This Week on Tom's IT Pro: 9/14/12

This Week on Tom's IT Pro: Data Center History, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Security, Server Processors, SaaS, Cloud Solutions, GPUs, IT Infrastructure, IT Careers, Big Data, IT Humor, and more.

• Slideshow: The History of the Data Center

The data center and its history is a great example of both revolutionary and evolutionary change in IT.

• HP Announces New Enterprise Security Features

Hewlett-Packard expanding security offerings for enterprise, mobile and big data environments. 

• Cloudnymous Offers Cloud-Based IP Anonymizer

Covering up your tracks online can be an essential security tool for some organizations. There is now a cloud-based anonymizer solution called Cloudnymous. 

• Data Centers Adopting Cloud Solutions Faster Than Expected

Open Data Center Alliance survey finds members moving toward cloud solutions 15 percent faster than previously predicted. 

• New Version of PostgreSQL Open-Source Database Released

Popular open-source database now has native JSON support.

• Report: Amazon Now World's Largest Web Host

Amazon now has 118,000 servers, beating out former world champ China Telecom's fleet of 116,000 servers. 

• Salesforce Creating Dropbox Rival for Enterprise

Salesforce is launching a Dropbox competitor called Chatterbox. 

• AMD Intros the SeaMicro SM15000 Server

This new server features AMD's new Freedom Fabric Storage. 

• Dell Adds ERP on Cloud to Existing SaaS Portfolio

Offering Ramco's enterprise resource planning (ERP) service to mid-sized businesses as a cloud product. 

• Toyota Boshoku to Use IBM Cloud Solutions for Engineering

Public company with a history closely related to Toyota to use IBM cloud solutions for automotive designs. 

• EMC Announces VSPEX Private Cloud For Windows Server 2012

Architecture to help organizations virtualize data centers and desktops will be available as VSPEX Private Cloud. 

• Next Generation Business Intelligence: Statistical Analysis Tools

Now that you've built a data warehousing infrastructure and created an array of management reports what will you do next? 

• AMD Licensing RealD BlueLine Technology for FirePro Cards

AMD's FirePro V5900 will support RealID's BlueLine stereo 3D technology.

• Quanta Confirms Centerton Server

Among the first companies to announce a microserver based on Intel's Centerton processor.

• IBM Announces Cloud-Based Digital Marketing Service

Expands smarter Commerce product line with a new integrated digital marketing product.

• Apache Hammers Microsoft Over Do Not Track

Is Microsoft being punished for doing the right thing?

• Amazon Input/Output Service Guarantee Simplifies Cloud Management

Moving toward Service Levels and away from Implementation Details a boon to system managers, developers and database administrators. 

• Intel Includes Xeon Phi Support in New Parallel Studio XE 2013

Annual update of development suite aims to help developers squeeze more performance out of applications running on Intel hardware. 

• Intel Develops New Interconnect for Xeon, Atom

Chipmaker working on a new interconnect architecture to work with all its volume server technologies.

• GM Cuts IT Services, Brings IT Back In-House

To hire at least 2,000 people for four new "information technology centers." 

• EMC Rolls Out Storage Resource Management Suite

Storage Resource Management (SRM) suite an application-to-storage management offering.

• Changing Course: Making the Move from Banking to Start an IT Career

Ed Tittel considers the plight of a 30-something banking professional with a CCNA who’d really rather be working in IT. 

• Savvis Expands Enterprise Cloud Ecosystem Program

Adds BMC Software, ServiceMesh and Rackware to available Cloud Services. 

• Oracle Supports Intel Itanium For Now

Oracle confirmed to support Hewlett-Packard Itanium servers, following a ruling on August 1. 

• VIDEO: Big Data, Big Hardware, Big Software

As data grows so must the hardware, software and access tools to give it meaning. 

• Nvidia Announces K5000 for Mac Pro Workstations

Nvidia is now offering its latest GPU architecture for Mac Pro-based workstations. 

• Microsoft Announces Windows Server 2012

It is very apparent that the marketing bonanza surrounding Windows 8 is overshadowing the launch of Windows Server 2012. 

• Oracle's Java 7 Still Considered Unsafe

Critical patch for Java addresses three different vulnerabilities that affect Java running in desktop browsers. 

• D-Link Announces iSCSI SAN Array For Businesses

DSN-6000 Series iSCSI SAN Array comes with standard security features including snapshot, volume cloning and remote replication. 

• Quest Offers Cloud Service to Move Email to Office 365

Service promises to simplify transition to Microsoft's hosted Office 365 platform. 

• SUSE Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Package

Linux distributor SUSE has launched an automated cloud management platform (IaaS), called the SUSE Cloud. 

• Top 10 Enterprise Humor Videos

IT budgets are tight. Times are uncertain. You can cry about it ... or you can have a good laugh. We prefer the latter. 

• Data Science: It’s About More Than Tools

Things are looking good for the data science profession in IT.

James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.

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