IBM Commits to Apache Spark Compute Engine

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June 15, 2015

Calling Apache Spark “the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data,” IBM today announced that it will embed the compute engine into its analytics and commerce platforms and offer Spark as a service on IBM Bluemix.

As part of its new commitment to Spark, Big Blue also says it will assign more than 3,500 IBM researchers and developers to work on Spark-related projects at more than a dozen labs worldwide and will donate its IBM SystemML machine learning technology to the Spark open source ecosystem. It also pledged to educate more than one million data scientists and data engineers on Spark.

Kernel Prepatch 4.1-rc8

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LWN

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June 15, 2015

As promised, the 4.1-rc8 kernel prepatch is out. “So I’m on vacation, but time doesn’t stop for that, and it’s Sunday, so time for a hopefully final rc.“

Distribution Release: LinuxConsole 2.4

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DistroWatch

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June 15, 2015

Yann Le Doaré has announced the launch of LinuxConsole 2.4. LinuxConsole is an independent, lightweight distribution which offers easy installation steps and a simple desktop environment, provided by LXDE. The latest release ships with version 4.0.5 of the Linux kernel, the Qupzilla web browser and new Chinese and…

Docker Popularity Spawns Need for Container Monitoring

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eWeek

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June 15, 2015

The open-source Docker application container virtualization technology is becoming increasingly popular, spawning a need for distributed monitoring capabilities. To help organizations understand what tools are available for container monitoring, Docker last week announced a new Ecosystem Technology Partner (ETP) program that is starting off with six vendors that have integrated with Docker for monitoring. Those vendors include AppDynamics, Datadog, New Relic, Scout, SignalFx and Sysdig. The vendors did not need to pay Docker Inc., the lead commercial vendor behind the container virtualization technology with the same name, to become part of the ETP either.

Imagination Appears To Be Working On An Open-Source PowerVR Driver

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Phoronix

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June 15, 2015

The latest talk is that Imagination Technologies may be developing an open-source Linux graphics driver for their PowerVR hardware…

30 Percent of Servers Worldwide Sit Idle, Report Says

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eWeek

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June 15, 2015

The 10 million “comatose” servers that deliver no data or services represent $30 billion in wasted infrastructure capital, according to researchers.

Staffing, Resources Major IT Challenges for Businesses

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eWeek

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June 15, 2015

Forty percent of all survey respondents reported staffing, resources and time as the three biggest challenges that IT operations will face in 2015.

Lolcat – A Command Line Tool to Output Rainbow Of Colors in Linux Terminal

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Tecmint

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June 15, 2015

Lolcat is an utility for Linux, BSD and OSX which concatenates like similar to cat command and adds rainbow coloring to it. Lolcat is primarily used for rainbow coloring of text in Linux Terminal.

How to built a fully encrypted file server with ZFS and Linux to avoid data loss and corruption

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Hendrik Schuster

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June 15, 2015

Do you know if all the Data on your File Server is OK?

Unless you are already using ZFS, Btrfs or ReFS you don’t. If your file server is a couple of years old, there is a very good chance that your Data is NOT OK.

Your server hardware might tell you everything is OK but that does not really tell you much because none of your monitoring systems check the actual data.

ZFS on the other had knows if your data is ok and can even repair it. I upgraded my file server recently. All the old disks that were still in the pool at the time were OK according to their SMART values. yet look what the monthly check told me:

Just think about that: In just one month almost 2MB of data got corrupted. And right now you don’t know if your server has similar issues. If you did not know it yet this particular issue has a name: Bit Rot and it gets worse the older your current hardware is and more likely the larger your disks are.

If you want to avoid loosing your data this way you should think about building a ZFS based file server.

Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Devs to Take a Break So He Can Too

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The Register

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June 15, 2015

Linux 4.1 delayed by driver dramas and Linus’ holiday

In May, Linux overlord Linus Torvalds warned that his holiday might delay the release of Linux 4.1.…