AWS Outlines Current HPC Cloud User Trends

Last week we discussed the projected momentum for FPGAs in the cloud with Deepak Singh, general manager of container and HPC projects at Amazon Web Services. In the second half of our interview, we delved into the current state of high performance computing on Amazon’s cloud.

While the company tends to offer generalizations versus specific breakdowns of “typical” workloads for different HPC application types, the insight reveals a continued emphasis on pushing new instances to feed both HPC and machine learning, continued drive to push ISVs to expand license models, and continued work to make running complex workflows more seamless. …

AWS Outlines Current HPC Cloud User Trends was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

U.S. companies spending millions to satisfy Europe’s GDPR

Ninety-two percent of U.S. multinational companies cited compliance with the looming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a top data protection priority, according to new research from PwC. Sixty-eight percent are earmarking between $1 million and $10 million on GDPR readiness and compliance efforts, with 9 percent expecting to spend over $10 million, says Jay Cline, PwC’s U.S. privacy leader.Cline says PwC ‘slatest survey showed that fear remains the biggest motivator for U.S. CIOs, who are “connecting the dots” after watching data breaches lead to lost revenues, regulatory fines and the erosion of consumer trust. “U.S. companies see the connection between doing privacy well and greater revenues and consumer trust,” says Cline, who surveyed 200 CIOs, CISOs and other C-suite executives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

U.S. companies spending millions to satisfy Europe’s GDPR

Ninety-two percent of U.S. multinational companies cited compliance with the looming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a top data protection priority, according to new research from PwC. Sixty-eight percent are earmarking between $1 million and $10 million on GDPR readiness and compliance efforts, with 9 percent expecting to spend over $10 million, says Jay Cline, PwC’s U.S. privacy leader.Cline says PwC ‘slatest survey showed that fear remains the biggest motivator for U.S. CIOs, who are “connecting the dots” after watching data breaches lead to lost revenues, regulatory fines and the erosion of consumer trust. “U.S. companies see the connection between doing privacy well and greater revenues and consumer trust,” says Cline, who surveyed 200 CIOs, CISOs and other C-suite executives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google wants to add AI to gadgets made using Raspberry Pi

Google wants to bring smarts to cool gadgets and devices made using Raspberry Pi 3 or Intel's Edison.The company is chasing makers with open-source tools needed to add artificial intelligence to consumer, industrial, and retail devices made using board computers.The plan may include machine-learning tools, which are central to AI. AI helps Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Microsoft's Cortana answer questions, and also helps self-driving cars cruise the streets safely."We don't have any specifics to announce right now, but we're excited to keep sharing open-source machine learning tools with the community -- stay tuned for more this year," a Google spokesman said in an email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Nasuni CEO: ‘We’re going to liberate you from the bottleneck around your files’

When it comes to file systems, scale is the enemy, according to Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni. And the best weapon in the battle for scale is the cloud. Nasuni claims to have developed the first cloud-native file system, delivering not only virtually unlimited scale in the cloud but rapid access to files from locations around the world. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Nasuni CEO: ‘We’re going to liberate you from the bottleneck around your files’

When it comes to file systems, scale is the enemy, according to Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni. And the best weapon in the battle for scale is the cloud. Nasuni claims to have developed the first cloud-native file system, delivering not only virtually unlimited scale in the cloud but rapid access to files from locations around the world. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

As Baby Boomers retire, the shortage of mainframe professionals grows more acute  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  For years we have been hearing about critical IT skills shortages. Companies just can’t find enough (or the right) people with expertise in mobility, cybersecurity, data storage, networking, cloud and other important areas.There’s one area, however, where the shortage is becoming acute, and affected companies that don’t act now might soon find themselves in a world of hurt. I’m talking about the business-critical discipline of mainframe stewardship.Experts have been warning about this for at least a decade, and the days of reckoning are here, driven largely by the fact that mainframe champions are retiring from the workforce in droves. People who started their IT careers in the 1970’s and 1980’s – when the mainframe was king – are now baby boomers at the end of their careers. The generations behind them took up different computing platforms, meaning there are few people to pass the mainframe torch to. By some estimates there will be more than 84,000 open positions in this field by 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: IPv6 server addressing strategies

In this post, I’ll discuss configuration approaches for systems that usually have been configured with “static” IP parameters in the IPv4 age/context (for example, servers in data centres). When it comes to IPv6 there are more options and we’ll have a look at their implications and potential advantages/disadvantages. —APNIC

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Gmail will block JavaScript attachments, a common source of malware

Starting Feb. 13, Google will no longer allow JavaScript attachments on its Gmail service, killing one of the main methods of malware distribution over the past two years.Users will no longer be able to attach .JS files to emails in Gmail, regardless of whether they attach them directly or they include them in archives like .gz, .bz2, .zip or .tgz. For those rare cases when such files need to be shared via email, users can upload them to a storage service like Google Drive and then share the link.The .JS file extension will be added an existing list of other banned file attachments that includes: .ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSP, .MST, .PIF, .SCR, .SCT, .SHB, .SYS, .VB, .VBE, .VBS, .VXD, .WSC, .WSF and .WSH. Most of these file types have long been abused by cybercriminals to send malware via email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Gmail will block JavaScript attachments, a common source of malware

Starting Feb. 13, Google will no longer allow JavaScript attachments on its Gmail service, killing one of the main methods of malware distribution over the past two years.Users will no longer be able to attach .JS files to emails in Gmail, regardless of whether they attach them directly or they include them in archives like .gz, .bz2, .zip or .tgz. For those rare cases when such files need to be shared via email, users can upload them to a storage service like Google Drive and then share the link.The .JS file extension will be added an existing list of other banned file attachments that includes: .ADE, .ADP, .BAT, .CHM, .CMD, .COM, .CPL, .EXE, .HTA, .INS, .ISP, .JAR, .JSE, .LIB, .LNK, .MDE, .MSC, .MSP, .MST, .PIF, .SCR, .SCT, .SHB, .SYS, .VB, .VBE, .VBS, .VXD, .WSC, .WSF and .WSH. Most of these file types have long been abused by cybercriminals to send malware via email.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Seagate’s roadmap includes 14TB, 16TB hard drives within 18 months

Seagate is getting closer to reaching its goal of making 20TB hard drives by 2020.Over the next 18 months, the company plans to ship 14TB and 16TB hard drives, company executives said on an earnings call this week.Seagate's hard drive capacity today tops out at 10TB. A 12TB drive based on helium technology is being tested, and the feedback is positive, said Stephen Luczo, the company's CEO.The demand for high-capacity drives is mostly in enterprises and for consumers who can afford the drives. The drives are mostly used in NAS configurations and storage arrays.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wine 2.0 brings MS Office 2013 compatibility to Linux

This week, Wine—the project that allows you to run many Microsoft Windows applications on non-Windows platforms—hit a rather huge milestone: version 2.0. From the Wine 2.0 release notes:  “This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013 and the 64-bit support on macOS.”  I’ll be honest. The Mac OS tidbit isn’t all that interesting to me. But the support for Microsoft Office 2013 is, almost certainly, of interest to a number of people. (I don’t use it personally, but I know plenty of organizations that do.) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

On the ‘net: Considerations in Moving to an SDDC

There are two basic models to consider when moving data centers: running the old and new in parallel during some form of transition phase, or integrating your existing equipment with the newer SDDC. The second, integrating existing equipment within a single data center fabric, is not one, but two answers: integrating at the pod level, or running the SDDC over the top of existing equipment. —Tech Target

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Commuting Chelsea Manning’s sentence was just and proper

Before leaving office, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea (Bradley) Manning. At the time, Manning was serving a sentence of 35 years for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks in 2010. This material was subsequently published by WikiLeaks, embarrassing the U.S. government and exposing several previously undocumented war crimes that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.  The President’s decision to commute Manning’s sentence was extremely controversial.  The verdict was made over the objection of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, while other military and government officials quickly criticized Obama’s pronouncement.   Just today, President Trump on Twitter referred to Manning as an “ungrateful traitor” who should have never been released from prison.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Commuting Chelsea Manning’s sentence was just and proper

Before leaving office, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea (Bradley) Manning. At the time, Manning was serving a sentence of 35 years for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks in 2010. This material was subsequently published by WikiLeaks, embarrassing the U.S. government and exposing several previously undocumented war crimes that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.  The President’s decision to commute Manning’s sentence was extremely controversial.  The verdict was made over the objection of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, while other military and government officials quickly criticized Obama’s pronouncement.   Just today, President Trump on Twitter referred to Manning as an “ungrateful traitor” who should have never been released from prison.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Commuting Chelsea Manning’s Sentence Was Just and Proper

Before leaving office, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea (Bradley) Manning.  At the time, Manning was serving a sentence of 35 years for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks in 2010.  This material was subsequently published by WikiLeaks, embarrassing the US government and exposing several previously undocumented war crimes that took place in Afghanistan and Iraq.  The President’s decision to commute Manning’s sentence was extremely controversial.  The verdict was made over the objection of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, while other military and government officials quickly criticized Obama’s pronouncement.   Just today, President Trump referred to Manning as an “ungrateful traitor” who should have never been released from prison on Twitter.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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