Microsoft bought its way into the storage hardware appliance market with the purchase of StorSimple almost two years ago. With the release of the StorSimple 8100 and 8600 hybrid cloud storage arrays, Microsoft has fully integrated these physical devices with Azure for seamless cloud connectivity. The integration includes the ability …
Understanding all the 802.1X client settings in Windows can certainly help during deployment and support of an 802.1X network. This is especially true when manual configuration of the settings is required, such as in a domain environment or when fine-tuning wireless roaming for latency-sensitive clients and applications, like VoIP and …
A prominent advisor to big-time investors has urged clients to vote against Microsoft’s pay package for its new CEO, Satya Nadella, saying that his compensation this year was out of whack when compared to competing companies and the firm’s track record. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which advises institutional shareholders, recommended …
If Facebook launches a social network for the workplace, CIOs will have to decide whether they can get past Facebook’s history of privacy issues. “That is something that has to be addressed,” said Angela Yochem, global CIO of Philadelphia-based BDP International, a company that specializes in shipping sensitive materials. “We’re …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 17, beginning at 9:30 a.m. ET. The committee will focus on the interests and priorities of emerging and smaller public companies. “Small and emerging companies contribute …
Google is employing a big team of lawyers, engineers and paralegals who have so far evaluated over half a million URLs that were requested to be delisted from search results by European citizens, the company said. About six months after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave …
Enterprise data sets have gotten so voluminous that they can’t fit into even the largest data warehouses, many businesses find. Now, companies running these overstuffed data stores have an on-ramp to newfangled, big-data style processing through a combined effort between analytics systems supplier Teradata and Apache Hadoop distribution provider MapR. …
A federal court in Florida has temporarily shut down two “massive” telemarketing operations that allegedly conned tens of thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by tricking them into fixing nonexistent computer errors, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. The tech support operations generated more than $120 million since …
NEW ORLEANS — Republican control of the Senate means that one the most fanatical climate change deniers in Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is now in line to head the Senate subcommittee that oversees science funding. This is not good news for supercomputing. In scientific research, climate change is one …
Giving thanks It’s that time of the year again, when people all across America sit down with their families to a nice home-cooked meal and collectively laugh at the people who did more embarrassing stuff than them. Even if that’s not how you celebrate Thanksgiving, you can at least be …
DEMO Fall 2014 DEMO has served as a launching pad for startups that have gone on to become some of the world’s biggest companies, from Netscape Navigator and TiVo to VMware and Salesforce.com. Here are 15 new products from DEMO Fall 2014 to check out. MakeTime Image by YouTube.com To …
Walking up the gangway to board Royal Caribbean’s tech-laden Quantum of the Seas, it was hard not to marvel. Across the harbor was Manhattan, and at 348 meters, the new ship is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall. But it’s what the ship contains that made …
Purism’s Librem Linux laptop Purism is seeking crowd-sourced funding for its 15-inch Linux laptop. The Librem laptop is designed to run on truly free software only, there will be no closed-source software included with it (even for drivers). Chris Hoffman at PC World reports on Purism’s free software only laptop: …
An Android Trojan program that’s behind one of the longest running multipurpose mobile botnets has been updated to become stealthier and more resilient. The botnet is mainly used for instant message spam and rogue ticket purchases, but it could be used to launch targeted attacks against corporate networks because the …
Apple and Google are locked in a never-ending game of catch-up. Each time a new version of iOS or Android is announced, there are just as many borrowed features as new ones, as each side studies and pilfers the other’s ideas to find ways to better its own experience. Android …
German startup Priori Data is set to launch an app analytics platform designed to help developers, and anyone else who’s interested, find out what’s really hot and what’s not on Apple’s App Store and Google Play. The problem with the two big app stores is the lack of public information …
BitTorrent dismissed claims that its popular peer-to-peer file synchronization program BitTorrent Sync has an insecure cryptographic implementation that potentially gives the company access to users’ files. A group of security researchers who recently reverse engineered parts of BitTorrent Sync released a report Monday outlining several potential security issues they found. …
Vietnam, India and Indonesia might not have the most advanced Internet infrastructure, but they do have a large number of insecure smartphones coming online, making them the big botnet sources for next year’s distributed denial of service attacks, according to a report released today by Black Lotus Communications, a DDOS …
Microsoft released an out-of-band patch on Tuesday, addressing a vulnerability in Kerberos KBC, a component that handles authentication on local networks. The patch was supposed to have been released earlier this month, but Microsoft withheld it due to QA concerns. However, Redmond says the flaw is being used in attacks …
Jolla, the Finnish company that created the open source mobile operating system Sailfish OS, today started a crowd-funding campaign at Indiego for their first Linux-powered tablet, simply called Jolla Tablet. At the time of writing this article, the campaign already crossed the desired $380,00 goal and hit the half million mark …
Fidelity Investments today announced a cutting edge way for customers to check on the health of their investments – by donning 3D goggles and peering around a personalized city where the size of each building relates to the health of their various stock holdings, giving them a quick way to …
Finnish smartphone startup Jolla is hoping to break into the tablet market with its Sailfish OS running on a device with a high-resolution 7.85-inch screen. No one seems to have to told the Finns how tough the tablet market is, though: Jolla’s launch comes a day after its neighbor Nokia …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to adopt new rules designed to strengthen the technology infrastructure of the U.S. securities markets. The rules – together comprising Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (Regulation SCI) – impose requirements on certain key market participants intended to reduce the occurrence of systems issues …
What does the future CIO look like? He or she probably won’t have a technology background. However, this new kind of CIO will not only have to lead a technical staff but will also be a leader of leaders in the boardroom. (cio.com) To read this article in full or …
Microsoft on Tuesday announced Office 365 Video, a YouTube-like streaming service where enterprises and large organizations can post in-house video content for communication and training. The Redmond, Wash. firm had first teased Office 365 Video in May at TechEd. “Office 365 Video provides organizations with a secure, company-wide destination for …
Whether you are a fan of Anonymous or not, not too many folks will be upset over the hacktivist collective’s latest hated target – the KKK. Like when hackers of all color hats took on the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church, hackers under the banner of Anonymous have banded together in …