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	World IPv6 Day draws attention to security issues with new protocol The marking of World IPv6 Day yesterday has drawn fresh attention to the next generation Internet addressing protocol, as well as to the security considerations that enterprises will need to deal with as they migrate to it. Read More WEBCAST: Arsin SAP End-to-End Test Automation Learn how automated validation, script-less test automation and comprehensive data management services can streamline your testing processes, increase testing accuracy, nearly eliminate scripting efforts and reduce overall testing costs by 40%. Learn More In this Issue Citigroup breach exposed data on 210,000 customers HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle IBM brings high-performance computing to the cloud 4D introduces platform for building Web-based business apps Java SE 7 gets thumbs-up from standards committee WEBCAST: Dell Bullet-Proof Email: Mission Possible Bullet-Proof Email: Mission Possible Email is the bloodline to your organization and must be defended with the highest level of security. Failure to be proactive can result in catastrophic legal, financial, and reputational consequences to your business. Read more now! Citigroup breach exposed data on 210,000 customers Citigroup admitted on Wednesday that an attack on its website allowed hackers to view customers' names, account numbers and contact information such as email addresses for about 210,000 of its cardholders. Citigroup did not say how the website, Citi Account Online -- which is used by its customers to manage their cards -- was compromised. The bank discovered the breach, which was first reported in Thursday's Financial Times, early last month. Read More HP, Microsoft take joint aim at Oracle Hewlett-Packard says that its customers run more Oracle databases and applications on HP hardware than any other vendor out there. But if you are at HP's big user conference this week and interested in talking to Oracle, you won't find the company listed as an exhibitor on the expo floor. But a couple of HP attendees did report seeing a truck with Oracle advertising on it outside the conference. Oracle is nonetheless on the agenda at the conference. On Wednesday, one conference session was titled "Oracle database migrations to Microsoft SQL Server with HP services." Read More IBM brings high-performance computing to the cloud IBM hopes to help companies more efficiently use their high-performance computing resources with new software that links separate pools of resources into a single private cloud. For many businesses, pooling together multiple high-performance computing systems can have benefits beyond the improved efficiencies that come from using otherwise idle resources. By combining all of a company's high-performance computing resources, individual engineering groups could have access to more cores and thus finish projects faster. Read More 4D introduces platform for building Web-based business apps Development tools vendor 4D has introduced an open source, end-to-end JavaScript platform called Wakanda, which is intended to make it easier to build Web-based business applications. Now at a pre-launch stage, Wakanda is billed as a unified environment based on JavaScript. Read More Java SE 7 gets thumbs-up from standards committee The next edition of Java has been approved by a Java Community Process executive committee, but not without some acrimony. Java Platform, SE (Standard Edition) 7 has been passed this week by the JCP Executive Committee for SE/EE (Enterprise Edition), by a vote of 13 in favor and 1 -- Google -- against. Oracle, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, and Fujitsu are among the affirmative votes, and two committee members -- Credit Suisse and Java architect Werner Keil -- did not vote. Read More
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