Archives for January, 2010

Kingston DataTraveler 5000 Secure USB Drives Announced


Kingston has announced the DataTraveler 5000, a line of FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified (Level 3 pending) secure USB drives. Features include 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption, XTS cipher mode and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms to meet Suite B US government standards. 

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Symantec slaps Trojan alert against Spotify


Scanner turns song software slayer
Symantec has apologised over a cock-up that resulted in the incorrect classification of streaming music service Spotify as a Trojan on Thursday.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Oracle: Storage trouble in store


Sun’s 7000 top of the class – who’s getting expelled?
Comment  Oracle is putting a heavy focus on Sun’s 7000, tape and flash storage products, implying the rest of the bought-in storage line is not so well-regarded and may be under threat.…

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Kingston DataTraveler 5000 Secure USB Drives Announced


Kingston has announced the DataTraveler 5000, a line of FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certified (Level 3 pending) secure USB drives. Features include 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption, XTS cipher mode and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms to meet Suite B US government standards. 

read more

Oracle: Storage trouble in store


Sun’s 7000 top of the class – who’s getting expelled?
Comment  Oracle is putting a heavy focus on Sun’s 7000, tape and flash storage products, implying the rest of the bought-in storage line is not so well-regarded and may be under threat.…

New SGI chases new partners


Boutique strategy
The recently combined Rackable/SGI is looking to add some new blood to depleted partner ranks. After the merger, the company dropped about one-third of its combined partners for various reasons and is now trying to rebuild its channel presence.…

ISSCC: Home cooking at the wafer bakers


Iron chefs chop their chips
The semi-annual dance of chip technology previews gets its 2010 start at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco two weeks from now, and Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Sun Microsystems (soon to be a division of Oracle), and Hitachi are going to be talking up their future chip [...]

Symantec slaps Trojan alert against Spotify


Scanner turns song software slayer
Symantec has apologised over a cock-up that resulted in the incorrect classification of streaming music service Spotify as a Trojan on Thursday.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Mellanox recovering but wheezing


Good revenue rise, smaller profit
InfiniBand supplier Mellanox is making profits as the recession eases, but much less than before.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Seagate pumps £60m into Springtown plant


Next-gen read/write heads
In a bit of cheery news for Ulster, Seagate is pumping £60m into its Springtown, Londonderry, plant to develop next-generation read/write heads.…

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