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Stephen E. Arnold: Industrial Catastrophic Sabotage Via the Cloud?

Juicy Target: Big Cloudy Agglomerations of Virtual and Tangible Gizmos What’s the implication? Forget Go to My PC vulnerabilities. Old news. The bad actors may have the opportunity to derail certain industrial and manufacturing processes. What happens when a chemical plant gets the wrong instructions. Remember the Port of Texas City mishap? A tragic failure. …

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Penguin: Amazon Abusing / Monetizing Open Source Cloud without Contribution — It Is Called “Strip Mining”

Open source cloud databases battle software ‘strip mining’ Cloud giants like AWS have adopted open source databases, causing Confluent, MongoDB and others to guard their assets the best way they know how: licensing. “There is a new and unique dynamic with public cloud providers, particularly AWS, who take open source software and sell it as …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Opens a New Front in the Cloud Wars

Amazon Opens a New Front in the Cloud Wars Vice president of infrastructure Peter DeSantis introduced the AWS Graviton Processor Monday night, adding a third chip option for cloud customers alongside instances that use processors from Intel and AMD. The company did not provide a lot of details about the processor itself, but DeSantis said …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Cloudtenna for Global-Local Search?

Cloudtenna for Combined Cloud and Local Search Here’s a claim we’ve heard before: ZDNet declares, “Find a File Anywhere: Cloudtenna Targets Local and Cloud File Search.” Writer Robin Harris begins by describing the problem this upgrade addresses—an increasing number of cloud storage locations, combined with on-premise servers, make good search solutions even more challenging to …

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Penguin: Open Source Cloud Tooling HashiCorp $100M

Open-source cloud tooling maker HashiCorp bags $100M round at $1.9B valuation HashiCorp Inc., a startup that makes open-source tools for managing cloud environments and applications, today announced that it has reeled in a $100 million late-stage funding round led by IVP. The valuation is a reflection of the rapid user growth that the startup is …

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