Some time ago now, I bought a Dell SC440 Power Edge server. Not because I needed it per se, more because I wanted it. And as any gadget fan will tell you, thats the reason most of these purchases happen. When it arrived, I had to choose an OS. As WHS is too pricey for my liking, I turned to penguin land, and Ubuntu in particular.
Back in March, I wrote an article about Carbonite, where I reported on a possible loss of data effecting users backups. Very quickly, we had a response to the post from the CEO of Carbonite David Friend, who stated that there had been a problem with the firmware on the Promise servers they were using. Although it had effected some users, it certainly was not the calamity it had been made out to be, and he had phoned those people effected individually to apologize.
Recently, it may have come to your attention that Microsoft and TomTom, the satnav maker, have reached a settlement over a patent dispute. The dispute revolves around the FAT file system, and it’s use in the TomTom’s Linux based OS. Microsoft said that the use of this file system infringed their patent, and so to court.
It seems that the web-based online threat is still growing. An article on ZDNet claims that malicious sites have increased 200% in the last month alone.
Remember back to when you first saw the Mac vs Windows adverts, either on the TV or on the net like I did which featured Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac) doing a sketch? Well, the most important bit about that advert was the fact that they were advertising for Apple. In case you’ve forgotten bits, here’s a picture to jog the old memory..
Most companies with any sort of IT infrastructure have got some sort of disaster recovery plan. Whether it be a set of tapes or CD’s or a redundant data centre, the idea of loosing the company accounts on a hard drive that has become a paperweight is something that keeps IT managers awake at night.
This story at TechCrunch has shown just how precarious your data might be up in the cloud. It turns out that the company has possibly lost over 7,500 companies data over the weekend.
The BBC, in the name of “public interest”, recently accuired the means to get together a botnet. The Click Online program for the BBC paid “£254 – £290” per 1,000
