IBM’s Platform scheduler uses more efficient resource management to enhance on OpenStack’s own scheduler operations. IBM has launched a proprietary product to work with OpenStack’s resource scheduler, the portion of the cloud software stack that assigns workloads to virtual machine hosts within the cloud. IBM has a history of mapping out resource schedulers, because of its experience in mainframes and with Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler. To boot, the corporate acquired 20-year-old Platform Computing two years ago, adding its Load Sharing Facility to IBM’s scheduler product line. In making that acquisition, IBM, a supporter of the OpenStack open source code product, is saying unequivocally that OpenStack’s scheduler remains a rudimentary model of the breed and users might want to buy into IBM’s expertise to get the foremost out in their OpenStack clouds. OpenStack’s scheduler is static, staring at information inside the Nova SQL database before assigning a workload to a server host. (Nova is the provisioning and scheduling element of OpenStack.) However it looks just once,... Read More »
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Linux 3.13 Kernel Officially Released
[ Developer] The latest Linux kernel was officially released this week, bringing several new features with the beginning of the recent year. Linux 3.13 can now be compiled and installed freely. Updates in 3.13 includes nftables, a packet filtering framework meant to take where of iptables. While iptables can sometimes cause trouble during system updates, nftables is anticipated to remove these problems. Nftables is additionally backwards compatible, meaning iptable users can implement it without much work. Another significant update in 3.13 is Linux block layer scaling. This could help the OS better use the capabilities of newer hardware by allowing millions of IO requests per second. Chiefly this could help Linux better profit from the rate of SSD drives. Optimization for AMD’s Radeon GPUs has also been added in 3.13. Power management for more Radeon devices is now supported and is now the default for some devices. Support for the Radeon R9 290X has also been added. In addition to those larger updates, 3.13 contains... Read More »
Google Compute Cloud Challenges Amazon
Google’s Compute Engine comes out of preview, with Google touting lower pricing and “transparent maintenance.” 8 Great Cloud Storage Services (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Google has entered the highly competitive cloud services marketplace, where it’s going to face off against major tech vendors like Amazon and Microsoft. Google first unveiled its Compute Engine June 2012 as a beta service and Tuesday announced its infrastructure-as-a-service is now generally available. Google also lowered prices on some compute instances 10% and on disk storage by 60%. Google’s IaaS will entice those that want infrastructure geared to a high level of performance. The company’s emphasis on high-performance infrastructure is obvious from the rate of its famous Google Search engine. Compute Engine public cloud infrastructure relies at the same architecture. Jointly, it’s offering a service level agreement that provides 99.95% uptime. That’s a match for Amazon Web Services, which changed its SLA on June 1 to 99.95% from its previous 99.9% uptime. Google will charge by... Read More »
Adobe Recommends Reinstalling Java To repair ColdFusion Installer Errors
Java is a basic requisite for lots Web applications. Unfortunately, Oracle sometimes pushes out an update that either lacks proper security fixes or prevents an application from installing. Adobe says the newest update affected its ColdFusion installer and has offered a fix. In a post at the ColdFusion blog, Adobe’s Krishna Reddy says the newest Java update prevents the ColdFusion Installer from launching on Mac OS X. The unique Java update was pushed in mid-June, but it’s since been patched. The issue is that some ColdFusion users could have installed the broken Java update, and people users won’t have received the patched version. For those users, Reddy recommends that ColdFusion users on Mac OS X download the newest Java update direct from Apple’s Site. Mac OS X 10.7/10.8 users should download the newest Java update from here, and Mac OS X 10.6.8 users can grab their version here. Reddy then recommends that every one ColdFusion users perform the next test in order for they’ve the... Read More »
File Sync And Sharing: Users Won’t Give It Up
8 Great Cloud Storage Services (click image for larger view and for slideshow) I was in Frankfurt, Germany, last week speaking on cloud security. In keeping with the attendance on the sessions, the ecu IT community is simply as inquisitive about security as American IT. My talk had two parts: one on securing the storage itself through encryption, especially flash storage, and another on securing the users. Interestingly, user security, notably their use of consumer file syncing and sharing programs, drew the foremost interest. The issue with file syncing and sharing is that users have a taste for it. It solves a true problem they’re suffering from: the right way to make certain all their data is on all their devices and the way to share large files with colleagues with no need to email it to them. In other words, the “cat is out of the bag.” Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> Although the meaning of that phrase got... Read More »