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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service

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As autumn begins and the thoughts of security teams turn to mists and mellow fruitfulness, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update arrives with the surety of the turning leaves, and this month there are two actively exploited zero-days to consider, and five critically scored vulnerabilities worth attention, out of a grand total of over 60 newly squashed…

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Node4 helps performing arts charity revamp staff home working setup with IT infrastructure overhaul

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Managed cloud services provider Node4 has revealed details of how it helped one of its charity clients overcome its remote working technology woes in the wake of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic through the deployment of a VMware-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) setup. Its client – the Manchester-based performing arts charity, The Lowry Theatre and Arts…

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SME disaster recovery: Five key points to consider

6 minutes of reading / AWS, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, Dell, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, HP, Tech / By

Disaster recovery planning is vital for smaller businesses. The rise of cyber attacks, especially ransomware, has increased the risk of disruption and data loss to smaller firms. SMEs are also vulnerable to risks in their digital and software supply chains. At the same time, enterprises and public sector organisations are increasingly aware of the risks…

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Microsoft finds Storm-0558 exploited crash dump to steal signing key

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Microsoft has published details of how a Chinese state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actor tracked as Storm-0558 was able to get its hands on a Microsoft account (MSA) consumer key to forge tokens with which they accessed OWA and Outlook.com accounts at multiple high-profile customers. The incident, which was first disclosed on Tuesday 11 July,…

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VMware builds vSAN Max, consolidates multicloud and online deployment

6 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer, containers, Dell, HP, Intel, Kubernetes, multicloud, Tech, VPN / By

VMware’s vSphere 8 has mutated into vSphere “8+”, which brings three new storage-related options: disaggregated storage in vSAN Max; NSX+ to support multicloud deployments; and Ransomware Recovery extended to an online service. “vSAN Max is a product that you can buy and deploy in your datacentre,” said CEO Raghu Raghuram at VMware Explore 2023 last…

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Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved

4 minutes of reading / AI, augmented reality, Azure, Cloud, compliance, Computer, data science, digital transformation, machine learning, Microsoft, natural language processing, Tech / By

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being digital” through a series of investments into both new and existing technology capabilities. Drafted with the assistance of consultancy firm Ernst & Young and XXX Capgemini, the strategy outlines priorities…

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Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

4 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Azure, Computer, containers, Intel, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same name that will target private cloud hosting providers. “Our…

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AI Server Market to Reach $150 Billion by 2027

2 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Foxconn, Google, Microsoft, Tech / By

Demand for generative AI services is skyrocketing and driving the need for AI servers and machines that are substantially different from traditional servers. The category is growing so quickly that sales of AI servers are set to reach $150 billion in 2027, according to Liu Yangwei, the chairman of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturing…

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Microsoft fixes Azure flaw that was subject of researcher criticism

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Microsoft has publicly confirmed that a potentially dangerous flaw in the Azure public cloud platform – which was the subject of a full and frank attack on the firm’s vulnerability reporting and disclosure processes by Tenable CEO Amit Yoran last week – has been fully addressed for all affected users. Microsoft had already told Computer…

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CCS urged to do more to make Cloud Compute 2 framework more accessible to SMEs

13 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Azure, Cloud, cloud computing, compliance, Computer, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech, Technology / By

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of “paying lip service” to smaller suppliers after embarking on a  revamp of the “underused” Cloud Compute Framework to make it more accessible to SMEs. The government’s procurement arm is inviting submissions from prospective suppliers for the £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework until 21 August 2023, but Computer…

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