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Protecting thousands of tenants from a single console, apparently Cloud storage gateway startup CTERA Networks now has an enterprise file services platform to protect server data across any cloud infrastructure, presented as part of a cloud server data protection offering.…

RackHD, CoprHD and REX-Ray - autocorrect paradise EMC is weaving more Open Source strands into its activities with RackHD, the CoprHD open-source ViPR project, and REX-Ray. It wants IT shops with open source-based system application developers to be able to use EMC hardware.…

Catch the mating live this morning on NASA TV International Space Station residents Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren are preparing to grapple the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo truck, which blasted off for the orbiting outpost on Sunday evening.…

Soz Crapita, we don't want your peanuts after all Computer Sciences Corporation is to snap up business processing outfit Xchanging for £480m, having beaten off its rival suitor Capita.…

Reader suggestions invited for IT party central moniker Our recent shock exposé on plans by Hewlett Packard Enterprise to open a private drinking club in its new City of London HQ led to speculation as to what exactly the boozer might be christened.…

The glass is strong in this one Review Here's one of the year's major surprises, and it's a nice one, in the shape of the latest high-end Motorola. It's already attracted acres of mainstream press coverage and that's before it's even generally available.…

NASA project combines algorithms and AWS The Earth has three trillion trees and this is seven times more than was thought, until very recently, to exist. It is also half the number that existed before humanity went to work on the environment.…

Artificial intelligence to make autonomous cars safer The sound a tyre makes on a wet road could become part of the road safety arsenal, if a proposal submitted to an IEEE publication becomes widespread.…

Each member-state will set up unit to 'receive' airline data The Council of the EU has reached agreement with the European Parliament on a proposal for the transfer of passenger name data (PNR) from airlines to EU countries.…

Calm down, conspiracy theorists The home of a bloke fingered by WiReD and tech blog Gizmodo as a possible inventor of Bitcoin has been raided by the Australian Federal Police – just hours after their articles were published.…

€500k for Open/Libre/Polar-SSL The Netherlands' Lower House has thrown its weight behind a plan to improve key open source security solutions, and has voted €500,000 towards a range of projects.…

Look, we really are an open source company, okay? Stung, perhaps, by its ill-fated marketing claims about open source software, Apple has published the Darwin source code to its El Capitan OS X release.…

Server crash monitor easy to crash Popular sysadmin tool Up.Time from Idera software needs patching, with bugs exposing it to denial-of-service attacks and possible remote code execution.…

Patch Tuesday not over yet Redmond is scrambling to propagate a new certificate for the *.xboxlive.com domain, having “inadvertently disclosed” the certificate's contents.…

Correlation, causation or coincidence? Google's App Engine suffered a long overnight outage that may have also sent high-profile customer Snapchat into a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) state.…

Controversial D-Wave system gets thumbs up Two years ago Google and NASA bought a D-Wave 2X quantum computing system and the Chocolate Factory has now pronounced itself very pleased with the results.…

AT&T also has big rollout, provided you don't mind being tracked Google has added two of the largest cities in the US to its ranks of potential fiber markets.…

NSW north coast customers at risk of three years without the Internet Long-time indy ISP Linknet on the NSW north coast is shuttering its business, saying it's been overbuilt by the NBN and can't recapitalise to become a reseller.…

The stealthy Zumwalt looks like a giant iPhone battery case The largest and most futuristic destroyer has set sail. And at its head is Captain James Kirk.…

Operating system shifting to IoT uses Mozilla announced at the Mozlando developer conference in Florida that it has officially abandoned attempts to get a foothold in the smartphone market with its Firefox OS system.…

Don't shoot off to the holiday party just yet, Microsoft has 71 flaws to patch Microsoft is closing out the year with a fix for 71 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, and Edge.…

Who's testing the limits of the DNS system? The internet's root servers came under a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack last week that effectively knocked three of the 13 critical pillars of the internet offline for several hours.…

Stay close to that router Dutch researchers have invented an internet-of-things sensor that powers itself from router radio waves.…

More holes than the British Open! Adobe has released another update to address dozens of flaws in its Flash Player browser plug-in.…

Time to call yourself a cybersecurity expert Cybersecurity experts are currently billing desperate companies £10,000 a day – yes, a DAY – according to recruiters Manpower.…

Like the 'pedia but without the footnotes Special report Lobbying companies, PR professionals and SEO optimisers are flocking to influence Wikidata, a child project of Wikipedia that’s backed by serious money. And that’s just one of the reasons to be concerned about a project that could become the world’s default source of information.…

Huawei? Your worst nightmare, pal China is coming to shake up our cosy storage world, with Huawei hoping for a top three supplier spot by 2018.…

Wireless chipset maker accused of acting illegally to snuff out rivals Loss-making mobile chip blueprint scribbler Qualcomm was today slapped with antitrust charges by the European Commission for allegedly using bully-boy tactics to snuff out the competition.…

Investigation is not a police matter, says provider Scottish telecoms provider Oricom has said it is working with NHS fraud officers in an ongoing investigation into its NHS contracts in Scotland.…

'Fines' for obscene pics were payable in Amazon vouchers A 47-year-old who posed as a 13-year-old girl in order to extort more than £40,000 from paedophiles was sentenced to nine years in prison earlier this year.…

Don't panic! Just try to get a supported OS, m'kay? Many of the 65,000 ATMs in the UK will become less secure once Microsoft ends extended support for the embedded version of its Windows XP operating system next month, according to security experts.…

Analytics will tell you when to buy more kit Tintri has added an entry-level all-flash array to its range, with an updated OS and predictive analytics functions are coming to model capacity and performance trends.…

PesterPowerShell Microsoft has chucked some of its PowerShell team’s test code onto Github as part of an effort to open up its tests to the OSS community.…

DNS services appear to be targeted, switching may work Members of UK's academic community from freshers to senior academics are facing more connection issues today as a persistent and continuous DDoS attack against the academic computer network Janet continues to stretch resources.…

Hadoop node centralisation MapR has unveiled a converged cluster plan to do away with emerging silos in big data.…

Malwarebytes: Attacker at great pains to disguise purpose Malicious adverts spreading malware managed to make their way onto popular French video streaming site Dailymotion. The infection involved a rogue ad and JavaScript that ultimately directs surfers to sites harbouring the Angler Exploit Kit (EK).…

Company with no physical assets gets huge pile of cash Airbnb has confirmed it has raised a mega $1.5bn (£1bn) in funding, according to a filing the company placed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.…

Monitor in real time, slice and dice at leisure Browsium has expanded its remit with real-time tools for getting a grip on the size and scale of cloudy corporate software estates.…

EPA investigates green digital services Whacking DevOps on your business card doesn’t make you instantly more valuable. It could also make you a certified guardian of the planet too.…

Latest health report on numerous programmes not looking good The NHS currently has £5bn in IT projects deemed at “high risk of failure”, according to the latest board minutes from the Health & Social Care Information Centre.…

Sadly, these are for the collectors and diehards only Review There’s only one reason you might want to buy either of the new flagship Microsoft Lumias. Straight off the bat, we can tell you it's not the party trick Continuum, where your phone doubles up as an ARM-based PC to run Microsoft Office.…

Storage establishment bigwig hops on, but is he the right fit for the job? Dan Warmenhoven is joining Cohesity’s board to add his gravitas to the startup’s efforts to be seen as a major player.…

Brocade and QLogic team up for a proof of concept demo FC-NVMe has been demoed over Fibre Channel by Brocade and QLogic, with the system effectively the PCIe bus protocol in standard form used for solid state memory, Non-Volatile Memory Express, and deployed as a network fabric external to a server's PCIe bus over Fibre Channel.…

Terry Pratchett tributes litter the new version 3.6 NetHack is one of the gaming industry's foundational texts. The animated adventure debuted in 1987, continuing an ASCII ancestry traceable to 1980's Rogue and earning it a place on the Museum Of Modern Art's list of games worthy of historical preservation.…

Three, count 'em, three, hyperconverged boxen aimed at China and beyond Lenovo's relationship with Nutanix has been consumated, with the Chinese kit-maker revealing its hyperconverged boxen running the latter's software.…

And drink too much to secure them properly, natch Drunk Brits lose 138,000 devices a year in bars but get most of them back, according to a pub poll by security firm Eset.…

Changes 'not' ushered into existing contracts via audits SAP has insisted there's been no change in its software licensing, following a claim audits have been used to charge extra under existing licenses.…

Crack Chrome team, Project Zero bod, out yet another phone hijack nasty Google has slung a new set of patches at the vulnerability hub that is Android media processing, fixing four critical flaws and 10 high-severity bugs.…

'MAJOR.MINOR.SECURITY' format will sort the wheat from the OMG PATCH THIS NOW Version 9 of the Java JDK will adopt a new numbering scheme that tells you which patches you can ignore and which will demand your attention, stat.…

Only the foolish oppose this on free speech grounds, says putative president United States Presidential candidate Donald J Trump has called on Bill Gates to shut down parts of the Internet, to prevent radicals spreading their ideas.…