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Big Data Digest: How many Hadoops do we really need?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-01-19 03:04
Say hello to Flink, the newest distributed data analysis engine on the scene.
This week, the Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Flink as its newest Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache also provides a home for Hadoop, Cassandra, Lucene and many widely used open source data processing tools, so Flink's entry into the group speaks well for its technical chops.
Lock your cloud backups away with an encryption key
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-01-05 03:16
It’s generally easier to keep safe the files we have under our control, on our internal and external drives, than those that waft far away from us on cloud-storage backup systems. Different backup services handle how they send data for storage and how they encrypt it once it arrives.
Amazon Lambda takes the administration out of cloud computing
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-11-13 23:48
At its AWS re:Invent cloud computing conference today, Amazon announced AWS Lambda, a way of performing computing in the cloud in response to events without the need for virtual machines, compute instances, or any kind of administration.
Crypto attack that hijacked Windows Update goes mainstream in Amazon Cloud
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-11-06 00:50
Underscoring just how broken the widely used MD5 hashing algorithm is, a software engineer racked up just 65 cents in computing fees to replicate the type of attack a powerful nation-state used in 2012 to hijack Microsoft's Windows Update mechanism.
Australia mandates cloud use by government agencies
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-10-09 00:54
Australia's Department of Finance has updated its Cloud Policy to say “... agencies now must adopt cloud”.
Those italics are the Department's, and it also has some qualifications for the edict, namely that cloud should only be adopted “where it is fit for purpose, provides adequate protection of data and delivers value for money.”