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StoreServ’s on-premises storage array assault After its SPC-2 benchmark-beating all-flash 3PAR array result, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has unleashed a storage hurricane of news announcements, with a VMAX and XIV assault and 3D NAND SSDs included, as it goes all out to expand its 3PAR on-premises array territory.…

Joe Garner returning to banking sector. Search begins for replacement BT's Openreach chief Joe Garner has quit the telecoms giant during a deeply unsettling time for the firm's infrastructure division.…

Redmond: We've remembered OS/2 for you, wholesale Analysis Microsoft has sidelined its plan to allow Windows 10 devices to run Android apps before it could do any serious damage, according to a report.…

Security pros urged to drop the crap, get into the scrap Black Hat Europe Haroon Meer, founder of applied research company Thinkst, opened the Black Hat Europe conference last week with a keynote attacking the fashionable obsessions of the security businesses, including blind faith in Big Data and an obsession with zero-day vulnerabilities.…

Better to play nicely than try to muscle in on territory The reasons for an alliance between Cisco and Ericsson are just as good as the reasons against it. Both want to own ALL of the territory around carrier deployments, but Ericsson comes from dominance in the wireless sector and Cisco from the IP segment, both wired and wireless.…

After Telecity tie-up Equinix will be forced to offload data centres in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt as the price of EU approval of its takeover of Telecity.…

But its copyright changes will have a big impact on the web You may have read that the European Commission intends to prevent hyperlinks to copyrighted material. The good news is that this isn’t true.…

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You'll need quality granules, hot water, and fully configured IT for a perfect cup The same team of security researchers who discovered that the Wi-Fi iKettle from Smarter blurted out wireless network credentials have found cause for concern over a Wi-Fi Coffee Machine, and iKettle 2.0, from the same manufacturer.…

Can be deployed in 11 mins after unpacking Comment Huawei has a hyperconverged infrastructure Appliance (HCIA) product; its FusionCube product line. This is comprised of its own server, storage, and networking system components, plus virtualisation and management software.…

Freeze on visas for skilled workers bubbles along as background issue The tragi-comedy that is the extended US presidential election campaign has taken two turns into technological territory.…

Options make pwning as easy as ordering pizza The 3ROS exploit kit is one of the most user-friendly malware tools to have emerged and will likely spawn variants, malware men say.…

Scripts could have caused mayhem. T-Mobile has crushed a bug in subsidiary MetroPCS that could have allowed attackers to steal details on any of its 10 million customers, according to reports.…

Smartphone-controlled quadchopper tomfoolery A Slovakian company is attempting to raise $70,000 to get its "Drone n Base" fleet of battling mini UAVs off the ground.…

VXers stuff evidence-purging malware in retailer stockings. Threat researchers are warning of two pieces of point of sales malware that have gone largely undetected during years of retail wrecking and now appear likely to earn VXers a haul over the coming festive break.…

Bad actors named and shamed Google is getting ready to alert Gmail users when messages are received in the clear instead of encrypted, in response both to slow adoption of encryption by some hosts, and apparent hostility to encryption in some countries.…

Practical homomorphic encryption manual released As genome research - and the genomes themselves - get passed around the scientific community, the world's woken up to the security and privacy risks this can involve. A Microsoft research quintet has therefore published ways to help scientists work on genomic data while reducing the risk of data theft.…

What's a fat-fingered ten tonnes between friends in a QANTAS Boeing 737? On the 1st of August, 2014, cabin crew aboard a 737 operated by Australian airline QANTAS reported hearing a “squeak” during takeoff. The crew's ears were good: the sound they heard was the plane's tail scraping the ground – a “tailstrike” - during takeoff.…

Eurecom researchers scan embedded systems, kick an ants' nest This is really no surprise: embedded system vendors aren't good at carrying out quality assurance on their firmware images, and their embedded Web server software is what you'd expect from something written in the last 20 minutes of Friday afternoon.…

Built-in bias means your walk tracker over-estimates distances People writing GPS software need to re-think their approach to measuring distance, because the system has a built-in bias to over-estimate how far you've moved.…

Here we go again In a probably-inevitable outcome of the Australian government's mandated multi-technology model for the National Broadband Network, a Queensland city wants to go it alone and install its own fibre-to-the-premises network.…

Crafted image crashes apps, server processes This will not be fun: the graphics processing library libpng has a vulnerability and needs to be patched.…

Faked Facebook profile not a hit with magistrate A Sydney magistrate has called “criminal” a vindictive operation in which NSW police snooped on someone's private Facebook posts.…

A different kind of dream catcher TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…

Malware spotted on law enforcement recording gear A US IT security company says it found copies of the Conficker malware infecting police body cameras.…

When bragging of your illegal exploits, leave off your real name A UK man has been given eight and a half months in prison for launching a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2013.…

Appetizer for UN General Assembly in December The end of this year will see yet one more effort by some governments to grab greater control of the internet when the United Nations General Assembly meets in New York.…

Dangerous, stupid and highly illegal The Federal Aviation Administration has warned of a dangerous escalation in laser strikes on aircraft, with Wednesday night alone registering a record 20 incidents.…

Turns out Microsoft and Apple don't use pop-up ads for tech support The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on scammers who fraudulently claim to represent the likes of Microsoft and Apple.…

And if anyone knows about family dinners it's this guy Pope Francis has slammed the use of smartphones and warned that they risk damaging family life.…

CHiPs, meet chips Google is very proud of its perfect safety record when it comes to automated vehicles, but that didn't stop one of its jelly-mold cars getting pulled over on Thursday.…

Adds scanning functions to Quay customers too Container-friendly Linux vendor CoreOS has spent the last six months developing a scanning tool that checks for vulnerabilities in containers, and it's open sourcing the code for the whole community.…

Information Archive MQ? Just the ticket Focus your eyes on this little MQ beauty from Garner’s gnomic gnosticians who have tracked, analysed and rated enterprise information archive suppliers' products and technology.…

Wants to flog ClusterStor gear to US agencies Seagate has formed a Federal business unit to help shift its acquired Xyratex ClusterStor HPC arrays to Fed buyers.…

Tax law, geography seemingly no concern for the public broadcaster A bunch of small Welsh business folk are playing the likes of Amazon and Google at their own game, by proposing to move their tax domiciles offshore – with the connivance of the publicly funded Beeb.…

Says telecoms giant needs to 'wake up' and accept divorce Another day, and another person steps forward to add their voice to the chorus of people demanding that BT breaks away from its Openreach division.…

Company is sorry for the 'inconvenience' Exclusive Terrible infosec practices at Niteworks, the MoD-established business networking organisation, have led to unknown attackers gaining email addresses and passwords of British defence community members.…

Company claims miffed insider to blame for spaffing docs Securus Technologies, an American phone services provider, has been recording inmates' phone calls - including those between inmates and their lawyers - much to the chagrin of an activist hacker, who has pilfered the recordings and dumped them into the laps of journalists.…

Too many celebs and robot cocktails clouding the message? Microsoft's Future Decoded event took place in London this week, with CEO Satya Nadella and Executive VP Cloud and Enterprise Scott Guthrie on stage to pitch the company's "cloud and mobile" message.…

Computer pioneer behind sequential vs parallel processing law passes away Obit IBM's mainframe systems' trailblazer, Gene Amdahl, has died at the age of 92.…

Plus: Police told us not to answer questions, says telco Contrary to suggestions that TalkTalk hired BAE Systems to shore up its security after the much-publicised hack in October, the telco had actually been outsourcing its security operations centre to BAE since June – and previously told investors it had "completed" a security audit.…

Fancy a weekend break on HD 189733b? Those readers who enjoy complaining about the weather might like to consider a short weekend break on 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet HD 189733b, where conditions will give them something to really moan about.…

Infindat’s Infinibox: Hybrid and RAM-heavy Comment Infindat’s product is called Infinibox. It’s a monolithic storage system, or could even be called next generation monolithic, and competes against EMC VMAX, HDS VSP or 3PAR 10K.…

Blighty data usage peaks during Downton Abbey, in case you wondered ... BT's Openreach has released a tiny amount of information about data usage over the former state monopoly's fibre network.…

‘Fills gap in the capacity ranges, brings costs down’ Fujitsu has updated two of its backup and archiving appliance products; the ETERNUS CS200c and CS800.…

Thin wires + voltage = storage? So say these boffins Our need to store data is growing at an astonishing rate. An estimated 2.7 zettabytes (2.7) of data are currently held worldwide, equivalent to several trillion bytes for every one of the seven billion people on Earth.…

Technology best forgotten or time for a renaissance? Survey Results With conversations around end user computing dominated by highly desirable mobile technology, it’s easy to overlook the potential of thin client hardware. Deployed in the right way to the right types of user, however, far from being the compromise option, thin client devices can enhance the user’s overall experience. While the majority see a role for such technology, legacy perceptions can be an impediment to adoption.…

Controversial protocol launched CloudFlare has rolled out Universal DNSSEC, despite widespread controversy alleging it would provide an excellent platform from which intelligence agencies could spy upon and intercept global internet traffic.…