Новости за 08.09.2015

Jawbone has issued the first major software update for its Up line of activity trackers to address some of the issues that people have had with the wearables.

Released a little over a month ago, Microsoft's new Edge browser has gotten its first set of critical security patches.

Africa’s efforts to tackle cybercrime are gaining momentum as Tanzania joins African countries including Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya in coming up with a law that includes penalties of up 10 years in prison.

Microsoft released 12 security updates for September 2015 Patch Tuesday, five of which are rated critical and one is currently being exploited in the wild.

Cybercriminals are maddeningly adaptable.

If a Dark Web illicit marketplace gets shut down, others spring up almost immediately to take its place. If credit cards get tougher to hack, there is always spear phishing, poorly protected electronic health records or the unending variety of devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT), most of which have little to no security built in.

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It's time to dust off Apple's Safari browser again: If you want to watch the company's Sept. 9 event online here you'll need to do so via an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac with Apple's browser -- or surprise, via a Windows 10 PC using Microsoft's new Edge browser.

Verizon this week unveiled a software-defined managed WAN service for enterprises based on Cisco’s existing Intelligent WAN (IWAN) technology and not its new enterprise SDN controller.

Software-defined networking (SDN), and what it means for the industry, is continually changing. According to TechTarget, "The goal of SDN is to allow network engineers and administrators to respond quickly to changing business requirements." SDN provides the capabilities to shape traffic from a centralized console, bypassing the need to configure individual switches. This allows services to be delivered where they are needed, when they are needed – with less room for human error.

DEMO Traction will be in Boston on September 16, 2015. For more information and to register click here

DEMO Traction will be in Boston on September 16, 2015. For more information and to register click here

DEMO Traction will be in Boston on September 16, 2015. For more information and to register click here

A group of hackers that target military and government organizations has recently borrowed code from an old online banking Trojan called Carberp, further blurring the line between cybercrime and cyberespionage.

Software-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) is perfect for the do-it-yourselfer who doesn’t want to buy a pre-packaged appliance. With software-based NAS, you load the software onto the device of your choice -- whether it's a PC, server, or virtual machine. You can even run software-based NAS in the cloud.

Having recently attended VMworld, VMware's annual user conference this year, I came away ruminating on VMware's existential future. (disclosure: VMware covered my travel and expenses to attend the event). I spent much of the keynote on day one of VMworld trading tweets with other members of the commentating classes. My tweets were, admittedly, somewhat snarky in nature and reflected on my perception that VMware is a slow and lumbering monolith that has been successful in one field (virtualization)... Читать дальше...

Everyone loves a bargain, even in the IT industry.

Following a beta period launched in May, Google has made its low-cost "preemptible" virtual machines available as a full commercial offering.

The Google Compute Engine Preemptible Virtual Machines can cost 70 percent less than regular VMs on the Google Cloud Platform, with the stipulation that Google can shut down these machines at any time.

Google offers these VMs using the leftover capacity within their data centers. A VM can act as a virtual server... Читать дальше...

Adblock Plus has released a browser for Android and iOS that is designed to shield mobile device users from ads while they browse the web.

Interference has been a major issue when hospitals have tried to replace the cluttered, bulky wiring used to monitor patients’ conditions—those are the wires protruding from a body, along with the associated beeps, as seen in the hospital TV drama procedurals we know and love.

If you have read of my posts over the years, you’ll know that one of the core tenets of my research is that significant market share changes only happen at points of market transition. There is perhaps no better case study of this than what has happened to BlackBerry over the past decade and a half.

At last week’s VMworld event in San Francisco, I spent a good deal of time speaking with VMware, its customers, and a wide variety of its partners about the cybersecurity use case for NSX.  I came away from the event believing that NSX (and other similar SDN technologies like Cisco ACI, Juniper Contrail, HP VAN, Illumio, vArmour, etc.) have great potential to help large organizations lower cyber-risk. 

10 female leaders from the IT customer and vendor sides will be honored for their contributions to cloud and convergence technology by the Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW) later this month.

Microsoft has acquired security company Adallom in a bid to give IT departments more control over application access and data stored across cloud services.

The more things change, the more things stay the same -- at least for hackers. That's one of the finding in Proofpoint's mid-year threat report on the attacks of choice for the first half of 2015. 

Don't get us wrong: In today's quickly evolving tech world, it's easy to get lost chasing the turbulent present moment. The pace of change can be dizzying, and keeping up on everything that's emerging in IT today can drive even the most devoted tech worker to distraction.

Call it what you will -- the "open talent economy," "freelancing," the "gig economy," "contracting" -- working for yourself is having a moment, particularly in high tech.

DevOps has been a popular topic in IT circles over the past few years. It's important to understand that DevOps itself isn't a product or a market. IDC won't be forecasting the size of the DevOps market anytime soon (although they do forecast DevOps tools) because DevOps is a philosophy for running IT.