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Software-Defined Storage: Flash still plays a minor role
Storage virtualization provider DataCore Software has just published the findings of its latest survey of Software-defined storage (SDS) users, revealing a surprisingly slow rate of adoption for flash-based devices like solid-state drives. This marks the fourth year in succession that DataCore has undertaken its “The State of Software-Defined Storage” survey. This time around it took ...
Verizon Data Breach Investigations: Point-of-sale attacks, web app hacks & more
As far as cybersecurity goes, 2013 was about as bad as it gets. It’s not just that the NSA was revealed to be hacking just about every single Internet user in the world. Oh no, it was the year that hacking incidents went mainstream, becoming something the average web user needs to worry about. Cyberattacks ...
Scary stuff: Drones, robots and wearable tech
The world of tech has advanced enormously in just a few short years – we’ve got smartphones, smart homes, 3D printers, hell, we’ve even got drones and self-driving cars! It’s as if we’re living in the future already, and most people think that this rapid pace of change is set to increase over the next ...
Nike’s Fuelband runs out of steam: What next for Nike?
Last Friday a number of conflicting reports emerged about Nike, claiming that it’s going to give up on its high-profile Fuelband fitness products, or else make some big changes to the way it runs that business. It’s still not clear exactly what’s happening, but Nike did confirm to Re/Code that it had laid-off a “small ...
OpenStack Icehouse: The cloud just got that much cooler
OpenStack officially released the latest distribution of its cloud computing framework, dubbed Icehouse, focusing mainly on consolidation and stability. However, it’s added a few cool new features into the mix, including a new database service, support for Hadoop deployments on OpenStack clouds, and improved support for containers. Icehouse was released on Thursday, and it finally delivers ...
Tor remains vulnerable to Heartbleed, pulls back capacity
More than a week after we first learned about the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL – the encryption that protects more than half of the Internet, according to Netcraft’s April 2014 Web Server Survey – it’s been revealed that large numbers of systems that run the anonymous Tor network remain unpatched. In order to protect Tor’s security, ...
Developers movin’ on top: How open-source + cloud changed the landscape
One of the biggest ongoing conversations in tech right now pertains to the shifting role of developers, and what this will mean for IT departments. A recent survey by Puppet Labs shows that developers are becoming so influential in shaping products and user experience, that business success demands an understanding of just how important a ...
IBM beefs up SoftLayer with disaster recovery services
IBM is adding to its SoftLayer platform by introducing extra security and disaster recovery services, hoping to allay fears about critical data loss in the cloud. Its disaster recovery-as-a-service is able to recover workloads running on IBM’s AIX, Windows or Linux “within minutes” according to a video announcing the product. The announcement, which was made ...
Red Hat unveils ‘Project Atomic’ to rule container-loaded servers #RHSummit
This week saw Red Hat showing off its newest enterprise Linux technologies, and it’s betting big on virtualization containers. At its annual Red Hat Summit yesterday, it showed off a new virtualization initiative leveraging open-source container technology from Docker, known as Project Atomic. Project Atomic combines components like geard, systemd, and rpm-OSTree with Docker’s containerization ...
Time to update Windows 8.1, it’s just about to be made obsolete
So you’ve only just updated to Windows 8.1, now what? Well, Microsoft wants you to update again, and do it pretty damn quickly, because its about to stop providing support for earlier versions of its ‘latest’ operating system. As of May, Windows 8.1 will effectively be made obsolete already – much like Windows XP is ...