10 for 2012: Gartner's top emerging infrastructure trends
Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit last week with a top 10 list of the most significant emerging trends that will impact data centers and information technology used by businesses and government from now into the next four or five years. The list was presented by Gartner Chief of Research Dave Cappuccio in a keynote address, in which he explained there's often a cascading effect as one trend such as employee mobile devices and cloud use affects others such as help desk operations.
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Retina MacBook Pro: The future comes a year too early
Yesterday's revelation of a MacBook Pro boasting a Retina display and 0.7-inch thin design left many of us drooling.
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MySQL vulnerability allows attackers to bypass password verification
Security researchers have released details about a vulnerability in the MySQL server that could allow potential attackers to access MySQL databases without inputting proper authentication credentials.
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Oracle-SAP retrial delayed
Oracle and SAP will have to wait a bit longer to retry their corporate-theft lawsuit, according to a filing (PDF) made Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The previously set start date of June 18 has been vacated and now the SAP-Oracle retrial "will trail a criminal trial set to begin on August 27," according the filing
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Apple unveils new, thin MacBook Pro, iOS 6, and more OS X features
To an audience of several thousand OS X and iOS developers, Apple today unveiled several expected products at its WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in San Francisco: the iOS 6 mobile operating system used in the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch; additional features for the previously announced OS X Mountain Lion; and both an all-new thin MacBook Pro design and hardware upgrades to its existing MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptop lines. But the company also announced a few surprises, such as an effort to put its Siri voice-based assistant technology in cars.
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Microsoft touts Windows Server 2012, Azure for data center 'cloud OS'
Microsoft kicked off its TechEd North America conference with a wide-ranging keynote session that was short on "wow" news but heavy on positioning for Windows Server 2012, Windows Azure and server-side products as key components of what the company is calling "the era of the cloud OS." Organizations need server tools and operating systems in their data centers that can deliver and support a wide variety of Internet-connected devices and of always-on Web applications, said Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft's Server & Tools division.
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Update: Security researchers discover link between Stuxnet and Flame
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs have found evidence that the development teams behind the Flame and Stuxnet cyberespionage threats collaborated with each other. The Kaspersky researchers determined that Flame, which is believed to have been created in 2008, and a 2009-version of Stuxnet shared one component that served the same purpose and had similar source code.
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Microsoft tips how Windows 8 store will promote desktop apps
Microsoft yesterday added its Office suite to Windows 8's online store, the first non-Metro application to be listed in the e-mart. The move tipped how Microsoft will promote traditional x86/64 desktop software through the Windows Store.
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