Comment Re:Libraries are one thing Amazon is not (Score 1) 165
cause it's free
Submission + - Google Kevlar-wraps its trans-Pacific fiber cables to protect from shark attacks (networkworld.com) 1
Brandon Butler writes: As an ode to Shark Week: Sharks have been known to show an appetite for fiber cables underwater, and last week a Google official said to prevent sharks from wreaking havoc on the company's trans-Pacific fiber lines, it wraps them in Kevlar. It's believed that the emission of electrical currents from the fiber piping is mistaken by sharks occasionally as prey.
Submission + - Gartner: Internet of Things has reached hype peak (networkworld.com)
Brandon Butler writes: In the annual battle of the buzzwords, the Internet of Things has won. Each year the research firm Gartner puts out a Hype Cycle of emerging technologies, a sort of report card for various trends and buzzwords. This year, IoT tops the list. On another note, somewhat surprising is that Gartner says the "cloud computing" is not just hype anymore, but becoming a mainstream technology.
Comment Nope (Score 1) 365
Microsoft couldn't pay me to get a Surface, much less give up my Macbook
Comment Re:More virtualisation than cloud (Score 1) 99
OpenStack is more about managing virtual servers compared to being about virtualization. OpenStack needs a hypervisor, there is no function for that in the code. Just clarifying here that OpenStack is a package of components that are built to manage virtualized servers. OpenStack doens't actually do the virtualization. Still need KVM, Hyper-V or (gasp) ESX
Comment Re:You're talking about the cloud here (Score 1) 99
meh, yes and no. there could be use cases for SMBs (more medium than small probbly), especially around app dev. if you have devs using AWS and paying for it on expense reports with taxi receipts (I've heard this happening), then a CIO could make a case for building up some internal cloud infrastructure to give users fast access to resources. I don't like the buzzwords, but DevOps could help usher in cloud adoption for regular enterprises.
Submission + - OpenStack: The open source cloud that vendors love and users are ignoring (networkworld.com)
Brandon Butler writes: OpenStack has no shortage of corporate backers. Rackspace, Red Hat, IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco and many others have hopped on board. But many wonder, after four years, shouldn't there be more end users by this point?
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 111
Red Hat is being very coy in all this, so even the reporter and analyst don't know exactly what's going on.
Comment Re:It's a business (Score 1) 111
Example would be if you want to use RHEL OS and Mirantis distro of OpenStack. Red Hat doesn't want that - they want you to use RHEL OpenStack.
Comment Re:They should go after the judge and bureaucrats (Score 1) 3
And Romney and Obamacare have nothing to do with this
Comment Re:They should go after the judge and bureaucrats (Score 1) 3
The media coverage of Justina Pelletier has been extremely one-sided. Basically only the parents' side of the story has been told because the organizations (Boston Children's Hospital) that are treating this young woman are not allowed to discuss the case because of patient confidentiality laws. And now they're defending against overload attacks on their systems. There is more to this story than what has been reported.
Submission + - Anonymous's latest target: Boston Children's Hospital (networkworld.com) 3
Brandon Butler writes: Supporters of the faceless collective known as Anonymous have taken up the cause of a young girl, after the State of Massachusetts removed her from her parents earlier this year. However, the methods used to show support may have unintended consequences, which could impact patient care.
On Thursday, the Boston Children's Hospital confirmed that they were subjected to multiple DDoS attacks over the Easter holiday. Said attacks, which have continued throughout the week, aim to take the hospital's website offline. Similar attacks, including website defacement, have also targeted the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. Both organizations are at the heart of a sensitive topic, child welfare and the rights of a parent.
On Thursday, the Boston Children's Hospital confirmed that they were subjected to multiple DDoS attacks over the Easter holiday. Said attacks, which have continued throughout the week, aim to take the hospital's website offline. Similar attacks, including website defacement, have also targeted the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network. Both organizations are at the heart of a sensitive topic, child welfare and the rights of a parent.
Submission + - Microsoft Lync server gathers employee data just like NSA (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: Microsoft's Lync communications platform gathers enough readily analyzable data to let corporations spy on their employees like the NSA can on U.S. citizens, and it's based on the same type of information — call details. At Microsoft’s Lync 2014 conference, software developer Event Zero detailed just how easy it would be, for instance, to figure out who is dating whom within the company and pinpoint people looking for another job.
Comment sometimes they do (Score 1) 406
I had a friend who wanted to build a secure, anonymous email platform (think bit torrent for e-mail) that would be free of NSA snooping. He didn't do it because he's worried that criminals would use it more than good people
Comment Re:cloud services are not a commodity (Score 1) 168
One of the companies proposing this idea has created a common trading metric – a way to compare resources from multiple providers in an apples-to-apple fashion to ensure one commodity is equal to another. It's called the Workload Allocation Cube, or WAC from 6Fusion and it takes into account CPU, storage and input/output speeds to create a common metric that is applicable across multiple providers.
Some cloud providers have unique services making apples to apples comparisons difficult, but that doesn't prohibit a unique service from being sold on an exchange market as a futures commodity. The WAC, or some similar metric, could be used only on like products from companies.
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