶ What is Amazon cloud's Lambda and why is it a big deal? Amazon's Lambda service, and others like it, could usher in a new era of application development and cloud-based hosting. And perhaps most interestingly, it could be a replacement for one of Amazon's core cloud services: Virtual machines. Read More ▶ White Paper: Neustar Inc The Drivers And Inhibitors Of Cloud-Based External DNS In December 2015, Neustar commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the rates at which midmarket and enterprise firms are deploying their external DNS to the cloud, as well as the factors that both encourage and discourage such migrations. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS Most Powerful (Whatever) From A to Z Fave Raves: 29 tech pros share their favorite IT products Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Amazon to customer: $3B charge may stand as record 2. Cisco fixes serious denial-of-service flaws in wireless LAN controllers, other products 3. 19 free cloud storage options 4. One of GNU/Linux's most important networking components just got an update 5. NASA gives solar ionic propulsion a monster boost 6. 25 highest paying companies: Which tech co outranks Google, Facebook and Microsoft? 7. No, Apple didn't make $40 million mining gold 8. Google's CEO just called the next wave in computing, and it's not VR 9. RIP Prince, a legendary musician with a complicated Internet history 10. Meet a handheld server with a 13-terabyte SSD

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