Monthly Archives: September 2014
Dell Enhances Cloud-Based Mobile Workspace Platform
Technology giant Dell unveiled its latest mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) offering for enterprise mobility management (EMM), with enhancements to its Mobile Workspace, a cloud-based...
Employees Slow to Report Stolen Mobile Devices
As the rate of stolen mobile devices has increased, the average time for IT departments to respond to this security threat has also grown,...
Federal IT Leaders View Migration to Cloud With Caution
Federal agencies want to double their cloud use across infrastructure, platforms and applications, but 89 percent of federal IT professionals still feel some apprehension...
HP Demonstrates Why Everybody Needs to Think Like the ‘Bad Guys’
WASHINGTON—I was having coffee with Angela Gunn, an old friend who is working as a security researcher these days. She was explaining some of...
Attackers Compromise Vulnerable Web Servers to Power DDoS Assaults
Web servers based on both Linux and Windows are rapidly being targeted by attackers and turned into server-side botnets capable of high-bandwidth denial-of-service attacks,...
Piston Cloud Computing Boosts OpenStack Security
Piston Cloud Computing today announced version 3.5 of its OpenStack cloud distribution, aimed at providing users with a new secure on-ramp to the cloud.Piston...
Google’s Ms. Smith Goes to Washington as New CTO of U.S.
Little did we know that back in June 2013, while on a special mission from San Francisco to London for the United Nations called...
T-Mobile to Use WiFi to Supplement Its Cellular Network
SAN FRANCISCO—T-Mobile today unveiled its latest strategy to shake up the wireless industry, this time with new initiatives that will give customers the ability...
Intel Sampling Xeon D SoC for Microservers, Networking, Storage
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel has begun sampling its upcoming 14-nanometer Xeon processor aimed at dense, low-power servers as well as low-end networking and entry-level storage devices.Diane...
Daily Tech Briefing: Sept. 10, 2014
While the Apple Watch is the first entirely new Apple product in four years, it wasn't necessarily the most important announcement the company made...