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Lees meerSomething worth getting up for Chaps of a certain age who find their libido fading could do worse than stare at a glaring light source – though not the sort you might be thinking of.…
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Lees meerMore Brits set to be fired into the land of the unemployed CSC UK execs left sweating over local profit “challenges” have again opted to expunge costs from the business in a time-honoured fashion by strapping human capital to the employment cannons.…
Lees meerIt's clouds all the way down OpenWorld It's that time of the year again. Oracle's OpenWorld is in San Francisco. Supremo Larry Ellison has given his Sunday keynote. Here's a summary of what the database giant is going to reveal today in easily dige…
Lees meerCloud storage gateway and NAS? Getting crowded in there Cloud storage startup CTERA has gained $25m in a funding round, following on from a similar one in 2014, and taking its total funding to almost $70m.…
Lees meerWe like the BriteCloud so much we're going to write a book about it, says MoD Britain's Tornado fighter jets may soon be deploying with missile-jamming decoys on board after the MoD signed a £2.5m order with Leonardo-Finmeccanica.…
Lees meerIt only applies to 'compromised' servers, says Redmond Microsoft has downplayed the seriousness of an alleged Exchange auto-discovery vulnerability, saying that it sees no need to patch the reported security weakness.…
Lees meerWatch out, Mikey D. Meg W's got enterprise storage parity IDC’s latest storage tracker says the enterprise storage market was flat in the 12 months since 2015’s second quarter, but HPE now ties with EMC for first place, with IBM and NetApp in equal …
Lees meerAnd do it yesterday. Here's a checklist Hybrid infrastructures – where you combine on-premise equipment with systems that sit in a public cloud installation – have their own particular foibles when it comes to management. It's really not so hard, th…
Lees meerDo you really trust prosecutors to upload all their evidence? Train fare and telly licence dodgers will be invited to plead guilty from the comfort and convenience of their phones, according to court reform plans unveiled by the Ministry of Justice.…
Lees meerIf you show us yours, we might show you ours Analysis The government has a funny notion of how to tackle failure. When it comes to contracts, suppliers that have routinely messed up are handed more deals. When it comes to policy, approaches that ha…
Lees meerPart one: Who are you calling an upstart? Sysadmin blog Are startups to be avoided? You'll get different answers depending on who you talk to, but the arguments have relevance for the virtualization and storage markets as, today, most of the innova…
Lees meerBut 229 didn't. Criminals have started to aggressively erase EXIF metadata from their photos to make it harder for authorities to locate them, Harvard University students Paul Lisker and Michael Rose find.…
Lees meerKeep Solar System Tidy message heeded despite plan for three probe dumps NASA has revealed its final plans to crash the Cassini probe into Saturn next year.…
Lees meerYou're all hidden behind NAT, which wouldn't be a problem if you'd just go IPv6 IPv4 address exhaustion is making it harder to measure the size of the Internet, even as IPv6 deployment accelerates.…
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Lees meerHacker brews fast NAND mirroring prototype for $100. University of Cambridge senior research associate Sergei Skorobogatov has laid waste to United States Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) assertions about iPhone security by demonstrating passwor…
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