| Network World Daily News PM | | | | Security start-ups arise because they have fresh approaches to fighting malware and cyber-espionage or combatting the insider threat through network monitoring. In this round-up of some of the newer security firms, Distil Networks, Observable Networks and Vectra Networks fit into that category. But two others just out of the gate, Exabeam and Fortscale, are part of another trend—squeezing more out of existing log management and security information and event management products. And then there's Denver-based ProtectWise, founded by former McAfee veterans, which is still in stealth mode and only vaguely alluding to cloud-based security as a future offering. But investors are pouring money into it. ProtectWise has snagged over $17 million in venture-capital funding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. CoreOS Linux does away with the upgrade cycle 2. HP's giant Proliant challenges big iron from IBM, Oracle 3. HP's giant ProLiant: The good, the bad, the UEFI 4. Oracle hopes to entice mobile developers with new framework 5. Armed with new CEO, Joyent rolls out a private cloud 6. New malware program hooks into networking APIs to steal banking data 7. 8 ways the password is dying 8. Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters 9. Cisco acquires tiny collaboration company 10. Microsoft to shutter security notification service 11. Google terminates Quickoffice apps on Android, iOS 12. Facebook manipulated 689,003 users' News Feeds to 'prove' emotions are contagious | | | | Hoping to simplify life for system administrators, CoreOS has launched a commercial Linux distribution that continually updates itself, eliminating the need to perform major upgrades.CoreOS is offering its namesake Linux distribution as a commercial service, starting at US$100 a month."Businesses today can begin to think of CoreOS as an extension of their OS team, and for enterprise Linux customers this is the last migration they will ever need," said Alex Polvi, founder and CEO of CoreOS, in a statement.Commercial Linux subscriptions are nothing new: Both Red Hat and Suse offer commercial subscriptions for their respective distributions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | A breathless deliveryman, having lugged a huge box from HP up the stairs to our lab, asked us, what the hell's in here? A server, we told him. A really large one. He nodded, panting, and having his signed bill of lading, left. HP hadn't told us exactly which server they were sending, noting that it's new, and hasn't been reviewed anywhere before. We didn't even know the model number. Inside the massive box was a 4U server marked: Hewlett-Packard DL580 G8. It weighs just over 100 pounds in the configuration that HP sent us. It was crammed to the gills, but also had room inside. The server sounded like a WhisperJet gone wrong when we powered it up. There's a good reason: the fans have to cool 60 x64 cores on four massive processors. Sixty!!!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The DL580 Gen8 is HP's most powerful server in the ProLiant line. HP says that it's designed specifically to take on the IBM Power 750 and Oracle's Sun server T5-4. Two tiers are offered -- basic and high performance. With basic, you get two processors, Intel EZ-4809 V2s at 1.9Ghz clock, which means a dozen cores. The high performance selection boosts capacity to four processors, Intel Xeon 4850 V2s (48 cores), or 4890 V2s (60 cores) clocked at 2.3 or 2.9ghz respectively.(Read the story version.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Oracle is hoping it can attract more developers with MAF (Mobile Application Framework), which aims to simplify the development of cross-platform enterprise apps for smartphones and tablets.As a result of the growing number of smartphones and tablets employees have, software vendors are increasingly focusing on how to make enterprise applications more mobile friendly. On Monday, Oracle announced updates to its Mobile Suite, which aims to do just that.The heart of the new release is MAF, which builds on the cross-platform development tools Oracle already offers. The framework lets developers choose between the JDeveloper IDE (integrated development environment) or Enterprise Pack for Eclipse. Developers can also choose among a number of development languages, including Java, JavaScript and HTML5, when developing native Android and iOS apps, according to Oracle.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: BMC Software People and businesses can do amazing things when technology runs at its best. Changing requirements and expectations have placed new demands on IT; now it's time for a new approach to service and support. Learn More | | Last week was a big one for IaaS cloud provider Joyent - not only did the company pivot to offer a private cloud management software (previously it only offered public cloud services) but it also has cherry-picked a Cisco cloud executive to be the company's new CEO.Joyent, a rather small niche provider of services - according to an assessment by research firm Gartner - is looking to stay relevant in a market dominated by mega-vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. In an effort to differentiate itself, the company now offers a private cloud compliment to its established public cloud, giving customers an opportunity to create an all-Joyent hybrid cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | There is yet another reason to be wary of spam email about bank transfers or invoices—it could be carrying a new, cleverly designed malware program that steals financial information.Most Trojan programs steal financial information from users by injecting rogue forms into Web browsing sessions, but a newly discovered malware program takes a different approach and leverages browser network APIs to sniff outgoing traffic.The new threat has been named Emotet by security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, who recently analyzed variants targeting the customers of several German banks. The malware is distributed via malicious links in spam email messages that masquerade as bank transfer notifications or invoices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The death of the passwordGoogle's massive I/O conference was chock full of trends and portents, but one of the most intriguing messages to trickle out of the show was far more subtle than the Android-everywhere blitz: Google is finally making good on its quest to kill the password.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | The wait is almost over for early adopters of Blackphone, an Android-based smartphone that promises enhanced privacy and security.Geneva-based SGP Technologies, the phone's manufacturer, announced that the Blackphone handsets began shipping Monday to customers who pre-ordered them.SGP is a joint venture between Silent Circle, a provider of encrypted communications services based in National Harbor, Maryland, and Geeksphone, a smartphone manufacturer based in Madrid. The two companies announced Blackphone, a phone that runs a customized version of Android called PrivatOS and bundles Silent Circle's secure messaging and calling services, at Mobile World Congress in February.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: Alert Logic In this paper Forrester shares the results of their 15-criteria evaluation of the top ten emerging players in the MSSP market. Learn More | | Cisco last week acquired Assemblage, a maker of browser-to-browser collaboration tools that do not require downloads, plugins or installations. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. + MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: A first: Microsoft pulls in more from enterprise collaboration than Cisco + Assemblage offers real-time collaboration applications for shared whiteboarding, presentation broadcasting and screen sharing. Its products can set up inter-browser collaboration with just one mouse click, Cisco says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft on Friday said it would shut down its email notification service for security warnings next week, telling IT and security administrators that they should instead subscribe to RSS feeds from the firm.The message was sent to anyone who had opted in to a mailing list set up long ago to alert them about new security advisories, new or revised security bulletins -- the term Microsoft uses for its monthly patch updates -- and revisions to both the advisories and bulletins."As of July 1, 2014, due to changing governmental policies concerning the issuance of automated electronic messaging, Microsoft is suspending the use of email notifications," the company told the mailing list's members.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | As Google last week introduced new features for its online and Android productivity apps, it also quietly announced that it has halted development on Quickoffice and would soon pull the free software from the Google Play and Apple App Store."With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks," Google stated in a short announcement posted to the Google Apps blog last Wednesday. "Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | A Facebook experiment manipulated users' News Feeds to 'prove' emotions are contagious through social networks. READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: HP his IT Manager's Journal will discuss 10 best practices you can employ in your journey down the path of securing Big Data and show how Big Data can be both a problem and a solution. Learn More>> | | | | | | | | | | |
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