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Fool me twice: Malware used in Target attack catches Home Depot off guard nearly a year later
The latest major cyberattack on a top U.S. retailer employed a variant of the malware that hackers used to break into the network of Target Corp. last December, according to influential security blogger Brian Krebs. The holiday season heist saw the assailants take off with sensitive personal information belonging to approximately 70 million customers of ...
The public cloud gets more secure with chip-level enforcement and real-time behavior scanning
IBM hopes to address CIOs’ persistent unease with the state of cloud security by adding a new layer of control for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to enforce access policies down to the chip level. Dedicated servers from SoftLayer, the managed hosting company Big Blue absorbed in June, 2014 for approximately $2 billion, will now ...
How a 140-year-old utility biz went back to selling subscriptions – via the cloud
Ohio’s CBTS may not be a household name like Google or Amazon, but it boasts a much longer and extensive history than either. The firm traces its roots to local telephone kingpin Cincinnati Bell, which began operating all the way back in 1873. Come the corporate technology boom of the 1980s and 1990s, the company ...
The software-defined data center puzzle is finally clicking together | #VMworld
VMware Inc. has closed the loop on the software-defined data center, according to the head of its software-defined data center unit. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the virtualization giant’s recently concluded customer conference in San Francisco, vice president John Gilmartin made the case that the introduction of the NSX network and vSAN storage virtualization solutions ...
Facebook and LinkedIn double down on privacy with new controls
The social media sphere has produced quite a few notable privacy controversies in recent years, a reputation that the top networks are now trying to shake off with new features aimed at enabling users to take responsibility over who can view their personal data into their own hands. Facebook Inc. is leading the way with ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop bandwagon gets even more crowded
Hadoop has once again emerged as the flavor of the week for the industry after Cisco Systems Inc. pulled the curtains back on new solutions in its Unified Computing System (UCS) family of converged infrastructure solution that take aim at the core challenges of deploying the analytics framework in enterprise environments. The new additions to ...
What you missed in Cloud: an odd mishmesh of containers and analytics
Cloud computing may have settled in as a permanent fixture of the enterprise technology landscape, but the chase for the next big thing is not over by any stretch. The hot new technology making headlines today is containerization, which the industry appears to be embracing even faster than the everything-as-a-service mindset. Cisco Systems Inc. became ...
Analyst expectations for Tableau as new rivals emerge
For all the talk of automation among analytics vendors nowadays, data is ultimately only as useful as what the user can take away from it, a fundamental reality of decision-making that was largely glossed over until Tableau Software Inc. came along. The company has exposed the market to a fresh approach of presenting information that ...
Salesforce supports Oculus Rift and other trendy gadgets in wearables push
Salesforce.com Inc. is pushing full-throttle into the connected universe with the addition of support for some of the hottest new gadgets on the market and a landmark professional services initiative aimed at helping large organizations bring those devices into the workplace. The move comes three months after the cloud services stalwart launched a dedicated program ...
HP launches professional services business for OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. may have been late to the party for the OpenStack cloud computing platform, but it’s trying to make up for lost time. The company just rolled out a dedicated consultancy practice that will focus exclusively on helping customer implement the open-source cloud platform in their environments. The launch of the unit comes on ...