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Symantec Launches FileStore N8300 Network Attached Storage Appliance
Storage management and backup solutions specialist Symantec announced enhancements to the FileStore N8300, the latest version of its clustered, network attached storage appliance, designed to help small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) build virtual environments and cloud storage, manage large volumes of data and control the costs of associated storage. Certified for VMware environments, FileStore N8300 is integrated with VMware vCenter Server. FileStore N8300 helps enable businesses to optimize storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl and provision servers and virtual desktops through cloning and de-duplication of virtual machine images. FileStore N8300 5.7 is now available with prices starting at $50,000.
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GPUs Play Central Role in Next-Gen Supercomputer
The newly proposed Titan system will extend the range of work that is currently carried out on Oak Ridge’s Jaguar supercomputer.
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Analytics Used to Tackle Commuter Pain
The 2011 IBM Commuter Pain Survey ranked the emotional and economic toll of commuting in cities around the world.
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Revolutionary Oil Skimmer Nets $1 Million X Prize
In the winning oil-removal design, spinning grooved discs pull oily water upward, where metal skimmers strain the oil away.
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Interest in Mobile WiFi Hotspots Fuels New Solutions
Connectify offers a software mobile hotspot for Windows laptops and Android devices that requires no additional hardware.
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Homeland Security cyber protection office's fate is up in the air
The House is poised to vote on a measure that would not create a permanent Homeland Security Department cybersecurity office, after a committee on Thursday passed authorization legislation that does not mention the program. The move represents a departure from the Senate's version of the bill, which would retain and rename the office to better reflect a new focus on safeguarding critical commercial
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Enterprises Get Ruggedized Secure Tablet
Motorola's first enterprise tablet (ET1) gives sales, marketing, servicing, warehousing and delivery personnel a ruggedized alternative to consumer-grade tablets.
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It's Time to Randomize Social Security Numbers
However, data breaches aren't the only way criminals get SSNs. A network of cyber-criminals has figured out how the Social Security Administration generates its numbers and is using that to come up with valid Social Security numbers around the time that a child is born. Because the first three digits of a Social Security number reference the region where the number is issued, it's only the last six numbers that are really tied to identity, and those are issued in a predictable sequence.
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Organized Cyber-Crime Network May Be Stealing Your Child`s Identity
Organized cyber-criminals have taken what used to be a minor domestic crime and turned it into a global ID trafficking ring. In these cases, the data that's so valuable are the Social Security numbers of young children because they can easily be matched with any name and date of birth and used to create fraudulent identities, obtain credit or even dodge residency rules for getting work in the United States.
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