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Japan's digital minister vows to rid the country of floppy disks

Japan will attempt to eliminate requirements to use floppy disks to send official documents to the government.

August 31, 2022 by Liam Tung

With the rise of global instability, can ceramic storage save our digital culture?

That's one man's plan. Put all the web's data on thin, optically-readable ceramic plates, and store them in the world's oldest salt mine. It's not a bad idea. Could it work?

January 13, 2017 by Robin Harris

Inside the Large Hadron Collider: How IT powers the greatest experiment in history

Tape storage and distributed computing are at the core of the latest discoveries in the field of physics.

March 12, 2015 by Andrada Fiscutean

Microsoft patches Windows to quell Flame

Microsoft has pushed out a security update for Windows to seal a hole exploited by the sophisticated Flame malware.The update prevents Flame or other bits of malware spoofing Microsoft certificates to phish, spoof content, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks, Microsoft said on Sunday.

June 4, 2012 by Jack Clark

Kaspersky: Stuxnet and Duqu built by same team

Duqu and Stuxnet, two of the most sophisticated computer viruses ever discovered, were developed by the same team, according to an analysis carried out by Kaspersky Labs.The company also found hints that the team used the same software development environment to build the advanced viruses — and others — between 2007 and 2011, Kaspersky announced on Thursday.

December 29, 2011 by Jack Clark

Scada implicated in hack on water utility

A US water utility has been damaged by a hack that exploited its supervisory control and data acquisition (Scada) software, according to a security expert.The hack, detailed on Thursday by Joe Weiss, the managing partner of Applied Control Solutions, which provides consulting services for securing industrial control systems, was disclosed in a report by an unnamed US government organisation.

November 19, 2011 by Jack Clark

Is carbon storage technology safe?

One rather controversial topic that I always consider carefully before covering is carbon capture and sequestration technology. These are technologies designed to help existing "dirty" generation technologies, such as coal-fired power plants, reduce their carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions.

November 23, 2010 by Heather Clancy

Stream's latest green data center: Deep in the heart of Texas

OK, so I'm in San Antonio and the first set of notes that I grabbed this morning when trying to figure out what to write about were about this city, I guess that tells me something.In any event, you might not think of Texas as the most friendly place for a data center -- it was 102 degrees Fahrenheit when I arrived here last night, which doesn't seem all that great when it comes to keeping IT equipment cool.

August 9, 2010 by Heather Clancy

Obama: The Nuclear President?

Will divisive politics melt down any efforts to modernize and augment our country's aging nuclear infrastructure and spent fuel storage capability?

January 31, 2010 by Jason Perlow

Extreme Storage - EMC’s VPLEX and DDN Takeover Plan

Talk to the average Storage Engineer who manages the growth of your datacenter’s modular system about Petaflops, Exabytes, Petabytes of Archives or 1TB of sustained bandwidth and you’ll probably find them scratching their heads in disbelief. This is the reality that does exist in the world of super computing and what is sometimes referred to as Extreme Storage.

May 28, 2010 by Archie Hendryx Hendryx