A3Cube's EXA-Converged infrastructure represents the next step in the evolution of converged systems", said Emilio Billi, A3Cube's CTO, "while keeping and improving on the scalability and resilience of Hyper-Converged infrastructure.
A3Cube®, a pioneer in EXA-Converged infrastructure, today announced the F-730 Family of EXA-Converged parallel systems built on Dell servers and achieving sub-microsecond latency through bare metal data access.
The F-730 Family is the first generation of EXA-Converged solutions specifically designed for Big Data, Analytics and IO intense workloads. It is based on a unique and revolutionary architecture engineered to efficiently address the computational and storage needs of current and future applications where time to result is a crucial and indispensable requirement. F-730 eliminates the need for expensive and complicated external storage and ensures the fastest possible data access through bare metal convergence of memory, storage, and IO, as well as computation and inter-node communication that benefit from remote direct memory access (RDMA).
Other solutions currently available on the market are known as Hyper-Converged and use a Hypervisor to virtualize all hardware resources. This means an additional software layer that doesn't permit direct access to the hardware resources and results in an unavoidable slowdown of performance (extremely high latency, milliseconds, in data access and undesired continuous CPU content switching) and the inability to take full advantage of new storage technologies such as SSD, NVMe and 3D XPoint technology co-developed by Intel and Micron.
A3Cube's F-730 Family is a fully clustered parallel solution where multiple F-730 nodes are efficiently combined to create powerful systems that scale linearly in all aspects of performance: data IO and data capacity. The F-730 Family employs A3Cube's proprietary HSDS architecture (Hardware accelerated Software Defined System), in combination with A3Cube's Direct Pervasive IO architecture, to remove the existing bottleneck between all the resources distributed across the clustered nodes. The F-730 Family integrates FortissimoFS™ Engine, a high-performance clustered low-latency manager that aggregates the system resources at bare metal (using a proprietary technology that is called direct pervasive IO) and provides optimized convergence of memories, storage, computation and RDMA.
The FortissimoFS™ Engine guarantees ultra-fast data access to many modern applications including Hadoop, Spark and other analytics platforms and frameworks through the bare metal replacement of HDFS which results in an overall boost in performance ranging from 6X to more than 10X compared to the standard HDFS implementation ( benchmarks available such as TeraSort).
Machine learning, drug discovery, DNA-related studies and large-scale data mining are among the many Big Data and Analytics applications that will benefit greatly from performance improvements via the F-730 Family.
(iii) F-730 TurboIO, database accelerator for MySQL, MariaDB and Oracle DB.
The solutions can scale from two nodes to more than 1,000 nodes and from a few terabytes to multiple petabytes of converged storage.
A3Cube is a proud member of the Dell OEM Program. Our systems utilize best-in-class Dell hardware and include global service and support from Dell, an extra value-add that is designed to delight clients and achieve the highest customer satisfaction.
A3Cube has solved the latency problem associated with software only solutions to scale out converged computing bringing to market the Exa-Converged infrastructure, the fastest solutions for big data, analytics and machine learning; reducing power consumption while extolling the maximum performance from the hardware.
A3Cube transforms your time, your data and your infrastructure in value.


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CompTIA A+ What is Spyware?
Posted 06-22-2016 filed under CompTIA A+.
Spyware can invade your privacy by recording, passing on and abusing your personal details – including credit card details – all of it behind your back. Good anti virus software or blocker software (known as anti spyware) will keep you safe from the threats spyware poses.
Spyware is often installed on your computer when you download free software. So you should carefully read the licence agreement for any software you download from the internet.
What you should look for is a paragraph saying that your PII (Personally Identifiable Information) WILL NOT be shared with third parties.
Spyware removal is a key component in internet security, and the removal software is referred to as 'antispyware'.
Spyware doesn't spread in the manner of a computer virus or worm: generally, an infected system does not attempt to transmit the infection to other computers.
Instead, spyware gets on a system through deception of the user or exploitation of software vulnerabilities.
Most spyware is installed without user's knowledge. Since users tend not to install software if they know that it will disrupt their working environment and compromise their privacy, spyware deceives you, either by piggybacking on a piece of desirable software such as LimeWire, or by tricking them into installing it (the 'Trojan horse' method). The distributor of spyware usually presents the program as a useful utility — for instance, as a "web accelerator" or as a helpful software agent.
While the term 'spyware' suggests software that secretly monitors your behaviour, the functions of spyware extend well beyond simple monitoring. Spyware programs can collect personal information, such as internet surfing habits, and can also interfere with your control over the computer in other ways, installing additional software and redirecting web browser activity.
Some of the most damaging spyware are 'keyloggers', small programs or hardware devices that monitor each keystroke you type on a specific computer's keyboard, including typos, backspacing and retyping.
They are used by cybercriminals to covertly watch and record everything you type on your computer in order to harvest your log-in names, passwords, and other sensitive information, and send it on to the hackers. This may include any passwords you have asked your computer to remember for you to speed up logging in, as these are held as cookies on your machine.
A spyware program is rarely alone on a computer: an infected machine usually has multiple infections. Users frequently notice unwanted behaviour and degradation of system performance.
A spyware infestation can create significant unwanted activity in the CPU (the Central Processing Unit, i.e. the brains of your computer), as well as unwanted disk usage and network traffic. Stability issues, such as applications freezing, failure to boot and system-wide crashes are also common. Spyware which interferes with networking software commonly causes difficulty connecting to the internet.
Spyware is known to change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds, different home pages, and/or loss of internet or functionality of other programs.


Demand for products containing nuts is on the rise, in no small part thanks to a growing awareness of the difference between 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' fats.
to see a compound annual growth rate of 6.9% through to 2023. While peanut butter leads the category, sales of almond, cashew, macadamia nut, coconut, and walnut are also gaining popularity.
Nuts are also making their way into other product formats. Innova Market Insights noted that nut bar introductions are up by 35%, with almond introductions outpacing the category with a 47% increase.
This category expansion has been supported by a shift in the way consumers understand the health benefits of nut consumption.
Consumers are becoming more actively engaged in understanding how and why their food impacts their health. According to Innova, seven in ten UK consumers want to know more about ingredients and understand them better.
She suggested that almonds are a "powerhouse of nutrients" and "are high in healthy fats".
Dietary studies have linked nut consumption to a number of health benefits and, Loader noted, nut consumption has, in fact, been linked to reduce overall calorie intake because of their satiating properties. "They are very nutritious so they are not empty calories", he suggested.
While the specific nutritional profile of different nuts varies, they are typically high in monounsaturated fat, with helps to cholesterol and so is healthy for the heart.
Many nuts boast a high flavonoid content. Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants with anti-inflammatory and immune system benefits.
Nuts can also be rich in omega 7, vitamins, magnesium, dietary fibre, phosphorous and manganese. Some nuts, such as macadamias, also contain high levels of Palmitoleic acid, which has been shown to reduce aging of skin.
With a high protein content, nuts are frequently used in plant-based protein products.
Dariela Roffe-Rackind, director of Europe and global PR at the Almond Board of California, believes that product innovation is helping to drive consumer excitement in the functional protein snack category.
"Snack bars and bites are also branching out, with small portion 'energy balls' hitting the market. Bites, clusters, crisps, chips, thins, and brittles welcomes sophisticated flavour profiles and new takes on ingredients that can serve as cues for energy-boosting nourishment," he told FoodNavigator.
As Loader suggested, there is strong potential for nuts to capitalise on the growing interest in plant-based protein sources. According to Innova, plant-based product launchers were up 49% globally between 2012 and 2016.