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The companies join forces to offer OpenStack as a service via NTT’s enterprise cloud and delivered from the company’s global data center network
GuardiCore Reveal lets security teams discover, monitor and visualize activity inside the data center, as well as control traffic through micro-segmentation policies
The tool acts as a system driver and blocks ransomware and other malicious programs from injecting rogue code into the master boot record
Clear Ballot’s independently developed software combined with commodity hardware has audited more than 5 million ballots and found an average error rate of less than .001%
IARPA program wants to build secure environments from the beginning that can respond to malicious actions more effectively than current offerings
New cumulative updates for Windows 7 will swell to 500MB a month, Microsoft acknowledges
Blown cover: Malware authors show how easy it is to get encryption wrong and, in the process, help security pros crack their code
Loyalty rewards tied to in-store payment apps could attract more users; banks need to get involved
Trump had the most to gain by raising the visa issue
An EU court erred in rejecting Intel's appeal of a record antitrust fine, a top EU judge advised Thursday
The tech giant is launching new managed storage and cold storage services
Gartner: Virtual personal health assistants and other technology eliminate the physician for annual exams
The branch target buffer mechanism in Intel Haswell CPUs can be used to leak ASLR memory addresses
Yahoo’s data breach and reports of email spying may cause Verizon to enact a clause in the contract between the companies that lets it cancel the deal
Spending on software and IT services should help the industry rebound from a lackluster 2016
Dell EMC says converged systems are too rigid in their deployment options and has come up with an on-premises offering it calls Validated System for Virtualization.
That depends on how good you are at managing infrastructure. 451 finds labor efficiency and utilization severely impact total cost of ownership for private clouds
Action Items help remind people what they're supposed to be doing
And then there were two: The Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the Raspberry Pi Foundation both support the teaching of coding worldwide -- but using very different computers
Open Networking Foundation and ON.Lab merge, promise to continue developing core open SDN projects
Riverbed’s SteelCentral 11 brings together end user experience, infrastructure, application and network performance management in a single platform
New Wi-Fi router supports high-speed data transfer for 4K video files, VR gaming scenarios
Oracle's October security update is one of the largest ever, fixing 253 flaws
Additions to its lineup should make both throughput and management tasks faster
Expanded partnership will focus on OpenStack, NFV infrastructure, software-defined networking, software-defined infrastructure and containers
The number of enslaved machines has doubled since the source code was released
The users claim they lost money in charges from carriers
The Open Compute Project has accepted the Wedge 100 design, opening up a hardware-software ecosystem
Gartner says AI, algorithms, Blockchain, intelligent apps and devices will rule the roost
The total number of IoT devices infected with the Mirai malware has reached 493,000
Nomulus manages domain names on the Internet, shows off Google Cloud power
Microsoft’s increasing role as a data aggregator gets attention at Gartner’s conference
The technique makes the compromises harder to detect and prolongs the theft
WikiLeaks claims Secretary of State John Kerry asked Ecuador to intervene
Can new software revitalize the scandal-plagued company?
The use of police photo databases raises questions about a lack of regulation and the accuracy of results
Microsoft: This marks the first time that human parity has been reported for conversational speech
Many issues were found in the new UEFI bootloader and have been patched in VeraCrypt 1.19
Here's what happened when I dumped my iPhone for a Pixel XL...and why I went back
A new cybersecurity survey points out the hidden issues and concerns surrounding security in the cloud
WordPress hosts an unbelievable proportion of the world’s websites. GoDaddy wants to own a bigger chunk of that business.
New versions of vSphere, Virtual SAN and vRealize Suite extend support for application containers and managing public clouds
The Ecuador embassy in London is said to have cut his internet connection
Qualcomm plans to ship what it calls a 5G modem in 2018
New chips and software will let cameras instead of the cloud do some analytics
But IT budget and salary increases, along with excitement of job, making it a great time to be CIO, annual SIM IT Trends Study finds
