Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
United States Patent and Trademark Office
We view the proposed transition of the US to a first-inventor-to-file system as an essential feature of any patent reform legislation. The transition will simplify the process of acquiring rights while maintaining a one-year grace period that protects ...
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Linux 2.6.39 RC1 debuts new block device plugging model
InternetNews.com (blog)
As always, it's full of driver and filesystem updates. From a performance perspective there is a new block device plugging model. "It makes plugging a per-thread thing and cleaned up the code considerably," Linus Torvalds wrote in a mailing list ...
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Hadoop Hive Gets Production Polish
PCWorld
A component of the Apache Hadoop data processing framework, Apache Hive is open source software for running data warehouse-styled operations against large datasets stored in Hadoop file systems. It provides such operations as data summarization, ...
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SAN Solutions ArtiSAN Metadata Controller Servers As Ideal Xserve Replacement
4RFV
KTVU, a Cox broadcast station in California's Bay Area, has deployed the ArtiSAN MDC to create their shared file system infrastructure for the facility's mission critical archive. The next phase will enable the facility to bring both the KTVU editing ...
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The Circuit: Patent reform in the House, Amazon Cloud Player draws ire, BP ...
Washington Post (blog)
In a Politico editorial, Smith said a move to a first-to-file system and the addition of a review measure that allows third parties to submit information about patent applications will modernize and streamline the US patent system. ...
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Block level storage vs. file level storage: A comparison
ZDNet Asia
This makes block level storage usable for almost any kind of application, including file storage, database storage, virtual machine file system (VMFS) volumes, and more. You can place any kind of file system on block level storage. ...
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Google open source guru: 'Why we ban the AGPL'
Register
In similar fashion, the company has not open sourced core platforms such as the Google File System (GFS), its distributed file system, and MapReduce, its distributed number-crunching platform. At the beginning of his talk, DiBona said that according to ...
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