Новости за 21.10.2015

EMC isn't the only enterprise storage company going through dramatic changes. In June, former storage high-flyer NetApp announced that CEO Tom Georgens had left the company and was being replaced by long-time insider George Kurian, who had previously served as executive vice president of product operations.

Apple today released OS X 10.11.1, the first update for its El Capitan operating system, and implied that the refresh includes a fix for the crash problems that users of Microsoft's Office 2016 for Mac have reported for months.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter's newly appointed CEO, took to the stage at the company's developer conference today and basically asked programmers for forgiveness.

Three representatives of small businesses said at a U.S. House hearing Wednesday that new chip-embedded credit cards need to have added PIN security instead of the chip and signature favored by most banks and card companies.

Happy “Back to the Future Day” as October 21, 2015, marks the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown time-traveled to in the 1989 film Back to the Future II. Even the White House couldn’t resist celebrating; Google got into the action too by tweeting about 15 new Gmail themes while linking to a leaked “confidential” (pdf) document about “Project Flux” and its time-traveling car.

In light of recent advances in attacks against the SHA-1 cryptographic function, Mozilla is considering banning digital certificates signed with the algorithm sooner than expected.

Reader reaction to the story about SunTrust's severance clause for its soon-to-be-outsourced IT workers has been strong, particularly on social media sites. But there are questions. The bank is asserting that the clause is being misconstrued. The full clause is offered below for readers to make up their own minds.

Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to sell a converged system that combines servers, storage and software in an integrated box which they say can connect easily to Microsoft's Azure cloud services.

Western Digital (WD) today announced that it's buying fellow data storage vendor SanDisk in a cash and stock deal worth about $19 billion.

Oracle has fixed a vulnerability in Java that a Russian cyberespionage group used to launch stealthy attacks earlier this year.

As the director of scientific computing for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Dirk Petersen, and industry acquaintance of mine, needs his internal IT organization to store and catalogue large amounts of unstructured and genomic data, all of which is critical to his organization and its many constituents. A data loss caused by server or storage hardware failure would be problematic for his organization and its researchers at best, and catastrophic at worst.

A 24-year-old former Apple employee faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly using recoded credit and debit cards to buy nearly $1 million worth of Apple gift cards, then reselling them on the black market, according to authorities in Queens County, New York.

Four big vendors are today getting together to launch a new initiative which they say will help deepen the security organizations can expect when using identity management within an enterprise.  The Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDS Alliance) is a grouping of Ping Identity, AirWatch by VMware, Netskope and ThreatMetrix and aims to create a unified approach towards identity (at least, unified among this group of vendors). At its heart, the alliance creates a new blueprint that it hopes information... Читать дальше...

When I reviewed the Amazon Mobile SDK and competing products from Microsoft and Google in March, I said, “While the AWS Mobile SDK does what it sets out to do, developing with it is not for novices, JavaScript programmers, or the faint of heart.” I went on to conclude, “The AWS Mobile SDK might be a good choice for native app developers who already have a commitment to Amazon services. If you want an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use MBaaS, look elsewhere.”

The U.S. House of Representatives has waved through a bill that could grant foreigners the same rights to judicial redress as U.S. citizens have if law enforcers violate their privacy.

Azure users have already had access to the homegrown content delivery network (CDN) services Microsoft offers in both standard and premium versions, but thanks to a newly expanded partnership, they'll soon be able to tap CDN services from Akamai as well.

Western Digital has agreed to buy SanDisk for around $19 billion in cash and stock.

First the news, then a look at what it means. Docker, the commercial entity behind the eponymously named open-source initiative, is today announcing that it is acquiring Docker ecosystem startup Tutum. For its part, Tutum is a cloud service to deploy and manage "dockerized" distributed applications; it integrates the technologies and provides the workflows for development and operations to run production applications. Founded only a couple of years ago, and having only raised just under $3 million in venture capital from RTP Ventures... Читать дальше...

Dell got a jump-start in the world of analytics software when it acquired StatSoft early last year, and on Tuesday it forged further ahead into the space with a new Statistica release and a variety of industry-specific services.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is being debated by the U.S. Senate. But the very companies it purports to protect don't want it.

All ambitious IT professionals know they need impeccable technical skills, a strong work ethic and a gift for fostering collaboration in order to rise through the ranks. But beyond that, what X factor sets future leaders apart from their colleagues — and what habits can you adopt to put yourself on a similar path?

This sysadmin pilot fish got his start dealing with issue-plagued hardware -- not in an IT department, but working his way through school at an electronics repair shop.

According to a recent survey by bootcamp directory and reviews website Course Report, more than twice as many students are expected to graduate from coding bootcamps this year (16,056) than in 2014 (6,740).

As predicted, Apple is deploying its latest UI innovation, Force Touch, across the Mac platform, creating parity with its iOS offering as it does. So, how can you use the Magic Trackpad 2 with your desktop Mac?

Google and Yahoo are expanding their use of a successful system for identifying spam.