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Big Data market to reach to $23.8 billion in 2016
IDC projects that the worldwide Big Data technology and services market will grow at a 31.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) – about seven times the rate of the …
Lenovo and EMC to bring Network Attached Storage to SMBs
Lenovo and EMC have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, the joint venture with a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked storage …
Worldwide IT spending to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The …
Why hire a hacker?
I’m not advocating the hiring of computer criminals. If you are being held to ransom by someone claiming to have control of your infrastructure, and demanding payment to …
Dell acquires Credant Technologies
Dell has reached an agreement to acquire Credant Technologies, a provider of data protection solutions to control, manage and secure data sent from endpoints to servers, …
Blue Coat acquires Crossbeam Systems
Blue Coat Systems has entered into an agreement to acquire Crossbeam Systems. The acquisition is expected to close on December 31, 2012. “Our service provider and …
Info about 0-day SCADA flaws offered for sale
Following in the footsteps of French Vupen Security, Malta-based start-up ReVuln has also decided to sell information about zero-day vulnerabilities to companies and …
Thwart attackers’ search for info by ditching out-of-office notifications
When it comes to successfully defending organizations from targeted attacks, IT administrators must be aware that attention to every detail – no matter how small – …
EMC to acquire Silver Tail Systems
EMC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silver Tail Systems, a provider of real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis. Terms of the deal were not …
Intel joins SAFECode
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode), a non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to increasing trust in information and communications …
Weak crypto allowed spoofing emails from Google, PayPal domains
Zach Harris, a Florida-based mathematician, discovered that Google and many other big Internet companies use weak cryptographic keys for certifying the emails sent from their …
Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013
Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2013. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential …