Category: Technology
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Google’s Vint Cerf talks identifiers vs. pseudonyms online
Google’s Vint Cerf talks identifiers vs. pseudonyms online: Cerf suggested to imagine a device running on hardware that can generate public and private key pairs in which the private key can’t be extracted without destroying the pair. Furthermore, imagine that the private key can’t be computed from the public key — at least not in…
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Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture
Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture – Luis Villa: The open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can’t (or even shouldn’t) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses. What if “post open source” is an implicit critique of that assumption – saying, in essence, “I reject the permission culture”? If so, license…
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Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms
Cloud Foundry, Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms: A week ago today a minor skirmish broke out on Twitter between Apprenda – purveyor of PaaS software – and advocates of the open source Cloud Foundry project, originally created by VMware. The major point of contention concerned forks; specifically forks of the…
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Big Data brings intelligence-based security, RSA chief says
Big Data brings intelligence-based security, RSA chief says: Big data will transform the way enterprises architect and manage security and will finally help get the good guys out in front of the bad guys, said Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and executive chairman of RSA. He said an “intelligence-driven model can be made…
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NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database
NuoDB’s Pluggable Cloud Database: Pluggable databases give developers and administrators the ability to create a database container and provision multiple databases within that single container. This is also known as multi-tenancy. The cloud environment is a prime candidate for pluggable databases. Shot against Oracle… well done, but not answering the call for Oracle compatibility.
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Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
Comments on Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems — evaluations: To my taste, the most glaring mis-rankings in the 2012 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management are that it is too positive on Kognitio and too negative on Infobright. Secondarily, it is too negative on HP Vertica, and too…
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Cloud’s risks spur ‘notorious nine’ threats for 2013
Cloud’s risks spur ‘notorious nine’ threats for 2013: The top three threats this year are data breaches, data loss and account hijacking. In 2010, the top three were abuse of cloud services, insecure interfaces and APIs, and malicious insiders. Those three are still on the list but have fallen (7, 4, 6, respectively) in 2013.…
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Cloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Cloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution: Hadoop is a juggernaut when it comes to big data. Intel is a juggernaut when it comes to data center infrastructure. Its decision to enter into the open source software market is a big one for the chip company, for the Hadoop ecosystem and for the myriad…
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Debating product, feature, or company
Debating product, feature, or company: A cool new app or service releases and immediately the debates begin over the magnitude of the offering. Is it a product, feature, or company? Within a short time, pundits declare something to be too small, too easy to copy, or too inconsequential to merit the startup label. The debate…
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Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone
Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone: They started with Apple’s Mail app for iPhone, which people were already familiar with, and injected elements of to-do apps he liked, since increasingly people are using their inboxes as to-do lists. The point was to create an experience that was distinctly mobile — an app…
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