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Organized hackers have been attempting to breach aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman for years to steal sensitive information, according to a Northrop Grumman senior executive at the Gartner security summit. The APTs (advanced persistent threats) are designed to infiltrate networks at companies and government agencies to steal intellectual property or other sensitive information. As […]

Preconfiguration, prepackaging and automation of many IT functions are key attributes of the new unified computing systems, and this is a trend that is gaining serious traction on a global scale. Spending hours configuring a server or storage array for a virtualized system is fast becoming drudgery of the past. Oracle made a major contribution […]

Data storage solutions provider Winchester Systems announced the release of FlashDisk VX Series RAID disk arrays, which now offer 3TB disk drives. The FlashDisk VX-3400 RAID disk array now stores 336TB in a single RAID set and it fits 772TB into a single 84U data center rack. The disk arrays offer virtualized tiered data storage […]

When it comes to enterprise security, user misconceptions of safe online behavior may be the weakest link, according to two recent research studies. Users are in the dark about the "reality" of malware threats, according to G Data Software’s global survey released June 24. The massive survey included responses from nearly 16,000 users worldwide, of […]

Acer, Toshiba and Asus are among the PC vendors that may roll out notebooks powered by ARM processors by the end of the year, according to reports. Quoting industry sources, DigiTimes is reporting that those OEMs, as well as Samsung Electronics, are working on notebooks that would be powered by chips using ARM designs and […]

After a few high profile cloud outages – Amazon and Microsoft – in the past few months, some may be wondering, will cloud adoption slow down as a result? The short answer: probably not. But let’s back up a bit and look at this white hot, newer trend of “the cloud.” In the realm of […]

VMware is finding new ways to keep its desktop virtualization business moving. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtualization provider on June 22 announced the expansion of its VMware Ready program for partners providing desktop VDI based on the company’s View platform. The program provides users with validated desktop virtualization architectures that meet VMware’s functional and scalability […]

German researchers uncovered multiple security problems within Amazon’s cloud-computing services caused by customers ignoring or forgetting security tips. Researchers looked at some 1,100 Amazon Machine Images and found a majority of them contained security keys used to authenticate with other services and servers, Thomas Schneider, a post-doctoral researcher in the System Security Lab of Technische […]

Hewlett-Packard recently filed suit against Oracle over the software giant s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium platform, which HP officials characterized as a cynical move by Oracle to force customers to adopt its struggling SPARC hardware. The lawsuit was only the latest step in the ongoing drama about the dissolving relationship between the […]

International sales are a vital and growing part of the market for small to midsize businesses, according to a study conducted by The Business Journals. The study found that nearly a quarter of U.S. small firms surveyed said some portion of their business sales came from overseas, while another 6 percent expect to join their […]

IT Forecast Increasing Cloudiness More than 70 percent said that by 2014, a third of all IT organizations will be providers of cloud services to customers or business partners. No Title Almost 80 percent of IT executives said that cloud service brokers that provide integration, management, security and other services across public cloud offerings will […]

Online storage service Dropbox accidentally turned off passwords for four hours, potentially exposing data belonging to its 25 million customers to unauthorized users. The breach occurred when the company applied a code change at 4:54 p.m. EST on June 19 that caused problems with the authentication mechanism, Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox CTO and founder, wrote in […]