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Study says password recycling is growing enterprise security threat
Despite the abundance of services for managing and protecting business data kept beyond the firewall, a new report from Netskope Inc. reveals that cloud security is very much a work-in-progress for most organizations. The information governance startup has found that as many as 15 percent of enterprise workers have had their service credentials compromised at ...
IBM bids for exploding German cloud market with local data center
IBM opened the first German data center for its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure subsidiary on Wednesday as part a broader effort to reach international markets amid heightened privacy fears that have made foreign organizations reluctant to trust their data to American cloud providers. With its Federal Data Protection Act, Germany presents one of the strictest privacy regimes in ...
Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi standard could turbo-charge Internet of Things
In a development that has intriguing potential for the emerging Internet of Things, the image endorsed a new technology that promises to enable data sharing among connected wireless devices without the presence of an access point. Dubbed Wi-Fi Aware, the technology runs continuously as a background process to make it possible for devices to discover each other before ...
NOAA seeks better forecasts with 10-fold boost in supercomputer power
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is planning a massive upgrade to its supercomputers that will raise the processing capacity of the two mammoth machines tenfold to a combined five petaflops – or five quadrillion floating-point operations per second. The performance hike comes only a year and a half after the agency turned on the ...
IBM: Attacks on retailers declined in 2014. Now the bad news…
The number of cyber attacks against retailers has dropped dramatically over the last few years, according to new data from IBM, but that’s no reason for security pros to celebrate. Hackers have merely changed their tactics, shifting the emphasis from quantity to quality, and their success has been disturbing. IBM said 61 million records were ...
Good Tech lets IT track and bill smart phone usage by the app
In a bid to reduce the IT department’s burden of juggling personal and corporate data plans, Good Technology Inc. is offering a new service that attaches billing controls to individual applications. The launch takes aim at the same problem that BlackBerry Ltd. has targeted with its acquisition of Movirtu Ltd. in September. Half of organizations that support ...
End of Moore’s Law will shift battle plan in cloud price wars
The price war in the infrastructure-as-a-service cloud market shows no signs of abating this year, as Mike Wheatley pointed out in yesterday’s SiliconANGLE analysis. However, in the longer term both the pace and the variables at work will change as a result of two pivotal hardware trends that are poised to come together in the ...
FoundationDB seen raising NoSQL stakes with addition of document store
FoundationDB Inc. reportedly intends to open a new front in its war against the conventional wisdom of database design with the planned addition of another configuration option for its adaptive key-value store. If and when the move materializes, the startup can expect to draw considerably more competition from the NoSQL camp. Established in 2009, FoundationDB has ...
Mystery telco leads $14M round for OpenStack hosting provider Blue Box
Private cloud hosting provider Blue Box Inc. has completed its second financing round three months after securing the first infusion to bump its net funding past the $33 million mark. The latest $4 million leg saw an unnamed US telco come aboard as the second strategic investor in the startup, triggering speculation about which carrier ...
Compuware targets big iron in first new release as private company
Compuware Inc. is marking its first month as a private company by introducing a new analytics tool that works on data stashed away in their aging mainframes. The launch kicks off the company’s new direction and branding as “the world’s leading mainframe-dedicated software company.” A week after investors approved its $2.5 billion private equity bid last month, ...