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They're fast, sure, but they have so much more to offer Enterprise solid state drives are gaining traction, but their predominant focus is still performance. The need for speed has driven SSDs into applications where HDDs previously reigned, but for those of us who aren’t high-frequency traders, solid state will need to demonstrate some other benefits. What are they, and how important will they be in mainstream enterprise apps?…

Enabling the Digital Workforce Live at 11am In this age of digital transformation, do employees still matter?…

And they want to do more online? An alarming proportion of cops’ websites lack any form of automatic secure connection, meaning potentially sensitive data is communicated in plain unencrypted text - according to research.…

Grab some popcorn: the fun starts on the 16th and will climax as Schiaparelli lander touches down next Wednesday Grab some popcorn, space enthusiasts, because this coming weekend the joint European Space Agency/Roscosmos “ExoMars” mission will arrive at Mars.…

Doing SaaS right needs at least half-a-dozen add-ons Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is sold to line of business people as a way to get the applications they need, without all the hassle, time and expense required to have an IT department build and run an application.…

Don't panic: nothing happened, but there's also the matter of some missing uranium ... The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency has said he's aware of a successful hack of a nuclear power plant. And as if that isn't bad enough, he also knows of an attempt to steal enriched uranium.…

It looks like lock-in, swims like lock-in and quacks like lock-in … this could be lock-in! Yahoo! has “temporarily disabled” the ability to forward email from its messaging services.…

Board shakeup and new 'buy our code McNuggets' plan follows lousy sales Android alternative Cyanogen looks to have given up on trying to sell a full mobile operating system.…

None for ages then two at once? How curiou-aaS SAP's Australia/New Zealand tentacle is on the hunt for new senior leaders after its general manager and chief operating officer (COO) both handed in their resignation and “ decided to pursue opportunities outside the company.”…

Android auto-updater lands on GitHub Chinese giant Tencent is dipping a toe into the open source world, with its own hot patch system for Android apps.…

Australian National University poll finds peeps more afraid of terrorists than exploding phones Australians who don't what the nation spends on defence also don't mind the country's data retention regime.…

There's even a partner program, sysadmin tools and cross-cloud SSO Facebook has taken the wraps off Workplace, its attempt at a business-collaboration-as-a-service service.…

Nobody tell Linux, okay? Intel's followed up on its acquisition of Altera by baking a microprocessor into an field-programmable gate array (FPGA).…

Phirebug phablet phreeze conphirmed as Samsung orders all sales and swaps stopped Samsung has instructed all partners worldwide to stop both sales and exchange of its Galaxy Note 7 while it works out what went wrong.…

Bootleggers, don't ignore the official version If you were one of the sharp-eyed users who downloaded FreeBSD 11.0 from the project's FTP servers before official release, it's time to upgrade again. The release version has landed and it's not the same as the bootleg.…

Redmond's cloud to kill off older versions If you've managed to get audio and video working under Linux, Microsoft's latest Skype-for-Linux will let you place video calls.…

Flash, rust, MCS, SMR PMR TDMR HAMR and QLC – oh my! Sysadmin Blog RAID is dead. Or maybe it's not. I think it might be off having a conversation with a cat in a box. Regardless of whether or not you use hardware RAID cards or HBAs and some kind of software, the idea of big boxes full of drives that store lots of things isn't going away any time soon. The drives you put in them, however, are becoming a problem.…

French telly station boss spills les haricots on what happened France’s TV5Monde came “within hours” of being destroyed by hackers, according to the station’s boss.…

Online DIY courses gotta be less tedious than teaching GCHQ's finest, right? Cloudera, presumably sick of paying its staff to train spies and their ilk, has decided to launch online courses for those wanting to familiarise themselves with Hadoop and Spark.…

First Google comes sniffing around, now it's bags of dosh from China British AI talent is about to be given a boost after Founders Factory, a company specialising in growing startups, announced today that it will receive a “multimillion pound” investment from a top Chinese private equity firm.…

Goodbye sync 'n' share, hello enterprise content management Analysis On-premises file sync and share and collaboration is yesterday's story. The future is the public cloud with dedicated software service suppliers, like Box.…

CCDC is for 'Covert Communications Data Capture' Despite a nationally observed policy where they neither confirm nor denying using them, British police forces' widespread ownership of IMSI grabbers was confirmed today.…

Battle of rounded corners approaches $399m climax Steve Jobs’ “"thermonuclear war"” against Samsung over smartphones has landed in the US Supreme Court.…

SSSh*t just got real Internet of Things (IoT) botnet "Mirai" is the shape of things to come and future assaults could be even more severe, a leading security research firm warns.…

And it’s … oh, a midrange Android The “new Nokia” appears going for volume rather than margins as it makes a comeback into phones.…

Demerge, simplify and cough up for shareholders, it demands Analysis Activist investor Paul Singer's Elliott Management is not shy about on taking on the world's biggest companies, and now it wants Samsung to bend to its will, splitting in two and paying shareholders an eye-watering $27bn.…

Unlucky, commentards: You're all thought criminals now Social media users who engage in flame wars or retweet the doxing of others will be treated in the same way as those making fake bomb threats over social media, British prosecutors have announced.…

*Insert Trump joke here* Astronauts flying to Mars are in danger of long-term brain damage and dementia from the onslaught of radiation in galactic cosmic rays, according to a new study.…

MRAM top's still spinning and hasn't fallen flat Everspin has spun out its IPO; it offered 5 million shares at an estimated $8 a pop to rake in an estimated $40m, with shares starting trading on Friday October 7, opening at $9.10 and currently trading at $8.02.…

We've got an 'efficient tax structure', boast the Zuckerborg Facebook has bragged about its "efficient tax structure" in the UK after it was revealed the megacorporation actually earned £11m in tax credits to be offset against future claims from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.…

Not you, buddy, the product's UI Part Three You’ve got the talent, you’ve the idea for something that resembles a product. But, as Steve Jobs said "real artists ship", and art isn’t something that comes just like that. In this case we’re talking architecture, we’re talking tools, we’re talking interface and UI – not necessarily things you were thinking about were they?…

That's the prediction, anyway Analysis People that invest in Netflix and people that invest in Disney should never meet each other – they would not get on. But it seems there is a danger, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the two shall be thrown together in an unholy Alliance.…

Lashings of “q” and “z” and “j” Radbot Our goal as a company is to get hundreds of millions of our smart devices out there, in the hands of Joe Public. Saving money and carbon, and mental energy for the things in life that normal people actually care about.…

'Molybdenum disulphide' valley has a nice ring to it, no? Boffins from the United States Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and beyond say they've cracked a new way to make very, very, small transistors.…

Linux survived 2015 but there's work to do if you want to enjoy the fireworks The Time Lords at the Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation Service have again decided the world needs an extra second and have picked New Year's Eve as the best moment for the extra sliver of time.…

Whitegoods-inspired security rating scheme under discussion The European Commission is readying a push to get companies to produce labels that reveal the security baked into internet-of-things things.…

Reverse engineering turns 'Smarter AM' into brew-bot Zimperium researcher Simone Margaritelli has hacked his coffee machine finding a way to brew coffee using the command line.…

Linux Lord also feels Internet of Things hardware is mostly doomed, like his old Sinclair QL Linus Torvalds believes ARM has little chance of overhauling x86, because the latter has built an open hardware ecosystem that the former just doesn't look like replicating.…

Thanks readers - you never fail to spot Windows with its pants down BSOD WATCH For those of you who asked why there was no BSOD collection last week, the answer is simple: it was a holiday weekend in Australia. We hope this week's offerings make up for it.…

Stops throwing fuel on the fire Korean newswire Yonhap reports that Samsung has ceased production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.…

Total Inability To Support Usual Performance strands ATM, EFTPOS users IBM customer National Australia Bank has started the week badly, hammered by an outage that's taken ATM and merchant facilities offline.…

'The Russians hack the information and Wikileaks is involved' says Clinton The second debate between Republican and Democratic presidential candidates Donald J Trump and Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton has featured a brief exchange on the United States' Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's assertion that “Russia's senior-most officials … authorized” cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee.…

Google jam lifted after take-down. Turkey has blocked access to major technology sites and services including GitHub, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox, seemingly to suppress circulation of some 57,623 stolen emails allegedly felt to reveal a widespread campaign of propaganda and deception.…

Too much admin turns out to be barely enough Microsoft's PowerShell feature “Just Enough Administration” (JEA) is, apparently, “way too much administration” according to researcher Matt Weeks.…

Two CAs get new bosses, operations to be split After being pinged by Mozilla for issuing backdated SHA-1 certificates, Chinese certificate authority WoSign's owner has put the cleaners through the management of WoSign and StartCom.…

Slow walkers, traffic jams, signs of success. Privacy sell-out Yahoo! has filed patents for roadside billboards outfitted with biometric spy cameras and microphones to collect data from passers-by.…

This fire is out of control ... US mobile carriers T-Mobile and AT&T have decided the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is too great a risk and have stopped shipping replacements for the phirebug phablet.…

Publish primes with seeds, so we know there are no backdoors Researchers with at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and the University of Pennsylvania have called for security standards-setters to publish the seeds for the prime numbers on which their standards rely.…

'Only Russia's senior-most officials' could authorize the exploitation of our weak security The Russian government "directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions," the US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Friday, an accusation that gives formal recognition to a claim previously voiced through unnamed sources.…

But it will cost more than your mobile phone AT&T will pilot a dedicated mobile network solely for the internet of things next month in San Francisco.…