Siliconrepublic.com Cyber-spying threat growing in scopeSiliconrepublic.comThe Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC) is a group of security leaders from companies including Coca-Cola, Nokia, SAP, FedEx, Johnson & Johnson, eBay and JPMorgan Chase. A new report from the group examined the shift in the threat landscape …and more » More: continued here
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Online auction site eBay has deployed more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. The S-class flash storage from solid state disk provider Nimbus is believed to be among the world’s largest consolidated deployments of network-attached flash storage for virtualisation. More: continued here
Read More »Amazon, eBay Challenged By Daily Deals – Investor’s Business Daily
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(PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES) FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: The post office is in big trouble, and today the United States Postal Service announced it’s planning to close nearly 3,700 post offices in 50 states and in Washington. The closings will occur mostly in rural areas and involve outlets that don’t …
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