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29/06/2015

When I joined Pinterest, my first three weeks were spent in Base Camp, where the newest engineering hires work on real production issues across the entire software stack. In Base Camp, we learn how …

23/06/2015

The search company has been forced to build its own solutions as the need for greater data center bandwidth has outstripped Moore's Law.

23/06/2015

Docker, CoreOS, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are now working on a new standard for software containers with the help of the Linux Foundation. Other members of this coalition include Apcera, Cisco, EMC, Fujitsu Limited, Goldman Sachs, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Mesosphere, Pivotal, Rancher Labs, Red Hat and VMware — that is, virtually everybody who has a stake in building a thriving container ecosystem.Docker may have become synonymous with containers, but it’s not the only container format around and not everybody agrees that it should become the standard format. Last December, CoreOS announced that it was launching its own container runtime (rkt) and format (appc), a project that received some support from major players like Google, Red Hat and VMware.At the time, Docker and CoreOS looked like they were on a collision course, and having even more container formats wasn’t likely going to help the overall ecosystem.Now, however, the two companies are going to work together with other stakeholders on the Open Container Project (OCP), which will be housed under the Linux Foundation. The OCP is a nonprofit organization that is “chartered to establish common standards for software containers.”The Docker container format and runtime will form the basis of the new standard, and Docker is donating both the draft specifications and the code around its image format and runtime engine to get the project started.The main idea here is that developers should be able to package their applications in a container and be confident that it will run in any runtime, whether that’s Docker, CoreOS’s rkt, or projects like Kurma or Jetpack. That standard should be vendor neutral and development should happen out in the open.“With the announcement of the Open Container Project, Docker is telling the world that they are open to this discussion,” CoreOS founder and CEO Alex Polvi writes. “Today Docker is the de facto image format for containers, and therefore it is a great place to start as a standard. We still feel that there are many technical issues in the existing Docker format, but having a neutral seat at the table will help address these for the industry overall.”For Docker, this means giving up a bit of control, too. “After receiving feedback from the community, partners and customers, we believe the timing is right to create a common standard that would ensure compatibility and encourage innovation throughout the ecosystem,” said Solomon Hykes, founder and creator of …

11/06/2015

The Hypervisor.framework user mode virtualization API introduced in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) cannot only be used for toy projects like the hvdos DOS Emulator, but is full-featured enough to support …

08/06/2015

In order to gain more marketshare, MongoDB and Couchbase unveiled technology that makes their databases work with older data tools.Most of the buzz in the database world for the past few years has been around NoSQL (or not-only-SQL) databases, while traditional relational SQL databases were seemingly relegated to also-ran status. So it’s worth noting that at dueling NoSQL database conferences this week, there was a big focus on ensuring that popular NoSQL databases work nicely with products normally seen as part of the older SQL realm.For the uninitiated, a relational database—like the kind on which Oracle ORCL built its multi-billion-dollar business—primarily deals with data that can be stored in rows and columns. A NoSQL database like MongoDB or Couchbase, on the other hand, handles more complex and unruly unstructured data, which does not conform to that common row-and-column format.NoSQL has garnered a lot of traction with developers because much data generated from modern applications tends to be unstructured. Developers use NoSQL databases to work with such unstructured data as geolocation information and machine log files and to build more sophisticated applications on top of them.At its conference in New York, MongoDB released a software connector that lets users hook their databases up to the popular business intelligence and visualization services like Tableau DATA , IBM IBM Cognos BI, SAP SAP BusinessObjects, and Qlik that are typically used with SQL databases. SQL, by the way, stands for structured query language.Companies’ business managers use these analytics tools to get a better view of their data and glean trends. The problem is that these analytic services have traditionally been hardwired to work with relational databases and tools that require the use of the SQL language, which makes them difficult to use with NoSQL databases that are incompatible with SQL.“This connector was the missing piece,” MongoDB vice president of strategy and marketing Kelly Stirman told Fortune in an interview.Meanwhile, in Santa Clara, Calif., Couchbase showcased a new specialized query language that it says will allow its own NoSQL database to work with Tableau as well.The new N1QL language is based on SQL and will allow developers to probe their data much like they would if their NoSQL databases were relational databases. The bigger deal for business teams, however, is that this language allows Couchbase’s NoSQL database to work with the familiar data …

31/05/2015

At Google's I/O 2015 developers' conference yesterday, the tech company announced that its ubiquitous map service Google Maps is set to be updated with offline functionalities such as search and turn-by-turn voice navigation. Consistent with Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai's vision of enabling internet access to the next billion users in the developing world, the offline capabilities of Google Maps will ensure that the service can still be used in areas with unreliable or expensive data service. Due to arrive later this year, this new update will follow in the vein of YouTube Offline, which allows users (currently restricted to India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) to download and save YouTube videos onto your phone for 48 hours.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast.com

30/05/2015

Microsoft today announced a new project that aims to help developers and IT pros in the enterprise — and even smaller development shops — improve their DevOps practices. The company today launched both a self-assessment tool that gives companies recommendations for how to improve their development practices, as well as an e-book that chronicles Microsoft’s own learnings in this area over the last few years.“We had to learn how to be excellent at running scaled services on the cloud for millions of users,” Microsoft’s Sam Guckenheimer told me. “We find that there is very high interest in having learnings shared about things like how you do experiments well or how you manage technical debt.”Guckenheimer tells me that the tool doesn’t try to tell you that everything you’ve been doing is wrong.Instead, it will recommend what a company’s next steps in improving their current practices should be. The self-assessment tool, for example, may recommend that when you try to address technical debt, you’ll want to do that by adding static analysis to capture a baseline of your code now.“We go through these practice areas and help you with the next set of chess moves you need to make to become more effective,” Guckenheimer said. “These may be already practiced by some excellent born-in-the-cloud companies, but our experience is that people come to us all the time and ask us for help with them.” He also stressed that none of the recommendations are tied to any specific technology or company and the self-assessment recommendations don’t focus on specific tools — not even Microsoft’s.“We are not doing this to say we have a unique answer. We are trying to help with what we perceive to be the most requested need, which is not about tools,” he noted. “People don’t have trouble finding Git or monitoring tools.”

21/05/2015

Is cloud making a difference in Big Data efforts? Can it deliver the agility and scalability required to handle petabytes and exabytes’ worth of data coming out of enterprises and the Internet of Things?The answer to both questions is “yes, but,” according to highly engaging panel that was part of last week’s Data Summit, held in New York. I had the opportunity to moderate the panel, joined by David Mariani, CEO of AtScale, Wendy Gradek, senior manager with EMC, and Andy Schroepfer, chief strategy officer at Hosting.Interestingly, the appeal of cloud is not about the cost at all — it’s about the change in the way enterprises view technology solutions. “People are fine with paying as you go,”said Mariani. “And they’ll probably pay more at the end of the day than they would if they paid up front.” Scalability is a huge factor in the appeal of cloud, said Gradek. “You have to think about all the data that’s being collected from you. Just by being read. Where’s all that information going to get stored? It’s got to be stored somewhere. It’s got to be scalable.”As a result, there’s a whole new approach to developing data insights in being developed. “It’s data as a service — not traditionally what we think of hardware and software,” Mariani said.That being said, not all data is going to the cloud. In fact, very little existing on-premises data will ever make its way into public clouds, panelists agreed. “Data needs to be generated in the public cloud to make sense to store in the public cloud,” said Mariani. “A lot of our clients are big financial institutions. For them to generate the data onsite, and move it to someone else’s cloud, that’s never going to happen. The public cloud makes a whole lot of sense, but not for data generated on-prem.” Security is one reason why such a migration won’t happens. Another reason is that the entire process of moving data is expensive, and simply not worth it.There’s also another significant roadblock to the wholesale moving of data to public cloud, Mariani explained. “I always tell people, ‘we’re not going to move data to EC2 or somebody else’s public cloud overnight. Moving the data is not going to happen. We don’t have the bandwidth to do that.’ At the end of the day, it’s the network, and the network infrastructure is move data around.”Another topic of discussion is the reported high rate of failure of Big Data analytics projects — up to 70 to 80 percent by some estimates. Along with the question of why it’s failing, …

21/05/2015

The release of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide is an industry event unlike any other. For IT execs, it’s akin to Christmas: they receive the gift of practical punditry, informed by another year of market data. For vendors, it’s like waiting for a report card, with bouts of nervous fidgeting, followed by a mad scramble to process the results. So what do you need to know about this year’s Cloud Magic Quadrant? Six highlights come to mind:1. Cloud capabilities are no longer evaluated on their suitability for “Development” and “Operations” needs. Thankfully, software development and operations groups aren’t the siloes they used to be. More companies are doing “DevOps”: a philosophy that brings developers and infrastructure engineers together as a single team. Their focus? Improving the customer experience across the entire stack, without sacrificing uptime or pace of enhancement. Gartner’s subtle shift here reflects the growing popularity of DevOps in the enterprise.2. Introducing a new classification for apps: “Mode 1” and “Mode 2.” Gartner’s new designation for applications: Mode 1 and Mode 2. IT organizations today are either “maintaining existing stuff” (Mode 1) or “building new stuff, in particular cloud native apps” (Mode 2). The Mode 1 and Mode 2 lens has been part of the Gartner lexicon for a while, but this is the first time they have explicitly appeared in the cloud Magic Quadrant. Why now?In 2015, IT doesn’t just want the cool, Mode 2 stuff in the cloud – they want everything in the cloud, even the occasionally messy Mode 1 stuff. Vendors included in the 2015 MQ are evaluated, in part, based on their fitness to handle workloads that currently run on-premises or in traditional hosting environments.Vendor rankings and capabilities remain fluid, but trajectories can be inferred. Look at the cloud Magic Quadrant from this year, 2014, and 2013. The following evaluation criteria is used:Ability to Execute: Gartner analysts evaluate technology vendors on the quality and efficacy of the processes, systems, methods or procedures that enable IT providers’ performance to be competitive, efficient and effective, and to positively affect revenue, retention and reputation. Ultimately, technology providers are judged on their ability to capitalize on their vision, and on their success in doing so.Completeness of Vision: Gartner analysts evaluate technology vendors on their ability to articulate logical statements …

18/05/2015

Many developers are going beyond web services and are leveraging the cloud’s scalability and pay-as-you-go nature for other compute-intensive workloads. They’re accomplishing tasks such as video …

09/05/2015

Database giant scores 40 engineers from defunct OpenStack startup to bolster its cloud computing project.That didn’t take long. A little over a month ago, cloud company Nebula closed up shop. This week, Oracle said it’s hired 40 of Nebula’s engineers, according to Re/Code.Oracle ORCL cloud chief Peter Magnusson, a former top technologist at Google and Snapchat, told the publication that Oracle approached the group soon after news of Nebula’s demise.It’s easy to see why. Nebula focused on OpenStack, a hot niche of open-source cloud software that many companies are looking to use in their future infrastructure. Most big companies that now run their own servers on-premises or in data centers, see cloud computing as a more flexible and possibly cheaper way to run their applications and store their data.Former NASA Chief Technology Officer Chris Kemp, one of the original developers of OpenStack, founded Nebula to provide hardware appliances that would plug OpenStack directly into existing data centers, making it easier to incorporate into existing infrastructure.Nebula received about $40 million in venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Highland Capital Partners, Comcast Ventures and Sun Microsystems’ co-founder Scott McNealy.OpenStack is the open-source software companies can use to build their own private cloud, which lets them run their applications in a flexible way on their own hardware.Because of a big push to cloud computing by businesses, OpenStack skills are in huge demand, and it’s not unprecedented for gaggles of techies to move en masse. Seven Rackspace OpenStack developers all moved to Nebula a few years back, for example.Oracle itself is a little late to OpenStack, but it’s getting there. It bought Nimbula, a small OpenStack player, two years ago, and a few months later joined the OpenStack Foundation.For more about cloud computing, watch this Fortune video:

09/05/2015

The Internet woke up to a shock this morning. Microsoft has used its Ignite 2015 conference to declare Windows 10 will be “the last version of Windows” . The reaction has been predictably alarmist, but what exactly does it mean and is this really the end for Windows as we know it?First some context. The statement came from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a self proclaimed ‘developer evangelist’ who stated: “Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10.”If this sounds strange, Microsoft didn’t help. The company today stepped forward to defend Nixon’s comment to The Verge saying it was “reflective” of the company’s opinion. So what is going on? Is Windows 10 really the end?It’s Windows, But Not Like You Know ItThe simplistic response is: No. Windows is not going anywhere. What is now clearly and undeniably changing, however, is how Microsoft will brand, develop, update and expect us to pay for Windows after Windows 10.Read more – Windows 10 Installs Automatically On Windows 7 And Windows 8“Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers,” explained Microsoft in its full statement to the Verge. “We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations.”Extract the marketing speak and what the future appears to be is ‘Windows’ – no version number, just ‘Windows’.This will be a single, homogenous entity powering all hardware Microsoft has and delivering an ongoing stream of updates. These updates may technically carry code numbers or names, but they won’t be heavily flagged and most users will simply see themselves as running ‘Windows’ – a platform which is always the latest software Microsoft has to offer. That means no more XP, 7, 8.1 or 10 and maybe software which runs iOS and Android appsBut what about ‘free’?Which brings us to a key question: Microsoft has already stated that anyone who upgrades from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 within a year of its release will get the new platform for “free”. If this were applied to any previous version of Windows that would mean “free for as long as I use it”.But now it is becoming increasingly clear that under the …

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