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by Chris Mellor on (#SEGX)
Hyper-V-focused, hyper-converged appliance start-up hitting the spot Gridstore, the Hyper-V-focused, hyper-converged, all-flash appliance startup, is growing gangbusters after coming out, so to speak, a year ago.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SEFG)
Spin still strong, two weeks on Timeline It has been almost two weeks since the "cyber attack" on the TalkTalk website of 21 October, yet the company is yet to tell its customers how their data was compromised.…
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by John Leyden on (#SEAT)
Suppliers who get hacked will get sacked. Fact SMEs need to take cyber security seriously or face being frozen out of the procurement process, according to a new survey from management consultants KPMG.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SE88)
Infinidat and Huawei might be up to something Infinidat, the creation of storage industry guru Moshe Yanai, saw 61 per cent quarter-over-quarter growth in the third quarter.…
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by Mike Plant on (#SE7B)
Caught between a Locke and Master Chief Game Theory Halo 5: Guardians marks a bucking of trend that would have you believe that a fantastic multiplayer experience in a FPS must come at the expense of the single player campaign.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#SE3W)
Our man Trevor gives his first impressions Sysadmin Blog Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, is a game-changing storage standard for PCIe-connected drives. It is replacing AHCI and along with the U.2 (SFF-8639) connector it is replacing both SAS and SATA for high speed, low latency storage. It's the smart way to connect up flash and post-flash storage tech to your servers.…
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Extensive wet sub-glacial habitats a refuge The ice sheets and glaciers that extend over roughly 11 per cent of the Earth’s land mass are home to a surprisingly abundant source of life. Sections of liquid water beneath and inside the ice provide a habitat for a genetically diverse variety of microbes. And studying these organisms gives us some clue what life may have looked like if there were indeed periods of the planet’s history when the land was entirely covered in ice for millions of years.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SE0B)
'When you're owned, you're boned'. Kiwi hacker Denis Andzakovic has developed an application that steals password vaults from the popular local storage vault KeyPass.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SDWQ)
Virtzilla makes a cloud and HPC play in the Middle Kingdom VMware has struck up a new joint venture in China, on the quiet.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SDVH)
Call Me Dave wants to know what's in your calls Analysis The UK government is apparently going to ask Apple, Google, and other American tech giants to give it the skeleton keys to their encryption systems.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SDRH)
Zero-day buyer: 'We might tell Apple something' An unnamed team of hackers has apparently received a million-dollar payout for disclosing a trio of iOS 9.x and Google Chrome security bugs to private zero-day buyer Zerodium.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SDRJ)
US$5.9bn to meld mobile fruity Facebook fun into the World of Warcraft Games-maker Activision Blizzard has announced it will spend US$5.9 billion to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the evil genii behind Candy Crush.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#SDPY)
Privilege escalation and remote code execution feature in fourth droid patch run. Google has patched two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities as part of a suite of seven fixes in its fourth round of Android patching since August.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SDN6)
It's not just Hillary whose server's a spillory While Website owners may have noticed the need to get rid of old, buggy or weak crypto, those operating e-mail servers seem to be operating on autopilot.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SDHR)
Microsoft names the day when OEMs must stop selling Windows 7 PCs Microsoft has named the day on which it will force PC-makers to stop shipping PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SDG2)
Office 365 OneDrive plans slashed after some folk upload 756TB apiece A year ago, it probably looked like a brilliant idea: bait products like Office 365 with unlimited cloud storage: documents and PowerPoints and Excel don't take up that much space, do they?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SDFD)
Storage stuff that missed the cut last week Roundup Here are five storage stories that missed the cut last week but are interesting, as they show movement in the object, flash, operational data, and private/public cloud areas. There's so much product development and startup work going in it's hard to keep up.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SDBF)
Old habits die hard Security bod Stefan Kanthak is asking Mozilla to quit using Windows self-extracting installs.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SD8R)
'Basically XP with a flat design skin' says Android user experience leader Google's design guru Matias Duarte has taken to Twitter to damn Windows 10 – and you – with faint praise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SD81)
Pair must cough up $750,000 in personal hotspots disruption probes The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Hilton Hotels and M.C. Dean in two separate probes into Wi-Fi jamming.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SD5G)
Security's a house of cards anyway Low-key WISeKey, a Swiss outfit that's bubbled along since 1999, has decided it wants to be high-profile and has hired Kevin Spacey to do the job for it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SD4P)
Compatibility tool 'hampers EMET anti-malware protections' Two chaps claim to have discovered how to trivially circumvent Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) using Redmond's own compatibility tools.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#SD1T)
Here are Uncle Sam's boffins' two cents Analysis How do you protect people's privacy when you have big databases of personal records you want to share?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SCX5)
CBS plans new subscription-only series to debut in 2017 Star Trek will return in a new series in 2017, but the venerable program will quickly disappear from screens other than those subscribed to US broadcaster CBS' "All Access" video-on-demand platform.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SCTP)
Vorsprung durch cheating More Volkswagen cars have been found fitted with devices that cheat on air-pollution standards tests: the US Environmental Protection Agency says similar gadgets are installed in some Audi and Porsche models.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#SCS4)
Twitch crowd-controlled installation hijacked by Gentoo botnet, wrecked by fiber cut Vid Hundreds of people are trying to install Arch Linux on a machine at the same time in the same terminal, using a voting system to decide the next keypress.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SCQT)
We paid how much for the ferret? Some of the planet's larger IT concerns may be a little nervous today, after the publication of a report by the Australian State of Queensland's Organised Crime Commission of Inquiry (OCCI).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#SCKX)
More fun than I'm a Celbrity Get Me Out of Here, less Trump than The Apprentice, more losers than the Biggest one Policy-by-hack has well and truly taken hold in Canberra, with the federal government launching startup-inspired thought bubbles faster than startups can complain the government doesn't pay them enough attention.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#SCKY)
Like running as an independent Law professor Lawrence Lessig has quit the US presidential race.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#SCJX)
Users face Christmas migration sprint after cloud sends self TITSUP Australian cloud outfit Ninefold has declared it has a total inability to support unlimited payments – TITSUP – and announced it is “sunsetting†itself.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SCCJ)
Lightweight netbook OS will get updates for another five years Google hopes to ease fears that its Chrome OS is not long for this world.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#SC9T)
Outsourcers cough up $12m in tussle with DoJ over claims The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has extracted $12m (£7.78m) from contractors accused of using workers who had not been given proper security clearances before performing government IT work.…
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by Liam Proven on (#SBWG)
Your KVMs, give them to me IBM introduced several significant new elements for its Linux server stack last month: support for KVM on its z Systems mainframes, Linux-only models in both the z Systems and Power Systems ranges, and a new purchasing model.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SBV6)
HP Enterprise, meanwhile, dips more than 5% on NYSE Hewlett Packard's split on Sunday created an interesting moment on the New York stock market today: shares in HP Inc jumped more than 13 per cent, while HP Enterprise watched its shares fall as much as five per cent.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#SBV7)
Company apologises and offers proper post mortem Ad-blocker blocker PageFair has announced that it was hacked over Halloween, exposing those visiting sites running its free analytics service (allowing those sites to see how many of their visitors were using ad-blockers, perhaps to prevent being served malware by a third-party) to an executable masquerading as an Adobe Flash update.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#SBM1)
Let's start at the very beginning Hewlett Packard became two companies on 1 November, splitting enterprise from consumer.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SBHB)
Quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 and handy headphone socket Chinese UAV outfit DJI is trumpeting the release of what it describes as the "most powerful computer designed for drones" – the "Manifold" embedded computer packing a quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 processor.…
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Not happy with $67bn sale to Dell, but that's all we know A class action suit has been launched against EMC by shareholders opposed to the $67bn (£48bn) acquisition of the company by Dell.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SBBP)
Let ‘em say you’re crazy, what do they know Skype co-founders Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis are poised to unleash a fleet of trundling robodelivery vehicles, promising to get up to two bags of groceries to your door within 30 minutes.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#SBAA)
Theresa May claims draft bill will have robust oversight, judicial approval IPB The Tory government's draft Investigatory Powers Bill is expected to land in Parliament with a thud on Wednesday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SB8X)
Micron NAND stores blocks of bits but the rest is all Huawei Pics Chinese enterprise data centre IT supplier Huawei now makes its own PCIe flash cards, including the controller functionality.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SB5X)
Code42 and Druva hover near data centres Endpoint data protector Druva is adding Microsoft's Azure to its public cloud target list, adding security and sharing features to its backup capabilities and trying to appeal more to enterprises – a link with Microsoft is good news in that department.…
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'We've not heard any sensible justification for this' G-Cloud suppliers have hit out against new rules to be introduced in the next iteration of the cloudy framework this month. The new guidelines will slap a 20 per cap on how much buyers can scale their services.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#SB2Z)
$150bn tech market 'to go after' in the UK The UK country chief of $53bn “startup†Hewlett Packard Enterprise might have had a number of concerns on his mind this morning but retail stock levels or a huge separation task weren’t among them.…
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by Lester Haines on (#SB31)
Caught short on Street View NSFW Google has moved with its usual lightning speed to erase an entertaining street scene captured by one of by its Street View prowlcams in the in the Dutch town of Almere.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SAZV)
3D XPoint adoption looks a given China-based telecom and enterprise IT supplier Huawei has entered a flash partnership with Micron, which means the Chinese firm will be using Micron flash in its OceanStor storage arrays.…
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EU law professor claims eBay and Amazon obliged to police VAT fraud HMRC could be reluctant to crack down on VAT fraudsters selling goods online without declaring VAT because of the costs involved, a European tax expert has claimed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#SAV9)
Time to think about 'data sovereignty', 'compliance risks' HDS has revved its object-storing HCP (Hitachi Content Platform) with what looks to be better data management and protection features.…
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Drove to the Transport Research Lab, ended in France Geek's Guide I’m driving along the French Riviera, and it’s a challenge. It’s a manual car, but for some reason I can’t hear the engine, which after ten years driving an automatic makes it difficult knowing when to switch gears.…
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by Wireless Watch on (#SAQN)
Platform includes homegrown sensors and 802.15.4 As the internet of things (IoT) gets closer to commercial reality, the solutions flooding into the market are increasingly targeted at a real world use case. Some of these are extremely specific – smart meters and smart streetlights are commonplace now, but startup Helium Systems says its initial focus is on smart refrigeration.…
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