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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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. …