Monthly Archives: February 2016
Google to Start Testing Autonomous Vehicles in Washington
Google's fleet of modified Lexus SUVs equipped with autonomous vehicle technologies could soon become a familiar sight in Kirkland, Wash.The company has been given...
HDS, Pentaho Join for Hyper-Converged Data Center System
Hitachi Data Systems has huddled with its corporate cousin, enterprise management provider Pentaho, to come up with a software-defined, hyper-converged platform for big data...
OpsClarity Provides Monitoring for Open-Source Data-First Apps
OpsClarity, which provides Web-scale application monitoring solutions, has announced that its Intelligent Monitoring offering now provides monitoring for a growing suite of open-source data...
HPE Upgrades Risk Analysis in Information Governance Lineup
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is adding a new data analytics function to its service cloud lineup.The company's Investigative Analytics software-as-a-service offering was released Feb. 3...
Utilities Lack Visibility to Prevent All Attacks, Research Shows
Infrastructure, such as energy utilities, is an increasingly attractive target for cyber-attackers that aim to cause disruption. Two recent studies show that not every...
Google Reports Flaws in Major Anti-Malware Products
Today's topics include Google's disclosure of flaws in Avast, Comodo and Malwarebytes products; Canonical's launch of Ubuntu Linux on tablets for computing convergence; Intel's...
Foxconn on Fast Track in Battle to Acquire Sharp
Foxconn's $5 billion takeover offer for Sharp is being put on a fast track by the Taiwanese electronics assembler as it pushes forward on...
Mozilla Ending Support of Firefox OS for Its Doomed Smartphones
Mozilla's Firefox OS smartphone software project is being shut down in the next few months as the company continues to wrap up the remaining...
Security Startup vThreat Emerges With New Leadership
An often cited best practice to help enable proper security is to test security by attempting to exploit it. That's the goal of security...
Microsoft Beefs Up Data Protection for Government Cloud Customers
Microsoft this week announced new cloud-based data protection capabilities for U.S. government agencies that adhere to tough security and data privacy standards.Now, Azure Government...