Sep 25, 2012
Juniper to unleash new cloud products in 2011
Juniper said earlier this morning that it will unleash new cloud products in 2011 to support its Project Stratus in delivering a flat, unified fabric for data centres and cloud computing environments. The products will include switches and routers designed to be able to be linked together into a virtual chassis.Juniper has also lined up IBM to help it develop the Stratus fabric. Stratus is designed... read more
Sep 25, 2012
Microsoft releases improved malware scanner
Microsoft said earlier this morning that it has released a new version of its free security scanner tool, following the completion of a five-month beta testing initiative.MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) version 2.0 features a revamped heuristic (automatic malware detection) engine as well as the addition of network intrusion detection technology.Less significantly though, the slightly redesigned... read more
Sep 25, 2012
Microsoft has issues with its Outlook 2007 update
Late last week, Microsoft says it has removed a security fix from its regular Patch Tuesday update for its Outlook 2007 email client that the software behemoth had issued just two days earlier, citing Internet connection and performance issues for this rather unusual decision. It’s been since April 2010 that Microsoft did something similar.The Outlook security update was issued on December 14 at... read more
Sep 25, 2012
Hitachi unveils new ultra-thin hard drive
Japanese electronics giant Hitachi Data Storage Ltd just unveiled what it claims is the industry’s highest density, single-platter ultra-thin hard disk drive that has an areal density of about 636 Gigs per inch, almost one-hundred Gigs per square inch more than its closest rival, Western Digital. It took Hitachi more than six months to come up with the new device.Hitachi’s new 2.5 inch... read more
