Platform Computing Announces Commercial Support for Apache Hadoop Distributed ...
PR Newswire (press release)
... today announced it has signed the Apache Corporate Contributor License Agreement allowing the company to contribute to the Apache Software Foundation for developing Apache-based, open-source Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). ...
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Why Box.net's Aaron Levie is wrong about Apple's iCloud
VentureBeat
More importantly, though, I think Levie is missing the big point here: iCloud marks the “featurization” and standardization of the cloud file system. Just like every computer and server has a pretty run-of-the-mill hierarchical file system, ...
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How SSDs can hose your data
ZDNet (blog)
By Robin Harris | June 28, 2011, 10:41am PDT A post last month in ACM's Queue raised a scary issue: block-level deduplication - used in some popular SSDS - can wipe out your file system. Here's the scoop. Harris has been messing with computers for over ...
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Linux 3.0-rc5
LWN.net
The most noteworthy thing may be that only about a quarter of the changes are in drivers, filesystem changes actually account for more (40%): btrfs, cifs, ext4, jbd2, nfs are all present and accounted for. On the driver side, there's some gpu updates, ...
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EMC regains SPEC filer crown
Register
These are huge systems, the N8500 having 1728 hard drives and 8 filesystems. EMC needed another 1492, plus the 140 SSDs for metadata, to surpass that in its convincing fashion, and did it with a single filesystem. Huawei Symantec had previously ...
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Platform Computing Brings MapReduce to the Enterprise
PR Newswire (press release)
Platform MapReduce is an enterprise-class, distributed runtime engine for MapReduce applications that schedules and manages MapReduce applications in a cluster across an entire distributed file system. Although many organizations today see the promise ...
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The Cloud Is NAS' Best Friend — Or Is It?
IT Business Edge (blog)
Scale-out NAS is drawing in newcomers like Nexenta System, which recently released its Namespace Cluster software that allows enterprises and cloud providers to pool more than 4000 nodes into a single file system. The package runs on top of the ...
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Russian Forensic Software Exploits a Security Breach in Android OS for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The method takes advantage of a security breach in Android OS which allows the program to acquire root access for physical extraction of the file system and user data from Android smart phones. The add-on breaks security system of any smart phone ...
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