By David Shamah
Any company that’s not sold on “the Cloud” yet will be when they hear this: According to Eddie Resnick, CEO of Israeli startup Clouds ‘R Us, 85% of computing power in many companies goes unused – ie, companies are buying seven times the average computing power they need, whether in processor speed, memory, or other expensive hardware. “It’s because companies buy for peak needs,” says Resnick, but although that peak may come just once every few weeks, organizations have, until very recently, had no choice but to be prepared.
Thanks to the Cloud, though, companies can now “outsource” their computer usage, [...]
By David Shamah
Israeli startup Covertix makes sure that only the “right people” – in the “right places” – get to read your sensitive documents. When a Covertix “self-protected file” gets distributed, you know who read it and where, and what they did with it. Thus, you get to keep an eye on your intellectual property even when it’s in someone else’s hands. Just like there are rules for network access, there are now rules for accessing documents, so you know that your information is being viewed by the people who are supposed to be seeing them, when they’re supposed to be seeing them.
By David Shamah
There is an Israeli company that brings “24″-style intelligence gathering capabilities to the common non-TV security agency. With its “semantic web technology,” Rosh Ha’ayin-based MindCite uses ontology – figuring out the relationship between words and concepts – to determine how people, things, and situations meet
