Data Center

Cosmonauts on spacewalk to add lab to space station, NASA reports

First of multiple spacewalks slated to prep orbiter for addition of multi-purpose Russian module

WikiLeaks slams US for pursuing Snowden

WikiLeaks has assisted NSA leaker in his request for political asylum in Ecuador

Encryption would exempt ISPs from data breach notification to EU customers

New rules on how to implement the ePrivacy law come into force in August

HP shows off 21-inch all-in-one desktop installed with Android

The HP Slate 21 runs Android 4.2.2

Data center outage takes French state financial system offline for four days

A storage failure lasting less than an hour resulted in a four-day outage in an SAP system used to pay state suppliers

15 workplace barriers to better code

Neatly naming network nodes

EU cloud computing contracts to go under the microscope

An expert group will try to define a single standard contract

Fusion-io updates ioTurbine to aid more types of on-server caching

The software can now manage caching at the hypervisor level and on non-virtualized servers

ATIV Q’s dual OS tablet could be ‘brilliant’ or trouble for IT shops

High-res 13.3-in. tablet converts to laptop and runs Android and Windows 8