The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published two new documents on cloud computing: the first edition of a cloud computing standards roadmap and a cloud computing reference architecture and taxonomy. Together, the documents provide guidance to help understand cloud computing standards and categories...
Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection Directive and the U.S. Patriot Act. The issue has been raised following Microsoft's admission last week that it may have to hand over...
Facebook has released specifications for their data center infrastructure as an open hardware project. They specifications include detailed electrical and mechanical data for everything from the server motherboards to the data center power distribution system. The specifications are licensed under a the Open Web Foundation Agreement. Via: Slashdot...
Sun Microsystems' product plans are up in the air pending its acquisition by Oracle, but the company's chip engineers continue to present new designs in the hope they'll see the light of day. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University on Tuesday, Sun presented...
OpenBSD 4.5 has been released today. This release includes OpenSSH 5.2 as well as various tweaks, bugfixes, and enhancements. New and extended platforms include sparc64, and added device drivers. See the announcement page for a full list...
A bold new type of malware has been identified. Its attack vector is based on hijacking the DNS settings for devices on a local area network. Any device regardless of operating system that depends on an internal or external name server can be affected. The trojan...
Via Slashdot: "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature...
Network World piece about products that have changed networking over the last twenty years. From the article: "SendMail 1998 - Sendmail was key to the e-mail revolution because it was how everyone got up and running with e-mail communications over the Internet. Eric Allman wrote the original...