Новости за 05.04.2016

Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said.

Google Calendar users now have the ability to add reminders from their desktop browsers that will follow them around to other Google services, thanks to a feature the company introduced Tuesday. 

Today, Underwriters Laboratory announced the UL CyberSecurity Assurance Program. I won’t call it an oxymoron, but I’m deeply worried about it. While I have faith in UL, I’m not sure if they realize the breadth and depth of what they’re getting into.

Jeff Immelt candidly told Boston’s business and political elite yesterday about what GE hoped to get from the company’s move to Boston. He said GE moved to Boston for two reasons: to win the Internet of Things and rethink how companies work in this winner-take-all technology innovation economy.

Your electric bills could soar if you kept Nvidia's monster DGX-1 computer running continuously for one month.

Banks are neglecting to analyze the highly useful data being generated by new kinds of consumer-facing products, like apps, says an expert in the financial IT sector.

A long time ago, a Greek philosopher name Heraclitus uttered the phrase, “change is the only thing constant in life”. The same can be said for the WiFi industry, as it has had to evolve rapidly to keep up with mobile device evolution. Yesterday, Brocade was in the news as it announced its intent to acquire Ruckus. Today, it’s Aerohive’s turn as the company announced several new products to help it catch the 802.11AC wave 2 upgrade cycle.

A few months ago I wrote how some new networked video cameras were “raising the bar for home security” with better video quality, app integration and audio features. These new features are now considered “table stakes” for any device maker that wants to get into this space.

Just in time for the opening of the baseball season last weekend, Apple and Major League Baseball announced a big product placement deal that will put iPad Pros in MLB dugouts.

Security researchers have found that a patch released by IBM three years ago for a critical vulnerability in its own Java implementation is ineffective and can be easily bypassed to exploit the flaw again.

The Department of Defense is unclear about who would take charge and work with civilian authorities during a large-scale cyber attack on the US.

Application Performance Management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. An APM solution finds and diagnoses complex application performance problems in order to maintain an expected level of service. An APM solution translates IT metrics into business value, so it is crucial for a company to choose the right solution for their needs.

MariaDB on Tuesday moved to unite transactional and analytical processing in a single relational database with the announcement of the upcoming release of MariaDB ColumnStore.

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) today announced a new Cybersecurity Assurance Program (CAP) that uses a new set of standards to test network-connected products for software vulnerabilities.

Internet of Things technologies can be complex and fragmented, but increasing numbers of pilot projects are emerging within smart cities, farms and at a wide range of businesses and industries.

In the first of this series of blogs, I discussed the history and future of videoconferencing cameras, in the second I discussed the hierarchy of rooms/spaces/environments for visual collaboration. This – part three – is about how to use the darned things.

Laptops and tablet hybrids with AMD's new 7th generation chips, code-named Bristol Ridge, will soon become available. The chip is being positioned as a worthy Intel Skylake alternative.

Veriflow is starting to emerge from stealth and is lifting the covers from its network verification tool. The company wants to help eliminate its customers' change-induced outages and breaches and does so by using a mathematical verification approach. The Veriflow platform promises to ensure network policy correctness and can identify when a change to networking environments will be impactful to the organization - whether that change is caused by intentional changes or external (not to mention internal) sabotage. Читать дальше...

A data breach at Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is being touted as the largest ever, at least in terms of the sheer volume of information leaked.

Intel has its eyes on making self-driving cars, robots and industrial equipment safer with a new acquisition.

A real security concern about investing in IoT devices is that it may one day no longer be supported as in vulnerabilities would go unpatched. You might then decide to switch to another device, but when a company decides to brick a working product then you surely would be concerned about the future of any other IoT devices from the same company.

Google has released one of the largest Android monthly security updates, fixing a total of 39 vulnerabilities — 15 rated critical, including four that can lead to a complete device compromise.

I've long bemoaned the sheer number of vendors competing in the enterprise file sharing and synchronization (EFSS) space. Google, Microsoft, Box, Dropbox, Egnyte and about a million others all cover the same, or at least a similar, functional spread. I've suggested that there simply isn't room for the number of vendors that exist.

It seems like every major tech company needs to have an email app these days, and VMware is no exception. The company launched a new version of the Boxer iOS app on Tuesday for companies using VMware to manage their employees' mobile devices.

Your first job in tech is the first impression you'll make on your career -- the job that will hopefully define your career trajectory. The connections you make in the industry and the colleagues you work with will all be a major part in your future success -- so it's important to remember that just because you're new on the job scene, it doesn't mean you can't be a trailblazer.