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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 ...
Canonical launches LXD: Secure, open-source container hypervisors
Docker is making waves again. Just this week, Google Inc. launched its cloud-based Docker-as-a-service called “Container Engine”, which is now available on its Google Compute Engine platform. And now, not to be outdone, Canonical Ltd. is trying to put an entirely new spin on the container concept with the release of its new Linux Container ...
No more hype: 74 percent of execs say Big Data demands “serious attention”
Big Data has officially gone mainstream, with senior executives at U.S. firms projecting much higher spending on collecting and analyzing high-tech information over the next three years. In addition, companies are increasingly hiring chief data officers to oversee their Big Data projects, according to a new survey. These are the findings of NewVantage Partner’s newly ...