SuperVessel open access cloud for OpenPOWER
IBM has announced the availability of SuperVessel cloud, a development and learning environment for the OpenPOWER Foundation.
SuperVessel has been developed by IBM Systems Labs and IBM Research based in Beijing. It...
Are companies losing the cybersecurity war?
The RAND Corporation has published a report, sponsored by Juniper Networks, looking at the challenge of corporate cybersecurity. What it discovered is that despite increased spending Chief Information Security Officers (CISO)...
IBM bets £200 million on UK Big Data
IBM and the UK Government have announced a £313 million deal to further research into Big Data at the Hartree Centre in Daresbury. The deal sees IBM putting in £200 million...
Xero ups the ante for online accounting
Life seems to be one big bowl of cherries for cloud-based accounting vendor Xero. At Xerocon US, it announced that subscriber numbers worldwide had passed the 500,000 mark. Not bad for...
OPM issues advice to 4m Americans
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) manage the hiring, work conditions and pensions of Federal employees in the US. This week it has admitted to being the target of a massive...
IBM claims insider threat still the top security risk
IBM has published its latest X-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterly (registration required). The tagline to the report is Malicious or inadvertent, an insider threat to your enterprise “crown jewels” can cause significant damage....
Police accessed comms data 700,000 in 3 years
Big Brother Watch has just published a report that shows UK police forces are requesting access to communications data 670 times per day or 1 request every 2 minutes. It has...
Amazon Web Services email risks customer data
Amazon Web Services has begun to send out emails threatening to close customer accounts unless they provide large amounts of personal data via fax.
The emails started going out on 20th May...
Telstra admits Pacnet breach
Telstra has made public a security breach at its recent acquisition Pacnet. According to the press release the breach occurred before the $697 million deal with Pacnet was finalised and once...
OpenStack interoperability and federated identity
At the OpenStack Summit taking place in Vancouver Canada, the two big announcements from day one are interoperability and federated identity. Both of these announcements should help reduce the concern that...
