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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
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Event |
| 12:27a |
IBM Misses Sales Estimates, Casting Doubt on Growth Engines
IBM missed analysts’ quarterly revenue estimates, ending a short-lived streak of sales gains
• Its third-quarter earnings report casted doubt on the strategy to boost growth through new businesses like cloud and AI
• After six years of declining sales, the company showed gains in the past three quarters
• Those were largely due to its legacy mainframes | | 5:32p |
Facebook’s Effort to Break Up the Data Center Interconnect “Black Box” Gains Steam
The API that decouples optical interconnect hardware from network software is ready for primetime. | | 9:16p |
SSH Authentication Bug Opens Door If You Say You're Logged-In
Due to a coding error, the libssh SSH authentication library would pass anyone who said they'd already successfully logged-in. | | 9:22p |
Lenovo and Scale Pitch Hyperconverged Boxes for the Edge of Enterprise Networks
Lenovo has partnered with hyperconverged infrastructure platform developer Scale Computing to offer an out-of-the-box HCI solution for edge computing
• The solution combines Lenovo hardware with Scale's HC3 platform, which brings together storage, servers, and virtualization
• HC3 has been available and fully supported on Dell hardware since 2012 and on equipment from Super Micro for about three years, a Scale rep told Data Center Knowledge | | 9:43p |
Are Consumers Worried Enough to Buy a Personal Server?
Seattle startup Privacy Labs is selling a server that runs email, contacts, and calendar services through a personal web domain
• The gadget is about the size of an open paperback book that sits on a side table or desk rather than in a data center
• Privacy Labs wants the server to eventually become a private digital-identity hub for everything people do online
• Instead of Google and Facebook storing all your information in their data centers, consumers would control the data and internet companies would have to ask for access |
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