Announcement 19 articles, 2016-04-11 12:03 1 News News for the Open Source Professional 2016-04-11 12:03 480Bytes www.linux.com 2 CW@50: Storage – From punched cards to flash and the cloud Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966, we have moved from a world of punched cards and paper tape to one where flash and the cloud have revolutionised data storage. 2016-04-11 09:32 2KB www.computerweekly.com 3 Security Think Tank: Tackle vital patching challenge with risk- based approach What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing? 2016-04-11 08:40 3KB www.computerweekly.com 4 Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum Wireless Gaming Mouse Review The Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum has been designed with an emphasis on reducing as much weight as possible. From the thin wall molding to the hollow "spoked" hyper-fast scroll wheel design. 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It involved a six-month campaign that included some light Internet stalking, badgering staff.. 2016-04-10 20:16 9KB feedproxy.google.com 19 Google Fiber free service ends in Kansas City Google has pulled the plug on its free offering in Kansas City. Existing customers of the service can continue to use the plan until May 19, after which they'll have to switch to a paid tier. 2016-04-10 16:54 1KB feedproxy.google.com Articles 19 articles, 2016-04-11 12:03 1 News Brought to you by The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium enabling collaboration and innovation through an open source development model. Learn More © 2016 The Linux Foundation 2016-04-11 12:03 www.linux 2 CW@50: Storage – From punched cards to flash and the cloud The relationship of storage to the architecture of computing is all about capacity, latency and throughput. In other words, how much data can be kept, how quickly it can be accessed and at what rate. Since the launch of Computer Weekly in 1966, the world of storage has gone through transformations as remarkable as aviation’s progression from the Wright brothers to supersonic flight. And just as the pioneers of flight would recognise the fundamentals of today’s aircraft in basic design, from the viewpoint of 1966, the speeds and magnitudes of storage now would seem utterly alien. In the 1960s, the key methods of data storage centred on two media: paper and cardboard, and magnetic media. Magnetic tape and even the spinning hard drive had already been invented for data, but punched cards and paper tape were used to run programs and store data in most of the nation’s datacentres. Punched cards – which dated back to textile and fairground organ applications from the 19th century and beyond – were usually the IBM-derived standard 7 3 / 8 in x 3 1 / 4 in with 80 columns and 12 rows (0-9 and 11 and 12), although there were variants of card size and column width from other computer makers, such as the UK’s ICL . Data was represented by punched holes in each column that were read by shining a light on the card. Initially, combinations of punched holes had represented analogue forms of information, but as the 20th century progressed, they came to represent binary data. Information about the data set – metadata – was represented in rows 11 and 12 and sometimes in unused columns. One IBM card held 72 x 10 bits. State-of-the-art punched-card hardware in 1966 was the IBM 2540 (a peripheral to the System/360 mainframe ), which could read 1,000 cards per minute (giving a throughput of 720Kb per minute; write speed/cards punched was 300 per minute) and an input hopper that held 3,100 cards. That is just over 2MB of capacity, but that was theoretically infinitely scalable as long as there was a human available to unload and reload the hoppers. 2016-04-11 09:32 Antony Adshead 3 3 Security Think Tank: Tackle vital patching challenge with risk- based approach Patching is one of the areas where organisational security is frequently under strain and struggling to attain good quality processes in the face of increased threats and the resulting high volume of patches. According to the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), disregard for patching represents a significant and growing problem for all businesses. Patch management is part of an overarching configuration management regime, and should be harmonised with it and with the risk management regime. However, we know from experience that this is seen as too difficult and left in the capable – but laden – hands of the IT team. In effect, many businesses are in a totally reactive, “patch everything as it comes” mode. This is stressful and inefficient and is no guarantee of a quality patch management system. Businesses use a vast array of systems and applications, and starting from a risk perspective will help triage how we build our patch management regime. In risk assessing each server and application, find out what information it uses/ holds and how critical this information is – how important is the CIA ( confidentiality, integrity and availability ) of the information and what would be the impact of its compromise. Some areas may be more critical than others and the necessity of patching therefore raised higher in the patching regime. The same risk-based approach should be applied to the patches themselves. With the understanding of each application and its CIA in mind, the next stage is to understand how critical (or not) the patches are so that their application can be prioritised. For instance, a critical security patch on a payroll application should take priority over a new feature for a marketing email system. Without this system of risk assessing the effect of not patching (or delaying and scheduling all non-critical updates and fixes) and understanding the criticality of the system or application being patched, the continuation of patch pandemonium is assured.