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BlackBerry’s John Chen explains why he helped Canada’s cops hack one of its phones
When the Royal Mounted Canadian Police wanted to take down some bad guys, BlackBerry Ltd., a name synonymous with security and privacy, was only too eager to help out. Unlike its larger phone-making brethren Apple, which flatly refused all requests for assistance from the FBI, BlackBerry jumped at the chance to help out Canada’s foremost ...
Dell, Red Hat, Cumulus fire up 300-node OpenStack cluster with DevOps tools
OpenStack deployments can be easily managed and deployed using open-source DevOps tools and networking solutions, as demonstrated in a new proof-of-concept (PoC) by Cumulus Networks, Dell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. The three vendors teamed up to create a massive 300+ node OpenStack cluster using Dell’s servers and networking switches, Red Hat’s OpenStack platform, and ...
Elliott plays matchmaker again as Mitel hooks up with Polycon
Enterprise communications giant Mitel Networks Corp. has agreed a $1.96 billion deal to acquire its larger unified communications rival Polycom Inc. The deal marks another successful gambit from the infamous ‘activist investor’ firm Elliott Management Inc., which previously helped to influence Dell Inc.’s massive $67 billion takeover of storage giant EMC corp. In this case, ...
Ruby on Rails interpreter finds flaws in a flash
Hacker bounties may soon be a thing of the past, if the researchers at MIT have anything to do with it. The boffins there have successfully created a Ruby on Rails “interpreter” that’s able to find flaws in code much faster than any human programmer can do. Called “Space”, the researchers have tested the software ...
Facebook paves the ground for a wave of smarter chatbots
Out of nowhere, bots are suddenly all the rage. Last week at Build 2016, we saw Microsoft release a bunch of bot-building tools for developers. Now, Facebook is throwing its hat into the bot battle with the beta launch of Bot Engine, a new tool that uses machine learning to make chatbots more intelligent. Bot ...
Jigsaw malware hijacks PCs and deletes files every hour until a ransom is paid
A new and extremely ruthless kind of ransomware has evolved that not only locks your files away, but deletes them if you don’t pay up promptly to the cybercriminals who created it. Called Jigsaw, the ransomware begins deleting an infected computer’s files within just one hour if they don’t cough up the Bitcoin ransom demanded ...
Node.js rapidly driving IoT app development, container adoption
With more than 3.5 million users, the Node.js cross-platform runtime environment is one of the fastest growing platforms for web, IoT and enterprise app development. So popular in fact, that the Node.js Foundation today decided to release its first-ever survey on the state of the technology’s adoption. One of the main findings is that Node.js ...
Datera bursts onto the scene with AWS-like cloud scale-out storage
Datera Inc. has become the latest storage startup to move out of stealth, promising an Amazon Web Services-esque cloud storage offering aimed at large enterprises and service providers. In that respect Datera probably sounds familiar, not least because companies like Ceph, Gluster, SimpliVity and Nutanix all have their own cloud storage platforms. It’s such a ...
Box/IBM intro Box Zones, letting customers choose where their data resides
For many organizations the matter of where there cloud-based data resides is of extreme importance. Organizations have performance, privacy and governance concerns to contend with, and data sovereignty is a big part of this. With that in mind, Box Inc. is expanding its partnership with IBM to introduce Box Zones, giving corporate customers the option ...
Nexenta & Canonical team up on SDS for OpenStack
Canonical Ltd. has teamed up with Nexenta Systems Inc. to create a combined Ubuntu OpenStack and NexentaEdge solution. The two firms have integrated two existing products – Ubuntu’s Juju service model for automating application deployment and management, and NexentaEdge, a combined block and object access storage software offering. This new joint solution provides seamless integration ...