Cebit 2017 - News, Features, and Slideshows

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• The goal of a new machine

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise is exhibiting a key element of The Machine, its testbed for making computing memory-centric, at the Cebit trade show.

• Vodafone prepares an LTE moon shot

  Thanks to Vodafone, the Taurus-Littrow Valley will get its first mobile phone base station next year.

• Peelytics turns peeing into a way to promote products

  Not many companies would want you to pee on their product, but one at Cebit positively encourages it.

• HPE unveils a new SimpliVity appliance

  Two months after acquiring SimpliVity for US$650 million, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is beginning to reshape the company's converged infrastructure offering in its own image.

• Huawei sees switch to flash as right time to rethink whole storage infrastructure

  Huawei Technologies is going all flash with its latest enterprise storage system, the OceanStor Dorado V3. It's part of the new storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering the company unveiled at Cebit.

• Bdrive secures files in the cloud with fingerprints and fragmentation

  Maximum privacy seems to be the goal for the new enterprise authentication and cloud storage services Bundesdruckerei is showing at Cebit this week.

• GelTouch adds a new dimension to touch-sensitive controls

  The problem with a lot of touch-sensitive controls is that the communication is one-way: they can feel you, but you can't feel them.

• Japan looks beyond Industry 4.0 towards Society 5.0

  Declining birth rate, aging population, natural disasters, pollution: Do these sound like issues the IT industry can deal with? Japanese businesses say yes, and a number of them are at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany, to explain why.

• Cebit showcases security after Snowden

  It's almost four years since Edward Snowden leaked U.S. National Security Agency documents revealing the extent of the organization's surveillance of global internet traffic, but he's still making the headlines in Germany.

• BlackBerry readies a more secure version of the Samsung Galaxy S7

  Secusmart, the BlackBerry subsidiary that secures the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's smartphone, will roll out a version of its SecuSuite security software compatible with Samsung Electronics' Knox platform later this year.