USB drives spread malware to power plants
Two power plants in the United States were infected with malware last year, and in both cases it was spread by USB drives, reports Dan Goodin at Ars Technica.
Tape is back and better than ever
It's the oldest medium in digital computing storage, but magnetic tape is far from being relegated to the dustbin of history. Instead, it remains a stalwart avenue of affordable, lasting storage in many corporations, even when it comes to virtualized and video-focused environments, reports Computerworld's Stephen Lawson, in a lengthy and interesting article.
Automation doesn't necessarily mean a reduced head count
OTG Management, which operates restaurants in airports, has installed iPads and credit card readers at seats in terminals to allow customers to place orders and pay bills without human assistance. Despite the self-service automation, the company is actually doing more hiring, reports Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld.
The case for putting a cognitive scientist on your big data team
Data is valuable only to the extent that people make it so, which means that a big data project succeeds to the extent that we understand the ways in which information is created and used by people. This is the argument presented by professors Donald A. Marchand and Joe Peppard, who suggest a new way of approaching data analytics by focusing on information exploration.
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Evolving sourcing needs spur changes in provider, customer relationship
With the celebration of President Barack Obama's second inauguration, the election season is definitively behind us, along with the high-pitched anti-offshoring rhetoric that tends to accompany presidential campaigns. This does not mean that it's back to outsourcing as usual, though. For a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with politics, companies are pursuing new sourcing models to meet needs that go well beyond cost-cutting.
USB drives spread malware to power plants
Two power plants in the United States were infected with malware last year, and in both cases it was spread by USB drives, reports Dan Goodin at Ars Technica.
Are your data searches defensible?
The electronic discovery process--e-discovery--is a challenging one for many organizations, and soaring mountains of data are likely to make it more so in the years ahead, writes Thomas Barnett at CIO Insight. The ability to perform valid searches is key to survival in the new data-drenched environment.
How to fire an employee
Nobody really wants to have to fire an employee. However, there are ways to lessen the pain for everyone involved, writes CIO magazine's Rich Hein, who presents a round-up of suggestions for letting someone go in a humane fashion.
Tape is back and better than ever
It's the oldest medium in digital computing storage, but magnetic tape is far from being relegated to the dustbin of history. Instead, it remains a stalwart avenue of affordable, lasting storage in many corporations, even when it comes to virtualized and video-focused environments, reports Computerworld's Stephen Lawson, in a lengthy and interesting article.
Server efficiencies help keep data center costs in check
Keeping data centers powered and cooled has remained a challenge in recent years as IT departments have hustled to keep up with computing demands.
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In a talk hosted by O'Reilly Strata this week called "Sex. Drugs. Rock. And CODE: Hacking Cybersecurity," which was part of O'Reilly's Data Warfare webinar, Gagnier said cyber security is an area of the law with few rules, one driven by social norms rather than good law and policy. And that needs to change.
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