A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a “blue screen of death” prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electrician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing.
“Blue screen of death,” or BSOD, is a term most often used to describe the display shown by Microsoft Windows after a serious crash that has incapacitated a PC.
Oracle released a set of 59 patches on Monday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application, and middleware products.
The patches include fixes for three critical flaws affecting virtually every supported version of the company’s Database Server technology.
Microsoft hasn’t yet officially acknowledged the problem, but many admins are reporting that installing this month’s “Black Tuesday” SharePoint patch, MS10-039
Storage has always been a passion of mine. In 2000, I was a card-carrying SNIA member and worked on an SNIA committee regarding certification paths for IT pros to prove their storage know-how. That was during my SAN/NAS days at CommVault Systems when I wrote “Enterprise Storage Solutions for Sybex” with Chris Wolf, a noted virtualization expert at The Burton Group.
A well-known security researcher Tuesday showed how to subvert security in the Oracle 11g database by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities that would let a savvy user gain full and complete control.
If you caught “InfoWorld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies” in November, you had a running start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our list of top products as well.
Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can’t be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can.
