Archives for February, 2010

A-DATA Unveils USB 3.0 Storage Devices, SSDs


A-DATA has just announced its USB 3.0 product lineup at the CeBIT 2010 tradeshow. Two storage products and an SSD were introduced: the NH01 external hard drive, the N002 combo flash drive, and the S599 SSD with SandForce processors.

The NH01 (shown above) houses a 2.5" SATA hard drive with up to 640GB of capacity. It has [...]

Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source ‘Tashi’ cluster


Big Data goes back to school
Backed by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel, the computer science mavens at Carnegie Mellon University have added a new compute cluster to the worldwide Open Cirrus test bed, a collection of clusters designed to explorer the frontiers of interwebs-scale distributed computing.…

Hitachi SimpleDrive Rev 3 2.0TB USB External Hard Drive Review


Hitachi SimpleDrive external hard drives are value-oriented storage solutions with the core essentials.
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Parallels fondles Steve Jobs’ bare metal


VMs gets cozy with Apple Xserve
Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.…

Patterned storage media almost sewn up


Insulate those bits
Comment  Patterned media is stepping closer with Molecular Imprints announcing and selling a system for pilot and low-volume manufacture.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Cleversafe beats RAID/replication scale trap


Distributed slices of data
Cleversafe has improved the hardware it sells to distribute slices of data around a network, reckoning this is much cheaper at the PB scale than a RAID and replication combination.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Twitter hits fan as scams smite banks, cabinet ministers


Harman gets hacked, Miliband’s account peddles penis pills
The Twitter phishing attacks from earlier this week stepped up a gear on Friday with huge volumes of spam from compromised accounts, some of which belonged to UK cabinet minsters and even a bank.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Cyberspooks sceptical on UK.gov’s IT cost-cutting plans


Cloud threatened by security risks, says GCHQ
Exclusive  Whitehall IT chiefs have been warned by the intelligence agency GCHQ that security problems with cloud computing could foil their plans to use the technology to slash the cost of public services.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Computer boffin on NHS Spine: Get out while you can


Summary Care Record summarily slammed
A leading computer scientist has sounded a warning over an NHS data collection plan, urging patients to opt out.…

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Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle


Fat cat pay leaked all over the Baltics
A hacker has become a popular hero in the Baltics, and scourge to the authorities, by leaking information on the finances of banks and state-run firms to Latvian TV.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud