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Patch Tuesday signals play time for Windows XP hackers
Those who’re still running Windows XP are about to face a substantially higher level of risk now that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday since end of support has passed. Yesterday’s update saw several critical vulnerabilities patched in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, and at least half of them are thought to affect XP, which ...
Don’t be scared of Big Data. Just be careful
Big Data is a pretty frightening concept for some. Companies and organizations collect vast amounts of data on people’s lives, where they live, their habits, their friends, and this can all be stored, accessed and analyzed later on. But that doesn’t mean consumers should be scared, although a degree of caution is definitely advised. At ...
TechEd 2014: Microsoft steps up Azure hybrid cloud push
There’s been a lot of noise coming from the OpenStack Summit 2014 this week, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from betting on some enterprises choosing to move their workloads onto its own proprietary hybrid cloud. And that’s the message it hammered home on the opening day of its own TechED conference in Houston yesterday. In ...
Red Hat drops ManageIQ into the OpenStack mix | #OpenStackSummit
Red Hat was one of the busier participants during day one of the OpenStack Summit 2014 in Atlanta yesterday, rolling out new code it hopes will drive adoption of OpenStack and advance cloud management. The company said it’s willing to contribute its ManageIQ platform to OpenStack, in the hope it can help to govern and ...
IBM unwraps Watson-powered push into software-defined storage
IBM has just lifted the lid off a new software-defined storage product whose technology is partly based on the Watson system used on the “Jeopardy” TV game show. The technology in question was devised in IBM’s research labs, and allowed its Watson supercomputer to process a mind-blowing four terabytes of content (more than 200 million ...
GE beefs up Industrial Internet security with Wurldtech acquisition
The advance of the Internet of Things is inevitable, but question marks remain over just how safe these ‘things’ will be, given the myriad of vulnerabilities in the networks and protocols linking everything together. To combat this threat, industrial giant GE has just acquired the Canadian cybersecurity firm Wurldtech. While the likes of Google prefer ...
Gmail leak: Radical redesign to scale across all platforms
A couple of leaked screenshots suggest that Google is about to spring a major revamp of its Gmail service onto unsuspecting users. The two images, which were obtained by Geek.com, show what looks to be the most drastic redesign of the Gmail interface for desktop computers we’ve seen so far. Geek.com compared the redesigned interface ...
#EMCworld final wrap: How the EMC federation was born
The final day of a fascinating EMC World conference came to a close yesterday, and after a record-breaking 75+ guest interviews over the three day event, theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick finally took a breather to discuss the concept behind EMC’s federation during their final wrap session. Vellante kicked off by noting many ...
Aaron Levie traps GE in a Box
Cloud storage and collaboration firm Box has just signed up a massive new customer in the form of GE, the Industrial Internet giant that wants to power the next generation of connected devices. The deal, which was reportedly negotiated over for two long years, was revealed by Box CEO Aaron Levie in a blog post. ...
Intel injects cash inside Server SAN startup Maxta
Maxta, the Server San software startup that lets servers multitask for storage, has raised $25 million in its second round of funding in six months. The series-B funding round was led by Intel and Tenaya Capital, and comes at a time when the software-defined and coverged storage trends are just about to take off. Previously, ...