Big Blue hopes that emerging technologies designed to handle big data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will translate into datacentre breakthroughs over the next few years.

Secunia reports that only 14 percent of the vulnerabilities found in the 50 most popular programs last year were in Microsoft products while 86 percent were in third-party software. It reckons IT professionals should do more to patch them … and it sells products to help...

The company will launch VMware NSX, a combination of vCloud and Nicira technology, in the second half of 2013 to aim at the software defined data center.

HP makes its case that it will be a major software defined networking player and lead the charge in automation.