American technology giants including Google, Yahoo and Amazon have been criticised by privacy groups and European regulators for lobbying in Washington against new EU data privacy laws. The American firms are campaigning for more relaxed ...
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SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage products, is announcing the integration of its Phoenix RSM surveillance video management software onto the WD Sentinel DX4000 small office storage servers. ...
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SoleraTec LLC, a provider of innovative video lifecycle management and storage products, is partnering with Vista Networking Solutions (VNS) to include SoleraTec's Phoenix RSM surveillance video management software with VNS's integrated ...
A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that Sony could have prevented being hacked in April 2011. Sony's April 2011 hack of its PlayStation platform saw the personal data of millions of customers put at risk. ...
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Sony has received a record £250,000 fine from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as punishment for the PlayStation Network (PSN) hack that took place in April 2011. The electronics firm says it "strongly disagrees" with the ...
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Electronics giant Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation video games consoles. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK ...
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As it looks to capitalise on growing storage demands from small and medium-size companies, Western Digital has acquired data protection company Arkeia Software, which specialises in network back-up software. The firm also works with ...
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Western Digital has acquired data protection company Arkeia Software as it looks to address growing storage demands among small and medium-size companies. Arkeia specializes in network backup software and appliances for physical as well ...
Digitiliti has been named a Backup and Disaster Recovery Software 2012 Product of the Year Finalist by SearchStorage.com magazine. The backup and DR software category covers backup and recovery software, cloud backup and recovery services, ...
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The government has launched the third procurement round for the G-Cloud service, which will see the total value of potential spend on the framework increase from 100m to 200m. The G-Cloud uses cloud computing to help change the way ...
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Memorial Health System in central Kansas, US, has ordered Carestream's Web-enabled Vue PACS and its vendor-independent Vue Motion viewer. Vue PACS delivers integrated advanced visualization, 3D post processing, lesion management, ...
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Firms such as Facebook and Google may have to significantly rein in their use personal data if European Union lawmakers get the go-ahead to give users more control over their data. In a report seen by Reuters, Jan Philipp Albrecht, a ...
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New laws coming into effect this year will ban employers from demanding access to prospective and current employee social networking accounts. Facebook had announced in March 2012 that it was receiving a "distressing increase in reports" ...
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Storage is a key component of IT strategy. After all, data is the lifeblood of any business. But storage is there to provide data for processing by business critical applications, and the way that data is processed is undergoing huge ...
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