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Asus, Acer Among Vendors to Release ARM-Based Notebook PCs
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…
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Big Data Challenge More Than Managing Volumes of Data: Gartner
Many IT leaders are attempting to manage "big data" challenges by focusing on the high volumes of information to the exclusion of the many other dimensions of information management, leaving massive challenges to be addressed later, according to IT research firm Gartner. "Big data" is a popular term used to acknowledge the exponential growth, availability…
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Cyber-Security Breaches Hit 90 Percent of Businesses: Report
A survey of U.S. IT security professionals, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Juniper Networks, found the threat from cyber-attacks today is nearing statistical certainty and businesses of every type and size are vulnerable to attacks. Organizations today are experiencing multiple breaches, with more than half (59 percent) of respondents citing two or more…
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Will Amazon and Microsoft BPOS Outages Kill the Cloud
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…
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Security Holes Abound in VMs Deployed by Amazon Web Services Customers
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…