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Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card

Scott Lowe

About a year ago, I posted a look at my planned projects for 2012. Become more familiar with Xen (and Open vSwitch and OpenStack). As readers noted in the comments on my original 2012 projects list, my choice of projects wasn’t synergistic, and this hampered efforts. Looking Back: 2012 Project Report Card.

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Critical Xen hypervisor flaw endangers virtualized environments

Network World

A critical vulnerability in the widely used Xen hypervisor allows attackers to break out of a guest operating system running inside a virtual machine and access the host system's entire memory. It was unintentionally introduced in December 2012 as part of a fix for a different issue. The new vulnerability affects Xen 4.8.x,

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs.

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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

GeekWire

And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck , a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Among them: Data visualization company Tableau Software (the 2012 winner), acquired by Salesforce for $15.7 billion.

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NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper

Cloud Musings

Thursday, January 26, 2012. NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent. “That is why NIST is stressing the importance of openness and portability.

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ICH Releases Agenda for Agile Cloud Service Catalog Session

Cloud Musings

The Agile Cloud consortium will work with all Government partners to develop and implement processes and high-performance technical solutions that allow globally distributed virtual teams to be formed on-demand, based on topics, people’s registered skills and security classifications. Jackson 2012 ).'

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

Data Center Knowledge

Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions. December 2012 (151). November 2012 (152). October 2012 (182). September 2012 (134). August 2012 (166). July 2012 (134). June 2012 (156).