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Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers
Instagram announced last week that it’s picked up its billions of images stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and dumped them into Facebook’s own servers in one of the largest data migration operations ever undertaken. News of the move came from this interview with Facebook infrastructure engineer and Open Compute Foundation program developer Charlie Manese. ...
NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud
The NSA has published its first ever “transparency report”, and surprise, surprise – it’s anything but ‘transparent’. The report supposedly reveals the number of ‘targets’ the agency has spied upon, although the NSA’s confusing definition of the word “transparency” makes it somewhat difficult to understand the data it provides. “Within the Intelligence Community, the term ...
Gartner: Let’s get ready for ‘digital business,’ especially you security pros
IT security professionals need to ready themselves for the coming “digital business” revolution and a new breed of security implications that it’s sure to bring, said Gartner analyst Jorge Lopez at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit yesterday. Gartner defines digital business as “the creation of new business designs by blurring the digital and physical ...
Hortonworks lights up Hadoop: Apache Spark declared YARN-ready
Hortonworks said Apache Spark, a new technology that’s quickly gaining interest for in-memory-accelerated machine learning and other forms of high-volume data analysis, is now enabled to plug into Apache YARN, the resource-management layer introduced last year with Apache Hadoop 2.0. Apache Spark is high-speed engine for large-scale data processing that was released as version 1.0.0 ...
Couchbase raises $60M as investors double down on NoSQL
There’s more news on the NoSQL front, with industry leader Couchbase pulling in a healthy $60 million of Silicon Valley cash as it bids to muscle in on the territory of legacy giants like Oracle and IBM. The funding round, which was led by WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund, is a big bet by venture ...
Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan
With a fresh new $20 million funding round in its pocket a new distribution strategy built on open source licensing, database startup Aerospike is bidding to become a major player in a market segment that some people believe will be the future of enterprise database management. Aerospike makes a NoSQL, flash-optimized in-memory database that the ...
Google opens Gmail to developers in bid to replace IMAP
Google has decided to lift the lid on its Gmail service, allowing every man and his dog to write apps that can access your inbox, so long as you agree to let them in. Hailed as a replacement for IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) by some observers, the new Gmail API probably won’t achieve that distinction ...
DataDirect Networks unveils WOS-Bridge cloud tiering platform
DataDirect Networks has made adapted its object storage system so it can use both cloud and on-premise storage arrays as object storage vaults. Its revamped Web Object Scaler Bridge platform, abbreviated as WOS-Bridge, can now support both GPFS and DDN Lustre environments. Back-ends to the object serving as ‘head’ can be the company’s EXAScaler and ...
Google launches Cloud Dataflow pipeline for batch and stream processing
There was plenty of excitement at Google I/O yesterday, and not just because of the brief interruption by a protester calling on Google to “develop a conscience”. While much of the spotlight fell on Android, Google announced a number of new services on its cloud front, including something called Cloud Dataflow that makes it easier ...
The CIA gives AWS the thumbs up, says its safe enough for spooks
In a surprising admission from the Central Intelligence Agency, it’s CIO Doug Wolfe has heaped praise upon Amazon Web Services, saying the agency wants to expand its use of the company’s cloudy tech. Wolfe was speaking at an event in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, where he stated he was sure the CIA had gotten itself ...