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HP takes on supercomputer giants with water-cooled Apollo system
HP has just entered the supercomputer game, offering an eco-friendly way for enterprises to access petaflops of computing power. Announced just before the opening of its HP Discover event in Las Vegas, the company unveiled two new servers designed for high-performance computing workloads as it prepares to take on established supercomputer makers like IBM, Fujitsu ...
Most IT pros ‘aren’t doing anything’ to prep for the Internet of Things
IT professionals are pretty excited about the potential benefits of the Internet of Things, but few are ready to deal with the new breed of connected devices landing in their organizations. The warning comes from Spiceworks, a professional network of IT pros, which says that more than half of IT professionals are ill-equipped to handle ...
Watch out pervs: Ransomware holds Android phones hostage
Bad guys have cooked up the first strain of file-encrypting ransomware targeted at smartphones running Android. Called Android/Simplocker, the malware was spotted by the security firm ESET. Researchers say it works by scanning Android phone’s SD cards looking for certain types of files, before encrypting them and demanding payment to release the data. The origins ...
Storage market tanks as firms shun high-end hardware
Late last week IDC announced one of the worst ever quarters for the storage sector, as enterprise buyers shunned high-end systems. IDC blamed the slump on a 25 percent drop in purchases of high-performance and resilient storage systems like IBM’s DS8000, EMC’s VMAX and Hitachi’s Virtual Storage Platform. This falls in line with IBM’s earlier ...
Gartner: Big Data security should start with the data
One of the central requirements of Big Data is that you take a data-centric approach to cybersecurity. Well, that seems obvious enough – if your vital data is stored in huge repositories, it makes sense to secure said repositories – but apparently most people don’t get it. In a new paper from Gartner, Big Data ...
Oracle lights up open SDN, joins OpenDaylight Project
Oracle has said it’s joining the OpenDaylight Project, an open-source software-defined networking alliance, as a silver member. The company says it wants to bake OpenDaylight’s software into its Solaris 11.2 as soon as possible. When it does so, customers will be able to “use a common and open SDN platform with OpenStack to manage Oracle ...
UK joins the witch hunt: Proposes life sentences for ‘hackers’
The UK government is mulling over a new law that would see life sentences dished out to hackers who carry out “cyberattacks which result in loss of life, serious illness or injury or serious damage to national security, or a significant risk thereof,” according to The Guardian. But the law wouldn’t just cover cyberattacks that ...
China stirs up more Windows 8 hate: ‘It’s a big challenge for our cybersecurity’
China really doesn’t like Windows 8. Not only has it supposedly banned certain government agencies from using the operating system, it’s now resorting to using scare tactics in its local media, running a news report that questions its security. A one and a half minute segment ran on China’s CCTV News channel reports that government ...
VMware kills off vCenter Heartbeat
VMware has somewhat interestingly announced the end of availability of its vCenter Heartbeat product, which is designed to protect vCenter Server against application, operating system, hardware and network failures, and other kinds of outages. The news is somewhat unexpected, and will leave some wondering if that leaves a gap in VMware’s security. vCenter Heartbeat wasn’t ...
IBM-Lenovo x86 server deal delayed due to security fears
Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business could be on the rocks after the two companies asked US regulators for more time to carry out a security review. The companies are said to want an extension to ensure they’ll gain the necessary approval to move forward with the deal, states a report by Bloomberg. The ...