VMware bundles apps into BYOD management suite
Anticipating the greater use of personal consumer electronics in the workplace, VMware has bundled three of its IT management products into a single suite designed to help administrators deliver worker data, applications and desktops to myriad end-user devices. The new VMware Horizon Suite includes the VMware View VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface), the VMware Mirage desktop management software and a new product, VMware Horizon Workspace, an extension of its Horizon Application Manager introduced last year.
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Open source Lingual helps SQL devs unlock Hadoop One commonly cited stumbling block to the broader adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise is the difficulty and expense of finding and hiring developers who understand and can think in Hadoop MapReduce. But big data application framework specialist Concurrent wants to change that. Read More ...
Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon's cloud in performance test Microsoft Azure's cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks CSPs (cloud service providers). Read More ...
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Facebook said to fix OAuth-based account hijacking flaw Facebook has patched a serious vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to easily gain access to private user account data and control accounts by tricking users into opening specifically crafted links, a Web application security researcher said late Thursday. Nir Goldshlager, the researcher who claims to have found the flaw and reported it to Facebook, posted a detailed description and video demonstration of how the attack worked on his blog. Read More ...
Mandiant report on Chinese cyberespionage used as bait in spear-phishing attacks Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant and documents in great detail the cyberespionage campaigns conducted since 2006 by a hacker group known as the Comment Crew against more than 100 companies and organizations from different industries. Read More ...
RIAA says Google's plan to demote pirate sites isn't working A recorded music industry association in the United States said Google's policy to demote pirate websites in search rankings was not working. Google said in August last year that it was adding the number of valid copyright removal notices received for a website as one of more than 200 signals the company uses in its rankings. Read More ...
HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter Hewlett-Packard's first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next quarter, CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday. Project Moonshot is an effort to build low-power servers based on alternatives to Intel's Xeon processors for use in mega data centers like those operated by Facebook and Google. Read More ...
Zendesk says security breach compromised email addresses Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software. "We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week," wrote Mikkel Svane, Zendesk's CEO. "As soon as we learned of the attack, we patched the vulnerability and closed the access that the hacker had." Read More ...
New Groundwork Web dev framework shows promise Although it shares a name with a systems monitoring tool and a content management system, the Groundwork software development framework could make a name for itself in mobile Web development. Read More ...
Everyone knew what China was doing -- now what? The report released this week by security firm Mandiant laid out damning evidence linking China to a sophisticated cybe Read More ...
Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers Google has launched fee-based support services for customers of its cloud platform and infrastructure products, like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Big Query. Google, often criticized over the years for having weak technical support both for consumers and enterprise customers, rolled out a four-tier support program specifically for customers of its Cloud Platform services. Read More ...
Google follows Microsoft's playbook with touch-friendly Chromebook Pixel Poor HP. A mere two weeks after the company rolled out its much-hyped Chromebook, Google has gone and unveiled the Chromebook Pixel, a touch-friendly Chrome OS-based laptop that (at least on paper) puts the Pavilion 14 Chromebook to shame. Read More ...
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