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American Airlines and Sabre hit by reported Chinese hack
The hackers behind the biggest data breaches of the past year have reportedly struck again in a two-fold attack against American Airlines Group Inc. and flight reservation management giant Sabre Corp. that may have compromised millions of people. The information likely plundered through the cyberheist completes another piece of a complex identify puzzle being assembled in ...
IBM discovers another critical Android flaw that lets hackers replace real apps with malware
IBM Corp. has not waited for the shock from the recent discovery of a vulnerability affecting 95 percent of Android phones to wear off before dropping another security bombshell that is bound to raise even more alarm over the safety of the world’s most popular mobile platform. Its researchers have discovered a second exploit deep ...
What you missed in Cloud: The platforms of the future
The focus in the cloud turned to platforms last week, the highly scalable kind built to support the world’s largest enterprises. Red Hat Inc. set the ball rolling with the launch of a new version of its popular OpenStack distribution that promises to provide exactly the kind of elasticity required for the task. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
Syncsort updates its data processing software to cut the mainframe bill
More than fifty years after the first mainframe entered the enterprise, big iron continues to find use with the world’s largest institutions, and continues to impose many of the original operational challenges on its prestigious user base. Standing out in particular is the matter of ongoing costs, which Syncsort Inc. hopes to tackle with the ...
What you missed in Big Data: Vertical focus
Vertical-specific use cases took on a new importance in the analytics world last week after IBM Corp. announced the acquisition of a medical imaging provider for a billion dollars to augment its Watson-based medical analytics service. The technology it’s gaining through Merge Healthcare Inc. will enable the cloud-based platform to tap the CAT scans, X-rays and the ...
Google taps Avere’s NAS filer to open up its public cloud for the traditional enterprise
The programmatic approach of making data available through pre-implemented functions that mask the shifting complexity of the underlying logic has enabled public clouds such as Google Inc.’s to draw developers away from traditional storage solutions en masse. But many existing applications still abide by the old standards, which is why it’s teamed up with Avere ...
New nightmare exploit cracks cloud-based file sharing services wide open
File sharing providers such as Dropbox Inc. and Box Inc. have managed to maintain an impressive security record in spite of safeguarding vast amounts of corporate data that represents a massive target for hackers. But while their backend infrastructure may be protected, the local clients through which users synchronize their data to that backend are ...
OpenStack kingpin Mirantis throws its weight behind CoreOS
Securing partnerships with larger and better-established players is a key priority in the growth plans of any software startup, which is why landing the backing of a top OpenStack distributor is such a big deal for CoreOS Inc.’s container push. The newly announced alliance with Mirantis Inc. focuses first and foremost on its commercial management platform. Tectonic, ...
IBM launches new service suite to help Apple drive Mac adoption in the enterprise
The partnership that IBM Corp. struck with Apple Inc. last year to produce a series of business applications for iOS is moving beyond mobility with the launch of a new service suite that the enterprise technology stalwart is targeting towards large organizations adopting Mac machines. That segment represents a potentially massive opportunity that it’s in a unique ...
Microsoft revamps Outlook to help Office 365 users become more productive
Microsoft Corp. has turned the long-lagging web version of Outlook into a more integrated part of its online productivity suite with a landmark update that began rolling out yesterday and promises to help users manage their messages a lot more effectively. What ties the vision together is a new universal toolbar with features that should ...
