Is this the end of HDD?
Solid-state drives have been primarily used in desktops as fast boot drives, with large traditional hard disks used for the mass data storage and some apps. Most of the advancements in SSD media has been more around wear leveling and durability rather than raising capacity. Well, now that they...
Flash Memory is Eating the World
It’s not just the movement of the tectonic plates of world politics, nature’s forces or global economics that make this decade a historic one. Technology has entered an era different than anything we’ve seen before. Devices have become indivisible from our daily experiences while sensors are now embedded to...
3D NAND will Change the Future
In a recent interview in Computerworld, Sumit Sadana, SanDisk® chief strategy officer and general manager of SanDisk enterprise solutions, spoke about how companies heavily invested in IT at scale (like Facebook, Google, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and the likes), have long understood that the best and fastest path to...
IKE/IKEv2 Ripe for DDoS Abuse
Akamai’s Security Intelligence Research Team (SIRT) is conducting research into the security posture of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE & IKEv2) protocol. The paper outlines the findings thus far, including configurations in the protocol itself that attackers could potentially leverage to launch reflected DDoS campaigns. Our motivation to examine...
The Rising Risk of Electronic Medical Records
Examples of Fraud One money-making scheme involves setting up shop as or working with a clinic or medical practitioner to commit Medicare fraud. This is done by shadow billing, charging for procedures or services that never occurred, or by upcoding, using billing codes that specify the need for expensive...
American Banker’s CyberSec 2016 Conference – That’s a Wrap!
American Banker hosted its brand new conference, Cybersec 2016 in Midtown Manhattan. Penny Crosman, Editor at Large, American Banker, did a great job as chair of the event and brought together thoughtful presenters and panelists. There were great insights from leaders in the industry from BBVA, Bank of the...
Email Migration from Physical Server to Cloud
Company ABC, an engineering firm, had been facing difficulties when it came to handling their internal email servers. This was because their existing servers were old physical ones, housed in their own building, giving rise to a host of operational issues. There were frequent email delivery failures where the...
5 Myths of Enterprise Flash
For years, storage has been viewed as the important but slightly boring cousin to processing power and applications. With the onslaught of performance and value brought into the fold by enterprise NAND devices the situation has changed drastically. We now have technology to alleviate storage bottlenecks that have plagued...
WEEK SUMMARY TITLES
It’s not just the movement of the tectonic plates of world politics, nature’s forces or global economics that make...
In a recent interview in Computerworld, Sumit Sadana, SanDisk® chief strategy officer and general manager of SanDisk enterprise solutions,...
Akamai’s Security Intelligence Research Team (SIRT) is conducting research into the security posture of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE...
Examples of Fraud One money-making scheme involves setting up shop as or working with a clinic or medical practitioner...
