IT is playing dice with backups, according to InformationWeek’s latest storage survey. From failing to back up remote offices to haphazard tests of data restoration, too many IT pros take backup risks.
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April 29, 2013 at 1:12 pm The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is adjusting its approach to the development of new defense technologies to reflect the fiscal realities facing federal agencies and evolving nature of national threats.
“Our mission is unchanged — to prevent and create technological surprise,” DARPA director Arati Prabhakar said at a Pentagon briefing in which she presented a new framework for the agency’s research and development. However, she added, “it’s going to be a very challenging environment for an extended period of time.”
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DARPA: New Threats Demand New Technologies
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April 27, 2013 at 1:12 am As we’ve become a more mobile society—working from virtually anywhere on our smartphones and tablets—we’ve also embraced various cloud storage and file sharing tools, so we can access and collaborate on our data. Younity has an entirely different approach, and it could make cloud storage obsolete.
Is that sensational hyperbole? In a word: no. But, it really depends on your data, how you use it, and who you need to share it with.
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April 26, 2013 at 7:14 pm Australian police this week arrested IT professional Matt Flannery, 24, on charges of defacing a government website.
According to the police charges, Flannery (aka “Aush0k”) “attacked and defaced a government website” and accessed one or more sites without authorization.
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Anonymous Australia Disavows Self-Proclaimed LulzSec Leader
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April 26, 2013 at 1:12 pm BitTorrent is throwing its hat into the file sync game with an alpha version of a new, free service that uses P2P networking to let users synchronize and share files among mobile devices and PCs. Good luck with that, IT.
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April 26, 2013 at 1:15 am
Pivotal, the company spun out of EMC and VMware on April 1, formally announced its launch on Wednesday, unveiling a truly grand plan. In fact, if you consider all the components and ambitions, you might conclude the plan is either brilliant or crazy.
The need for Pivotal’s promised “next-generation enterprise computing platform” starts with the premise that there has been a fundamental shift in IT, with Internet consumer giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon pioneering large-scale data-management approaches and rapid application-development capabilities supported by unprecedented levels of automation.
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EMC’s Pivotal Plan: Brilliant Or Crazy?
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April 25, 2013 at 7:12 pm Fusion-io, a maker of PCIe flash cards, announced it was acquiring hybrid storage array startup NexGen, which sells a flash-optimized system. Fusion-io will sell NexGen’s software directly to integrators.
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April 25, 2013 at 1:13 pm Huawei will continue to sell in the United States, but the company doesn’t consider the U.S. to be a growth area or primary revenue source for its carrier business, according to a Huawei spokesperson.
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April 25, 2013 at 1:20 am Before you can take steps to protect your privacy, you need to define just what the word means. And the second task can be more difficult given the spread of social-networking tools and Big Brother legislation such as CISPA.
Microsoft’s recently launched privacy-awareness campaign includes a survey ostensibly designed to help consumers determine their “privacy type,” based on how they use the Internet and how they perceive privacy concerns. The campaign is a subtle attack on its primary rival, Google, but it also enables Microsoft to ascertain the public’s thoughts on privacy and how people go about protecting theirs.
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Take steps to secure what little online privacy you still have
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April 24, 2013 at 7:12 pm The Nexus 6004 is a 10Gpbs/40Gbps data center switch. While a bit of a power hog vs. competitors’ boxes, it promises line rate forwarding on all ports with 1 microsecond latency. I look at the architecture that makes this possible.
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April 24, 2013 at 1:12 pm 
Huawei Responds to “Not Interested in U.S.” Comments
Huawei will continue to sell in the United States, but the company doesn’t consider the U.S. to be a growth area or primary revenue source for its carrier business, according to a Huawei spokesperson.
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