Archives for October 2018

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A firewall is a network device that monitors packets going in and out of networks and blocks or allows them according to rules that have been set up to define what traffic is permissible and what traffic isn’t. There are several types of firewalls that have developed over the years, becoming progressively more complex over […]

Last week, the tech press made a big deal out of a ruling by the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office to allow consumers to break vendors’ digital rights management (DRM) schemes in order to fix their own smartphones and digital voice assistants. According to The Washington Post, for example, the ruling — […]

Microsoft has responded to criticism for its decision to continue selling technology to the US military, which has been opposed by its own employees. Brad Smith, Redmond’s president and chief legal officer, also defended its bid for the $10 billion cloud computing contract with the Pentagon, calling it “an example of the kind of work […]

IBM and Red Hat have reached an agreement under which Big Blue will acquire open source cloud software provider Red Hat for approximately $34 billion. In a joint statement, IBM chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty called the acquisition of Red Hat a “game-changer” for the cloud market. According to Big Blue, the market is “proprietary” […]

News IBM to Acquire Red Hat in $34 Billion Stock Deal By John K. Waters 10/29/2018 On Sunday IBM Corp. announced its plans to acquire leading enterprise open source software provider Red Hat Inc. IBM and Red Hat said the $34 billion stock deal should be completed in the latter half of 2019, once Red […]

Western Digital has launched the world’s first 15TB SMR hard drive, designed for use with hyperscale cloud and data centre workloads. The company suggested it could be used to power smart city data centres where huge amounts of data, such as video surveillance and legacy information, needs to be stored for regulatory compliance. SMR (Shingle […]

The growing popularity of cloud technologies has resulted in record-breaking financial results for both Google and Intel in this round of financial results. Intel overall earnings were up 19% year-on-year, the company revealed, with its data centre operation raking in $6.14 billion in revenue, surpassing its estimates of $5.89 billion and deserving of its second-place […]