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New ‘Dirty Cow’ vulnerability threatens Linux systems
The broad developer participation in leading open-source projects such as Linux creates plenty of opportunities to catch security problems. However, some bugs still fall through the cracks every now and then. The latest addition to the list is a “privilege escalation” vulnerability called “Dirty Cow,” or CVE-2016-5195 by its official designation, that started its life ...
Massive cyberattack takes down Twitter, Amazon, other top sites
East Coast residents and some international users woke up Friday morning to discover that many their favorite websites were unavailable. The outage lasted from 7:10 to 9:20 a.m. Eastern, but another attack was reported later in the day, and Twitter and other sites were down again as of at least 2 p.m. Eastern, even for West ...
Google reshuffles its cloud storage services in major upgrade
As part of its efforts to level the playing field against public cloud computing leader Amazon Web Services, Google Inc. today launched a new set of storage services that aim to make its cloud platform more appealing for large organizations with diverse workloads. The first major addition is an archiving option called Coldline that is designed to ...
Report: The industry’s two leading blockchain projects are merging
The financial industry’s efforts to develop a blockchain implementation suitable for the business world is about to cross a major milestone. R3CEV LLC, the company leading one of the two consortia involved in the push, today said it plans to release its core Codra technology under an open-source license on Nov. 30. Reuters reports that the ...
Dell settles EMC’s patent dispute with Pure Storage
Dell Technologies Inc. is still tying up loose ends a month after completing its historic acquisition of EMC Corp. for $67 billion. Today, the technology giant took another item off the checklist by agreeing to settle a long-running patent dispute between its new storage subsidiary and Pure Storage Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The move puts ...
Gartner: Global IT spending will grow 2.9 percent in 2017
It looks like the IT industry is starting to regain its old momentum. After an estimated 0.3 percent decline in enterprise technology investment this year due to uncertainty caused by the Brexit referendum, Gartner Inc. expects to see a 2.9 percent spending jump during 2017. The research firms published its findings in a new report today that ...
HPE’s 2017 outlook signals a change in direction
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. aims to become a more focused company next year, targeting the hybrid cloud, the Internet of Things and services more than its traditional hardware. That was the message at the company’s annual meeting with Wall Street analysts this week, where HPE Chief Executive Meg Whitman and her top executives provided an update on ...
Syncsort now lets enterprises monitor mainframes with Splunk
As with all other mission-critical infrastructure, mainframe computers require organizations to monitor continuously for issues that might hinder their ability to function. But the task is made difficult by the fact that there isn’t an effective native mechanism for streaming operational logs from big iron deployments to external monitoring tools. Syncsort Inc. is working to ...
Zenefits updates HR platform with payroll management, partner links
Barely a month after partner-turned-rival Gusto Inc. announced a major expansion to its payroll processing platform, Zenefits Inc. is releasing an update of its own that promises to up the ante in the automation department. What should draw the most attention from customers is the Z2 release’s set of 17 integrations that make it possible ...
VMware adds more support for containers in new software
VMware Inc. today unveiled new versions of its management software that embraces application containers, a concept allowing applications to run on any machine that was once seen as arch-competitors of its computer virtualization software. The virtualization giant has unveiled new versions of its core management solutions that add extensive support for Docker along with expanded automation ...