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Rackspace reboots servers to sidestep Xen bug
Following in the footsteps of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace has also had to reboot its servers in order to fix a major bug that was first identified in the Xen virtualization platform. Rackspace informed customers about the “maintenance work” via an email, which has since been seen by various media organizations. “Recently, an issue that ...
Oracle goes all-in on cloud with Database & Java-as-a-service
Oracle Corp’s newly-crowned Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison kicked off the company’s annual Oracle OpenWorld event on Sunday. As expected, the company’s efforts in the cloud came under the spotlight. During his keynote, Ellison gave details of Oracle’s upgraded cloud suite which includes the ability to use its flagship database product in the cloud, as ...
Docker adds Official Repos for language stacks to the Docker Hub
Docker Inc., has said it’s going to deliver additional programming language stacks to its customers after learning from their search habits in the Docker Hub. The company wrote about its plans in a blog post this week, saying it’s already added the top 11 most searched for programming language stacks to the Docker Hub Offical ...
FBI boss Comey slams Apple & Google over new encryption methods
The FBI is getting a bit riled over Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s decision to use tougher encryption methods in its mobile devices, because it’s making it almost impossible for spooks to snoop on suspected criminal. “There will come a day – well it comes every day in this business – when it will matter ...
Amazon provides an update on its impending EC2 instance reboot
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided more details on a major Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance reboot that’s set to take place in the coming days, and the good news is it doesn’t have anything to do with the Bash – or Shellshock – vulnerability revealed earlier this week. In fact, as was previously suggested, ...
Amazon forced to reboot its EC2 instances to fix Xen bug
Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The reboots, which will affect instances all over the world, should be completed by the end of this month. Amazon refused to ...
Xamarin bundles over 1,000 test devices in the cloud
Xamarin, the mobile app-dev specialists, has announced the launch of its new web-based “Xamarin Test Cloud”, which lets developers test out their apps and programs on over 1,000 devices. Developers will be able to create their own test scripts using Xamarin’s powerful framework, run them locally on devices or emulators, and then run the same ...
Bash! Take that Heartbleed, there’s a new bug in town
Linux users, which includes the vast majority of the world’s enterprises, could be in for a nasty shock. A security team at Red Hat has just uncovered a deadly new bug in the Bash shell, which is one of the most versatile and widely used utilities in the Linux OS. The bug’s been given the ...
Anti-US sentiment to cause ‘dramatic change’ in the data center market
The world’s data center infrastructure market is bracing itself for “dramatic changes” over the next two to four years, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. Joe Skorupa, Gartner vice president and analyst, said that four factors – highly disruptive competition, big cloud provider dominance, economic warfare and nationalism – are set to have ...
Ebola Maps: Tracking the deadly disease across West Africa
No matter if it’s Black Death in 1350, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, or this year’s Ebola virus in West Africa, there’s one thing that deadly pandemics have in common – their progress takes a geographical course. And just as in medieval times, the Ebola virus’ rampage across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is fueled by ...