Veeam Software updates the program for cloud providers – Ict4Executive

  Gilles Pommier, Vice President Channel EMEA, Veeam Software Veeam Software, to meet the growing needs of its partners, has enhanced ProPartner Program EMEA to provide more business opportunities to the needs dell’always-on business. In particular, the changes introduced aimed at strengthening the capacity of hosting partners, thanks to the reorganization of the program Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP), already raised last year by 106% (6,800 partners, of which 3,400 headquartered in EMEA). Announcements of ProPartner Program consist of a new structure of the VCP Program: all levels, Platinum, Gold and Silver, is related to the protection or management of a minimum number of virtual machines with an issue against payment of a product Veeam; Furthermore, we introduced the new level of partnership Registered. Another new feature is the addition of Veeam Cloud Connect, which will support the partners in increasing the turnover and thus enter into a rapidly expanding market that is considered as one of the Data Protection as-a-Service.

 “In the current economy, always-on, companies must rethink its strategy of data availability – said Gilles Pommier, vice president Channel & amp; Cloud Emea, Veeam Software -. The companies are adopting the cloud as a means to increase business agility. Veeam Veeam Cloud Connect provides customers with an integrated, safe and efficient way to move backups to an off-site archive managed by a provider of their choice, avoiding the investment required to build their own infrastructure off-site. The Veeam ProPartner can become service providers joining the program and can provide backup services repository off-site in less than 10 minutes using the infrastructure of the cloud of its service providers or public clouds. “

 The company also announced further improvements to the program, such as the strengthening of the training sessions and resources used as the release of the program Veeam Certified Engineer and courses on sales and technical aspects. Also provided a search service on the service provider, new tools and resources for partners focused on the enterprise market and further enhancement of the program Deal Registration. “Veeam considers his trusted partner as an extension of his own sales team – added Pommier -. Thanks to recent improvements made to the training program, our partners will be extremely knowledgeable and prepared to serve our customers better. Veeam is on track to cross the finish line of US $ 1 billion in revenue by 2018 and we look forward to our partners to help us achieve this goal by ensuring our customers with solutions for high availability of modern data centers. ”

Boeri: software will simulate future retirement – Rai News

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31 March 2015 23:17 “There are very high pensions that are not justified by the contributions” paid. “In my judgment there is an issue of fairness that should be addressed.” He said the president of INPS Boeri. “From the first of May-adds the ability to give workers access to a program that can provide simulations on future retirement.” It will be possible to “assess the implications of choosing different retirement dates, change the salaries and contributions and how this will affect their retirement.”

Software quality: an analysis of application development in Italy – Ict4Executive

  The diversification of market needs and a growing demand for solutions that are customized according to the habits and the devices used (smartphones and tablets in the head), goes hand in hand with complete engineering systems that people getting used to the philosophies more practical software, As a service and on demand, with a growing appetite for the world of app.

 All this has had a major impact on the development application, because it has led to an acceleration almost incremental production time and release, with a proliferation of new solutions for diversified target and functionality.

 Meanwhile, software developers have embraced new languages ​​and new methods of development, learning to make use of auxiliary tools and machines of various types, capable of action at the level syntactic or semantic level of what is considered in all respects the grammar of programming.

 With these tools, in fact, you can check at various levels the quality of the software developed and solve, where possible, errors occurred in the writing of the various programming codes, thus ensuring the quality of the software released.

  Check the quality of the software, between necessity and virtue

 Whether it’s companies operating in the engineering, chemical, financial, construction, banking, retail distribution and retail, transportation and logistics, in Italy more than 60% of companies has within it a figure even a team in charge of quality control software. The reasons are different, even if the main driver for more than half of the companies are certainly certifications (ISO in particular) , which contribute not only to introduce appropriate metric control but also to validate the result of the production in the eyes of the end users.

 To reveal these and other data to a recent survey, conducted by ICT4Executive in collaboration with the specialist of static analysis software Julia (spin off of the University of Verona), on a panel of quality than two hundred companies. 120 users and 80 companies operating in the ICT consultancy, including system integrators and VARs with their swift response helped analysts to photograph the state of the art and the approach to software quality in our country.

 

 As can be seen from the graph, the end user companies is 58% to have a figure or even a department to control software quality while channel partners come to 65%.

  What are the key areas of quality control

 For all organizations, regardless of the industry in which they operate, the controls are divided on the three key areas of development: vulnerability, performance and debugging activities, or to the whole series of activities related to the interception and resolution of bugs detected during compilation sequences of the various command codes.

 With a 23%, tied between end user and channel , quality control is an important asset for the development. A perceptible difference, however, is quality control on the performance, where the end user companies demonstrate a higher sensitivity than that of channel partners, as indicated in the summary table below.

 

 The data can be interpreted as a sign of how the commitment will affect the quality control when using the solution are internal users or direct collaborators. The same seems to apply to the activities of debugging where attention to quality control of end user companies stood at 27%, compared with 13% of the channel.

 More detailed analysis of the responses, however, it turns out that 16% versus 33% of the responses included in the table FOREGOING as more tell a perceived and therefore a different approach to control activities of the software released . While end users perform their verifications primarily in support of the tests in the test area, the channel, on the contrary, carries out each type of control , from the regression testing to test the functionality and prestazionalità. In this sense, the control activities are not interpreted according to the main categories above (vulnerability, debugging and performance) but as an integral part of a design process that should be checked on different levels and at different stages of development, according to the projects.

  The advantages in the use of auxiliary tools and automated analysis and verification

 Until some time ago the macrocapitoli programming were analysis, development, testing, fine tuning and release. Rhythm and methods, especially in recent years, have profoundly changed approaches and programming strategies. On the one hand the continuous evolution of operating systems, network protocols and hardware devices, and, secondly, the sophistication of the threats of cybercrime increasingly adept at sneak through the cracks weaker software, introduced as a standard mode type developing sustained release, associated with the patch management and updates .

 This fluidity operational use of auxiliary tools and machines to support the development team becomes much essential. All companies agree that, thanks to the quality control and the use of auxiliary tools to support the analysis and verification of software, have achieved a high improvement in the quality of the software developed.

 

 Among the tools for static analysis used end users Coverty, Sonrarqube, Findbugs, Klockwork, PDM, Checkstyle by the end user while Fortify, Findbugs, Sonarqube, Cast and Julia are the most used by the channel.

 Based on the responses of the panel, can be seen as tools that are all the rage are even those oriented in a pattern matching syntax more than those of last generation focused on a semantic analysis, able to make a debugging active. The developmental level of analysis to support software quality, therefore, does not get to take advantage of that intelligence artificial that, through a series of mathematical algorithms and scientific approaches definitely more solid today allows to reason on the order of execution of the instructions of the code compiled by focusing more at the source code level.

  Android and Java programming languages ​​that are all the rage

 A view of use of the oldest languages ​​related to the activities of support and maintenance of legacy systems such as RPG or C ++, to dominate the development are Java and Android, with a small part linked to variants PHP, Abat, Sap, to .Net.

 The choice of Java is due to the fact that it is a language natively designed to support the development of applications of any type, including portable systems and mobile, thus ensuring high performance for the widest range of possible computing platforms ensuring functionality and performance in heterogeneous environments. Android as well as a language is a phenomenon linked to the strategies of Google which has created an operating system shared with a community of brand and with characteristics suitable to equip the smartizzazione prevailing associated with the development of the Internet of Things. No coincidence that over three quarters of the companies surveyed developed in Java and Android.

 

 Also interesting to note that 70% of companies end user has a team of internal developers. confirming that programming tasks have become part of interante attivitù ICT.

  Investing in software as an enabler of business

 Rhythm and mode of programming, especially in recent years, have profoundly changed the approaches and strategies of developers. On the one hand the continuous evolution of operating systems, network protocols and hardware devices, and, secondly, the sophistication of the threats of cybercrime increasingly adept at sneak through the cracks weaker software, introduced as a standard mode type developing a continuous release.

 In the development of software, use static analysis tools to speed diagnosis and intercept at various level programming errors syntactic and, when the instruments used are advanced type, even at the semantic level. The use of this type of solutions in the process of coding and testing as well as in the later stages related to the patch management and updates , guarantees the quality and the value of the development of SW and increases’ efficiency of the development process and the protection of their image.

 

Shadow Tower: the title From Software arriving on PSN – Videogiochi.com | All games for PCs, consoles, smartphones and tablets

From Software is definitely the name of the time on PlayStation platforms: after publishing Bloodborne , acclaimed by critics and audiences, and a couple of days since the release of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin of PS4 , the software company that generates swearing profusely exploited the good time.

In fact, during the podcast official PlayStation Blog, was announced the arrival of PSN Shadow Tower , first-person RPG made in From Software released on PS1 back in 1998.

The title will be downloadable with the update of Wednesday, April 1 on PS3, PS Vita and PSP , unfortunately still nothing regarding PS4: the price has not been announced, but knowing the means of the classic PS1 should cost no more than € 10.

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Cloud management software Adam Lab at SMAU Padua – PMI.it

The start-up Adam Turin will be at SMAU Padua to present the first Cloud management software entirely.

start-up Adam Lab will be at SMAU Padua on 1 and 2 April in 2015, the event dedicated to innovation that will be the occasion to present the first management software full Cloud , designed for professionals, start-up and micro . Incubated at the section Treatabit incubator Innovative Companies of the Polytechnic of Turin, the start-up will stand D-10.

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Cloud Management software

Adam, the management software developed by the homonymous start-up, is designed to allow customers to access services without having to download and update this program, thanks to the flexibility of the Cloud. As highlighted by the founder Riccardo Barbotti:

“The mission of Adam is to reduce the time that every professional or manager of a small company dedicated to boring, and often confusing, as back -office, with a unique solution that integrates all core functions: from accounting to administrative deadlines, from the register of orders to company documents. “

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The founder and CEO of Adam Lab Riccardo Barbotti will be at stand D-10 SMAU Padua, in Hall 11 of the Management.

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VMware: storage, keystone of Software-Defined – ictBusiness

There can be data center intelligent and automated without a storage that is equally. In other words, the approach Software-Defined which in recent years has reached the servers and network components must be extended to data storage. This vision VMware , inaugurated with the vSphere platform, and since last year also extended to storage with Virtual SAN, an offer that now with version 6 can boast double scalability and improved performance of more than four times and a half than the previous. A VSAN 6 (so named for consistency with the numbering reached by vSphere) joins a further solution for storage management, vSphere Virtual Volumes, able to make the array of third party “virtualization-aware” natively.

The use of a single point of access to perform provisioning and resource management and policy-based automation represent two of the most obvious advantages of the approach defined by the software. By averaging between the different cost items related to storage (deployment, configuration, reconfiguration, management, and more) analyst firm Taneja Group has calculated that with VSANs can cut by 66 % operating expenses .

 The promises of the Software-Defined or simplification, scalability and cost cutting, can not be realized without including storage in the virtuous circle. Also because the storage of data is one of the most expensive components in the data center and – first of virtualization – seemed destined to accentuate this trend to deal with the explosion of content generated by social, from the cabinet and by the Internet of Things. We discussed it with Alberto Bullani, regional manager of VMware Italy , and Luca Zerminiani, pre-sales manager.

Alberto Bullani, regional manager of VMware Italy

 As you insert the Software-Defined Storage within the path of evolution of the data center?

Bullani : It is a fundamental step. We firmly believe that the software component is essential in our offer as much in general for the Software-Defined Data Center. In the world, the need for fully automated centers is growing, and within this need efficient and intelligent storage plays an increasingly important role. Just think of the explosion of data generated by social and from the mobile.

And the strategy of VMware?

Bullani : Storage is the last component that was added to complete our proposal. We started with virtualization of computational part and then, following the acquisition of Nicira realized in 2012, we extended the offer software-defined networking. Last year the launch of VSANs marked the debut of the Software-Defined Storage VMware. It was, however, a beginning almost unnoticed, mind now with the new version, VSAN 6, we have a platform ready for production environments and mission-critical, that is functionally much more extensive.

 Last year VMware billed globally about five billion dollars. Our goal is to ensure that within a few years the offer of Software-Defined Storage contributes to the turnover in the amount of one billion dollars.

Where are we, in Italy with the adoption of this approach?

Bullani: The presence of many small and medium enterprises is accelerating this process. A solution such as VSANs allows a management software storage even in small data centers at low cost, avoiding companies to have to buy a Storage Area Network which also would be used for a single purpose. Instead, take the San within the virtualized infrastructure is an easier way, flexible and quick to reshape a data center, however small.

 In any case, today, in Italy, there is interest in this issue, although still not observe mass deployment. Our customers more ready and “visionary”, as had happened with the virtualization of the network, were the first to adopt VSANs. Overcome psychological barriers, we believe that this year will witness the true large-scale adoption.

Luke Zerminiani, pre-sales manager

 How did VSAN?

Zerminiani: While on the VMware server had already done a big job virtualization, until recently, the components of the networking and storage had not followed the same trend. And thus hindered quell’agilità instead had been introduced in the data center with server virtualization. From here came the idea of ​​going to lighten those parts that were still “heavy”, and do follow the model of the hybrid cloud, the result more suited to meet the needs of companies. But the ability to mix and external environments on premise posed a technological hurdle: while you can move a virtual machine from one infrastructure to another, the same thing is not as easy with SAN storage resources, which need to be configured. The problem was overcome with VSAN doing storage become a property of the virtual machine: in this way, every time the virtual machine “lands” on external infrastructure, it is able to carve out all the storage resources that are used .

What are the main benefits?

Zerminiani : VSAN is a storage component that generates a San starting from internal hard drives to the server. In fact, it is a creation software. It is a cost-effective solution and low cost of entry: one of its benefits is being able to exploit the internal disks, often unused servers on a virtualization infrastructure. It does not require, as for the physical storage resources, a margin of “abundance” due to the difficulty of predicting future needs.

 It also has the advantages of performance and scalability because, compared to what is outside an appliance, not support for infrastructure but it is a component. VSAN does not create an artifice of storage, but it is already encoded within the vSphere platform.

 The third aspect to note is that VSAN 6 is production-ready. From the first version, presented last year, we have made considerable progress on the three key aspects of software that aims to go into production: the ability to scale, performance and availability, ie high reliability. Among other innovations, now you can also opt for configurations totally based on flash technology.

 

 To whom you speak?

Zerminiani : The offer VSAN has definitely targeting small and medium enterprises, is located in an area of ​​storage medium level, while our vision for the enterprise is completed by vSphere Virtual Volumes, which implements the same concepts but on resources external storage and high-end performance. What does not change is the approach to Software-Defined, that is our business model: a storage integrated with virtual infrastructure, and that can grow and scale with it.

 

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Microsoft, 40 years to the software giant – ANSA.it

From the queen of the software to a future in which the boundaries between real and virtual are becoming thinner thanks to new technologies. They are the first 40 years of Microsoft, a company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen celebrates birthday ’round’ April 4 returning to flex its muscles in an arena than ever fiercer. The challenge of 2015 is Windows 10, the new operating system that promises to catapult the company beyond PCs and smartphones, in a future of holograms.

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born April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque , New Mexico, by the name of “Micro-Soft Company” initiative of two classmates. Gates and Allen conceive a software for the very first personal computer, ‘MITS Altair’. In the long history of the company there is also the relationship with Apple, the fact of litigation but also collaborations as Microsoft’s investment of ’97 on the bitten apple of Steve Jobs.

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First step change came in 2000 with the new ad, Steve Ballmer, while Bill Gates began to devote more and more to philanthropy. Redmond tries to diversify – with Xbox, Bing, the maxi-purchase of Skype – but there are flops: Windows Vista in the first place. From 2014 to take over the company’s new ad, Satya Nadella, which makes “mobile” and “cloud” the cornerstones of the revival, and completes the integration with Nokia.

“When we declared for the first time you want to bring a computer on every desk seemed crazy,” says Carlo Purassanta ANSA, for Microsoft Italy, but “bold set goals has always been part of our culture “.

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Software, Aenor: “Aim more on the evaluation of the product” – Courier Communications

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 Focus more on the evaluation of the product on the process. This is the invitation launched in Bari in conference “ By the quality of the product software producers and users “, by Aenor, the world leader in quality certification and SER & amp; Practices, University spin-off Bari and first Italian company to software quality, certified ISO 25000. The conference held last March 20 in Bari at Confindustria, the presence of major IT companies in the South, Order of Engineers and University of Bari, has placed at the center the need to identify opportunities for economic recovery through the use of innovative and competitive as quality certification.

 The certification, in fact, is a tool that can strengthen ties and trust of all those who have dealings with a company and to demonstrate to customers the will of continuous improvement with respect to the attention towards their needs. And ‘The importance of certification in order to win the trust of domestic and international markets, in both the public and private sectors. Yet certification of software products is still low, because it considered complex and expensive, and the experience gained in computing from SER & amp; Practices , a spin-off of the University Bari proves otherwise.

 Prof. Giuseppe Visaggio , Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Bari and president of SER & amp; Practices, defines the quality of the product as “the assessment of how a product meets the expectations of its users’” Given that there are different classes of quality of the software, users of IT solutions need guarantees on the quality of the products because of the increasing permeation of IT solutions in business processes and their increasing complexity. Therefore software vendors are encouraged to ensure the quality of its products for their competitive positioning and monitoring and control of the quality of their solutions. “

 For manufacturers, therefore, the benefits of the evaluation of software quality are different and are the possibility to improve the characteristics of its product, to gain comparative advantage over the competition, ensure customers the quality of its product, but at the same time permit to reduce the cost of software maintenance, moderate the risks of regression in the evolution of the software and reduce the decay in time of the software. For users, however, the quality assessment is to improve skills acquisition and reduce the cost of acquisition and administration of the software.

 To explore the issues related to the certification of software quality, see the “notes” of the conference “Towards the quality of the software product for producers and users” on www.serandp.com

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An Italian software for controlling the Galileo satellites – BBC

The European version of the American GPS

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It has been recently developed a software to check the functioning of the satellites navigation system Galileo, the European version of the best-known US GPS. March 27 part from Kourou in French Guiana Soyuz rocket with the seventh and the eighth satellite to be placed in orbit. “The software will be able to determine in real time the accuracy, precision and stability of the signals, and to promptly notify their possible failure,” says Marco Luise of the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, which has coordinated the implementation of the software, a work commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) and lasted about a year.

Thirty satellites

This set of programs and procedures will be installed for the moment at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (Estec), the most important center of research and development of ESA, which will take over the Galileo Supervisory Authority (GSA), when the Galileo system will complete its 30 satellites and start working. The satellites will have a key reference center in their testimony to the importance that they will assume.

Alternative to GPS and Glonass

The Galileo system wants to be in fact an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS, born from the Star Wars project under President Ronald Reagan for a purely military use. “Originally this system was driven by a jamming that kept him from work for civil applications and which was later turned off, however,” says Luise. To date, therefore running two versions of GPS, a usable by the public and one accessible to military forces with a secret code. Despite this versatility, the GPS system still refers to the Department of Defense of the United States, which at any time may obscure it. The Galileo satellites are born from the need therefore Europe to have its own system of positioning and navigation for civilian use only. But not only.

Towards greater independence

The Galileo system also meets the need for Europe not to have to depend on satellite navigation systems of others. A malfunction of the GPS would put into serious difficulties not only all forms of transportation today, but also the financial and business activities, public services, humanitarian operations and safety as well as those related to the emergency. To gain greater autonomy Europe at the beginning of the nineties has therefore decided to build his own system, which would remain under civilian control and was 100% interoperable with both the positioning system is American with the Russian one, to order to propose a new element fully integrated with the existing ones.

An essential tool

The project Galileo will be completed in 2019 and will consist of 27 satellites plus three in reserve. Four are already in orbit and constitute the minimum number to operate a system, however, still experimental. “The work is progressing well, apart from the fault reported by a Russian carrier rocket belonging to one of the two satellites launched last August finished out of orbit (are the fifth and sixth of the Galileo constellation): to continue to be used it will be necessary to change the parameters of operation of the navigator, “says Luise. Currently scientists are conducting intensive research on second-generation satellites Galileo. Those already launched were in fact built on a project dating back to ten years ago. New satellites, and then new signals, will be launched from 2020 onwards: will have an accuracy of 10 cm and allow the browser to work even indoors, ensuring excellent coverage worldwide.

From research to work

The hardest work has yet to be done. Encourages however know that Italy is third in Europe for tradition and commitment in space research and collaborations with NASA, after France and Germany. No coincidence that the University of Pisa has long ago an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering. The space sector offers many opportunities as well as study for young researchers also of use. The Galileo project is for example creating a new business for manufacturers, for programmers and managers of services. “Galileo receivers will be placed on transportation, ships, high-speed trains and applied on construction equipment and tractors to have a path of working,” says Luise.

Possible applications in agriculture

From barcode of a bottle of wine or oil may therefore find the date and the geographical area of ​​production: the signals sent from the Galileo satellites to the tractor, which will be placed a Galileo receiver, will be sent back to the management system to know the path that the agricultural machine should do that day, and at the same time to a consortium certify that in this way the authenticity of its products. “Already research groups in the Region of Tuscany work with these objectives, while in this light is entering AvMap, the company that produces Carrara GPS navigation systems for airplanes, helicopters, cars, RVs, SUVs and farm equipment,” continues Luise, who is also president of Tuscany Area, the network of companies and research organizations that supports competitiveness within the aerospace industry in Tuscany and which aims to emphasize the great professionalism in the area. Among them there is also Flyby, the company livornese that, in addition to reprocess data to find oil spills in the sea with optical systems, has invented an interesting application in order to know the optimal time for exposure to the sun and to avoid annoying burns: from Cosmo-SkyMed satellites obtains the data from the GPS and solar radiation (in the future Galileo) on your location on Earth.

In defense of our seas

The satellite constellations will be a valuable resource for the early identification of oil spills at sea, check the extensions of forests and monitor the working of a certain culture. At present the data produced with the intent to protect the environment come from four satellites Italian Cosmo-SkyMed: using images obtained with synthetic aperture radar, that is, with a series of multiple shots of the same scene almost, will protect our coasts by the dispersion of pollutants in the sea and in particular will monitor the areas occupied by the platforms of hydrocarbon extraction. This is the objective of the agreement signed recently by the Ministry of Environment with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and e-Geos to check in daily and timely manner the surface of our seas. The monitoring satellite will be financed with funds from the royalties paid by dealers platforms by way of implementing the protection of pollution.

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Keycrime, software that predicts robberies: “Results are unique in the world” – GQ.com

Two robbers come into a supermarket in Milan, take by the manager and told him to hand over their collection. The holder and obeys the robbery is successful in a few minutes: a crime as it happens to hundreds across Italy. Too bad the police had predicted everything and was stationed outside the door waiting for them . A scene from Minority Report that is actually in Milan since 2007, when it began operation Keycrime . A program predictive crime created by ‘ assistant team leader of the Mobile Police Headquarters in Milan, Mario Venturi, that can “read” criminal behavior: inserting all the data of a crime, the software is able to indicate the place and the time slot of the next crime, allowing police to intervene and take the robbers. Over the past seven years data collection are unique in the world . In 2013 Keycrime helped solve 80% of robberies of pharmacies in Milan, 74% of those banking institutions.

In general for more than a robbery on two manager has been identified . A deterrent element that led to a 25% reduction in robberies against pharmacies in the past year . A virtuous cycle that could bring savings to the state and citizens if applied at the national level. Venturi tells us, however, as economic uncertainties and the lack of funding are slowing the development of Keycrime.

How does Keycrime?

“The operation is simple: after recovering all the data of a criminal event we insert them in the application indicating the place, time and particular behaviors required by criminals. The software processes them and gives an indication of the facts potentially connected to the one entered by highlighting the serial criminal and giving us the ability to connect to a single hand events that occurred in different times and places. If you happen percent robberies there are 100 different robbers but a number of criminal gangs that repeatedly occur. This study allows us to have predictive capabilities of a future event, by virtue of the fact that we understand what they do and we can get to understand where hit with exact date and place. “

How is applied by the Police Milan?

“There are two types of intervention according to the forecast. If it is not refined strengthen controls in the affected area most at risk during the time indicated by the software. If we get a clear indication not only know the date and time, but we will restrict obietivi possible even at two stores only. At that point we just have to wait to put that arrive, are now numerous cases in which the police were waiting for the robbers. “

Of all the crimes, Keycrime works for robberies against retail outlets. Is there a particular reason?

“The robbery against property and against the person, as there is the need to use violence or threats. This dual aspect arouses a high level of social alarm so we decided to start testing the software to combat this crime, which is also one of the most numerous in the area. “

How long will it wanted to develop it?

“It took twelve years. I started working when I was assigned to work on a robbery alarm at some pharmacies in the city of Milan and I realized what was necessary support in data collection and analysis. So before I created a database of support, then by the time I came to the realization of a search engine criminal comparing the data with those of criminal events in the archive (about 10 thousand) and helps in the analysis of the subject. In fact we have eliminated the human part of the analysis support of a software. “

What differentiates Keycrime from similar software?

“If the other programs of work on the historical and predictive crime incidence of robberies in a certain area, Keycrime focuses on who generates the danger, on the actions of the criminal. It is more behavioral than statistical. “

What are the future developments?

” We just close a deal with a technology partner like Microsoft who has quiet attentiveness to enter into an incubator of ideas to develop Keycrime Cube. A more evolved we will make a leap forward huge compared to now. In six months we will have a software on a large scale at the national level with the coordination of the Ministry of Interior of the various police stations and applicable to any type of crime. The only limit that stops is funding. I have granted free use of the application to the police headquarters in Milan but to go forward in the project we will need more resources. “

Someone has ever made me feel the ministry?

“I have the unconditional support and almost paternal by the superintendent of Milan Luigi Savina. Central bodies are aware of the project and expressed their interest to extend it nationally, however, is still to be decided. Can I add one thing? “

Please.

“At a time of economic hardship such as this there is the opportunity to make a monstrous savings by virtue of the results obtained. Decreasing the chance to get away with creating a strong element of deterrence to repeat robberies. With less crime there would be a saving for the judiciary, police and the state in general. And that’s just for the crime of robbery, try to imagine if it could be extended to many more crimes. I’m not saying that would be out of a financial but would still be a lot of money. “

Electric cars: Tesla, independence will be improved by a … – International Business Times Italy

If there is one thing that makes the Tesla Model S is particularly fascinating is the migliramento performance by updating via OTA software . In this way a few weeks ago the US company had cut a tenth of a second from the already impressive acceleration time from 0 to 100 km / h of its electric car.

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An update via OTA (Over-The-Air) is no more or less what anyone does on their smartphones when you release a new version of the operating system: you click on a button, and the device does it all. With the Model S is exactly the same thing : if you leave it in the garage at night, you click a button and it is left to download the update. The next morning, without any need for intervention by the owner or a mechanic, the performance will be improved.

The latest in order of time was announced directly by the CEO of the Californian, Elon Musk, from his Twitter account that he made an appointment next Thursday to unveil “a software update via OTA” that “will cover the whole range of the Model S,” able to “put an end to the anxiety of autonomy” .

The range anxiety (in English “range anxiety”) is one of the elements that still relegate electric cars in a market niche : often their riders has In fact, the fear of being stopped on the roadside with dead batteries. When it runs out of fuel a vehicle with petrol or diesel you can always go around armed tank in search of a distributor. But with an electric car you can not bring back an extension of a few kilometers in the hope of finding an outlet in which thread it.

According to official Tesla, when the Model S has a range ‘autonomy that varies between 335 km version with battery of 60 kWh to 435 km of the 85D twin-engine variant. Hard to imagine on what aspects will speak the software update on the electric car US: it could be a modaltà able to optimize fuel consumption by “cutting” some onboard systems , as now occurs on many smartphones when the battery is running out of energy. To know just wait a few days: the Tesla press conference has been scheduled for Thursday, March 19 at 9:00 hours of California (15.00 in Italy).

The company’s Palo Alto certainly needs to remain at the top from the technological point of view to parry incoming blows from the competition, which both globally and in specific markets is recovering positions. As just one example, in China a competitor worthy threat to Tesla is represented by BYD , a Shenzhen company financed, among others, by Warren Buffett.

Electric Car BYD e6 – Credits: Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 / anthonares

BYD plans to become dominant in China in the field of car Electrical , and do just that in recent days has announced its plans for increased production of batteries: in each of the next three years, the Asian company will add 6 gigawatts / hour to the current output of 10 GWh per year, with the goal of getting to 34 GWh by 2020.

In this way, BYD you would go to the same place of Tesla as the main producer of batteries for electric vehicles . The US company, through the project Gigafactory, it aims to reach its full capacity in 2020, with an output of 35 GWh. A competition of this type will certainly be a challenge for the individual companies, but will undoubtedly be a great advantage for the development of the industry globally.

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Red Hat unifies the portfolio of software-defined storage – TechWeekEurope

Red Hat announces a portfolio that integrates Ceph Storage, already Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Gluster Storage, former Red Hat Storage Server.

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Red Hat here wallet software-defined storage open and unified – Channelbiz

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Red Hat announces a portfolio that complements Red Hat Ceph Storage, already Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Red Hat Gluster Storage, former Red Hat Storage Server. This offer helps companies manage workloads current and emerging data storage with open source software and hardware standards

Red Hat announces the availability of a portfolio of software-defined open and unified storage that complements Red Hat Ceph Storage, already Inktank Ceph Enterprise, and Red Hat Gluster Storage, former Red Hat Storage Server.

This offer helps companies manage workloads current and emerging data storage with open source software and hardware standards. The announcement represents a milestone in the path of Red Hat aimed at bringing the storage software-defined in the company, which began with the acquisition of Gluster in October 2011, and continued with that of Inktank, provider Ceph, in May 2014. The product developed by Inktank exceeded quality processes and is now a fully supported Red Hat solution, called Red Hat Storage Ceph.

Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat Ceph Storage solutions are software-defined open source storage scale-out that run on commodity hardware and are based on programmable architectures. However, each is suitable for different types of workloads, offering unique advantages and attractive to the corporate client. Validated to work with software and hardware solutions of the main partners, the range of solutions Storage assures customers that their storage workloads are optimized for open storage software-defined.

Red Hat Gluster Storage virtualization is suitable for , analysis and workload sharing and synchronization, while Red Hat Ceph Storage is ideal for workloads such as OpenStack cloud infrastructure. Both operate activities of archives and rich media, providing customers maximum choice and the best combination for their storage requirements.

“The range of products Red Hat Storage and vision storage open software- defined can really help enterprises to manage storage for existing workloads and emerging cloud infrastructure evolving, as OpenStack “ says Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage and Big Data company.

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3D: Pixar’s RenderMan software becomes free – Software

Pixar , the known film production company famous for the production of feature films in computer graphics, has just decided to release free Renderman , software previously to retail for $ 1,300.
Renderman integrates a popular engine dimensional rendering that, among other things, allows you to create 3D characters, objects and scenes photorealistic using the same techniques used for the realization of all the latest cartoon that also carry the signature Disney.

Renderman can be downloaded for free and used without any kind of limitation (for example will not be present “stamps” on the video created nor is imposed any restrictions on the scene generated) provided that the use of the software is for personal use, for educational purposes, or study.
The free download of Renderman can be made this page .

About deemed make commercial use of the software will instead pay the license fee, lowered to $ 495.

To use Renderman must necessarily be equipped with a 64-bit system. The application is compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Mac OS X and with some Linux distributions.

We recommend to even give a look at this interesting infographic that “photographs” the history of Renderman.