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Tilera has announced the TILE-Gx100, what it claims to be the world's first 100-core processor. The TILE-Gx family -- available with 16, 36, 64, and 100 cores -- employs Tilera's architecture that scales beyond the core count of traditional microprocessors.
"The launch of the TILE-Gx family, including the world's first 100-core microprocessor, ushers in a new era of many-core processing. We believe this next generation of high-core count, ultra high-performance chips will open completely new computing possibilities," said Tilera's Omid Tahernia.
The TILE-Gx family, fabricated in TSMC's 40 nanometer process, operates at up to 1.5 GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. The TILE-Gx family incorporates many cores on a single chip together with integrated memory controllers and a set of I/O. However the TILE-Gx device also brings together a number of new features to maximize application performance while offering the best performance-per-watt in the industry.
Among the processor's features are:
- New three-issue 64-bit core with full virtual memory system. Each core includes 32KB L1 I-cache, 32KB L1 D-cache and 256KB L2 cache, with up to 26MB total L3 coherent cache across the device.
- Enhanced SIMD instruction extensions: Improved signal processing performance with a 4 MAC/cycle multiplier unit delivering up to 600 billion MACs per second.
- Integrated high-performance DDR3 memory controllers: Two or four 72-bit controllers running up to 2133 MHz speeds with ECC support. Up to 1TB total capacity.
- Hardware acceleration engines: On-chip MiCA (Multistream iMesh Crypto Accelerator) system delivers up to 40Gbps encryption and 20Gbps full duplex compression processing, tightly coupled to the iMesh for extremely low latency and wire-speed small packet throughput. In addition, a high-performance true random number generator (RNG) and public key accelerator enable up to 50,000 RSA handshakes per second.
- Packet processing accelerator: mPIPE (multicore Programmable Intelligent Packet Engine) system provides wire-speed packet classification, load balancing and buffer management. This C-programmable engine delivers 80 Gbps and 120 million packets-per-second of throughput for packets with multiple layers of encapsulation.


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Cloud Security: Threats in the Cloud
Ensuring infrastructure and data security is critical to any investment firm, regardless of whether its infrastructure lives on-premise or in a cloud environment. But there have been lingering concerns throughout the industry about security in the cloud for quite some time, particularly for hedge funds and other financial services firms who rely so heavily on the safety and security of their data.
The reality is that there are security concerns with any type of technology infrastructure. Doing comprehensive due diligence around cloud architecture, management, security policies and service providers will go a long way in satisfying those concerns.
Threats in the Cloud
The Cloud Security Alliance had identified some key threats for both infrastructure and application services in the cloud. They include:
Shared technology issues: At the heart of cloud computing is the premise of sharing underlying infrastructure components. If security requirements and protocols are not integrated into the shared infrastructure at multiple levels (i.e. computing resources, storage, and networking) then vulnerabilities could exist. This is particularly crucial to keep in mind when evaluating public cloud environments, through which there can be limited isolation.
Data loss or leakage: This is a real, yet unacceptable risk for any investment management firm, and the impact is far-reaching. Just as with traditional on-premise environments, threats in the cloud can include accidental deletion of data, unauthorized access or database corruption. It is essential to have strong controls in place, as well as data encryption and data protection processes.
Unknown risk profile: Another threat, which may cause a firm to accept unknown risks, is lack of knowledge of a cloud provider's security protocols and policies. It is important to inquire about a cloud service provider's security software, update and patch procedures, intrusion detection and alerting and overall security design.
Next week, we'll take a closer look at some specific security considerations for evaluating a cloud services provider, including multi-tenancy concerns, physical security, and virtualization and server security. In the meantime, click here for more information on Eze Private Cloud Services.

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Park Falls Public Library has six public access computers for customer use. These computers make use of our high-speed connection to the Internet and are located in the library lobby.
We ask new users to sign a use agreement, which we keep on file for you. The agreement commits the customer to obey library rules regarding computer use. These are simple common sense rules against illegal activity, displaying pornographic materials, or installing programs without library permission.
Minors must get a parent's signature on their use agreement before they can use library public access computers.
Library staff are always available to assist computer users or answer questions.
Reservations for computer use may be placed ahead of time. You may schedule up to two hours per day, with a limit of six hours a week. This limit provides equal access to our community for a limited resource.
One public access computer is a short term "15 Minute" computer. This machine may be used for quick tasks like checking email. A user may stay on the short term computer for longer than 15 minutes, if no one is waiting to use the machine. Once a user has had 15 minutes on the short term computer he/she will asked to close out and permit a person who is waiting to get access.
Another feature that many people find useful is the simple flat plate scanner that is attached to the 15 minute computer. Library staff are happy to help you scan photos or documents into digital format, for storage, or to share by email.
Park Falls Public Library also has wireless internet access for those with laptop computers, or other portable digital devices.
The Children's Department features a Homework Computer. This computer may also be reserved, but must be used when the Children Librarian is present, in order to assist. The Homework Computer features a link to the Chequamegon School District's "drop box" program, plus other links and software to aid school age users with school assignments.


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How to evaluate and purchase a SAN
The Royal Horticultural Society's network manager Martin Taylor guides users through the process of evaluating and purchasing a SAN.
If the time has come to purchase your first SAN, there are many challenges to overcome before you can reap the benefits of centralized storage.
Some of the decisions facing prospective SAN purchasers can mean the difference between deploying a storage system that opens up new opportunities or ending up with a very expensive anchor holding back the organization.
There are many elements in the SAN purchasing process. Let's look at the ones that can help you specify a system to meet your organization's goals.
Business goals, tech specs
The starting point in a SAN purchasing strategy is to determine the business' needs -- both present and future -- in terms of data management and storage. The first step is to hold assessment meetings with those areas of the business that use the SAN in order to create a picture of the organization's storage requirements for the next three to five years.
If disk cost and power consumption are issues, you may need to look for a SAN that allows intelligent disk tiering and data migration. You will also need to consider the backup options available to safeguard your data and how quickly the system can be restored in a disaster recovery situation.
If the SAN is intended to form the heart of new working practices for your organization -- for example, as a backbone for server virtualization – you will need to think about different requirements. These include the ability to boot virtual servers directly from the SAN itself and apply thin provisioning to grow virtual drives intelligently, such as is available from manufacturers such as Compellent Technologies and 3PAR.
Evaluating SAN vendors
Once you have determined the relevant business goals and the technical specs, you can begin the vendor evaluation process. Many SAN vendors and SAN resellers offer free educational seminars that showcase different systems and provide Q&A sessions with industry experts.
Attending these events allows you to build up a portfolio of system knowledge for later comparison and can provide a much broader view of the SAN marketplace. Unleashing the office techies to attend this type of event then letting them present their findings will yield a surprising return when it comes to seeing past the sales pitches and making sure any prospective system is fit for purpose when it is time to make a decision.
Many organizations that are already SAN users are willing to open their doors to prospective purchasers through reference site agreements with manufacturers and resellers. Visiting these sites can be worthwhile if you can talk directly with the storage administrators who have experience using the SAN ... preferably away from any sales representatives. Such discussions can illuminate any pitfalls that may be awaiting you post-purchase and show up any gaps in after-sales services offered.
Making sure your prospective SAN supplier has the resources to fully support the product throughout the lifecycle of the product is vital to your purchasing strategy. A minimal level of after-sales support must include comprehensive hardware replacement strategies and round-the-clock availability of technical support. My experience of "telephone tennis" with foreign call centres was a big influence on my choice of support services from potential suppliers. The ability to speak to knowledgeable staff with remote access to my SAN was a big factor in our eventual selection of a SAN from Compellent and its Co-Pilot service for the Royal Horticultural Society.
When the purchase is imminent, a full due diligence examination of the successful supplier is also advisable. A supplier in financial or legal difficulties is unlikely to provide the service levels required for this type of product and could fail to honor support contracts.
Staff skillsets
The requirements for administering the SAN are another important factor. If you have a dedicated and qualified SAN administrator, this is a moot point. However, if SAN administration is to become part of the job function of an existing member of staff, then a full assessment of the skills and training required to manage the technology should form a part of the purchasing process. The newest SAN products use a Web browser-style management GUI that allows existing staff with a solid knowledge of traditional server RAID array disk management concepts to adapt quickly to a SAN administration role.
To summarize, the main objective when purchasing a SAN is to ensure that it meets the needs of your business at the point of purchase and throughout its lifecycle as a useful component of your business. To attain this objective, you need to know the driving goals and processes of your organization and the technical specifications available from SAN products that can meet them.
At the Royal Horticultural Society we collated all this into a decision matrix which scored potential vendors' products against our need for storage with fast and reliable image search and retrieval through an SQL database to help us make that decision.
Martin Taylor is a converged network manager with the Royal Horticultural Society, which recently went through the process of buying and implementing a Compellent SAN as a repository for its library of 200,000 images.


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Former Mullen linebacker Leilon Willingham transfers to Northern Colorado
Highly-touted linebacker Leilon Willingham has left Central Florida and will transfer to Northern Colorado, he told the Orlando Sentinel yesterday.
Willingham, an All-Colorado pick and defensive player of the year coming out of Mullen in 2010, will be eligible to play for the FCS Bears immediately.
"I loved the (UCF) and everything," Willingham told the paper. "Coach (George) O'Leary and everyone in Orlando were great. UCF fans are great people. I just needed to be closer to home in Colorado.


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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - A plan to outlaw the anchored putting stroke is being supported more by international golfers than those in the United States, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club said Friday.
The R&A and U.S. Golf Association announced the proposed rule on Nov. 28. Because it is a sensitive issue, they allowed a 90-day comment period that ended Thursday.
"We note that this matter has proved particularly sensitive in the United States, while the proposed rule change has been received more favourably across the international golfing community," the R&A said in a statement.
The PGA Tour and PGA of America have announced their opposition to banning the anchored stroke, the common method for using belly putters and long putters that are pressed against the chest. No other tour or golf organization around the world has publicly stated its opposition.
The governing bodies released separate statements Friday that they will evaluate the comments before deciding whether to adopt the rule.
Three of the last five major champions have used belly putters.


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TyMetcalf necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We are a team of students at Arizona State University developing an application for mobile platforms as well as the web. We have a limited budget, but are looking for an out of this world design, and if it blows us away, we will make sure the designer is also recommended on our website.
This Application will allow users to located any winery in the united states based on geo location and user input location. They will be able to create user defined wine tours as well as select from pre packaged wine tours as well as transportation from the App.
We are targeting a younger audience of 21 to 35. Making wine relatable to them.
We know for sure that we want the design to incorporate a planters peanut type character, except as a Cork, no top hat. Be as creative as you'd like at this element, once a designer peaks our interest we will let others know to reflect that design. This Cork would be outside of a wine bottle hanging on to the neck of the bottle or standing on top of it. "ModernCork" should be in the Logo Design. It could be inside of the bottle or be part of the bottle design, free range on this aspect.
Color wise, we seeking a vibrant yet Modern look. We definitely want the logo design to reflect a modern style, a bit sophisticated, but not to the point where it wouldn't be relatable to the average joe.
We will provide feedback as we accept designs and shape our requests.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and lament the passing of James Franco. You were aware that James Franco passed away last night, right? He totally did. LET'S GO!
THE KENNEDYS – 8:00PM Sunday (ReelzChannel) It's a big weekend of premieres, none more so than the debut of this notorious miniseries that was dropped by the History Channel only to be salvaged by the folks at ReelzChannel. Greg Kinnear is your JFK. Katie Holmes is your Jackie O. And just what about this series was so taboo that the History Channel ran screaming away from it? Well, I'm told that the series includes footage of the late President personally waterboarding numerous household pets. AND he sleeps with Henry Kissinger. They don't have sex or anything. But they sleep in the same bed because they're both drunk, and that's kind of scandalous too! I'm just kidding, of course. None of that happens. But this show is brought to you by the dude who made "24," so you'd think the waterboarding thing would be on the table. ANTICIPATION: LIBEL!
THE KILLING – 9:00PM Sunday (AMC) After blowing up cable sets all over the place this fall with "The Walking Dead," AMC tries for another score with this season-long mystery based on a Danish series. Early notices say this one's a bit quiet, so I'll be interested to see if it suffers the same fate as the subtle "Rubicon," or if it'll blossom into a phenomenon as "Mad Men" has. Either way, AMC now has enough credibility to make this appointment viewing. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
THE BORGIAS – 9:00PM Sunday (Showtime) Another new series. This one's a Showtime original starring Jeremy Irons as the head of the very naughty Borgia family, which dabbled in crime, murder, incest, and all sorts of seedy business. Showtime has a recent track record of successful costume dramas with "The Tudors," and this new entry comes to you from "Crying Game" director Neil Jordan. So expect a solid start. ANTICIPATION: ALSO HIGH!
CAMELOT – 10:00PM Tonight (Starz) And yet another new series. Man, you are spoiled. Starz keeps with the swords-and-myths theme and delivers you a series about King Arthur and all his daffy English kuniggits. No Kennedys in this one, though. They're off having sex on ReelzChannel. ANTICIPATION: WHAT IS THE AIR SPEED VELOCITY OF AN UNLADEN SWALLOW?!!
CHAOS – 8:00PM Saturday (CBS) And look at that: a perfect five-for-five this weekend with new series premieres. This one is about a group of rogue CIA agents and stars that dude from "Six Feet Under." Please do not confuse this show with "Chaos," the film. You really don't want to see that. ANTICIPATION: MILD!
Weekend Watch List: Those Krazy Kennedys!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and lament the passing of James Franco. You were aware that James Franco passed away last night, right? He totally did. LET'S GO!


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A new collaboration with Joe Grushecky, another official download, breaking news from E Street and an upcoming sit-down with Tom Hanks are among the latest Springsteen-related news and links.
Yes, Bruce is partying with the Obamas and Tom Hanks and Oprah (and who knows who else? Beyonce? Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson? The entire original Broadway cast of "Hamilton"? The mind reels). But the Springsteen news continues to pile up.
Chatter is that the "solo" album referenced by Jon Landau may have been nudged to the back of the archival closet for now -- maybe because Bruce is working on a new Trump-era masterpiece? -- but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of Bruce-related links to keep up with. The E Street Band, for one, is keeping VERY busy.
Here's the update:
• UPDATE: This just in -- a new collaboration between Bruce and Joe Grushecky will take on Trump. Listen to E Street Radio 10 a.m. Wednesday for the debut.
• What? You didn't catch Blogness' own Peter Chianca discussing our Springsteen Song Poll on the Set Lusting Bruce podcast? Here's your chance.
• Who's ready for Bruce and Tom Hanks at the Tribeca Film Festival?
• Weird cover project department: Jonathan Rado of Foxygen to release vinyl covering Springsteen's entire "Born to Run" album, available via vinyl subscription service.
• Springsteen nominated for "Top Touring Artist" and "Top Rock Tour" in Billboard Music Awards, because of course he was.
• Great discovering-Bruce story from legendary Boston DJ Carter Alan of WZLX.
• "That song ... I do not think it means what you think it means." (CNN.com)
• FLASHBACK: Read Annie Zaleski's 2008 review of the classic Springsteen St. Louis show that was officially released last week for purchase and download.
• We'd have done much better in school with homework assignments like this.
• Who's got an extra $7.5 million for a whole bunch of Bruce's old stuff?
• How a group of "fearsome bilingual punks" found inspiration in Bruce Springsteen and his music. (thefader.com)
• BBC quiz asks "Just how much Bruce Springsteen do you have in you?"
• Stevie Van Zandt's new album "Soulfire" arrives May 19! And for some extra dough, you can also have him record your voice mail message and teach you songwriting.
• The Garry W. Tallent tour is about to begin! Billboard gets the lowdown, including Garry's skepticism that he will actually be off the hook from E Street for the rest of the year. Also, see Rolling Stone's take here.
•Max Weinberg was also a recent Rolling Stone feature subject, reflecting on his 43 years on E Street.
• Ultimate Classic Rock (including our own Deb Filcman) imagines what a single Human Touch/Lucky Town album would look like, on the occasion of the albums' 25th anniversary.
• Our own Anne Haines revisits Springsteen in Pittsburgh for her latest "Always Go To The Show" installment.


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The next big update for White Box:FMAG should be done by the end of this month. Then I will finish up the Quickstart.
But what should come next? What does the game need most?
I'm looking for just one answer here. What is the ONE thing you think should come next?


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This signed photo is part of our official Sergio Perez Collection - personally signed by Sergio Perez at the FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO 2018.
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Disaster recovery in the cloud
Hybrid cloud disaster recovery (DR) appliances are an emerging class of business continuity product that makes effective and timely DR affordable for even the smallest of firms.
- Eric Slack, Evaluator Group
Hybrid cloud disaster recovery (DR) appliances are an emerging class of business continuity product that makes effective and timely DR affordable for even the smallest of firms.
The term "disaster recovery plan" can have a range of definitions, from a hot-site data center that provides failover in seconds to a small business owner taking backup tapes home in a backpack. In reality, most companies fall somewhere in between these two extremes. They don't need recovery in seconds, and couldn't afford a redundant infrastructure anyway, but they certainly need more than a system that relies solely on backup tapes.
With asynchronous replication now commonly available on storage and networking devices, getting data transferred to a remote facility or to a cloud service has become relatively easy. This capability has been sold as a way for companies of all sizes to implement a disaster recovery (DR) solution.
However, recovering from a disaster requires critical applications to be restarted and their services restored to users, a process that involves more than simply moving data off site. But bringing large data sets back from a remote site and restarting critical servers can take hours or days to complete. For companies that need recovery times in minutes, or maybe an hour, replicating data to the cloud isn't an effective DR solution.
There's a relatively new option now available for these organizations, a hybrid cloud disaster recovery (DR) service. An evolution of cloud backup, hybrid cloud DR allows companies to get critical application servers' data off-site as virtual machine (VM) images. These VMs can then be started and run from the cloud, providing a recovery time of minutes at a cost that's more in line with a typical company's budget.
Hybrid cloud for backing up data and servers
Hybrid cloud backup refers to services that use an on-site appliance to collect backups from individual client machines and then handle the transfer of those data sets to the cloud. Most of these appliances combine storage capacity and compute power with a backup application to produce a turnkey replacement for traditional on-site backup infrastructure. With data stored on-site they can provide for restores locally, eliminating the issues of bandwidth and long wait times for restores that "pure" cloud backup services often suffer from.
While a hybrid appliance can address the problems with cloud file restores, it can't help when the data center is under water. For those situations, a cloud disaster recovery service can be an effective and economical solution.
Starting with a hybrid backup appliance, these vendors have added software to convert physical server images to virtual machine images and store them on-site. With embedded compute power as well as storage, the appliance can host these VMs and provide a local high-availability (HA) solution for these servers. On the back end, the appliance transfers its stored VM images to the cloud, which has compute resources available to restart the VMs and run them from the cloud in the event of a disaster. Hybrid cloud DR products use differential technologies and data reduction, as the hybrid cloud backup products do, to improve efficiency and support multiple recovery points.
Hybrid cloud recovery
The recovery process typically takes only a few minutes and is controlled by the client or managed service provider through a Web portal, similar to the way restores are handled with a hybrid backup product. Users can then run their applications in the cloud until the primary data center is back online, or leave them running in the cloud as hosted applications. When it's time to "fail back" to normal operations, they can synchronize their primary servers with the cloud over the Internet, or have a storage device sent from the cloud provider and do a sync locally.
There are a number of hybrid cloud DR products available today with many more in the works. Adding a DR capability is a natural evolution for hybrid cloud backup providers as is adding a cloud capability for vendors that build dedicated DR solutions for virtual server environments. This is also a service that can be added to a more traditional storage or backup system offering, one that has the ability to run VM images. We'll now describe four examples of hybrid cloud DR offerings.
Axcient Appliance
Axcient Inc.'s Axcient Appliance is installed on-site and provides agentless local backup and restore for computers and servers running in physical or virtual environments. These can be traditional file-based backups, or full server images that are stored locally and then transferred to the Axcient data center (the cloud). The server images are automatically converted locally into virtual machine images that users can run on the Axcient Appliance to ensure business continuity if their production servers fail. Upon replacement of the original server, the image can be failed back, including any changes accrued while running on the appliance.
In 2011 Axcient added the ability to start VMs within the Axcient cloud, completing its hybrid cloud DR solution. Each VM image is incrementally updated with a snapshot technology to create a "reverse incremental" chain of server versions that can be recovered. When a recovery event occurs or as a readiness test, the user logs into the Web portal and selects "virtualize office." This process automatically allocates resources (CPU, memory, connectivity and so on) to support the VM images stored for the user. It also creates a control panel that can be used to configure networking, select servers and versions to recover, and to start the desired virtual machines. According to Axcient, its target customers are smaller and midmarket companies with up to 25 servers. Axcient Appliances are sold exclusively through VARs and MSPs.
Datto SIRIS
Datto Inc.'s SIRIS appliance provides full agent-based local backup and restore of physical and virtual servers, which are all captured as images and converted into VMDK files for storage on the appliance. These can also be exported and run on a standard ESXi host if desired. These files are replicated on an incremental basis to the Datto cloud (they have data centers in Pennsylvania and California), where they're stored on similar nodes that have the compute and memory resources necessary to host the virtual machines.
When a disaster occurs, users or their MSPs log in to a Web portal to select the servers and versions that need to be recovered, make configuration decisions and start their virtual machines. When the primary site returns to service, users can perform a data merge of the VM images they've been running in the cloud with those at the primary site to capture changed data; alternatively, they can have a portable drive shipped to their site if the changed data set is too large. Testing of VMs can be done automatically, for VM images locally or in the cloud. According to Datto, its market is the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) space, although its largest appliance will support up to 20 servers and multiple appliances can be deployed to scale. The appliances are sold and supported through VARs and MSPs exclusively.
Quorum onQ
Quorum Inc. developed its technology initially as an appliance-based, instant server recovery solution for small to midsized companies, not as a backup solution per se. The Quorum onQ Appliance is a 2U server with up to 12 CPU cores and enough resources to support up to 40 virtual machines or recovery nodes. When implemented, the on-site system creates virtual machine clones of critical servers and stores those images on the onQ Appliance; the images are updated as often as every 15 minutes on the local appliance. If the primary is a physical server, the onQ Appliance does a physical-to-virtual conversion, creating VM images. The onQ Appliance can be deployed as an HA alternative to clustering packages or as a DR offering that's replicated to another onQ Appliance in a remote facility.
In 2011, Quorum added a cloud-based service for off-site replication providing users with enterprise-class data centers (in California and Washington, D.C.) in which to store images and provide the infrastructure to run virtual machines from the cloud. Virtual machine images are kept in a ready-to-run state and failover is a one-step process that takes just a few minutes. Automated, one-step testing is performed daily to provide assurance that updates were successful and that VMs can be restarted. According to Quorum, its primary market is midsized firms with five to 80 servers. Customers can buy onQ Appliances and set up their own DR infrastructure, or engage a VAR for implementation and support.
Quantum DXi and vmPRO
Quantum Corp.'s DXi deduplication appliance is well established, competing in the midmarket-to-enterprise space with products like EMC Corp.'s Data Domain appliances for a number of years. Recently, Quantum released vmPRO, a software product that installs as a virtual machine in VMware ESXi 4.1+ environments and backs up to Quantum's DXi V1000, a virtual machine instance of the DXi appliance. Together, they provide a scalable, enterprise-level version of the hybrid cloud appliance.
The vmPRO application takes a snapshot of VMs and writes them to the DXi V1000. Working in conjunction with VMware's Changed Block Tracking (CBT), vmPRO reduces the size of the backup set by as much as 75%. vmPRO can also copy VMs in their native format to the DXi appliances where DXi applies its variable-length deduplication to achieve a total data reduction of up to 95%. Leveraging its partnership with Xerox, VM images are then sent to Xerox's cloud data center where they're stored on virtualization hosts, ready to be restored and run until the primary site is returned to service.
Quantum targets midmarket-to-larger companies, typically those running an enterprise backup application often using a disk-based, deduplication appliance. The vmPRO-DXi solution provides an affordable disaster recovery alternative for these companies with the ability to handle data sets into the hundreds of terabytes.
Backup's easy; restoring is hard
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TIME MANIPULATION Roundup
September 30th, 2012
This month's crop of games pushed, pulled, slowed, stopped, and jumped in time. Here we've got games of all kinds, from playing multiple timelines to bird chirping to trying to move a clock backwards.
Now let's take a look at these 9 games:
TimeSpace, by Jake L
Shoots at ships with the advantage of reversing time to escape their bullets.
Survive an ever increasing amount of enemies by freezing them in place
Adjust the gears of an extraordinarily complex system in order to get balls to the goal.
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Create trails of poo while avoiding your opponents poo, with the added twist of time reversal.
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It's not unusual for Charter 97, a Belarusian pro-opposition news website, to be disrupted online. CPJ has documented intimidations, threats, and arrests against its staff members, the murder of its founder, and denial-of-service attacks against the website.
On Thursday, the site endured a devastating online raid, Editor-in-Chief Natalya Radina told CPJ. Anonymous individuals used a password that Radina believed they got from malware used on an editor's personal computer. The saboteurs then logged on to the site's administrative section, deleted archives, and created a false news story about opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, she said. Sannikov was imprisoned after coming second in the December 2010 elections, and was sentenced to five years in prison in May.
Then again, this morning, Charter 97 was forced off-line after another DOS attack, Radina told CPJ.
Sites like Charter 97 do not have the resources to devote to digital forensics. Radina, winner of CPJ's 2011 International Press Freedom Award, works in exile in Lithuania. Like Sannikov, she faces charges of "organizing mass disorder" in her home country of Belarus.
For all of the accusations of criminality they make against journalists and political opponents, Belarusian authorities seem entirely uninterested in combating acts of computer crimes in at least some circumstances. While most of the disruption against Charter 97 took place behind the shield of anonymizing services, one of the attackers was using a Belarusian IP address. An assailant who not only sabotages Charter 97's archive but plants false information about an opposing presidential competitor would seem to be strongly connected to the Lukashenko regime.
Before the second attack this morning, Charter 97 was able to restore most of its archive, but its editors were not sure if some of the articles from December 2011 could be recovered, Radina told us.
Whatever the news from Charter 97 will be in 2012, it's clear that some in Belarus do not want their compatriots to read about it online. Radina remains defiant: "Take it from me that we shall live through today's attack too, no matter how serious it is. And we shall work even better."


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The parade began at 2 p.m. Wednesday on 20th and Market Streets in Center City. The parade then traveled east on Market Street, went around the southwest corner of City Hall and then traveled south on Broad Street down to FDR Park at Broad and Pattison streets.
The parade also made two stops, one at the Kimmel Center where the Philly POPS! performed for the team and another at Broad Street and Washington Avenue where Mummers performed.
The parade ended with a rally and speaking program at FDR Park in the field to the east of the American Swedish Historical Museum directly off Pattison Avenue.
Wednesday night, the team was honored during a pregame tribute by the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
The Taney Dragons represented the Mid-Atlantic region in the Little League World Series, and 13-year-old Mo'ne Davis captivated fans and became the first female pitcher to win a game in the series' 68-year history.
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School of Music receives $2 million donation to establish scholarships
A $2 million donation to the Liberty University School of Music has opened the door for incoming freshmen who might otherwise not have enrolled, and benefited rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have demonstrated their gifts in worship and the performing arts.
Harold and Patricia Mathena, members of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Okla., made the generous donation for the scholarships last fall. The couple presented the first 11 scholarships to students during a special Convocation for the School of Music on April 23 in Thomas Road Baptist Church's Bruner Hall.
"We had very little scholarship money for the music program before this," said Dr. Vernon Whaley, dean of the School of Music. "This donation has allowed us to establish an entire scholarship program with 14 different kinds of scholarships. It is a tremendous blessing."
Harold Mathena attended the very first Super Conference hosted by Liberty in the late 1970s.
"Harold Mathena is a longtime Southern Baptist pastor who followed the ministry of (Liberty founder) Dr. Jerry Falwell," Whaley said.
The Mathenas' son, Dr. Gary Mathena, then minister of music at First Baptist Church in Roanoke, also attended the Convocation. He first met Whaley in the mid-1980s when he was the minister of music for First Southern Baptist Church in Del City, Okla., and Whaley was working on his Ph.D. at Oklahoma University.
"Over time, I've talked a lot to Mom and Dad about Liberty University," Gary Mathena said. "They've always had tremendous respect for its vision and what it's doing to Train Champions for Christ."
Gary Mathena learned more about the plans for the School of Music when he traveled with some of its staff members to Moscow, Russia, for a worship conference last fall. Upon his return to Roanoke, he invited his parents to pay a visit to Liberty.
"Seeing what God is doing with the music school and the ways He is blessing it … it just captured my mom and dad's heart," Mathena said.
Before leaving campus, they met twice with Whaley and expressed their interest in answering his prayer to provide more scholarships as the program grows.
"Mom is the first to tell you that this gift is for one purpose only — for God's glory and the furtherance of His kingdom," Gary Mathena said. "That's what she wrote on the memo of the check."
Half of the $2 million donation will establish an endowment fund to help finance future scholarships. The 60 one-year scholarships — 15 to rising seniors, 20 to incoming freshmen, and 25 to rising sophomores and juniors — vary in monetary value, ranging from $2,000 to $5,000. They include The Mathena Family New Student Music Scholarship, which will award $2,500 to 20 School of Music incoming freshmen; The John G. Gage Instrumental Music Scholarship; and The Jack Price Music Scholarship, which each will grant $5,000 to eight rising sophomore music or music and worship majors participating in an approved praise team or music chamber group.
Whaley said applicants will audition in the area of music they plan to pursue. Auditions will take place during College for a Weekend (CFAW) events or by appointment on Friendly Friday dates.
The first 11 scholarship recipients honored in April were Emma Burnham, Lauren Bentley, Bryan Clark, Todd Holloway, Mary Lawrence, Sebastien Douyon, Joel Fernando, Mike Hines, Kristin Quint, Christopher Rhodes, and Magdalena Schroeder.
|Gary Mathena and his wife, Donnita, are recognized at the April 23, 2014, School of Music Convocation.
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There is something we've been discussing on the irc-chat off and on:
As some of you may know, I've been jumping forth and back between P:C and SHOTN quite a lot lately. And I'm not the only person who does that.
To me it is a problem, because I often suffer a nagging feeling of neglecting the respective other project, when I work on one of them without helping the other one for a while. That may sound silly and probably is, but that is what nearly gets me to a point where I want to quit one of the two projects, even though I consider my participation in either projects as crucial. That may sound as if I thought rather high of myself, but to me it often seems just to be the little bit of support I do in addition to what other people already do that can make all the difference.
You probably already see what I'm getting at: I propose we merge the projects. In the first place that would include using the same website and forum and a common organisation.
There are two big advantages and one possibly big disadvantage I see about doing this:
- We can compensate weaknesses the respective projects have. Skyrim has never been as strong on lore and "story" as P:C or TR, for example. Some parts of SHOTN are not as solidified and do not carry the mark of the nirn-universe as strongly as they maybe should. If we had a common forum, some of the people from P:C could stop by and give input without having to sign up somewhere else and involve themselves more than they want. Skyrim on the other hand, as far as I can tell, has a better workforce in the interior and exterior section and could lend a hand around here, which practically happens already anyway. But the fact that the forums are not divided would make it much more convenient for a couple of people, I imagine.
- There can be one person doing publicity for both projects. And we can use the same space for both projects to show off. It might be more likely that there is something to show off at a given by one of the projects.
- Together we might have an active staff size similar to that of TR. We would have a bigger weight in the modding-community as a collaboration that works on the active province mods, given that we can increase publicity in some way.
- We run into the risk of the presence of a sibling project on the same forum causing people to lose their focus and stray themselves too far. That aside, it would actually increase the feasibility and productivity to only do one of the two projects, anyway.
But I have spent so much effort on both projects that I want both to continue and at least reach some of their aims. Reaching that common release we've been speaking about, would already be an unlikely but desirable mark, I'd definetively love to see it hit and of course, seeing the Nibenay after that would be even better than that.
The way I see it there are only two ways I can go about this:
- I only work on one of the two projects and leave the other project to itself.
- We put the projects together and combine and optimize our capabilities and try to stem both projects.


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100 Years of Grand: The Grand Canyon Centennial Project
A digital archive celebrating the Centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park. A collaborative project of the Arizona State University Library, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University and the Grand Canyon National Park. Additional materials are available via the project website.
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- Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972
- Babbitt Brothers Trading Company
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- Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas
- History of the Grand Canyon National Park
- Stage Coach Trip to the Grand Canyon, 1895, by Josephine Frankenberg of Tempe
- Letter from A. E. Demaray, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
- Letter from Carl Hayden to J. R. Eakin, Grand Canyon National Park
Letter from George W. Kimball to Carl Hayden with an enclosed map detailing the cattle and sheep allotments on the portion of the Tusyan Forest next to the Grand Canyon. Listed are names of permit holders in both stock and allotment that are most likely to trespass into the park. The names are: W. F. Griffin, W. W. Bass, H. R. Lauzon, Swanner and Griffin, Bankhead and Henderson, Martin Buggeln, Babbitt Brothers, Sanford Rowe, and P. D. Berry.
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Developing a good disaster recovery (DR) plan is similar to good dental hygiene -- and almost as exciting. Similar to going to the dentist twice a year, you should also test your DR plan with the same frequency. Wait too long to clean up your plan and you'll be stuck with the root canal of recovering your data.
Executives resist spending money on anything that does not generate revenue. In the case of disaster recovery (DR), that could be a fatal mistake.
DR provides a blueprint for resuming operations in the event of unanticipated disruptions -- whether from hurricanes, hackers, terrorists, power outages or any number of other risks. Included are arrangements for data replication and storage, auxiliary power sources, redundant computer systems and alternative work locations for employees.
International Data Corp. estimates that companies lose an average of $84,000 for every hour of downtime. Strategic Research puts the figure closer to $90,000 an hour. Yet many enterprises put off implementing enterprise-wide DR plans until it is too late. "Their attitude is, 'It's never going to happen to me,'" says Ed Broderick, an analyst with the IT consultancy Robert Frances Group in Westport, Conn.
Experts advise that there are seven key components to DR planning: Business impact assessment, discovery, budget, role-based teams, data protection, logistics and semiannual tests. What follows is a look at each of these areas, along with solid advice from storage experts and IT pros in the trenches.
1. Business impact assessment
A business impact assessment (BIA) should answer two questions pivotal to your DR planning: How soon do you need to resume operations? And how much information would be lost, including its financial impact?
Risks may vary according to geography, industry and other factors, but they generally fall into one of four distinct categories: financial loss, damage to reputation, regulatory penalties or operational disruption. Carl Claunch, a research vice president with Gartner Inc., says a BIA articulates each risk in a financial context for chief executives.
"There are all sorts of ways an outage can affect a business, and having a sense for how those costs mount up and when they start getting steep 'gives' you a reasonable target" on how much to spend on DR planning, Claunch says.
2. Discovery
Bill Peldzus, an analyst with Glasshouse Technologies Inc. in Framingham, Mass., says companies often jump right to the information technology aspect of DR without first knowing their business drivers.
"For each application, you have to understand the network infrastructure, the systems infrastructure and the storage infrastructure. If you don't have that information, it's nearly impossible to begin discussing technology options for your DR architecture," Peldzus says.
Segment data according to "tiers of criticality" based on its relevance, according to Broderick. Make sure you cover any and all enterprise-critical applications, as well as any line-of-business-critical applications.
"Lots of companies do an adequate job of protecting the corporate data center but fail to adequately protect (individual) data centers that run their lines of business," Broderick says.
3. Budget
Not every risk is worth offsetting. If your business lies in a floodplain or a region prone to hurricanes, weigh those probable disruptions ahead of less likely scenarios. Financial institutions may face severe fines for failing to meet government regulations. Health care companies similarly are at risk if sensitive patient data gets exposed. A retailer may lose customers should its system be hacked in credit-card scams.
Broderick suggests a phased approach to implementation to spread the cost over short cycles of time. Include at least one person appointed by the CEO on your DR team and begin by drafting a preliminary 90-day budget.
"The first task during the first 90 days is to build a six-month second-phase budget," Broderick says.
4. Role-based teams
Rather than relying on one or two people, it is widely considered preferable to appoint a team of different employees to manage and maintain the plan.
"Your DR plan should be documented so that different people can execute it and you're not dependent on any specific individuals. Don't depend on knowledge that is in somebody's head," Claunch says.
Boston Capital, a financial services company with about 240 employees, launched DR planning about a year ago to comply with regulations from the National Association of Securities Dealers.
"We're definitely trying to make our DR plan role-based. We've identified a business continuity team of nine people who have been here a long time, represent a good cross-section of 'departments' and whom we feel would display good leadership qualities in the event of a crisis," says Brian Madden, the company's IT director.
Team members usually need specific technical competencies to execute the plan, although they don't need to understand the intricacies of your applications. "You want the plan to be detailed and role based so that competent people in different areas can look at it and 'know how' to recover your applications," Madden says.
Among its responsibilities, a DR team should establish the sequence in which key systems and applications are recovered. "If you fall behind on one system that's not as critical, you can let it slip and work on 'restoring' systems that are most critical to the business first," Claunch says. "The other reason this is important is that sometimes system B depends on system A."
5. Data protection
Perhaps no component is as crucial as technology. Aside from people, information is the single most important asset for any organization. Yet companies often neglect simple measures such as storing multiple copies of crucial business files and applications at backup locations.
Miami-based Biscayne Aquaculture designs life-support systems for aquatic animals in zoos and public aquaria. The company began institutionalizing its DR practices last year as hurricane Frances bore down on Florida. Biscayne participated in a beta test of a remote data backup software, using it to store 3D drawings, computer-aided design, customer information, financial and other vital operational data.
"The most critical thing is getting data secured, because equipment and buildings can be replaced," says Jim Post, Biscayne's director of project development.
Automated, remote backup services also are available from competitors Iron Mountain, Comdisco, Amerivault and numerous smaller vendors. Other enterprises pay companies like SunGuard Disaster Recovery, Electronic Data Systems or IBM to manage remote "hot sites," or alternate offices that contain computers, equipment and furniture that allow for continuous operations after a disaster.
"Whether 'delivered' by truck or by automation, you've got to have multiple copies of data stored off site and a long, long way from your primary data center. And you must have a plan to get it back that is tested, doable and practical," Broderick says.
Include the same architecture in your DR site as in your primary data center, Peldzus says. If you use a WAN, the Internet, an intranet portal and telephones to take customer orders, build the same infrastructure at your backup facility. "If you can't get users to your DR site at a similar level of performance 'as at' your production site, it's almost not worth having."
6. Logistics
In DR planning, it pays to sweat the small stuff. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Broderick says some companies neglected to deal with logistical details, such as employees' transportation to backup facilities. Still other firms neglected to stock their DR site with everyday items like desks, pads and pens.
"Where a lot of companies stubbed their toe on 9/11 was simple logistical details," Broderick says.
Along those same lines, he recommends giving some members of your DR team spending authority in the event you have to temporarily house and feed employees.
7. Semiannual tests
The conventional wisdom is that DR plans should be tested at least twice a year, perhaps more depending on the degree of change within your environment. Moving servers in and out of production, reworking a database or launching new applications are all significant environmental changes that need to be documented in your DR plan. This could be accomplished by making DR plan updates the responsibility of application development or database administration, Broderick says.
Don't be discouraged when you discover points of failure. The most successful tests point up the most problems because they help "improve the quality of the plan so it's more likely to work in an actual disaster," Claunch says.About the author: Garry Kranz is a freelance business and technology writer based in Richmond, Va.


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