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Pure Storage debuts next-gen flash array with high-availability option

Pure Storage today announced the second generation of its all-flash array, which can now be configured for high availability.
Netsuite ?determined? to grow rapidly in UK

Netsuite has said it is "determined" to quickly expand its business in the UK, according to chief executive Zach Nelson at the SuiteWorld event in San Francisco.
WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away and we're guessing there will be new MacBook Pros and personal video sync (not iTunes purchases) to iCloud. But how many people will share via iCloud when so many popular alternatives already exist including Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Picasa, Dropbox and Windows Live?
Floating robot sensors track water flow and environmental concerns

Researchers and graduate students who have spent years and millions of dollars developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento River yesterday, about 80 miles east of San Francisco.
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson apologises to employees for scandal

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he's sorry, but is not admitting any wrongdoing.
Cisco nemesis Huawei to demo 96-port 100G Ethernet switch at Interop

Huawei, Cisco's toughest competitor in networking, will debut its entry into enterprise data center switching at this week's Interop 2012 conference in Las Vegas.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage exec pleads guilty to price-fixing

An executive with Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and serve time in a US prison for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for the sale of optical disk drives to Hewlett-Packard, the US Department of Justice said.
Yahoo claims Facebook bought several patents to countersue it

Facebook purchased in the last five months eight of ten patents it has cited in a counterclaim to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Yahoo, and several were purchased after Yahoo filed the suit, the Internet portal claimed in a filing on Friday before a federal court.
Oracle releases upgrades to standard Java, JavaFX

The company is making available Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1. Java developers, Oracle said, can download Oracle's JDK, which includes the JavaFX SDK for MacOS X from the Oracle Technology Network. Java SE 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1 run on Windows, too. The company plans to release a consumer version of Java SE 7, complete with the Java Runtime Environment, for Mac OS X later this year.
Apple, Adobe, Intel and Google face lawsuit on salary 'fixing'

Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe are accused of agreeing not to poach each others staff, therefore holding back career development and suppressing pay.

Latest Features

SSDs driving IT improvements in storage, mobility and the cloud

If IT leaders listened every time a vendor claimed it started a revolution in business technology, their heads would never stop spinning. Nonetheless, steady improvements in some technologies should provoke a re-examination of the current state of affairs.
Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?
CISPA: Four viewpoints you should hear

Citing its effort to better protect American infrastructure from foreign attacks, the US House of Representatives passed the Cyber Information and Security Protection Act in spite of worries that consumer data privacy will be compromised if the bill eventually becomes law.
Network virtualisation and next generation network architecture

As IT leaders try to get the best performance and efficiency out of their virtualised environments, they're realising the need for virtual networking, and often a whole new networking architecture that's designed for virtualisation from the ground up.
Could it now be time to de-Flash your website?

Developers agree that there is no other application that can directly replace Flash and do what Flash does as well as it does. And that includes HTML5 - the only seriously suggested substitute for Flash - despite all its promise.
Passion for location data spawns balloons, art photos and 'experiential maps'

Amid the excited rhetoric about the profit potential in location data, the Where 2012 conference this week also exhibited another sign of a truly hot technology: passion projects with no commercial value at all.
Private cloud storage - Is there a best way to set up your solution?

Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private cloud almost always require different approaches.
Can Big Data be used to catch network invaders?

The buzz in security circles about "Big Data" goes something like this: If the enterprise could only unite its security-related event data with a warehouse of business information, it could analyse this Big Data to catch intruders trying to steal sensitive information.
Why you should not buy your child an iPad

With the iPad 3 debut coming, you can bet a lot of children and young adults are begging their parents to buy them an Apple tablet. But you'd be wise to resist the urge.
British Newspaper Archive: Digitising the nation's memory

Consuming content in digital form has become the norm for many of us. We watch videos on smartphones, we skim the news on tablets, we share photos on social networks and we read books on e-readers. But in a world where digital rules, where does a traditional organisation like The British Library fit in?

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Virtualisation security and how best to achieve it

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