Author: Markus Perdrizat
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New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security
New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security: Amazon Web Services runs on tons and tons of shared hardware. That’s a huge benefit in terms of cost but also spooks customers with strict regulatory requirements that prevent them from running their applications on shared infrastructure. […] CloudHSM could make regulation-constrained companies and agencies more comfortable entrusting…
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When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS: Over the last ten days, a series of massive denial-of-service attacks has been aimed at Spamhaus, a not-for-profit organization that describes its purpose as “track[ing] the Internet’s spam operations and sources, to provide dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks. Background article about the biggest DDoS so far. Two…
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Roll Your Own Hardware and The Disruption of the Enterprise Server Market
Roll Your Own Hardware and The Disruption of the Enterprise Server Market: In December of 2004, Adam Bosworth wrote a seminal essay entitled “Where have all the good databases gone. Now it’s time to think about the servers… because the cloud businesses cannot sustain the high margins of Dell, HP, Oracle & Co.
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With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture
With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture: Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. The new M-series server, called the M5-32, is a high-end…
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Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug
Understanding Camera Optics & Smartphone Camera Trends, A Presentation by Brian Klug: Recently I was asked to give a presentation about smartphone imaging and optics at a small industry event, and given my background I was more than willing to comply. Everything you ever wanted to know… about cameras.
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Vodafone news of the day
Vodafone news of the day: The only deal that makes sense is to sell the whole of Vodafone to Verizon. That is obvious. The main people it does not make sense to are the Vodafone senior management. So I will suggest a solution for Mr Colao. The deal should be done with termination payments –…
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How do I freaking scale Oracle?
How do I freaking scale Oracle?: For the record, I’m a NoSQLer and a big data guy. After nearly 20 years of dealing with what I’ve come to refer to as “the beast” (aka Oracle), I’ve turned coat and decided I prefer solving the problem rather than mitigating it. That said, many companies I work…
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BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation
BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation: BSA: Most businesses know that using pirated software can land them in hot water, but many don’t realise that their employees could also open the door to expensive litigation via BYOD schemes, according to Business Software Alliance chair Clayton Noble. […] Some offer, for example, student licences that…
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How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic
How to Handle a Super Bowl Size Spike in Web Traffic: To handle more requests there are three things you can do: produce (render) content faster, deliver (download) content faster and add more servers to handle more connections. Each of these solutions has a limit. Designing for these limits is architecting for scale. Another one…
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Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone
Tiny, Hackable Quadcopter Drone Launches Pre-Orders: A tiny new open source drone kit made by Bitcraze is buzzing its way to market this spring, targeted at hackers and modders who want to explore droning indoors as well as out. The trio used only open source material for the project, from mechanics to hardware and code.…
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