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Kaspersky launches hardened OS for industrial control systems
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs has finally completed the development of its “unhackable” operating system after four years. Kaspersky first announced it was working on the OS back in 2012, saying it would be built “from the ground up” and designed to protect key information for the world’s most critical industries, such as transportation control ...
Multiple updates led to Google cloud outage
Google has provided an explanation for the two-hour outage affecting its Google Cloud Platform on Aug. 11, saying the error was entirely its own fault. The incident affected Google App Engine’s APIs, which were left “unavailable” for short periods. According to Google, the outage meant that 18 percent of apps hosted in its US-Central region ...
VMware announces new alliances around Liota IoT SDK
Looking to bridge the gap between developers and IT, VMware Inc. has a series of partnerships in an effort to accelerate the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the enterprise. On Tuesday, VMware said it was working with Bayshore Networks LLC, Dell Inc., Intwine Connect LLC, Deloitte Digital, PTC Inc. and V5 Systems ...
IoT & Big Data accelerate tech M&A deals
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data analytics are driving a record number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals, both for the second quarter of 2016 and the entire year to date, says a new report from Ernst & Young (EY). The second quarter saw 28 deals valued at $1 billion or more, setting ...
NASA wants to sell the International Space Station to a commercial entity
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wants to sell off, or possibly donate the International Space Station (ISS) to private enterprise in the next few years. The agency is hoping to hand over control of the orbiting laboratory to a commercial entity sometime in the next decade, it said. NASA made the announcement during ...
ARM sets its sights on supercomputers with new chip design
Fresh from having conquered the mobile market, U.K.-based microchip designer ARM Holdings Ltd. is now setting its sights on powering the world’s fastest computers. It’s just unveiled a new chip design for supercomputers, an extremely lucrative market where until now, it’s had zero presence. The new design, which is based on ARM’s mobile chips, has ...
Vendor survey: Cloud shift leads to exponential growth in security risks
Enterprises are leaving themselves more vulnerable to attackers as they shift from on-premises workloads to cloud infrastructure, by increasing their “attackable surface area”, a new vendor survey warned last week. The CloudPassage Inc. study, published on Friday, was based on a poll of IT managers at the recent Black Hat security conference, and found that ...
CNN using drones to gather news footage
The Cable News Network, better known as CNN, has become the first mainstream news broadcaster in the U.S. to adopt aerial drones in order to gather news footage. The broadcaster has a new CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (AIR) unit, called CNN AIR, hiring two full-time drone operators to fly its unmanned birds. “For the ...
Why Nutanix independently validated itself on Cisco’s UCS
Nutanix Inc. has gone and validated Cisco Systems Ltd.’s UCS C-Series servers to run its Enterprise Cloud Platform hyper-converged software. It means that Nutanix’s software can now run on three of the top four x86 server vendor’s platforms, with Dell Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. being the other two. “Deployment of Nutanix software on UCS C-Series hardware ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation rips into Microsoft on privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pestering Microsoft over its Windows 10 operating system once again, ranting that the tech giant should introduce a “single unified screen” that lets users better control how the OS collects and uses their personal data and usage history. The EFF also highlights the numerous, and sometimes deceptive “nagware” tactics ...