Meg Whitman and HP just continue to double down on OpenStack bets. Today, HP announced HP Helion Rack, a “pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested” private cloud solution, based on OpenStack and Cloud Foundry technologies integrated with HP server hardware.”HP Helion Rack is designed to help enterprise IT departments speed their cloud deployments, avoiding months designing, developing and deploying a private cloud, by integrating cloud management software and industry leading infrastructure with best practices,” notes the announcement.
HP has steadily been making a lot of noise about its commitment to cloud computing overall, and the OpenStack platform in particular. And, back in May of last year, HP chief Meg Whitman announced the cloud-focused Helion brand, and pledged to commit $1 billion over the next two years on products and services surrounding OpenStack.
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Reportedly, Android has one of its biggest security holes ever. In fact, almost 50 percent of Android devices are vulnerable to an attack that can swap out a user’s pre-installed app with malware that can round up sensitive data. The reports of the security breach have been taken seriously enough that Samsung, Google and Amazon have released patches for devices, but a credible report says that about half of Android devices are still at risk.
According to PaloAlto Networks:
“We discovered a widespread vulnerability in Google’s Android OS we are calling “Android Installer Hijacking,” estimated to impact 49.5 percent of all current Android users. In January 2014, we uncovered a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTTOU) vulnerability in Android OS that permits an attacker to hijack the ordinary Android APK installation process. This hijacking technique can be used to bypass the user view and distribute malware with arbitrary permissions. It can substitute one application with another, for instance if a user tries to install a legitimate version of “Angry Birds” and ends up with a Flashlight app that’s running malware. We are calling the technique that exploits this vulnerability Android Installer Hijacking. We have been cooperating with Google and major manufacturers such as Samsung and Amazon to patch affected Android devices.”
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Red Hat clarifies where Ceph and Gluster fit into your big data storage plans.
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities that lacked supercomputers.
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