This Week In IT: 11/2/12

This Week On Tom's IT Pro: Email Security, Intel Motherboard, Cloud Services and Infrastructures, Split-Key Encryption, Data Marketplaces, HP Printers, AMD's ARM Gamble, Virtualization, Data Center Disasters, Hadoop, Big Data,  and more. 

• Email Security as a Service: Is It Right for You?

Some things to keep in mind as you evaluate your email security options.

• VIDEO: Quick Look - Intel S2600CP Motherboard

A 3D fly-through of Intel's S2600CP motherboard.

• VIDEO: Cloud Services: No Buzz, No Bull

Straight talk about cloud services. 

• Cloud Infrastructures Quickly Moving To Production Systems

VMware cloud adoption survey suggest cloud adoption among IaaS customers moving out of beta and testing phases. 

• Porticor Uses Split-Key Encryption To Enhance Cloud Security

Cloud security software start up Porticor improves Virtual Private Data environment to support encrypted cloud and protect the encryption keys of data while being used. 

• Data Marketplaces: Are They Ready For Primetime?

Online marketplaces—such as Infochimps, Windows Azure Marketplace and Amazon’s Public Data Sets—provide access to data sets in a wide range of areas. 

•  HP Overhauls Printer Product Line

Unveils major update to its printer portfolio with a range of new Officejet Pro, LaserJet and multifunction printers. 

• VIDEO: Data Center Convergence

Everything you need to know about the new data center. 

• The Big ARM Processor Gamble

AMD is designing ARMv8 64-bit processors to complement x86 processor portfolio and immerse itself ultra-dense microservers. 

• VIDEO: Why Virtualize?

There are several reasons why you should try virtualization. 

• Career Trend: Big Data Should Be on Your Shopping List

Big data easily makes the ranks one of the worst buzzwords of the decade. 

• Slideshow: Horrifying Data Center Disasters

What you are about to see is not meant for squeamish or sensitive types. Prepare to be horrified by images of flooded and burning datacenters, and other unthinkable situations. Seen worse? Tell us in the comments. 

• What's a Virtual Phone?

Mobile Virtualization Platform on near horizon! 

• Weighing the “800-lb Gorillas” of IT Certification

Weighty silverbacks and others responsible for certifying tens of millions of IT Professionals. 

• Teradata Simplifies Database Capabilities

Database company releases numerous product enhancements and feature additions to its product portfolio. 

• IT News Today: Dell Adds Calxeda Servers, Penguin Launches ARM Server

Dell Adds Calxeda Servers, Penguin Launches ARM Server, Teradata Simplifies Database Capabilities, and Cisco Predicts Explosive Cloud Data Growth. 

• Cisco Predicts Explosive Cloud Data Growth

Forecasts total data center traffic volume of 6.6 zettabytes by 2016, with cloud traffic alone reaching 4.3 zettabytes by that year. 

• Dell Donates ARM Server to Apache Software Foundation

"Zinc" micro-server based on Calxeda ARM processors now in hands of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). 

• IT News Today: Cloudera Launches Real-Time Query Engine for Hadoop, Deutsche Telekom Builds 1.6M Square Feet Cloud Data Center

Cloudera Launches Real-Time Query Engine for Hadoop, Deutsche Telekom Builds 1.6M Square Feet Cloud Data Center, Microsoft Delivers Preview of Hadoop on Windows Server, Azure, and Dell Donates ARM Server to Apache Software Foundation. 

• Microsoft Delivers Preview of Hadoop on Windows Server, Azure

Releases anticipated Hadoop on Windows solution, which arrives in the form of HDInsight Server and HDInsight Service for Windows Azure.

• Must Have IT Communications Certifications

There’s more than “ordinary networking” involved in all of these credentials, and the technologies they cover

• VIDEO: Big Data, Big Hardware, Big Software

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

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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