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Google calls for a new HDD format: Taller, with more platters and I/O
Google has called on storage vendors to consider building newer hard drives with a taller design that are primarily intended for use in data centers, abandoning the traditional 3.5” dimension format. Google’s VP of Infrastructure Eric Brewer, also a professor at UC Berkeley, argues for a revised form factor for hard drives in this research ...
MapR hires 2 new execs, hints at IPO “when conditions are right”
Hadoop purveyor MapR Technologies Inc. has shaken up the upper echelons of its executive management team, hiring a new VP of Worldwide Business Development and a new Chief Marketing Officer. The superbly-named Geneva Lake is new VP of WBD. Not only does she have a really cool name, but she also brings with her a ...
Chicago votes to make Computer Science a mandatory subject at all public schools
Most schools realize that students need to be able to use a computer in this day and age, which is why many have already established computer labs where they teach the basics of programming and using software. Still, in most U.S. schools computer science is still just an optional subject, but that’s all set to ...
The drones are coming! FAA to establish ‘guidelines’ by April 1
Drones could be about to become a lot more commonplace in a variety of industries after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it’s ready to finalize a regulatory framework governing their use by businesses. The FAA said in a statement that a new committee is ready to publish recommendations on April 1, allowing drones to ...
Yahoo just made deep learning easier with CaffeOnSpark
Yahoo! Inc., is getting into the artificial intelligence (AI) game with the release of new internally-built software under an open-source license. Called CaffeOnSpark, the software is able to perform ‘deep learning’ on the vast ocean of data kept in Yahoo’s Hadoop file system. Now, the company has made it available on GitHub for everyone to ...
Martin Casado quits VMware to join Andreessen Horowitz
VMware Inc. executive Martin Casado, who’s currently in charge of its NSX software-defined networking business unit, is to leave the company to become a general partner at well known venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. VMware’s NSX business unit was created shortly after the networking giant acquired Casado’s former startup Nicira back in 2012 for what ...
Google launches Project Shield to crusade against DDoS attacks
Attacking your enemies online can be incredibly cheap. For those who know where to look, it can cost as little as $150 to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a website and take it offline. Well, Google happens to think that’s not fair, and so today it’s launching a new tool aimed ...
IBM said to be scoping out Bruce Schneier’s Resilient Systems
IBM is said to be out shopping for security experts and technology, and could be about to land incident response solution provider Resilient Systems, Inc., in a deal valued at $100 million. Business news website Xconomy cites “persons with knowledge of the matter” as its source of the rumors. The Register speculates the deal could ...
Nowhere to hide: Rapid7 uses behavior analytics + search to hunt down attackers
IT security has long been viewed as a game of cat and mouse, with security firms building increasingly sophisticated security systems designed to keep the bad guys out, and hackers constantly coming up with ingenious new ways to crack corporate security. The reality of course is that no matter how secure your systems supposedly are, ...
More than 4 billion people still offline, many have never heard of “the Internet”
The world is more connected than at any other point in history. These days it’s almost impossible to get on a bus or a subway or even walk into an office or school classroom without seeing someone playing with their smartphone, looking at cat pictures on Facebook, or tapping away like crazy while playing Candy ...