Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyberattacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other ...
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EMC and Lenovo Thursday extended a strategic partnership to include sales of co-branded network-attached storage (NAS) devices to small and mid-sized businesses and corporate branch offices. The companies had created a joint venture ...
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Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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IDG News Service - Boston Limited on Monday said it was manufacturing and distributing a low-power server with ARM-based chips, becoming one of the few companies to make such a server commercially available. The Viridis server has the ...
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CSO - Like all malls in the United States, the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento is being overrun with shoppers as the holiday season kicks into high gear. Arden Fair is a 77-acre property and has 10 million annual shoppers. On an average ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server design with the new Proliant SL4500 server, which mixes processing, networking and storage units to optimize performance of applications like OpenStack and ...
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A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
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IDG News Service-Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia is investigating claims that hackers have compromised its online stores as part of a larger attack that affected several of its websites. On Friday,a hacker group calling itself Team ...
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Infoworld - After two years and 18 releases, Google this week took the beta label off mod_pagespeed, its Web page speed technology. Mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module in use at more than 120,000 sites, Joshua Marantz and Ilya ...
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Computerworld - It has been a rough stretch for Itanium. HP and its customers were startled after Oracle in March, 2011 announced -- and without warning, according to court records -- its intent to discontinue software development on HP's ...
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Attackers are exploiting a "zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said Monday. Microsoft confirmed the IE bug, saying, ...
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IDG News Service - A deeper look into the Flame malware, linked to the infamous Stuxnet, has revealed that it may be just one of four pieces of malware created by the same unknown development team. Flame became public in May after Iran ...
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Network World - As of June 2012, there were 237,000 iPad apps listed in the App store, many of them priced at 99 cents or even free. Yet very few of them let companies actually do business -- take customer orders, update inventory, submit ...
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Computerworld-NetApp and Cisco this week revealed ExpressPod,a new converged infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses(SMBs)based on its predecessor,FlexPod. ExpressPod follows two previous iterations of the pre-configured ...
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