Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
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Oracle is yanking advertising claims that its Exadata database machine had vastly super performance to IBM's Power Systems hardware, according to an announcement Tuesday by the National Advertising Division, an industry self-regulatory ...
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Fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA and UK-headquartered Xyratex Ltd,a provider of data storage technology,with give a joint technology demonstration at the European Conference on ...
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Millions of subscribers to Virgin Mobile's services in the United States are wide open to account hijacking because of the insecure manner in which the company authenticates users to their online accounts, an independent software developer ...
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Taipei,Dec.20,2012(CENS)--Some 18,949 servers were sold in Taiwan in the third quarter of 2012,up 6%from the same period of last year,or year-on-year(YoY),and a 9%increase from previous quarter,or quarter-on-quarter(QoQ),according to IDC ...
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Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services is expected to touch the $100 billion mark in 2016, as companies accelerate their shift to the cloud services model for IT consumption, according to research firm IDC. Public IT cloud ...
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With an eye towards updating the World Wide Web to better accommodate complex and bandwidth-hungry applications, the Internet Engineering Task Force has started work on the next generation of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the ...
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Google's decision last week to put its Google Wallet e-wallet system into the cloud is not sitting comfortably with security experts. Though the service's move from physical handsets to the cloud has expanded its credit card compatibility ...
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Apple yesterday unveiled the iPhone 5, the nameplate everyone wanted last year before they settled, sometimes only after a lot of griping, for the iPhone 4S. The rumor mill nailed most of the feature set -- one analyst said Apple could ...
ioSafe, the storage company that has gained some Internet notoriety by challenging users to try to destroy its encased hard drives and arrays, today released a new disaster-proof cloud NAS appliance. ioSafe's new N2 is a dare waiting to ...
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IDG News Service - A new piece of malware that deletes entire partitions and user files from infected computers has been found in Iran, according to an alert issued Sunday by Maher, Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination ...
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Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates, one critical, to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Office, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows and other parts of its product lineup. "It looks like an Office month," said ...
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In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge ...
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Security researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated, multi-tiered, global financial fraud ring that has attempted fraudulent transfers of up to 1.6bn from at least 60 banks This fraud empire, discovered by researchers from security ...
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Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems announced today that it is selling a prebuilt infrastructure and a pretested reference architecture that combine servers, networks, storage and management components that can be deployed in days. HDS's ...
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