Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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After a Palestinian researcher was denied a bug bounty by Facebook, Marc Maiffret, CTO of BeyondTrust, kicked off a crowd-sourced fund yesterday to come up with a reward. The researcher, Khalil Shreateh, expressed his gratitude today to ...
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When Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 and Active Directory, Apple didn't really have a solution for identity management or for linking Macs to an enterprise network. The company was just beginning the transition from its classic Mac OS ...
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Earlier this month,?Lavabit?and?Silent Circle?-?two privacy-minded email providers – decided to shut up shop rather than give the US government the chance to access their customer data. Shortly thereafter, Lavabit owner Ladar ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract worth up to $1 billion to transform the US Department of the Interior's IT as part of a major cloud computing initiative. The DOI is aiming to move its data and applications into the cloud as part of a ...
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Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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As the BlackBerry brand slowly dies, considerations are being made about what do do with its assets, including more than 5,000 US patents built up over a decade of innovation in the mobile marketplace, and more than 3,700 wireless ...
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Sony on Thursday launched its new Portable Wireless Server (PWS) in the UAE. The device is designed to help users view, share, and store content from their smartphones, the vendor said. The device serves as a battery charger and card ...
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Intel is looking to use light and lasers to shuffle data faster among servers, and is proposing a new optical interconnect, MXC, that could change the way servers are implemented in data centres. The chip maker is pitching MXC as a ...
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Fujitsu will continue to provide Virgin Money with support for its mainframe environment, after the bank signed a new five year deal with the IT solutions provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading CIO interview: How ...
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The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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There's "no reason at all" for the Force India Formula 1 team to upgrade its network operating system to Windows 8, Adrian Collinson, its head of IT, has told Computing. Force India's systems at both the factory and the track currently ...
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