Lots of operating systems run on the OpenStack cloud, but Ubuntu Linux is most users’ favorite.
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Managing Hyperscale Environments with HP Insight CMU
Bill Cellmaster from HP presented this talk in the Adaptive Computing booth at SC13. “HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (HP Insight CMU) is an efficient and robust hyperscale cluster lifecycle management framework and suite of tools for large Linux clusters such as those found in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. A simple graphical interface enables an ‘at-a-glance’ view of the entire cluster across multiple metrics, provides frictionless scalable remote management and analysis, and allows rapid software provisioning to all the system nodes. HP Insight CMU makes cluster management more userfriendly, efficient, and error free than clusters managed by scripts, or on a node-by-node basis.”
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Why are Silicon Valley’s Best Young Engineers Building Sexting Apps?
While his peers were building Twitter knock-offs, Sanjit Biswas was building cloud router company Meraki. The company just sold to Cisco for over $1 billion — the same amount Instagram sold for two years prior — but the press didn’t notice. Yiren Lu at The New York Times digs into the deepening rift between enterprise and consumer tech, the old and the new, in what she calls the “consumer-ification” of tech. “Why do these smart, quantitatively trained engineers, who could help cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov, want to work for a sexting app?” Lu asks. The conflict is both a hiring and a publicity challenge, Lu says, since routers are never going to be as cool or generate as many headlines as Pinterest.
So why is this important?…
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Simple Ways to Add Security to Web Development
As a software developer myself, I have seen developers rushing to finish the feature they are assigned to, with little or no consideration for security in the code—no security guidelines, no coding standards, just a mad dash to finish the feature. Next comes the security review, in which the software obviously fails, and then comes the security-hardening phase. more>>
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Amazon Game Controller Leak Suggests a Set-Top Box is Coming
Images of an Amazon-branded game controller have leaked, all-but confirming the existence of an Amazon set-top box for your TV. The images were posted by media blog Zatz Not Funny, which says the photos come from “an overseas regulatory agency” similar to the FCC. They depict a traditional-looking game controller with media buttons at its bottom. It actually looks remarkably similar to the controller for OnLive, but with Xbox-style offset analogue sticks. The controller also features three central buttons that look like Android’s back, home, and menu keys, and a mysterious button beneath that resembles a radioactive symbol.
It’s suggested that the unnamed box will fun a fork of the Android OS, just like Amazon’s Kindle Fire line of…
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Microsoft and Google Ruin Intel’s Plan for Dual-OS Tablets
Asus’ dual-boot Transformer Book Duet is dead. At CES this year, one of the big stories was dual-OS devices. Spurred on by encouragement from chipmaker Intel, Asus announced the Transformer Book Duet, a hybrid laptop and tablet that switches between Microsoft Windows and Google’s Android on the fly. The device was an intriguing highlight at a trade show that was generally devoid of interesting laptops and tablets, and was scheduled for release in the US this month. Unfortunately, the device has likely been cancelled due to strong opposition from Microsoft and Google, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
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