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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

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

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

Attacks shouldn't shake tech industry

Last week’s terror attacks shouldn't hurt technology business much. They may even help some industries.

September 17, 2001 by ZDNet Editors

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

NSW hospital increases storage capacity for imaging system

The John Hunter hospital in New South Wales has adopted storage solution provider StorageTek's D-series disk products to support its expanding picture archiving and communications system (PACS).The new infrastructure will allow the hospital to expand medical imaging services to regional hospitals, improving services to patients and enhancing physicians' productivity while reducing operating costs.

February 23, 2005 by ZDNet Editors

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

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

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

Self-healing ceramics for nuclear safety

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have used supercomputers to simulate how common ceramics could repair themselves after radiation-induced damages. This is an important discovery because 'materials that can resist radiation damage are needed to expand the use of nuclear energy.' These ceramics, which are able to handle high-radiation doses, could improve the durability of nuclear power plants. They also might help to solve the problem of nuclear waste storage. But read more...

April 19, 2008 by Roland Piquepaille