When "clever" goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices: In 2007, Etsy made a big bet on homegrown middleware to help with the site's scalability. A half-year after it was taken live, the company decided to abandon it. As a senior software engineer at Etsy put it, "if you're doing something 'clever," you're probably doing it wrong."
Can't stop the tweet: the peril—and promise—of social networking for IT: To corporate IT departments, Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn often look like leaks waiting to happen. Or worse—like attack vectors for social engineering. But users will post to them with or without permission, so the challenge for IT is tapping social networking's potential while reducing its risk.
Sinkhole contains botnet neutralized by Microsoft and Kaspersky: Earlier this week, Microsoft reported the successful takedown of a botnet capable of sending 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day. But the botnet will remain in operation indefinitely, with traffic being redirected to a "sinkhole" allowing security researchers to oversee traffic from infected machines and prevent further distribution of malware and scams.
IBM takes advantage of Oracle OpenWorld to offer Oracle customers a sweet trade-in deal: Hating on Oracle? IBM will plan your migration to DB2 on Power for free, and swears it'll save customers as much as 50% on licensing costs.
Amazon adds server-side encryption to S3 data service: Amazon's Simple Storage Service now encrypts content in AES when it's posted, on request, and decrypts it when it's sent back. How you protect it on your end is up to you.
Google puts MySQL in App Engine Cloud with Google Cloud SQL: Now in limited release, Google's Cloud SQL is a MySQL-based data service for Google's App Engine PaaS. The service will make it easier for customers to move their apps and existing databases to Google's cloud.
Researchers create stealth virtual machine that can run alongside insecure VMs: Exploiting the System Management Mode on x86 processors, SICE creates a virtual machine that can run with a dedicated core and memory, invisible to other systems on the host.
Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate: Building a data center that minimizes use of fossil fuels is one of the gargantuan tasks facing the IT industry, yet at least one company has a simple solution: move to Iceland. With cooling freely provided by nature and access to both geothermal and hydroelectric energy, the UK-based co-location vendor Verne Global says it is on the verge of opening a "100% carbon neutral" data center before the end of this year.
Red Hat buys storage vendor Gluster to fuel enterprise cloud plans: Red Hat is spending $136 million to acquire Gluster, a storage company that builds management tools for controlling the growth of unstructured data both in customers' own data centers and in cloud services. Red Hat already offers both private and public cloud tools, but the acquisition fills out holes in its storage portfolio.
Windows Azure beats Amazon EC2, Google App Engine in cloud speed test: Microsoft’s Windows Azure beat all competitors in a year’s worth of cloud speed tests, coming out ahead of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Rackspace and a dozen others. Azure takes an average of six seconds to complete a test involving the loading of two webpages.
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