2012年12月16日星期日

Samsung Acquires SSD Caching Company NVELO


This came unfashionable of the blue. Samsung announced their intent to get hold of NVELO, accepted in support of their Dataplex SSD caching software. Value or else detailed timeframe of the acquisition give birth to not been revealed yet, but the acquisition does include all NVELO expertise and personnel.

NVELO having the status of a company possibly will be present a new to the job acquaintance in support of many having the status of it was founded solitary two years before having the status of a spin-off from Denali Software, which was acquired by Cadence in the sphere of June 2010. While NVELO has not been around in support of lingering, the company is gorged of experience having the status of the largest part of the employees worked in excess of a decade in support of Denali otherwise the acquisition. In the sphere of piece of evidence, Dataplex development began in the sphere of 2007 once Denali was still a standalone company.

Near are several products in the sphere of the marketplace with the aim of benefit NVELO's Dataplex software such having the status of OCZ's Synapse, Corsair's Accelerator and Crucial's Adrenaline SSDs. Dataplex is in essence an alternative to Intel's Smart Response expertise (SRT) but with fewer limitations. In support of case in point, Dataplex is not attached to at all detailed chipsets, making it a viable option in support of AMD based setups and grown-up systems with no Intel's SRT support. Near is besides rebuff 64GB store size limitation like in the sphere of Intel's SRT, although the largest part of the SSDs with the aim of are bundled with Dataplex are 64GB or else less significant. Whether it's worth it to benefit an SSD better than 64GB in support of caching is a unusual question, but by smallest amount near is an option in support of with the aim of. We give birth to played around with NVELO's Dataplex in the sphere of our labs but we haven't exhaustively reviewed it (yet).

While by smallest amount I didn't expect this acquisition, it does succeed a group of gist. SSD prices give birth to approach down significantly in the sphere of the only remaining a small amount of years but we still aren't by a line of reasoning someplace SSDs can supplant problematical drives in the sphere of mainstream products. However, the difference an SSD makes is simply so large with the aim of near is rebuff brains not to require an SSD. The pro of caching is with the aim of you can give birth to SSD-like performance with sufficient of storage space with no contravention the level. Samsung doesn't give birth to at all consumer-grade SSD caching products, so with the acquisition it seems with the aim of Samsung is interested in the sphere of entering with the aim of marketplace. Why Samsung chose to get hold of NVELO as a replacement for of simply licensing the Dataplex software is a useful question, but it's on the cards with the aim of Samsung wants to develop something in the sphere of the igloo as a replacement for of using a commercially obtainable solution (given the large vertical integration already in attendance in the sphere of their SSDs, this wouldn't be present a surprise). The acquisition possibly will besides be present a way to eliminate competition for the reason that Samsung can force the competitors to search out unfashionable of the SSD caching marketplace or else to benefit an extra solution (assuming Samsung makes Dataplex proprietary).



2012年12月12日星期三

We won't stop buying spree: Dell


Michael clearing, chairman and chief executive of the company with the aim of bears his fame, says the machinery giant's acquisition extravaganza has rebuff conclusion time in the sphere of sight.
It yearn for persist trade banned other machinery "ingredients" to help it provide additional integrated solutions to sphere customers.
"It doesn't stop up," he thought. "We're in the sphere of a trillion-dollar industry, and we're a relatively early company - just 28-and-a-half years old. We endeavour to persist growing," clearing told Fairfax Media on the at the outset generation of the company's customer and partner consultation, clearing humankind 2012, in the sphere of Austin, Texas.
On behalf of the times of yore four years, the earlier PC manufacturing company has been engineering a transformation into what did you say? Its fail calls a "solutions" company. In the sphere of a machinery marketplace by the side of time contracting, it has spent close to $US12 billion ($11.4 billion) trade additional than 20 established machinery businesses to let somebody have it end-to-end credentials whilst it comes to offering systems to enterprises.
It spent $US5 billion this time on your own acquiring Quest Software, Wyse Technologies and SonicWall amid others, and established an "enterprise solutions and services" division to cater on behalf of clients needing guidance on how much to take from the vendor and how much to keep from others. The company at present represents one-third of the company's revenue – approaching $20 billion this quarter - and partly its uncouth margin.
Clearing invests primarily in the sphere of well-established single machinery companies, more readily than start-ups or else new to the job intellectual property, but with the aim of too is with reference to to loose change. In our day it signalled it is willing to get hold of and nurture the subsequently Facebook, Google or else Twitter - if not to bad deal them, followed by by the side of smallest amount to give them to the same degree customers.
It launched a new to the job place, clearing Centre on behalf of Entrepreneurs, to fit together into a previously announced $US100 million Innovators believe supply. The place aims to provide networking and funding opportunities on behalf of new to the job and growing trivial businesses across industry sectors. The supply, however, just provides money or else believe on behalf of companies already seraph or else venture-backed.
Modelled on the three-year-old clearing Women Entrepreneurs make contacts (DWEN), the Centre on behalf of Entrepreneurs website hopes to create a central argument stage on behalf of nascent sphere owners who might survive noticed by the computing giant or else by others in the sphere of the same forum.
To the same degree with DWEN, the centre yearn for look to organise neighborhood and regional networking measures, a little with seraph investors and venture capitalists. Clearing has previously admitted its courting of women-led businesses through DWEN has added advantageously to the company's bottom-line. It at present hopes to accomplish the same on behalf of the start-up location.
The company additionally announced it yearn for help supply the Clinton macro Initiative University, an alternative grassroots networking forum to promote new to the job solutions to the world's burning problems.
Michael clearing told ITPro his rationale on behalf of investing in the sphere of start-ups and innovative thinking was unpretentious.
"If you look by the side of employment growth in the sphere of the humankind, it really is deeply concentrated in the sphere of fast-growing new to the job businesses, and we've seen many of these businesses grow up to survive our customers – whether it's Google, or else Facebook or else eBay or else Twitter.
"We give tremendous relationships with folks kinds of fast-growing companies and we'd like to advance their development and concoct reliable we're in the sphere of alter with their needs, creating the products, the financing, the relationships and servicing with the aim of helps them grow."
Pool Fok, IDC cups broad-spectrum director, thought clearing still had budding to get hold of many additional companies.
"When you think of cloud, BYOx [bring-your-own device and applications], data centre products, services and software, near is so much space they can grow," she thought.
But yearn for clients absence an end-to-end solution from single vendor?
"It depends on the user," Ms Fok thought. "If they need gigantic data analysis, IBM yearn for cause the gain, but on the other wall, mobility is so worthy at present, it's impressive how [Dell] is bringing Wyse, Kace and other [acquisitions] in sync.
"Compared to other companies, although they give separate divisions, I envision them better integrated. I really envision the gigantic picture – from advance to toe, but my question additionally is, yearn for the customer absence with the aim of?
"Yes, I can envision additional users leaning with the aim of way," she thought, known the fast rate of knots of machinery, cloud computing and the need to outsource funds to keep up with changes.




2012年12月2日星期日

Samsung Printers Hardcoded Password a Security Risk



A little Samsung printers cover a hardcoded password which attackers possibly will get through to increase backdoor access to precision networks, according to a current security caution.

The undeviating password in the field of Samsung printers and Dell-branded printers from Samsung, cannot be present disabled before untouched by users, the United States workstation Emergency quickness Team US-CERT) warned keep up Monday in the field of an advisory. The password distribution does not exist in the field of Samsung models released considering Oct. 31.

A remote, unauthenticated enemy possibly will access an affected device with administrative privileges and cause to feel changes to the device configuration, have a passion for data more or less procedure connected to the exchange ideas and all in order sent to the laser copier, and somewhat implement code on the laser copier, CERT warned. Attackers possibly will make on top of the exchange ideas by using the undeviating financial credit. Just the once in the field of, they possibly will launch extra attacks in contrast to other procedure on the exchange ideas.

"Samsung printers contain a hardcoded SNMP satiated read-write neighborhood sequence so as to remains full of life even whilst SNMP is disabled in the field of the laser copier management service," the CERT advisory thought.

Details of the Vulnerability
Samsung is aware of the distribution and is preparing a area tool to be present released soon this time to take in hand vulnerable procedure, the advisory thought. Until at that moment, CERT recommended administrators situate up the laser copier to take connection attempts no more than from trusted hosts and exchange ideas, and decline all outside attempts using the hardcoded password.

Security researcher Neil Smith in print extra details more or less the built-in password on Tuesday. The no more than printers so as to weren't affected by the undeviating password distribution were "serious high-end" Samsung printers which run a various memory chip and operating scheme, Smith wrote on Twitter. HD Moore, Rapid7's chief security police officer and chief builder, incorrigible on Twitter the vulnerability existed on his Samsung SCX-472x cycle laser copier.

Smith and suggested Samsung has not been very approachable more or less ultimate the vulnerability. "It's been frustrating working with Samsung. Home ITsec by the side of S incorrigible it. Kr:Command center pulled them inedible. CERT pubd and so did I," Smith wrote on Twitter.