Monthly Archives: October 2016
British Intelligence Agencies Collected Personal Data Unlawfully For Over A Decade
By Roland Moore-ColyerBritish intelligence agencies have been bulk collecting UK citizens' phone and Internet data illegally for over a decade, a ruling by the...
VMware Embraces Kubernetes in Container Push
VMware announced on Oct. 18 at its VMworld 2016 Europe event that it is now supporting the Kubernetes container management system on the VMware...
IBM’s ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Drive Transformation in Q3
Although IBM's third-quarter 2016 revenue was basically flat when compared with the same period a year ago, Big Blue saw significant improvement in its...
Galaxy Note7 Fires Making Shippers Paranoid About All Batteries
There's no question that airlines in the United States are taking the problems with the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note7 seriously. This was clear when...
Canonical Brings Ubuntu OpenStack, Ceph to ARM Servers
ARM officials took a step forward in their effort to build the software ecosystem around its efforts in the data center when Canonical announced...
Microsoft: Tech Support Scams Hit Two-Thirds of Consumers
Similar to phishers, tech support scammers are getting craftier in their attempts to separate people from their money.IT pros, computer experts and younger folks...
Netflix Adds 1.2M More Users Than Expected, Stock Jumps
Netflix, which has sunk a large investment into creating and producing its own original content, turned in a strong quarterly earnings report Oct. 17,...
Netskope Brings Ransomware Protection to the Cloud
Aiming to help reduce the risk of cloud-deployed ransomware, security firm Netskope on Oct. 17 announced new capabilities for finding and remediating ransomware attacks....
HPE Updates Backup/Recovery With Analytics-Based Toolset
Backup and efficient recovery of data stores generally has been the bane of many a storage administrator's existence because processes are too often overly...
Microsoft Puts FPGAs to Work for Azure and Bing
Project Catapult, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) project established in 2011 by Microsoft, is starting to pay off for users of the company's services,...