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Kaspersky Lab patents technology that ensures confidentiality of corporate information

June 30, 2014June 30, 2014 enews

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted patent 8739287 to Kaspersky Lab for a technology that detects threats in corporate IT infrastructure without compromising confidential information. Not all threats can be detected using locally installed solutions – some of them require more extensive analysis. To do this, suspicious files are delivered to a special infrastructure operated by the security vendor. This infrastructure has more resources to carry out comprehensive analysis in isolated conditions. However, most companies use their IT infrastructure to store confidential data. Often it is…

10 administrative skills every IT manager should have

June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 enews

Technical knowledge is only part of the IT manager skill set. It’s also essential to be able to support the team, anticipate and resolve problems, and run interference when political issues arise. IT pros tend to bristle at the idea of administrative skills, which many perceive as sitting in an office instead of doing work that really needs to be done. Nevertheless, administrative skills play a major role in getting IT work done. These skills are indispensable for IT managers, who constantly walk a line between enabling their staffs to…

Looks like Facebook Home is unofficially dead

June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 enews

Facebook has reportedly dismantled its team working on Facebook Home, its Android homescreen replacement. According to a statement provided by Facebook, however, Home is still supported by the company. Facebook Home, Facebook’s home screen replacement app for Android, appears to be dead, with The New York Times reporting Friday that Facebook has dismantled the Facebook Home team. A Facebook spokesperson has denied the report. Facebook Home started as an Android skin for Facebook’s unsuccessful phone, the HTC First, which was both the first and the last phone to come with Facebook Home pre-installed. Facebook later rolled…

Telenor Norway modernizing fixed line business

June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 enews

(Fornebu, 25 June 2014) Telenor Norway has selected Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) as its partner to modernize and simplify the fixed network operations. The goal is to improve customer experience through reduced complexity and faster deliveries. Telenor Norway has launched a long-term effort to modernize and simplify products, processes and related IT systems in the fixed area. On 24th June, Telenor Norway signed a contract with TCS as a partner. “This is one of the largest change programs in recent history for Telenor Norway. The agreement with TCS represents…

How to watch hacking, and cyberwarfare between the USA and China, in real time

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 enews

You’ve no doubt heard countless stories about how the internet is rife with hackers and ruled by malware-peddling malcontents. You’ve probably read dozens of paragraphs on how the next great theater of war will be online rather than offline, and how China and the US are already battling each other for cyber supremacy. The truth is, though, unless you’ve actually been hacked, it’s hard to appreciate just how real the prospect of cyberwar actually is; after all, the effects of hacking are mostly invisible to the untrained eye, with the exception of very-high-profile database breaches.…

Google Drive for Work to give users unlimited cloud storage

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 enews

Unlimited storage available for $10/user/month Google has added a raft of features to its popular Drive service – offering up unlimited cloud storage, beefed up encryption and refreshed mobile apps. Google Drive for Work will cost $10/user/month (£6.60 in the UK). Unlimited storage is the headline feature, together with the ability to store individuals files of up to 5TB in size. “We want to take the hurdles out of data management. Adding infrastructure to support more users and data is a massive IT burden. By making storage unlimited – businesses…

MongoDB launches on Azure and Google Compute Engine

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 enews

Open source database debuts Microsoft and Google clouds MongoDB users will now be able to run the NoSQL database on both Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine. The open source NoSQL database will be available as a managed service on both public clouds, it announced at its MongoDB World conference in New York. It already runs on AWS and is also available as a cloud service on IBM Softlayer. According to MongoDB vice president of Global Channels business development Vijay Vijayasankar, the offering means that its customers “will enjoy the…

How much disruptive innovation does your flash storage rig really need?

June 26, 2014June 27, 2014 enews

Our technology world is fascinated by disruptive innovation. Every tech startup says its new technology is disruptive and therefore it is bound to succeed. So it is with all-flash arrays which can answer data requests in microseconds, instead of the milliseconds needed by disk drive arrays. Startups such as Pure Storage, SolidFire and Violin say they have best-of-breed products in the networked storage array category because they are all-flash with software designed from the ground up to control their arrays. They provide flash speed at roughly the cost of the…

Russian gov to dump x86, bake own 64-bit ARM chips – reports

June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 enews

ARM advocates and NSA back-door paranoids rejoice! Russia building ‘Baikal processor’ to replace AMD and Intel chips Russian news outlet Kommersant has reported that the nation’s government wants to ditch Intel and AMD processors in favour of a locally-developed ARM effort. The outlet’s report suggests three state-owned Russian companies are banding together to develop to be called “Baikal” that will use ARM’s 64-bit kernel Cortex A-57 as its base design, offer at least eight cores, be built with a 28nm process and run at 2GHz or more in PCs or servers.…

3 Tips for Evolving BSS/OSS Operations for the 3rd Platform

June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 enews

We are at the very beginning stages of a new era of dramatic improvement in the way communications services providers (CSPs) are using information technology to support creation and delivery of services. The first wave of step-function improvement (or first platform) started in the late 1960’s as the mainframe infrastructure was used to replace paper records for maintaining customer and network information. The next dramatic phase occurred with the emergence of the second platform: the client-server architecture in the 1980’s and 1990’s which ushered in the networked computing infrastructure world…