Most data breaches caused by human and system errors

Symantec Corp. and the Ponemon Institute have released the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis which reveals human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012 and pushed the global average to $136 per record[1]. Issues included employee mishandling of confidential data, lack of system controls, and violations of industry and government regulations. Heavily regulated fields including healthcare, finance and pharmaceutical incurred breach costs 70 percent...

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DDoS for the data centre

Juniper Networks has announced the availability of Junos® DDoS Secure to protect data centres against increasingly complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. A key part of Juniper’s security portfolio, Junos DDoS Secure uses behavioral analytics and detailed network visibility to provide scalable protection against all major types of DDoS attacks.

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Converged infrastructure choices from Dell

New solutions optimised for applications and workloads from branch office to scale-out data centre.

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DataCore VDS 2.0 – The Virtual Desktop Server

DataCore Software has announced the release of DataCore™ VDS 2.0 software to make it simple and cost-effective to deploy persistent ‘stateful’ virtual desktops.

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Silver Peak integrates WAN Optimisation software with Dell Branch Data Centre-in-a-Box

Silver Peak Systems has announced integration of its virtual WAN optimisation software with the new Dell PowerEdge VRTX converged IT solution for branch offices. Silver Peak extends the Dell VRTX high-performance “data centre-in-a-box” capabilities with up to 20x faster communications to additional remote offices, data centres and the cloud over any Wide Area Network (WAN).

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Technical Discussion: Encryption and Security at High Speed over Distance for IP Storage

Why do so many IP replication solutions lack encryption capabilities, and why is performance an issue when you need to encrypt data inflight? Check out Brocade subject matter experts discussing the challenges of maintaining security while replicating data between data centers at high throughput, including how Brocade addresses this architecturally with IP Extension.

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