Significant data breaches at online ticketing platform Ticketmaster and consumer bank Santander appear to be linked to the abuse of unsecured accounts held with cloud data management platform Snowflake, it has emerged over the past few days. The Ticketmaster breach – confirmed on Friday 31 May by parent organisation Live Nation – saw the personal…
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File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so, but with adaptations to the use case, performance and cost constraints of cloud storage. In this article, we look at the fundamentals…
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Cyber-espionage groups are making it harder to spot where their attacks are coming from by upping their usage of proxy networks – known as operational relay box networks or ORBs – that can throw defenders off the scent. Cyber security company Mandiant has warned that it has seen a growing trend for China-backed espionage operations,…
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Some iPhone owners discovered a very weird and disturbing bug a few days ago. Somehow, old, long-deleted iPhone photos that should have been permanently purged resurfaced on devices running iOS 17.5. This prompted speculation about what might have caused the bug, as this was a very serious problem. Imagine sensitive content you thought you had…
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Cloud customers are failing to see how the offering of committed spend discounts could contribute towards them becoming locked in to hyperscale cloud platforms, according to the interim findings of an anti-trust probe into the inner workings of the UK cloud industry. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the first of a…
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In his keynote presentation at Nutanix Next 2024 in Barcelona, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami discussed the “elephant in the room”, which is the fact that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has created what he describes as “a major change and new vendor reality”. Since completing the acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has made major changes to its…
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This week, there have been a few product announcements that illustrate the opportunity some IT firms see in targeting existing VMware users who are not happy with how the product is changing under Broadcom. The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom completed at the end of 2023. Broadcom has a strategy to move companies from perpetual…
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The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is accused of sending mixed messages to non-UK-based cloud service providers that want to participate in the UK government’s G-Cloud procurement framework. The closing date for supplier applications for the 14th iteration of the cloud purchasing agreement passed on 7 May 2024, with CCS targeting an autumn 2024 start date…
Infinidat has added two HDD and flash storage array products – dubbed Infinibox G4 – that claim a 2x performance increase on predecessors by virtue of a switch from Intel to AMD central processing units (CPUs) in their triple-active controllers. The launch sees the emergence of the Infinibox SSA G4 F1400T series, which brings a…
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The iPhone 15 series was announced on September 12, 2023, at Apple’s Wonderlust event. Available in four options, Cupertino revamped the standard models while taking the Pro iPhones to the next level. Here’s what you need to know about these phones. Design: The Dynamic Island welcomes more peopleOne of the iPhone 15 microphones sits on…
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