Flash memory joint venture partners SanDisk Corp. and Toshiba have released the production schedule for a new generation flash device destined for ultra-high density storage devices. SanDisk and Toshiba America Electronics Components Inc. based on Irvine, Calif., this week claimed development of the first 256-gigabit (32 gigabyte) stacked cell NAND flash memory based on Toshiba's ...Full article
Since her cover was famously blown, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame is more openly protecting the country's digital assets. In May, the author and anti-nuclear activist joined the advisory board of Global Data Sentinel, developer of a cybersecurity platform designed to encrypt and protect across domains, networks, and devices. Plame spent much of her ...Full article
Endpoint encryption, while a strong starting point, is not always adequate to protect enterprises from today's sophisticated attacks, according to a former director of global cybersecurity management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But a startup security developer's novel "microencryption" and "microtokenization" approach may deliver more robust protection. Far too often, public and private sector ...Full article
Addressing what it says is the growing need for more flexible infrastructure to deploy and run new applications, Hewlett-Packard rolled out a "hyper-converged infrastructure appliance" delivering a virtual server and storage platform designed to be configured in minutes. HP also said it has acquired a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) portfolio from a Canadian partners that also will ...Full article
A new solid-state drive targeted at enterprise and cloud users is the first storage platform resulting from an alliance announced earlier this year between Seagate Technology and memory specialist Micron Technology Inc. Along with storage density up to 4 TB in a 2.5-inch package and a dual-port serial-attached SCSI interface configurable up to 1,800 MB/s ...Full article
Agile development is bringing exciting change to software delivery, IT organizations, and end users. Reorganizing development toward frequent release cycles brings new features and services to market faster. Agile allows delivery teams to be more productive and creative. They can rapidly meet the needs of customers and business units instead of creating frustrating delays of ...Full article
Software-defined networking technology got a boost this week with a new and demanding use case: uncovering the secrets of the universe. Networking equipment vendor Brocade Communication Systems said it is partnering with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, to develop a long-term software-defined networking strategy. The San Jose-based company has also ...Full article
A raft of new open source initiatives seeks to attract new application developers as vendors look to build up DevOps capabilities. A new study commissioned by open source leader Red Hat finds that enterprise mobility can be added to the growing list of hiring priorities as companies look for front-end developers and back-end integration skills. ...Full article
Among the stumbling blocks to scaling application container technology are lingering concerns about security in production environments. Secure deployment of Docker and other container workloads in production was among the priorities of the Open Container Initiative launched in June. "Security properties of containers are a largely unexplored field and there is a lot of controversial ...Full article
Violence. Human rights. Universal healthcare. Cybersecurity initiatives. You may ask yourself what these four things have in common. Well, aside from being hot topics of political debate, they are also all areas in which the European Union has the United States beat by a landslide. U.S. companies, and America as a whole, are arguably the ...Full article
Chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology are claiming a new class of memory technology based on new materials and a three-dimensional "cross point" architecture said to deliver a 1,000-fold increase in non-volatile memory speeds. The partners said on Tuesday (July 28) their 3-D XPoint non-volatile memory technology is ten times denser than conventional memory chips. ...Full article
As EnterpriseTech recently reported, Unisys just completed a decade-long transition of the architecture of our flagship ClearPath systems. We moved the architecture for the two constituent branches of the family – Sperry Univac-legacy Dorado and Burroughs-legacy Libra systems – from proprietary CMOS processor technology to a software-based fabric architecture running on Intel x86 processors. As ...Full article
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) expanded the capabilities of its Hitachi Content Platform Anywhere to include mobile and browser access to data stored in an array of NAS devices, independent of vendor. HCP Anywhere, available now, is designed to address IT departments' concern with users' independent deployment of sync and share applications that may violate compliance ...Full article
Chipmaker Intel and OpenStack leader Rackspace are joining forces to promote enterprise applications and cloud scaling within OpenStack source code. As part of a new cloud initiative announced by Intel, the partners said they would establish an OpenStack Initiative Center that would include an OpenStack developer cloud with a pair of 1,000-node clusters. The Hybrid ...Full article
The threat of business disruption is forever present, as is the harm these outages can do to a business and its reputation. In fact, according to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Impact of Business Continuity Management, the average cost incurred for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information costs an ...Full article
More than three-quarters of global executives surveyed in a new Internet of Things study said they have launched IoT initiatives and those efforts are beginning to expand beyond early adopters in the industrial manufacturing sector. The latest survey of the emerging IoT released this week by Tata Global Consultancy emphasizes that new business sectors like ...Full article
As full-time students' thoughts return to classrooms and lesson plans, IT professionals will find a slew of new online educational offerings designed to augment and expand their skills. An array of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from traditional educational institutions such as Harvard, vendors like Microsoft, and researcher Johns Hopkins University offer free and paid ...Full article
Without cloud or mobile applications, startup financial firm Moven might not exist. After all, the digital-age company is using these assets to both compete and ally with traditional banks. The four-year-old company, which had a soft launch in 2013, provides users with a free Apple or Android app that tracks their debit card purchases in real ...Full article
It's open season for open source development, the latest example being a cloud-based platform launched this week by IBM along with the release of 50 projects designed to speed enterprise adoption of cloud-based development as well as new applications related to analytics and other cloud technologies. The collaborative platform called DeveloperWorks Open and unveiled this ...Full article
For all its promise, the Internet of Things packs a lot of fears. Most recently, of course, two hackers completely immobilized a Jeep Cherokee as a driver headed down a highway at 70 miles per hour. Other headline-generating incidents include a hacked refrigerator that was among many household devices to send more than 750 malicious ...Full article
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