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Carbon-14 dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to estimate the age of object.
Identify the age of materials that can be approximately determined using radiocarbon dating
a radioactive isotope of an element
carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon with a nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.
Radiometric dating is a technique used to date objects based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope and its decay products using known decay rates.
Radiocarbon dating (usually referred to simply as carbon-14 dating) is a radiometric dating method. It uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years old.
Carbon has two stable, nonradioactive isotopes: carbon-12 (12C) and carbon-13 (13C). There are also trace amounts of the unstable radioisotope carbon-14 (14C) on Earth. Carbon-14 has a relatively short half-life of 5,730 years, meaning that the fraction of carbon-14 in a sample is halved over the course of 5,730 years due to radioactive decay to nitrogen-14. The carbon-14 isotope would vanish from Earth's atmosphere in less than a million years were it not for the constant influx of cosmic rays interacting with molecules of nitrogen (N2) and single nitrogen atoms (N) in the stratosphere. Both processes of formation and decay of carbon-14 are shown in .
Diagram of the formation of carbon-14 (1), the decay of carbon-14 (2), and equations describing the carbon-12:carbon-14 ratio in living and dead organisms
When plants fix atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into organic compounds during photosynthesis, the resulting fraction of the isotope 14C in the plant tissue will match the fraction of the isotope in the atmosphere. After plants die or are consumed by other organisms, the incorporation of all carbon isotopes, including 14C, stops. Thereafter, the concentration (fraction) of 14C declines at a fixed exponential rate due to the radioactive decay of 14C. (An equation describing this process is shown in . ) Comparing the remaining 14C fraction of a sample to that expected from atmospheric 14C allows us to estimate the age of the sample.
Raw (i.e., uncalibrated) radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years "Before Present" (BP), with "present" defined as CE 1950. Such raw ages can be calibrated to give calendar dates. One of the most frequent uses of radiocarbon dating is to estimate the age of organic remains from archaeological sites.
The technique of radiocarbon dating was developed by Willard Libby and his colleagues at the University of Chicago in 1949. Emilio Segrè asserted in his autobiography that Enrico Fermi suggested the concept to Libby at a seminar in Chicago that year. Libby estimated that the steady-state radioactivity concentration of exchangeable carbon-14 would be about 14 disintegrations per minute (dpm) per gram. In 1960, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for this work. He demonstrated the accuracy of radiocarbon dating by accurately estimating the age of wood from a series of samples for which the age was known, including an ancient Egyptian royal barge dating from 1850 BCE.
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Network (comics)
Network is the name of three unrelated fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe. One is a teleporting villain, the others are both superheroines with the power to communicate with and/or manipulate machines.
Network (Hellbent)[edit]
A teleporting member of the group of Moon Knight foes known as the Hellbent.
Network (Sarah Vale)[edit]
Network (Sarah Vale).
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Network (Sarah Vale[1]) is a fictional character, a mutant who appears in the Marvel Comics series New X-Men: Academy X as a student at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. She is the sister of fellow student Preview.
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Powers and abilities[edit]
Before she was depowered, Sarah possessed technopathy/cyberpathy: she could interact with technology at an intimate level, making them follow her commands such as overriding security, starting up computers and manipulating programming. The extent of her powers was unrevealed.[1]
Network (Valerie Martin)[edit]
Network in Civil War: Front Line #4
Art by Ramon Bachs.
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Ramon Bachs
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Network (Valerie Martin) is a fictional superheroine from the Marvel Comics universe. She first appeared in Civil War: Front Line. and was created by Paul Jenkins and Ramon Bachs
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During the Civil War event, a third character using the name Network was among the anti-Registration Act faction of heroes, and became involved with a group of like-minded heroes. She tried to use her powers to locate Captain America and his Secret Avengers to join them, but didn't have enough time as she and the other members of the gang were apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D.[volume & issue needed]
Network has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who are part of the 50-State Initiative.[3] [4]
Other characters[edit]
- Wayne Tucker of the New Universe was referred to by the code-name "Network" in a file in Psi-Force Annual #1, but never adopted the name for himself.
Other versions[edit]
Ultimate Network[edit]
- In the Ultimate Marvel reality, a version of Network appears in the series Ultimate Comics: X-Men. This version is named Seth Vale and is a former mutant prisoner of Camp: Angel, and joined the resistance led by Kitty Pryde. [5]
Other media[edit]
- The Sarah Vale version of Network appears in the Wolverine and the X-Men episode "X-Calibre" voiced by Grey DeLisle.[6] She is shown on a ship to Genosha which is raided by Spiral and the Reavers. She helps in keeping the ship from sinking by communicating with the ship.
- ^ a b c New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook Special #1 (2005)
- ^ New X-Men, vol. 2 #23 (2006)
- ^ Avengers: The Initiative #1
- ^ Avengers: The Initiative #1 Character Map
- ^ Ultimate Comics: X-Men #19
- ^ Wolverine e os X-Men (Wolverine and the X-Men)
External links[edit]
- Network at Marvel Appendix


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James V. Forrestal Papers 1907-1958 (mostly 1940-1949)Search Tips | How to Browse this Collection
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Collection Creator: Forrestal, James, 1892-1949..
Dates: 1940-1958.
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The Personal Files series includes a variety of materials: condolences and other papers related to Forrestal's funeral, Congressional tributes to Forrestal, personal financial papers and papers related to his household, papers related to his club memberships and to his involvement with Princeton University, and editorials about Forrestal which appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Wardens. . . . Selected for their strong innate connection to the lifeblood of the world, these unique individuals were granted the gift of immortality and tasked with the protection of Kylir and its ancient Guardians against the Darkness. Where once they warred openly, the centuries have seen the war shift to the shadows - for what victory is there in reigning over a dead world?
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Series: The Caillte Cycle, 1. You set the price! Words: 45,380. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy(4.50 from 2 reviews)
The Tower of Boran is an exciting tale that deals with the choices one young girl must make, and how they will come to change the face of her world, Caillte, forever. Follow Seraetia as she learns who her friends are, the true depths of strength and magick within her, and what her world really looks like, in a race against daunting odds.
Black White and Shades of Greyy by ElissaBeth Frear
Price: Free! Words: 87,610. Language: English. Published: April 14, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Murder, Mayhem and Madness Greyylene, one of two daughters of quiet Mountain Elves, finds herself in unfamiliar waters when she is swept away on a downed tree. Rescued by a merchant ship she begins a life on the open oceans of Elisandria. Her life takes a twist of fate when the ship she is on is captured by a ruthless band of Pirates.
Purple (Dragon of Unison 1) by M J Porter
Series: Dragon of Unison, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 83,880. Language: English. Published: April 21, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Unison is a land of mystery and intrigue, inspired by Viking Age Iceland. The time is now. Unison holds many enigmas locked within its ice bound surface, and this Long Day, Erann, Sereh and Greeneyes will begin to discover them. Sereh; determined to take a chance on freedom when it presents itself, no matter the perils. Erann; desperate to save his mother's life, regardless of the cost to his p
Innocence Lost For Love by Melody Hewson
Price: Free! Words: 2,610. Language: English. Published: May 1, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Growing up in a small corner of paradise, a young couple don't realize what they have until they are forced to leave it all behind. Another Wolfcaller Chronicles short story.
Pursuit by Jim Murdoch
Series: Dragons and Visions, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 67,170. Language: English. Published: May 7, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical, Fiction » Fantasy » General(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Do dragons exist? Do our dreams become part of our reality? Einarr, a young warrior, follows a riddle from his father to find the treasure of his life. Gaby, a little girl and passionate reader, makes an amazing discovery within the pages of an antique book. Pat climbs a mountain to escape overwhelming changes in his life and his sick pregnant wife.
Demon Stone: A Dagr Brightsword Tale by Jake Scholl
Series: The Tales of Dagr Brightsword, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 4,890. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2013. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Adventure » Men's adventure(4.50 from 2 reviews)
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The Tsawataineuk First Nation is a First Nations band government in the Queen Charlotte Strait region north of northern Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is a member of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council, along with the 'Namgis First Nation and the Kwicksutaineuk-ah-kwa-mish First Nation.
The territory of the Tsawataineuk First Nation spans the whole of Broughton Archipelago on the northern side of Queen Charlotte Strait and adjoining areas of the BC mainland. The main village of the Tsawataineuk people is Gwa'Yi, at the mouth of the Kingcome River.
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Discussion in 'SmackDown' started by Crayo, May 30, 2013.
For fucks sake....How petty from WWE. The guy has worked his arse off for 15+ years, let him take some time off!
There shouldnt be heat if you need time to heal, There was no heat on Punk so why Henry?
Judging by the ratings he was drawing for Smackdown again right out the gate, he was already hot.
And what big elaborate storyline was this anyway? Weight lifting against Big E Langston? Continuing a feud with Sheamus? WWE Title feud with John Cena (which could easily still happen since Cena is busy with Ryback right now anyway)?
Didn't he just return? I suppose this explains the Ryback situation.
Too much weight and then his age on top of that has put a lot of strain on his body. Poor Mark.
Well, I don't know, if it was just a feud vs Big E I'm not that interested. And what did they do to build him up, have him job to Sheamus? I understand a strap match makes him not look that bad losing but still.
Mark Henry is great, but I understand why there's heat coming from the WWE Officials because if they're planning something good and it doesn't go ahead it would slightly tick you off, but that's Mark Henry's decision as he's injured.
I don't see how this is an update. It's basically the same report as before.
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The location has been in development for years, in part likely because of its size, since it will be the biggest Apple Store in Germany once it debuts. In the meantime, Apple has built stores in cities across the country, including even two in Hamburg. The Kurfurstendamm shop will be Apple's 11th in Germany overall.
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The hotel had many tables, etc in the hallway (made it looked cluttered)
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Bad Hotel would not recommend to anyonePosted Feb 20, 2017
Pros: Nothing even the breakfast was poor compared to other places I have stayed at.
Cons: Everything!!!
Location: It was located close to the Fair Grounds where we were going each day.
The room was not real clean, and the bed mattress could have been updated very soft. Had to go to the front desk to get more towels and wash clothes twice, They didn't even bother to clean the room the last night there, even though we had a sign on the door that the room needed cleaned. So once again we had to go to the desk to get towels again, and the front desk didn't have any, so the security guy went and found some and brought them to us. This was at 11:50 pm by the way and we were planning on leaving at 7:00 am. Forgot a couple of other things the phone didn't work do to phone cord being tore out of the wall, which they did come and fixed, next the smoke detector hanging down from the ceiling by the wires not sure if it worked, also a lot of noise by other guess during the night down by the pool. Just a plain BAD stay. Should have gotten some money back for this stay.
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CondemnedPosted Feb 19, 2017
Felt like an abandoned hotel where they rented out a few livable rooms to unsuspecting travelers.
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The end of an eraPosted Feb 18, 2017
Pros: The staff knows what is going on and try to be helpful.
Cons: It needs to be torn down.
Location: Great location that is why there are new hotels around it.
Started staying at this hotel when it was a Holidome many years ago. Since Holiday Inn sold it has been in rapid decline. The first floor had been flooded and was never repaired just shut down. There was trash everywhere and most of the facilities were in disarray. This used to be an amazing place, it is obvious the owners are milking it to the end and now it needs to be torn down. The pictures have not been updated, please beware and definitely do not take your family there.
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Good for an overnight stay for travelersPosted Feb 6, 2017
Cons: The hotel could use a total renovation
Location: The location was conveniently located right off the highway and close to food and shopping
This hotel is okay for a overnight stay but I wouldn't recommend this hotel for a long visit.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Louisville ky
Smells real bad.Posted Jan 18, 2017
Pros: Staff were understanding and helpful and pool was clean
Cons: Replace the carpets in the building and remove the smell.
Location: Walking distance to many nice shops and eateries.
Walking into outer building lobby smelled so bad, like wet moldy carpet. 1st room was still occupied and had used rubbers laying around.... 2nd room keys didnt work. Mind you both rooms were a long way from front desk. Bell boy let us in with his key...
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from US
Close to conference centerPosted Jan 18, 2017
Pros: Close to convention center
Cons: hall way carpets need replaced, the rooms were clean
Location: Close to convention center, good restaurants close by
Hotel was completely booked with some mess up on internet that created double booking, Staff handled it great friendly and competent.
by Duane
This place is a jokePosted Jan 17, 2017 on Hotels
This was the worst hotel experience I ever had
by A verified traveler from Ohio
The worst place you'll ever stayPosted Nov 21, 2016
Pros: Nothing
Cons: Everything
Location: Good location, airport, restaurants, gas stations, etc.
If you read any of the reviews on Facebook, they all include the same phrase; "this place is a sh** hole!", and they are not wrong. The facilities appear to be in a constant state of disrepair. The pool and hot tub are "closed" for some reason that no one seems to know. Our room was in a separate building across the parking lot. It felt like an abandoned warehouse from the zombie apocalypse, we definitely did NOT feel safe. The coffee maker in our room, which was broken, still had old coffee and mold in it from weeks before. We stayed two nights, the second night we were surprised by the loudest music ever heard. After calling the front desk on my cell phone (the phone in the room did not work) I was informed there was a "music festival" that night from 11pm to 4 am. The music literally shook our room, it was in the same building downstairs. They did move us to the main building across the street, but we had already gone to bed so it was definitely a hassle we didn't need. To wrap up we reserved this room for two nights as a three star mystery hotel, NEVER AGAIN EXPEDIA!!! You need to actually visit the hotels you represent to verify their authenticity. This was one of the most disappointing weekend of my life :(
by A verified traveler
Posted Nov 20, 2016 on Hotels
The staff were friendly but they failed to mention that the rooms were above a live band social hall and there happened to be an event going on. The wall rumbling of the music went on till 3am. Very disturbing for our family and the other families we saw leaving because of it.


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Cloud spending plans revealed at Cloud Slam '10
If you're interested in hearing about enterprise IT plans for cloud computing this year, check out the Cloud Slam '10 virtual trade show happening this week.
I will be giving the TechTarget keynote presentation on March 25th at 3.30pm EST, on our cloud purchasing intentions survey data. Over 500 members of our audience completed the survey, answering more than 50 questions on their plans for public and private cloud adoption. There's some interesting trends we'd be happy to share with you.
Cloud Slam '10 is offering more than 100 expert session presentations on the rapidly shifting world of cloud-based IT and business strategies. Topics include cloud computing system integration, private vs. public cloud computing, setting up a channel for hybrid clouds and secure cloud environment interoperability.
CA's $100 million dollar cloud wager
On Wednesday $4 billion software provider CA bought 20-man 3Tera; analysts reported that CA had paid around 30 times the revenue valuation of the cloud software platform maker. Independent sources now confirm the price was a cool $100 million, terms (cash or stock) as yet undisclosed.
Gut-check this with simple math — 3Tera reported around 80 paying customers, largely small and mid-sized managed service providers (MSPs). They'd have to be paying around $40,000 a year on average, by no measure a startling price for an enterprise software installation, to bring in $3.2 million a year, which, multiplied by 30, brings us right around the reported $100 million.
That kind of valuation may make stock analysts cringe, since a) any firm that looks like it's wasting its capital cannot be considered to have a sound growth strategy and b) Pets.com. But it's a great get from the technology side.
Was $100 million too much to pay for 3Tera?
The short answer is no — it was a unique technology with a proven (albeit modestly) track record and it fit a piece of the puzzle CA wanted for cloud computing — point-and-click, one-size-fits-all infrastructure. It's not like there were dozens of 3Tera's floating around to spark a bidding war, and there's not yet a bubble to artificially inflate the worth of cloud computing technology. CA simply decided it needed this and put cash on the barrel until 3Tera said yes.
However, the figure surely changes the story from "CA snaps up golden opportunity" to "CA just sunk a pile into a future scenario." CA has $4 billion in revenue and approximately $1 billion in net tangible assets. It just invested a significant portion of that into a software company with 80 customers and a nice looking Web portal product (basically) and are betting that the enterprise appetite for private cloud will exceed predictions.
Conservative estimates for cloud spending over the next few years hover around $40-$50 billion, and 10-15% of the overall IT market.
By far the largest part of that cash will go right down the pipe to Software as a Service, leaving a very poor table indeed for infrastructure plays, especially when HP, IBM, and EMC/Cisco/VMware are sitting down to eat with you.
It's quite possible that the enterprise appetite for what is now considered private cloud will become a big tent for enterprise IT overall, and make those kinds of figures look undercooked, but any way you slice it, CA has a lot riding on this buy. It's certainly brightened the days of CEOs of small companies everywhere, I'll say that much.
"3Tera's impressive exit is validation of the tremendous opportunity facing all cloud startups," said ubiquitous cloudketeer Reuven Cohen, who also makes cloud infrastructure platform software.
A new CA
On a brighter note, this is a definitive sign that CA has come around from the old days.
CA's new acquisitions have been marked by caution, generosity(!) and foresight, and a good attitude towards the technology and the talent that's coming in. Out of Oblicore, NetQoS, Cassatt and now 3Tera, I'm fairly sure the majority of those firm's employees still work at CA if they desire to do so. CA spokesman Bob Gordon said that all twenty of 3Tera's employees would stay on with CA and CEO Barry X Lynn will stay on for a transitional period.
Let's compare that to, say, 1999, when CA would have systemically lured away or undersold all of 3Tera's customers, bought up their building lease and cut off the heat, shot the CFO's dog and then bought the company for $6 and a green apple before firing everyone by Post-It note and carving IP out of code like a irritable Atzec priest. On a Monday.
We've come a long way since then, for sure. Congratulations to both companies — to one for the windfall, the other for the bold commitment.
Two free cloud beta services to check out
Cloud computing services are popping up like daises these days. The good part is many of them are launching with a free beta service, which means you can try before you buy and more importantly, get some valuable experience with cloud-based IT services.
The first one to check out is an expandable NAS appliance from Natick, MA-based Nasuni, which connects to the cloud for backup, restore and disaster recovery purposes. Active data is cached in the appliance on-site, maintaining the availability of data that's required day to day, while older data is sent over the wire to the cloud service provider of your choice. Right now that could be Amazon (S3), Iron Mountain or Nirvanix, while Nasuni works on building more cloud partners.
For anyone with a lot of file-based data and tired of provisioning, managing and paying for yet another NAS filer, this is an interesting service to check out. Our sister site SearchStorage.com covered the company's launch. For more details read this story (Nasuni Filer Offers Cloud Storage Gateway for NAS).
On a different note, people using EC2 instances might be interested to check out how to get more utilization out of them with a free service called Silverline.
IT shops often end up sizing EC2 servers just like in a traditional data center. To meet peak application demand, the servers are over configured. This means spare cycles are costing money.
Silverline creates a virtual background container on any EC2 instance. When an application is run in this background container it can only use the spare cycles. This guarantees that what was already running on the instance will run unaffected, while the spare cycles are used by the application(s) placed in the virtual background container. The company claims EC2 customers can get more from the servers they are already paying for.
And one advantage over EC2 Spot Pricing is that Silverline's virtual background container is persistent – where spot instances can be terminated based on pricing.
Microsoft and NSF giving away Azure
The National Science Foundation and Microsoft have announced they will be giving away Azure resources for researchers in an attempt to: "shift the dialogue to what the appropriate public/private interaction" is for research computing, according to Dan Reed, Corporate Vice President for Extreme Computing (yes, really) at Microsoft.
For 3 years, Microsoft is giving away an unspecified amount of storage and support as well as CPU time for research applications to be run on Azure. NSF assistant director for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Jeanette Wing suggested that cloud computing platforms and Azure in specific should be considered a better choice for research facilities than maintaining and building their own facilities.
"It's just not a good use of money or space," she said.
Look at the Large Hadron Collider, said Wing, which has 1.5 petabytes of data already, or digital research projects that can generate an exabyte of data in a week, or less. She urged researchers to use Azure to figure out new ways to coping with all that information.
This is a nice, charitable gesture, not unlike Amazon's occasional giveaways to worthy scientific projects, of EC2 instances and bandwidth. There are significcant caveats that Microsoft and the NSF have papered over.
First, from all reports, Azure is a very large data center operation- possibly as large as some of the less prestigious high-performance computing facilities that researchers use around the world. unless Microsoft is giving away the whole thing, it's not going to make much of a dent in the demand.
Second, go down to the local university science department and tell a professor he or she can hop on a virtualized, remote Windows platform and process their experiment data. Go on, I dare you.
99% of experimental, massive-data, high performance computing is done on open source, *nix-based platforms for some very sound reasons. Microsoft won't gain much traction suggesting that researchers can do better on Azure. It may find some eggheads desperate for resources, but that's a different story.
So what is the real import, the overall aim of setting up Azure as a platform to host boatloads of raw data and let people play with it? Both Reed and Wing said they wanted to see researchers with new ideas on how to search and manage these large amounts of data.
Well that makes more sense–go sign up for a grant, but read the fine print, or you could be inventing the next Google, brought to you by Microsoft…
AWS experimenting with actually supporting DNS for users
Sharp eyes to Shlomo Swidler, who posted an update to an old thread and an old complaint on AWS – getting lumped into spam blacklists. EC2 staffer "Steve@AWS" announced the availability of a private beta today to institute PTR records for selected users to assist in getting them off real-time blacklists- a standard DNS tool conspiciously absent in AWS.
A major problem for AWS and EC2 since its inception is that users with the publically generated EC2 IP addresses handed out by Amazon are extremely susceptible to getting stuck on spam blacklists, like Spamhaus or Trend Micro's (Spamhaus is by far the more influential).
Read coverage about the most severe blacklist to date here.
It's been an ongoing problem because Amazon doesn't provide the usual level of service for users running websites or sending email from within EC2. Most hosts provide ways for an email server to politely verify that it does, in fact, originate with the domain name it says it does. PTR records do that and they have become a de facto standard for email hosts. Without them, a spam complaint can knock entire swaths of IP addresses out of the daylight and get tagged as spam providers.
The only way for hosts to get unflagged after their IPs are dirtied up with the spammer label is for the host provider to individually verify and notify the blacklist provider that the address is good. Amazon, being very highly automated and very popular, doesn't do that well, and it took the blackout by Spamhaus last year to force the cloud provider to open up and start to reform its practices of not responding to customers having email trouble.
Hopefully this private beta is a sign that Amazon is going further and moving towards accepting more of its responsibilities as a web host- after all, giving out the address means you need to police the streets, collect the garbage and make sure the mail can go through. Hosters have taken this on their shoulders since the telecoms washed their hands of responsibilities around spam a decade now- its well past time for Amazon to join in.
UPDATE: Amazon confirms they are adding new features for DNS and conducting a private beta for selected users.
Benchmarks for Cloud — more, please
Rackspace has commissioned a set of benchmarks to highlight performance differences between Rackspace and Amazon EC2.
"Benchmarks!" you explode, your exquisitely sensitive logical faculties coruscating in outrage. "Benchmarks are vendor-driven popularity contests that cherrypick tests for results! Its a swamp of dismal nonsense, a perpetual statistical hellhole that means nothing! Benchmarks make engineers maaaad!!" you say.
Well, fine, then you do it, because there aren't any for cloud yet, and I don't care if Rackspace did go have it done. They had sound reasons, there is precious little precedent, and the results are informative, useful and not overtly flawed.
Analyst and high-traffic expert Matthew Sacks carried out the benchmarks on his website The Bitsource. Overall, the tests were rudimentary and carefully controlled. He tested the time it took to compile a linux kernel on every type of instance between the two services, and used Iozone to compile read/writes for storage systems.
Sacks, a systems administrator at Edmunds.com, said he developed the methodology himself.
"The idea behind it is that we can get a pretty good idea on how these instances stack up" he said, but it's not a comprehensive metric. "I decided on kernel compilation as a general measure of CPU" he said, because it was well understood, easy and fast to replicate and uncomplicated in results.
Sacks said that Rackspace's motivation was good old fashioned boosterism. "They had received reports from their customers that Rackspace was way better than EC2." he said, so they decided to test that out with a third party. The results seem to bear them out.
"There are clear wins in CPU and disk performance," he said. Rackspace beat EC2 instances in compiling by a slender margin in every case but one, and showed 5 to 10 times the amount of CPU availability. Disk Read/Write was also higher, sometimes by twice as fast, although random access tests were much closer, suggesting throughput on EC2 lags behind Rackspace even if data request execution doesn't.
However, Sacks took pains to say that his tests did not mean that an application running on EC2 could be shifted to Rackspace and save either time or money by default. He said that users always had to consider the application, not just the infrastructure, and he wanted his tests to be a resource for people to come and compare their specific needs. "The variables are so great it's hard to come up with a standard for testing [cloud]" he said.
"What I would like to do is test more providers," said Sacks. Perhaps he'll get the opportunity- he said the testing and review only took a few weeks and it wouldn't be hard to repeat for different platforms.
Sacks' two-man experiment aside, I can think of at least one cloud out there that could make EC2 and Rackspace look like a snail chasing molasses when it comes to kernel compilation and disk I/O:
"NewServer's Bare Metal Cloud makes Cloud Servers and EC2 look like two sick men in a sack race" sounds catchy to me. I wonder if Rackspace will sponsor that benchmark?
But that's the point– I want more third party tests like Sacks'. I want more and more and more independent review of what providers say and what they do. I can find more compelling independent information about the USB stick in my pocket than any one of the clouds that want me to trust my business to them.
It only took Matthew Sacks a few weeks to make a clean, well documented and useful set of benchmarks, even if that came at the behest of a vendor.
So let's make more.
Cloud computing, 2009 in brief
It's fun being at the top of a technology wave. The past year in cloud computing has moved with the giddy, inexorable pace that marks a major technological shift in how we use computing power, and more importantly, how we think about it.
Cloud computing, barely a whisper in three or four years ago, is now firmly embedded, if still nascent, in the ontology of mainstream information technology. It's a part of any conversation about IT anywhere. Even the dyed-in-the-wool Grumpy Sysadmin(TM) will, grumpily, talk about cloud computing.
It started with Amazon, online retailer par excellence, who found a way to get IT pros what they wanted, without the hassle of shipping a hundred pounds of metal and very clever sand per buy. The world had moved on to the Internet, they reasoned, so why not get what they want – CPU cycles and plenty of bit storage – without the part they hated.
And it worked. By 2008, the tipping point was reached, and analysts officially began cramming 'cloud' into their IT buying predictions, which, naturally, immediately drove IT management insane trying to figure out a) what the cloud was b) what it cost and c) whether or not they needed it. That made 2009 a lot of fun.
So what happened to turn cloud computing from ridiculed buzzword to reality?
Most of us started the year wondering what the devil it was: Fortunately, the government came up with a pretty definitive answer, which should tell anyone with an ounce of sense how robust and uncomplicated the concept is. Many others jumped on the bandwagon with glee, 'cloud washing' any old thing with an Internet connection.
Cloud terminology-hit mainstream newspapers, and the boob tube, where we got the standard expression of polite interest. It's n ow on a par with 'hacker', 'firewall' and 'servers' for IT terms the regular press doesn't understand but is happy to sprinkle over any tech reporting.
Then there was cloud outage after outage after outage, but nobody cared.
And that's the long and short of it, kids. No matter what happened, cloud made sense to users, practically and economically. They bought in and they're still buying in. Analysts and pundits weighed, promising riches and/or wrack and ruin, security folks went through the roof at every turn, and yet, somehow, the idea makes enough sense that people don't care. They'll put up with the potholes for the sake of the ride; its still a lot better than walking.
Just so with cloud computing.
Amazon lets users bid on unused EC2 capacity
Amazon says its new EC2 Spot Instances offering lets user bid on unused EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price. The price will change based on supply and demand and is not for everyone obviously.
Amazon says applications suited to this kind of pricing model might be image and video processing, conversion and rendering, scientific research data processing and financial modeling and analysis, all typical EC2 use cases already.
From Amazon's perspective, it might as well sell as much of its unused capacity as it can, even if it is just for cents on the dollar. Presumably there's a way through the AWS console for users to be alerted when the bids and pricing changes to warn them if they are about to lose their instance to someone willing to pay more for it. That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
There is a feature called Persistent Request that supposedly prevents your instance from terminating before it has finished your job, but you might want to try this out a few times before you do anything real on it!
Hats off to Amazon though for continuing to innovate around pricing and during it's peak season too.
Wharton prof discusses Google's prospects for anti-trust action
Is Google a self-regulatory public servant or rapacious and unscrupulous monopolist, asked Eric Clemons, professor of operations and information management at The Wharton School, during a talk at the Supernova conference in San Francisco today.
Clemons drew a parallel between Microsoft's ability in the 1980s and 90s to use its dominant position in one market, operating systems, as leverage to control and dominate another, the browser market. Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser bundled with its OS killed Netscape, a competitor in the browser market. This anti-competitive, monopolistic power was the basis of the DOJ's case against Microsoft.
A decade later Google has 70% of the market for internet search, is launching new products like gmail, calendaring, office apps, mobile operating systems, laptop operating systems and a cloud computing development platform, all making headway in the market and in some cases knocking out established players. Ironically, Google beat Microsoft to a contract for outsourced email and calendaring in Japan recently by bidding 40% less than Microsoft wanted for the renewal of that contract. Touche! Indeed. But it's bitter sweet.
Clemons belives Google will face increased scrutiny by the DOJ for its potentially predatory monopoly, in a non-contestable market, that could harm the competitive process and will likely kick-off an anti-trust suit against the company.
I think the real message in the professor's comments is that the high-tech industry moves so fast that it lends itself to monopoly and that market players need to be aware and know when they are in danger of a Google or Microsoft jumping in.
For instance, watch Mircosoft's Windows Azure cloud computing development platform. This could do for Platform as a Service what Google did for search.
When the utility model falls apart
Interop was great. It highlighted for me how far and how fast cloud has come along. It was all too brief; all the cloud sessions were slammed and debate ran high.
Panelists like AT&T's VP for Business Development and Strategy Joe Weinman, for instance, did a splendid job laying out a cost model for computing that follows the utility model, building on the old saw that "nobody has a generator in their backyard anymore", and arguing that computing services are subject to the same rules as the utility market.
They aren't, for one reason paramount above all others. Data is unique. It's not a commodity. One datum of information does not equal another. You don't care if your neighbor washes his dishes with water drop 1 or water drop 2– but you're sure going to care if he's using your data set instead of his to make money, however.
For instance, I asked Joe Weinman what happens to his rosy cost model if net neutrality falls apart and carriers can engage in prejudicial pricing for network users. Naturally, he didn't answer that, but it's a primary example of the fundamental problems with treating cloud as a utility.
Of course, what happens, is AT&T makes more money and users that went headlong into public clouds are going to get royally screwed. No large enterprise is a) unaware of this b) going to do it.
Net neutrality is hardly the last political consideration- it's just the one I brought up because there was a telco in the room. It's easy to conceive of legislation that would irrevocably compromise data stored in outside repositories- indeed, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, in the US, it already is.
Political wrangling that raises your electric bill a few cents an hour is one thing. Losing exclusivity to your company data by fiat is quite another. It'll be a cold day in hell before any large (or even medium) size enterprise is going to commit to using public compute as a utility with vulnerabilities like that. Sure, they'll put workloads in Amazon, and take them out again; they'll shift meaningless data into these resources, but they'll never, ever be thinking of it the same way they think about the electric company.
It's still a useful metaphor, in a rudimentary fashion; It gets the concept of 'on-tap' across, and it's balm to the ears of people who didn't really understand their IT operations anyway. But futurologists and vendors, especially vendors who want to monetize cloud on top of carrier services, need to understand that the message has come home; we know what cloud is, and we know what the real risks are. Now, show us your answers– In the mean time, we'll keep our 'generators' and our data, to ourselves.


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