DDoS attacks made worse by firewalls, report finds
The rising tide of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) is being made much worse by a tendency to mis-deploy firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPSes) in front of servers, a report by Arbor Networks has found.
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Amazon to offer Oracle's database in the cloud
Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.
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Pervasive's parallel development API paired with Hadoop MapReduce
Pervasive Software is unveiling on Wednesday version 5.0 of its DataRush parallel application software, which now works with the popular Hadoop MapReduce framework for processing large volumes of data in parallel.
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EMC offers Greenplum data warehousing tools at no charge
EMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining tools for working with large data sets, at no charge, the company announced Tuesday. The software, which is available for download now at the company's website, will eliminate initial cost barriers for such technologies, as well as enable developers and scientists to contribute to future tools, according to a statement.
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Lawsuit claims AT&T cheats iPhone, iPad owners on data
AT&T has "systematically" overcharged iPhone and iPad owners with capped data plans by inflating the amount of data they download and adding "phantom traffic," a lawsuit claimed last week. AT&T said it would "vigorously" fight the suit.
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The forced transition to IPv6 poses hazards
With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers -- at least in the U.S. and Europe -- don't suddenly have to get the next Internet Protocol working. The bad news is that there are some hazards both in putting off adoption of IPv6 and in implementing it, according to vendors and industry analysts.
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A Time Machine-like backup for Windows offices
Rebit is in the business of providing what InfoWorld's Martin Heller calls "painless backup" -- that is, not just making a backup of raw data, but taking a snapshot of your entire PC. If a catastrophic event occurs, you can restore everything -- data, settings, document location -- and get right back to where you were before the disaster.
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Oracle to pay $46 million to settle kickbacks complaint
Oracle has agreed to pay the U.S. government $46 million to settle complaints that Sun Microsystems, which merged with Oracle in 2010, engaged with other technology vendors in a kickbacks scheme affecting government contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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The cooling market for H-1B visas
Late last week, the USCIS (U.S.
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Oracle's StorageTek unit releases 5TB tape drive
Oracle's StorageTek division today announced its highest capacity and fastest tape drive to date -- the company says the T10000C stores up to 5TB of uncompressed data and offers throughput speeds of up to 70 percent faster than similar products today.
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iPad lead shrinks as tablet sales grow
On the back of Samsung Galaxy Tab sales, Android tablets grabbed a 22 percent share of the world's tablet market last quarter, denting for the first time the iPad's dominance, a research firm said today. Approximately 9.7 million tablets shipped in the fourth quarter of 2010, up 120 percent over the previous quarter, said U.K.-based Strategy Analytics.
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Mobile phone service restored in Egypt -- for now
Vodafone and France Telecom say mobile phone service was restored in Egypt on Saturday as demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak's government continued across the country on Monday. Vodafone said there were no legal or practical options to avoid the demands of the Egyptian government, which has the ability to disrupt service on its own.
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Intel, HP, IBM invest in effort to create jobs in U.S.
IBM, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard on Monday said they would invest in an effort led by the White House to create jobs and promote growth in emerging technology areas such as cloud computing, health care and mobile applications.
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