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 ...
The use of tools to detect malicious patterns in apps led Facebook to temporarily disable some legitimate third-party apps that integrate with the social networking website, it said Thursday. On Tuesday, a number of people complained that ...
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US government agency, the Department of Interior (DOI) has selected IBM in a deal worth up to $1bn (£600m) as it bids to shift its IT into the cloud. The contract is an "indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity" (IDIQ) contract ...
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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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An audit of US National Security Agency eavesdropping has found that the security agency routinely violates its own privacy rules. According to a leaked, supposedly top secret audit, the NSA violated its on privacy policies 2,776 times in ...
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PC and video game GAME will use IBM's cloud-based marketing automation tools to support the company's transition to focusing on online sales. Having previously had a strong high street presence, retailer GAME Group?went into ...
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Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked to the media by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, has shifted companies' priorities when sizing up cloud services providers in and outside the U.S., experts say. The economic ...
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An EPoS and e-commerce solution from two technology companies specialising in apparel retail, LOIS Systems and J2 Retail Systems, is the subject of new investment by a Guernsey-based independent retailer. Its two stores, Holeshot and HS2 ...
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The DyStar Group recently released its third Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Assessment Report, otherwise known as Carbon Footprint Report, which is based on its global operations in the reporting year of 2012. In 2012, DyStar implemented ...
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IDC expects that China's IT security appliance market will grow 14.7% to US$950 million in 2013; and this figure will reach US$1.56 billion by 2017, with a 2012-2017 CAGR of 13.5%. According to IDC, China's IT security appliance market ...
Andreoli & Associates Inc. (A&A) has added two enhancements to its cloud-based HITS BPOS software for better Department of Transportation (DOT) number compliancy. DOT# Warning on Invoice Completion – Point-of-sale can now be set ...
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After a closed beta for a few months, Lenovo has opened for public preview its Reach consumer cloud service, which is a “cloud desktop” service through which applications can be launched without downloading and installing them ...
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Microsoft has resolved a problem that affected SkyDrive Wednesday, but technical issues with Outlook.com have proven harder to fix. The glitches surfaced at around 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and the SkyDrive problem was declared ...
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