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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Researchers find "massive" security flaws in cloud architectures

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Researchers find "massive" security flaws in cloud architectures
German researchers say they found flaws in Amazon Web Services that they believe exist in many cloud architectures and enable attackers to gain administrative rights and to gain access to all user data. Read More


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Sainsbury operates the second largest online food retailer in the U.K. See their approach to gain better visibility to 1,800 devices and ensure high-availability of its network to safeguard the supply chain for over 800 stores and 100,000 online shoppers per week. Read now

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Computer analysis, online translator, intelligent guesses crack ancient German code
The encrypted initiation rite of an ancient German secret society preoccupied with ophthalmology has fallen to modern language analysis tools including an online automatic translator. Read More

My Latest Thoughts on OpenFlow
I've been thinking about OpenFlow for a while as it relates to data center networking. What's the use case? What's the enterprise play? What will OpenFlow and SDN do to the networking market? Read More

Chicago-area school district gives free iPads to freshmen
Freshmen in a Chicago-area school district now have a reason to be excited about coming to school: Free iPads. Read More


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Suse working on private OpenStack cloud
Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds. Read More

RIM delays BlackBerry tablet OS to February 2012
A week after promising the PlayBook OS 2.0 to developers in October, RIM cites quality issues and says it will drop a key feature Read More

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Cloud applications provide a variety of mechanisms for development and configuration. Some of them lead to more fragility than others. Read More

 
 
 

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