11th December 2010 Archive
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Amazon invites 5 terabyte mondo-files into the heavens
Time to stream your genome sequencer
Amazon has increased the maximum object size on its S3 online storage service to 5 terabytes. Previously, S3 users were forced to store large files in chunks no larger than about 5 gigabytes. "When a customer wanted to access a large file or share it with others, they would either have to use several URLs in Amazon S3 or …
Storage 11 Dec 00:20
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Cisco: 'World head over heels for convergence'
Fluffy IT for fun and profit
Cisco Systems didn't necessarily want to be in the server racket. But a few years back, when the networking giant realized that converging server and storage networks would cut into its revenue streams. Therefore, to remain relevant - by which I mean to make money - Cisco could create converged infrastructure, including servers …
Channel Register 11 Dec 00:46
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Exim code-execution bug, now with root access
Remote, in-the-wild and overlooked for 2 years
Exim maintainers have warned of an in-the-wild attack that allowed the miscreants to execute malicious code with unfettered system privileges by exploiting a bug in older versions of the open-source mail transfer agent. The memory-corruption vulnerability resides in Exim 4.69 and earlier versions, and already has been used in …
Enterprise Security 11 Dec 01:33
