Computerworld - Siemens is working on a fix for a remotely exploitable vulnerability in network routers and switches from subsidiary RuggedCom that are widely deployed in refineries, power substations and other critical infrastructure ...
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Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
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Computer giant IBM has acquired high-performance Flash memory maker Texas Memory Systems (TMS) for an undisclosed sum. The Houston, Texas-based company employs about 100 staff and has been developing solid-state disk accelerator ...
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Cisco today announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year results for 2012, showing a rise in both sales and the resulting income. Sales for the quarter rose a modest 4% year-on-year to reach $11.7bn, but over the entire year Cisco ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is readying three new software capabilities that are designed to help enterprises pool their computing and storage resources across a network. The advances should make it easier for IT departments to ...
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Colchester General Hospital has implemented a new system for tracking the whereabouts of its medical equipment using Wi-Fi technology. The organisation is using the real-time location tracking system (RTLS) from Ekahau to place tags on ...
Tags: Hospital Tracks Equipment, medical equipment, Wi-Fi Tracks Equipment
Cisco has revealed the six start-up businesses that have reached its BIG Awards final. The Cisco BIG Awards, in partnership with JP Morgan, Bird & Bird, DNX and Octopus Communications, aim to reward the UK's most innovative start-up ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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UK-Last month millions turned out in London to mark Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne.An event of this magnitude required a reliable and flexible networking transport,and Audinate's Dante was chosen as the digital media network ...
Tags: UK, Audinate's Dante, Jubilee Celebrations, Network, sound system
Security researchers released two tools at the Defcon security conference that can be used to crack the encryption of any PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) and WPA2-Enterprise (Wireless Protected Access) sessions that use MS-CHAPv2 ...
Tags: Microsoft, PPTP, US, Cyberwarfare
The Olympic Games on home soil will be the final instalment of the most operationally challenging period in the BBC's history, and the broadcaster's chief technology officer (CTO) John Linwood told Computer Weekly's CW500 Club about the ...
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A strong network may be the main stay of cloud computing,but its complexity has left it out in the cold when it comes to development. This was the belief of Nick Watson,vice-president of networking in EMEA for HP,who said that,while ...
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When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
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Cisco has bought security start-up Virtuata for an undisclosed sum to boost its cloud computing offerings. The Californian firm focuses on security for virtual machines,either within datacentres or as part of a cloud deployment. It ...
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Israel-Waves Audio has announced that it has become a new member of the AVnu Alliance,an industry forum dedicated to the advancement and certification of Audio/Video Bridging(AVB)devices.As part of this relationship,Waves will be a presence ...
Tags: Audio, Video, Avnu Alliance, Electronics