Mike Wheatley
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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 ...
Hadoop’s horse race: Will Cloudera & Hortonworks go the distance?
One of the biggest talking points at this year’s Hadoop Summit is the race between its two high profile competitors, Cloudera and Hortonworks. The competition is heating up as the market matures, particularly in light of Cloudera’s recent funding round led by Intel. But is this destined to be a fight to the death? Or ...
Apple cozies up to Bing: A threat to Google’s mobile search dominance?
Apple might not be going “thermonuclear” on Google just yet, but it’s not quite ready to buddy up with the Mountain View giant just yet either. At WWDC yesterday it took the opportunity to make its iOS and OS X devices a little less reliant on Google’s infrastructure by embracing search rival Bing, in a ...
Oracle adds new cloud tools with Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4
Oracle has just injected some powerful new capabilities into its Oracle Enterprise Manager software in yet another sign that it’s waking up to the money-spinning possibilities of the cloud. The update – Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 – allows organizations to offer a database-as-a-service which comes with features like disaster recovery and high availability. Like ...