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Red Hat launches Atomic Host platform for Docker containers
Docker containers are disrupting the world of virtualization, but IT still requires an operating system framework on which to run and manage them. Now, Red Hat Inc., has just launched the public beta of an OS it believes is ideally suited to that task – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host. Red Hat lifted ...
Better Tor-gether? Mozillla bids to bring anonymous browsing to the masses
The Mozilla Foundation isn’t stupid. It knows that many people are worried about their online privacy and really aren’t keen on being tracked or spied upon by advertisers and spy agencies. And so to cater to this group of paranoid Web users, the maker of the popular Firefox browser has just launched a new initiative ...
Treehouse SDN project demos first “Web-scale” software-defined network
Researchers from a trio of companies have achieved a new milestone in the evolution of software-defined networking (SDN), by demonstrating a 500,000 route capacity test network that spanned three border gateway protocol (BGP) domains and two countries. The demonstration was carried out by Corsa Technology Inc, ESnet and Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand ...
Plexxi snaps up Richard Napolitano to lead its SDN push
Software-defined networking startup Plexxi Inc., is on a mission to transform the networking landscape, and to do so it’s just hired the services of one of the best executives in the business. Richard Napolitano, a former president of EMC Corp.’s unified storage division, joins Plexxi as its new Chief Executive Officer with a mission to ...
Red-hot Hortonworks lays out IPO bet on the table
As if we needed any more evidence of how hot Hadoop is right now, Hortonworks Inc., the second-largest Hadoop distributor according to Wikibon, has filed for an initial public offering to take place this year or next. News of its impending IPO was first reported in Forbes, which provided a number of details about the ...
AWS bags ISO 9001 Certification to ease data concerns
On the eve of AWS re:Invent 2014, Amazon Web Services Inc., has announced a new certification that means it can now pitch its services to data-sensitive industries like the life sciences and healthcare. AWS evangelist Jeff Barr revealed the new ISO 9001 accreditation in a blog post, saying it would enable customers to run quality-controlled ...
Elon Musk wants to shoot 700 mini Wi-Fi satellites into orbit
Billionaire SpaceX Corp. founder Elon Musk has already managed to send spaceships into orbit, and now he’s hoping to do the same with Wi-Fi beaming mini-satellites, if he can get the funding. The Wall Street Journal reports Musk is discussing his latest scheme with former Google Inc., satellite executive Greg Wylera, who is now in ...
“Phishing” scammers using proxy servers to hijack real websites
Cybercriminals are using smarter tactics to try and ‘phish’ for netizen’s all important private credentials, employing proxy servers to intercept communications rather than serving up clumsy-looking, fake websites to try and trick people. Traditionally, phishing scams involve setting up a fake website – for example a fake login page for your regular bank – and ...
Dell’s flying high in software-defined storage: “We’re number one”
It’s barely a year since Michael Dell took his company private, but already he’s insisting the gamble is paying off. “We’ve got incredible momentum in the business and we’re growing all across the world in every single business,” said Dell in a segment on theCUBE. “It’s a lot of fun, not managing with the 90-day ...
Busted: Feds close down Silk Road 2.0 and “several other” online drug dens
The FBI and Europol have swooped to take a number of illegal “deep web” marketplaces offline in a major operation, according to reports. Among the sites taken down is the notorious Silk Road 2.0, which sprung up in the wake of the original Silk Road’s closure last year. The FBI confirmed Silk Road 2.0 had ...