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A further dump of Sony Pictures corporate secrets appears to have been put on the Internet over the weekend, with hackers warning of more to come.
A message pointing to 5 gigabytes of data was posted to the Pastebin website and signed by GOP. Thats presumably the same “Guardians of Peace” group or person that claimed responsibility for the Sony Pictures hack.
“We are preparing for you a Christmas gift,” said the message. The gift will be larger quantities of data. And it will be more interesting. The gift will surely give you much more pleasure and put Sony Pictures into the worst state.
The message asked Sony to send an email to one of five anonymous addresses “to tell us what you want in our Christmas gift.”
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VMware and EMC recently spun out several cloud computing and big data product teams to form a new, jointly owned subsidiary called “Pivotal.” Today, Pivotal said it has begun operations and will deliver a set of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud products called Pivotal One, making it easier to build enterprise applications on a variety of cloud services.
Pivotal One will be sold “as a unified platform in Q4 2013,” according to a Pivotal data sheet, but some of the products it includes are already available today. One of those is VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS software, which will soon be able to operate on both Amazon Web Services and VMware-based cloud networks.
“One of the things we’re going to deliver this quarter is a version of Cloud Foundry showing this cloud-independent model where, at cloudfoundry.com, we’ll be running on both an Amazon infrastructure as well as VMware’s cloud infrastructure at the same time,” Scott Yara, senior VP of Pivotal’s platform and products, said on stage at a company announcement. Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz (and former VMware boss) also stressed the importance of working across different clouds, calling them the “modern equivalent of hardware.”
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