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Sharing (data) is caring: IBM launches Watson Cloud services for healthcare
Enterprise giant IBM has announced a fresh wave of investment in its US Federal Healthcare Practice in order to address the technology needs of public sector health institutions. Big Blue will add Big Data and cognitive computing services to its health care clients, delivered via the Watson Cloud. These services will include diagnostics and research, ...
Apple issues Heartbleed patch for AirPort hardware
Apple has been left feeling ever-so-slightly red faced after posting a security update to address the Heartbleed vulnerability in its AirPort router hardware. This comes after the company previously stated that all of its products are immune to the bug in OpenSSL. Apple’s AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule home network appliances have both been ...
AWS anounces support for Docker containerization in Elastic Beanstalk
The world’s leading public cloud provider has just embraced one of the hottest new enabling technologies for migrating applications into the cloud. AWS has just announced support for the open-source Docker technology on its Elastic Beanstalk PaaS, which allows developers to cede capacity provisioning, load-balancing, application health monitoring and other tasks for ease of use. ...
FCC denies U-turn on net neutrality
The Wall Street Journal is claiming the FCC has had a major change of heart over net neutrality. According to its report, the FCC is set to propose new rules that would pave the way for companies to pay for faster broadband speeds, but only if the terms of these deals are “commercially reasonable”. Such ...
Microsoft rumor mill: New update & cloud-based OS on the way?
Microsoft is going hell for leather to get people to like its Windows 8.1 operating system, and to that end it’s said to be planning yet another update for this fall. One of the more extravagant rumors is that this could be followed by a new, cloudy version of the OS that’s entirely free to ...
VMware gains momentum with expectation-busting Q1 earnings
VMware has once again shown us there’s an absolute fortune to be made in the world of virtualization, reporting analyst-busting revenues in its earnings call yesterday. The Palo Alto-based virtualization giant announced sales of a whopping $1.368 billion for Q1 of this year, a 14 percent rise from the previous year’s quarter, and way ahead ...
OpenBSD wants to mop up ‘Heartbleed’ with LibreSSL fork
There’s been a lot of talk about fixing OpenSSL to prevent a Heartbleed-like situation from ever arising again, and now software developers are intent on taking matters into their own hands. One question that’s been raised in the debates following Heartbleed is whether or not OpenSSL should be patched up or completely rewritten. The realities ...
Dark days ahead for Big Data? Depends what you use it for…
According to Gartner’s famed hype cycle, technologies typically follow a similar pattern, in which they’re first discovered and immediately over-hyped, causing users to quickly become disillusioned, before finally finding realistic applications for the technology. It kicks off with the “trigger” phase, a stage of rabid excitement about a new technology that leads to huge public ...
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 ...