Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle

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	Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert. Facebook has released source code for scheduling workloads on the Apache Hadoop data processing platform. Engineers at the social networking company claim this program, called Corona, is superior to Hadoop's own scheduler in MapReduce. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare, part of the SolarWinds Family Affordable Remote Support Software for Mixed-OS Environments DameWare Remote Support Software allows you to control Mac OS X, Linux and Windows machines - without leaving your desk! Fix end-users problem quickly & remotely with DameWare. Manage your IT infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs - all from one console AND in a mixed-OS environment. Easy to afford. Simple to use. It's so affordable – why not just try it? Download a fully functional, free 14-day trial today and discover why thousands of system administrators use DameWare to remotely control Mac, Linux and Windows machines every day! In this Issue Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost VMware releases micro version of Cloud Foundry PaaS Microsoft slates first Windows 8, RT patches since launch WHITE PAPER: Five9 Selecting a Contact Center Infrastructure Solution Choosing a new contact center infrastructure is one of the most crucial decisions your business can make. But with so many premise- and cloud-based solutions available, the selection process can be daunting. This whitepaper by industry analyst Donna Fluss provides a roadmap that will get you to the best option for your business. Learn more. Cisco recommends McAfee switch for IronPort customers hit by Sophos flaws Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances. Cisco rated the severity of the vulnerabilities at 9.7 out of 10 on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) scale. This means that the flaws can be attacked from the network, have a low complexity access level and can completely compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the affected products. Read More Google gives cloud-based database a performance boost Google's Cloud SQL database has gained more storage, faster reads and writes, and now offers users the choice of running their instances in data centers based in either the U.S. or Europe. The performance upgrade allows enterprises to run bigger, faster MySQL databases on Google's cloud, Joe Faith, product manager for Google Cloud SQL, wrote in a blog post. Read More VMware releases micro version of Cloud Foundry PaaS Everything in the cloud seems to be getting bigger or smaller. VMware today went the small route, releasing a micro version of the company's popular open source platform as a service (PaaS), Cloud Foundry. The claim to fame for Micro Cloud Foundry is that it can be deployed on a single virtual machine. In a blog post announcing the new version, VMware says it's ideal for developers who want to launch an application that's still under development to test it out, for example. Read More Microsoft slates first Windows 8, RT patches since launch Microsoft has announced it will issue six security updates next week, including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. The half-dozen updates will patch 19 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), and the .Net framework. Read More
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