Wednesday, August 13, 2014

IT News Head Lines (InfoWorld) 8/14/2014





SAP makes it cheaper, easier for customers to use Hana in certain scenarios
SAP has relaxed hardware requirements for using its Hana in-memory database platform for development and testing, in a move that could make existing Hana customers' operations easier and less expensive while also generating more Hana sales.

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Former exec says HP 'bungled' the Autonomy acquisition, alleges cover-up
Autonomy's former CFO has claimed that Hewlett-Packard is accusing him and other ex-employees of fraud in order to cover up its own failings in the disastrous 2011 acquisition. After buying Autonomy, HP took a $8.8 billion writedown on the $11.1 billion deal, citing widespread accounting improprieties at the company before the sale.

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Dell targets the storage market with new software bundle
Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify licensing for the enterprise. "We have a new approach to data protection that is driving down the costs," said Michael Grant, head of software product marketing at Dell.

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15 new vulnerabilities reported during router hacking contest
Routers appear to be as insecure as ever, after hackers successfully compromised five popular wireless models during a contest at the DefCon 22 security conference, reporting 15 new vulnerabilities to affected vendors.

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Texas, Florida, North Carolina lead IT job growth in first half of 2014
U.S. technology professionals searching for jobs may want to look in states not normally considered IT hot spots. The three states with the highest percentage of IT job growth for the first half of 2014 were Texas at 5.99 percent, Florida at 5.64 percent and North Carolina at 3.8 percent, according to a report from IT job site Dice.

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IBM opening two state-of-the-art disaster recovery data centers
IBM is about to cut the ribbon officially opening two new state-of-the-art data centers intended to provide disaster recovery and resiliency services, one in the Raleigh, N.C. area and other in Mumbai, India.

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How to overcome hidden barriers to open source adoption
Ten years ago, open source advocates faced an uphill battle when they tried to implement free software in an organization, while proprietary vendors such as Microsoft spoke out publicly and fiercely against it.

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How Yahoo email encryption could help your business
If Yahoo gets it right, then the end-to-end email encryption the Internet company is promising would be a big help to companies concerned with privacy in the use of webmail, experts say. Alex Stamos, chief information security officer for Yahoo, announced last week at Black Hat that the company was developing a browser plug-in for encrypting messages sent from Yahoo Mail.

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Amazon protects its virtual desktops with two-factor authentication
Amazon Web Services now lets enterprises use two-factor authentication to better protect hosted WorkSpaces virtual desktops.

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Nvidia claims 64-bit Denver chip will outperform Apple's A7
Apple pioneered the use of 64-bit processors in smartphones, but Nvidia claims its 64-bit Denver chip will be even faster when it appears in devices later this year. Nvidia shared a few more details about Denver at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Monday. It's calling it "the world's first 64-bit ARM processor for Android."

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Apple's Swift falls back to earth after initial surge
Initial enthusiasm for Apple's newly introduced Swift language appears to have died down somewhat, based on two monthly programming

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