New Windows Vulnerability at Large, Security Vendor Says
Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. ...Full Article
SGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes live next ...Full Article
HGST Puts Software Spin on Hard Drive Storage
The waterfall of unstructured data pouring into datacenters is fueling the need for data and object storage approaches that retain all that stuff while at the same time making ...Full Article
Cisco Survey Sees Evolving Security Threats
IT infrastructure and the applications they deliver along with emerging open-source web frameworks remain the most attractive targets for hackers and cyber-criminals, according to new web security research data. ...Full Article
Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
Enterprises are leaving behind virtualization and rapidly advancing toward internal and hosted private clouds as organizations drive toward more innovation, more efficient infrastructures, and more business-oriented IT departments. By ...Full Article
IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion ...Full Article
Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
If, as reported over the weekend, Intel Corp. moves to acquire programmable logic and embedded processor specialist Altera Corp., industry watchers predict it would boost the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be ...Full Article
Startup Hedvig Emerges With Storage Platform
Hedvig Inc., a software-defined storage startup emerging from stealth mode this week after three years of development, is rolling out a distributed storage platform it touts as helping enterprises ...Full Article
Google Splits Difference with Nearline Storage
Google Cloud Platform's new archival storage offering called Nearline appears to target the same "cold storage" market eyed when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a similar service called Glacier ...Full Article