Category: News

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: Ofer Hendler.

High-profile security breaches have dominated the headlines in 2014. Two notable examples over the last few months, the Apple iCloud and Dropbox breaches, have revealed a juicy target for attackers: user credentials.

Rather than try to hack into the application itself like iCloud, Dropbox, Salesforce, or Amazon Web Services (AWS), an easier and much more feasible approach to gaining access to sensitive data, celebrity photos, or whatever else an attacker is after, is through stolen user credentials…

Grazed from VentureBeat.   Author: Jordan Novet.

Amazon Web Services, the leader in the market for public cloud infrastructure, is getting ready to release its latest server slices to developers the world over.

The C4 instances, first announced in November, will launch in seven regions, according to a blog post that went out in an RSS feed but is now unavailable online.  The C4 instances run on Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell) chips customized exclusively for Amazon, according to the blog post, written by Amazon Web Services chief evangelist Jeff Barr…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Trey Hedden.

The cloud — the most ambiguous, overhyped and overused term in the IT industry. It’s like a modern day Wild West where it is so hard to discern the difference between the tiny firms based in a foreign country and the reputable, reliable and trustworthy ones we would want to entrust our reputation to.

It is nearly impossible for most of us to determine the firms you can trust, what products actually work and what providers are properly capitalized to the point where we can trust them with our clients. We simply don’t have the staff of accounting, legal and technology experts to do a detailed analysis of firms and offerings — and then keep up with the market to ensure the best solution now remains the best going forward…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bri Pennington.

From Google abandoning MapReduce to Facebook switching off its data center, here’s a look back at the 10 most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge during 2014. Enjoy!

Google Dumps MapReduce in Favor of New Hyper-Scale Analytics System – Google has abandoned MapReduce, the system for running data analytics jobs spread across many servers the company developed and later open sourced, in favor of a new cloud analytics system it has built called Cloud Dataflow…

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Krzysztof Polak.

Users of SAP applications in Poland, central and eastern Europe could be forgiven for feeling dizzy because of the changes that have occurred in recent years, not only in the provider’s image and offer, but also in its approach to customers. The new SAP tools for knowledge management are arousing both interest and doubts.

For many years, SAP has been the leader of enterprise management applications – enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), supply chain management (SCM) – in the Polish market at least. However, for two years now, rapid changes have taken place in SAP’s communication in the market. Traditional messages about popular systems for business management have disappeared. Why?…

Grazed from KoreaHerald.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Samsung Electronics said Thursday that it would unveil a lineup of smart televisions running on the Tizen operating system at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week.

The company said Tizen would offer a simple user-friendly interface, allowing consumers to rapidly find popular content via Samsung’s Smart Hub function, which will also recommend shows to viewers based on their viewing histories…

Grazed from TechCocktail.  Author: Christopher Beck.

Over the past few decades much of how we communicate, work, and even play has evolved as advancements have been made in technology. With each new invention or advancement, actions that used to require two or more people to be in the same room are fading and even the farthest reaches of the globe are seemingly at our collaborative fingertips.

A recent infographic created by cloud-based digital asset management company, WebDAM, visualizes “How Creative Collaboration Has Evolved Over Time,” and gives audiences a snapshot of just how far technology has come with a fun design that plays off of each decade stylistically…

Grazed from TechInsider.  Author: Fahad Saleem.

In an article on MIT Technology Review, it was reported that Hewlett-Packard Company is gearing up to make a big leap in 2015. The PC giant will launch a new computer called “The Machine” which will have a new Operating System in it designed by Hewlett-Packard Company. The Machine will be more energy efficient, powerful, Cloud based, Big Data supportive and will have a bundle of high-performance computing features. Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) business is in trouble and the company is desperately looking to seize some key deals and products in the Cloud and computing domains.

The article quoted a Hewlett-Packard Company’s executive who said that HP is heavily focusing on innovating the memory management in the modern computers. The machine will resurrect the concept of multi-lapsed memory in order to revolutionize the computing industry…

Grazed from WallStreet.org.  Author: Danielle Cunningham.

Google Inc. has put forth its strategy for the New Year as the company feels that outdated action plans should be a things of the past.  Here is a brief of what the company is up to now:

Cultural Context

Google Inc.’s business forte is its search engine and advertising platform, which drives it forward. The idea behind this massive tool seems quite radical as it has targeted each nation in the world and has gone on to become a global platform to generate searches. Google Inc.’s strength lies in its innovation. The company has always encouraged the employees to be innovative and creative in their ideas…

Grazed from ComputerWorld.  Author: Glyn Moody.

At the beginning of a new year, it’s traditional to look back over the last 12 months. But as far as this column is concerned, it’s easy to summarise what happened then: open source has won. Let’s take it from the top:

Supercomputers. Linux is so dominant on the Top 500 Supercomputers lists it is almost embarrassing. The November 2014 figures show that 485 of the top 500 systems were running some form of Linux; Windows runs on just one. Things are even more impressive if you look at the numbers of cores involved. Here, Linux is to be found on 22,851,693 of them, while Windows is on just 30,720; what that means is that not only does Linux dominate, it is particularly strong on the bigger systems…