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Thursday, October 11th, 2018
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| 4:29p |
NSA Cyber Official Asks for First-Hand Accounts of Chip Hacking
An NSA cybersecurity official asked anyone with "first-degree knowledge" of Chinese attempts to hack hardware headed for US data centers to share what they know with federal authorities
• The senior cybersecurity adviser made the plea Wednesday at an event hosted by the US Chamber of Commerce and RealClearPolitics
• He was addressing a report by Bloomberg Businessweek last week, which said Chinese military agents had spy chips covertly planted on Supermicro motherboards ordered by US companies | | 4:38p |
Not Your Father’s Immersion Cooling
Single-phase immersion is the next generation; it doesn’t carry the negative baggage and the technology has been proven to be a low-cost and highly reliable solution. | | 5:54p |
Cloud Data Warehouse Unicorn Snowflake Raises $450M in Its Second Round This Year
Snowflake Computing, developer of a cloud-based data warehouse solution, has raised $450 million in venture funding
• This is its second funding round this year, bringing its pre-money valuation to $3.5 billion
• A study has shown that enterprises have struggled getting return on their big data investments, many of them too bogged down figuring out their data architecture | | 7:03p |
Skybox to Build Houston Data Center for Massive Oil and Gas Supercomputer
Skybox Datacenters has signed a 15MW lease with a client that will host a supercomputer in its Houston facility
• DUG, the client, expects the system to beat Summit, the DoE supercomputer that’s currently considered the world’s fastest | | 8:32p |
Cloud Foundry Goes All-In With Kubernetes
The Cloud Foundry Foundation announced two new Kubernetes-focused projects at its EU Summit in Switzerland
• The move comes after last year's addition of its Container Runtime for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Foundation CTO called it an example of the open source PaaS platform's "evolutionary directions" |
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