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Friday, March 18th, 2016
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| 6:04p | Survey: Women in Data Center Roles Get Paid More than Men Women in a variety of roles related to data centers make more money than men in similar roles, a recent survey of 310 data center professionals by the hyperconverged infrastructure startup Stratoscale found. There aren’t many women with data center jobs, comparatively speaking; only about 12 percent of respondents were women. But the results showed that female data center professionals earned “17 percent more on average than their male counterparts,” the company said. Women in many Silicon Valley companies earn less than men, and this gender pay gap has been documented recently. Far from all companies make their salary data publicly available, but Salesforce, for example, found in a review of 16,000 employee salaries that many women who worked for the cloud software company were paid less than their male counterparts. There are efforts on the way to push some of the biggest US tech companies to disclose this kind of data. One investment management firm, Arjuna Capital, is pressing to get shareholders of those companies to vote on whether or not the companies should make the data public. Those companies are eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Adobe, Microsoft, and Amazon. Shareholders for the first four on the list will vote on the issue. Arjuna is working on getting it in front of Adobe and Microsoft shareholders, while Amazon is fighting the proposal at the SEC level, arguing that “gender gap” is too difficult to define narrowly enough. The data center industry, of course, stretches far beyond Silicon Valley, and according to the Stratoscale survey, there is a reverse gender pay gap in data center jobs:
Source: Stratoscale’s Data Center Professionals Salary Survey (Updated March 2016) While the Stratoscale survey’s sample size was quite small, the researchers did attempt to make it as comprehensive as possible, reaching out to people with data center jobs around the world across many different industries, company sizes, age groups, seniority levels, and areas of expertise. About 30 percent of respondents were in hardware and software industries, and about 64 percent of them were in North America. About a quarter worked for companies with more than 10,000 employees and between $10 million and $100 million in revenue. Overall, highest-paid data center jobs were in media and entertainment, e-commerce and internet, construction and engineering, health and pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. The lowest salaries were reported by data center professionals in government, travel and hospitality, education, and logistics and transportation. You can look at the full report here after filling out a contact form. |
| 6:45p | CoreOS’s Container Security Scanner Reaches Production Quality
As container companies go, CoreOS is a distant number two. Its name is well known and its software respected, but the company has followed an awkward trajectory — first trying to distribute Docker containers, then producing its own container offering, Rocket (or rkt). The company has arguably done a poor job of moving outside Docker’s shadow. But the one area where CoreOS has been doing important things that Docker has not is security. In November, the company announced development of a container scanner called Clair, which is designed to detect security vulnerabilities in containers and help developers patch them automatically. On Friday, CoreOS announced that Clair is now ready for production use. Since November, Clair has evolved to offer better performance through recursive database queries, which CoreOS says improves response time by as much as three magnitudes. Clair 1.0 also features a more extensible RESTful JSON API. Clair has certainly come far in a short time. Back when CoreOS announced the tool in the fall, it was easy to assume that this would be a simple security scanner, which might make some admins feel better about security, but not actually do much to improve cloud performance. It is now clear that that is not the case. By all indications, Clair 1.0 is a sophisticated, robust security tool that is easy to extend and to integrate into different types of environments. Plus, CoreOS is making good on the biggest selling-point of Clair, which is that the scanner is able not only to detect security issues but also patch them. That’s important, CoreOS says, because the whole point of using containers is to build a flexible, scalable infrastructure. If you have to update software manually whenever security vulnerabilities appear, you lose a lot of nimbleness. But if you can handle security in an automated fashion, you’re getting the most out of your cloud. Indeed, in a way, Clair is like a cloud orchestration platform, except instead of managing the cloud workload, it handles the security front. This all said, it remains to be seen whether Clair will prove a compelling enough offering to convince cloud admins to consider CoreOS’s container solution instead of Docker. The latter is much more established in the marketplace. It also has gobs more funding. Plus, you can use Clair to scan Docker containers just as well as you can CoreOS container images — so Clair is not going to force companies to use the entire CoreOS platform just to get a better security and upgrade experience. But Docker compatibility may be the factor that makes people actually use Clair and, in turn, assures that CoreOS gets its slice of the container space. Docker itself has yet to offer security tools like Clair, or even send a strong message that it takes container security seriously. By filling this gap through Clair, CoreOS is positioning itself to stay relevant — although not to advance adoption of its entire container platform. This first ran at http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-s |
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