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Enterprises like Google and Facebook use the map–reduce approach to process petabyte-range volumes of data. For some analyses, it is an attractive alternative to SQL databases, and Apache Hadoop ... Giant volumes of data are nothing unusual in our times of Google and Facebook. In 2010, Facebook sat on top of a mountain of data; just one year later it had grown from 21 to 30 petabytes. If you ... Enterprises like Google and Facebook use the map–reduce approach to process petabyte-range volumes of data. For some analyses, it is an attractive alternative to SQL databases, and Apache Hadoop

With TCP Fast Open, Google introduces a protocol extension, implemented in the Linux kernel, that avoids unnecessary latency in network traffic and promises up to 41 percent acceleration, depending ... In mid-2011, Google’s “Make the web faster” team, which is led by Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Arvind Jain, Yuchung Cheng, and Jerry Chu, presented a draft for reducing preventable latency ... With TCP Fast Open, Google introduces a protocol extension implemented in the Linux kernel that avoids unnecessary latency in network traffic and promises up to 41 percent acceleration, depending

According to the announcement, Change Guardian 4.0 “detects and responds to potential threats in real time through intelligent alerting of unauthorized access and changes to critical files, systems ... NetIQ announces the release of Change Guardian 4.0, the company’s privileged-user activity and change-monitoring solution. ... NetIQ Releases Change Guardian 4.0

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 features built-in support for cloud implementations through virtual clusters. It allows customers to deploy multiple, isolated, and secure virtual clusters through Oracle ... Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0, the first release providing extended high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11, the first cloud ... Oracle Releases Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0

Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud is a new platform that not only offers a 10-year maintenance commitment, but live kernel patching; Officially certified components to enable operating environments under ... Canonical and Google Cloud have announced a new version of Ubuntu that allows instant access to security patching for up to 10 years. ... Canonical and Google Team Up for Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Google has announced its latest quantum chip, Willow, which achieves astonishing performance and demonstrates quantum error correction. With 105 qubits, Willow has “best-in-class” performance ... Google’s Latest Quantum Chip Indicates Existence of Parallel Universes

Account names and passwords for 5 million Gmail accounts were leaked to Russian forums. A 50MB zip file containing the account names and clear-text passwords has appeared on various sites. Google ... Cyber-snoopers post a 50MB zip file with account names and passwords for millions of Google accounts. ... 5 Million Google Passwords Leaked

Recent news about the OpenMP 4.0 specification from OpenMP.org is exciting. In addition to several major enhancements, the specification provides a new mechanism to describe regions of code ... New OpenMP 4.0 Spec

Google is working on an authentication system called Project Abacus that will eliminate the need for passwords with Android devices. Project Abacus provides authentication through the way you use ... Google Wants to Kill Passwords for Android

Google has announced that the Google Compute Engine cloud service is now open to the general public. The Google Computer Engine, which was first unveiled at the Google I/O conference in 2012 ... Google Compute Engine Open for Business