Articles Archive for February 2010
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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 USB 3.0 and eSATA connectivity and will be available in multiple colors.
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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.…
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Hitachi SimpleDrive external hard drives are value-oriented storage solutions with the core essentials.
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VMs gets cozy with Apple Xserve
Parallels has introduced a bare-metal hypervisor for servers built by the Jobsian cult.…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Summary Care Record summarily slammed
A leading computer scientist has sounded a warning over an NHS data collection plan, urging patients to opt out.…
What is your recession sales strategy?
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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