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Monday, 30th January 2012

[REPORT] Twitter, LinkedIn Will See Slower Revenue Growth

Twitter and LinkedIn will continue to see strong advertising growth, with Twitter's revenue expected to nearly double between 2012 and 2014, according to a report by eMarketer Digital Intelligence. The report comes against the backdrop of Facebook's pending, initial public offering and illustrates that advertising models for social networks seem…

Dave Copeland comments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Gets Longer Lifecycle

Red Hat’s customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 are getting a little more breathing room when it comes to updates. The company announced today that it is extending the support life cycle from seven to 10 years for RHEL 5 and 6. Customers using RHEL 6 will have support through 2020. According to a FAQ from Red Hat, the move…

Enterprise Joe Brockmeier comments

Network Access Controls for Your Cloud

Today CloudPassage boosts security for your cloud-based servers by announcing an enhanced version of its Halo SaaS security tools called NetSec. The new version brings two-factor authentication methods for remote terminal access, as well as improvements to cloud firewall policy creation and management. As with earlier versions, the tools only work…

David Strom comments

Cloud Computing

Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011

Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year. "As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times," AWS Evangelist Jeff Bar wrote on the company's blog tonight. The…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

3 Ways Social Media Can Put Enterprises at Risk

While the basic risks of social media are well known to most enterprise security managers, there are many dark corners of social media that can be just as dangerous or even more so. Here are three ways that social media can sneak malware and exploits across your corporate firewalls, and ways that you can pay attention and hopefully prevent their…

Enterprise René Bonvanie comments

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