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Qualified electronic signature for macOS

According to RBC and Tenzor, in 2019 Russia will issue 4,6 million certificates of qualified electronic signatures (QES) that meet the requirements of 63-FZ. It turns out that out of 8 million registered individual entrepreneurs and LLCs, every second entrepreneur uses an electronic signature. In addition to CEP for EGAIS and cloud-based CEP for reporting issued by banks and accounting services, […]

"How we build IaaS": materials about the work of 1cloud

We talk about how we launched and developed the 1cloud cloud, we talk about the evolution of its individual services and architecture as a whole. We also disassemble myths about IT infrastructure. / Wikimedia / Tibigc / CC Evolution How we started the development of our IaaS provider We compare our expectations before launching the platform with the first experience of providing services to clients. Let's start with a brief […]

New rules for anonymity of messengers

The bad news we've been waiting for. Today, on May 5, new rules for identifying messenger users by phone number came into force on the territory of the Russian Federation. The corresponding government decree was published on November 6, 2018. Russian users will now need to verify that they own the phone number they are using. During the identification process, the messenger will send to the mobile operator […]

What's new in the cloud: 15 materials about standards, tools and regulation

Below the cut are reviews of cloud solutions, cases, practical recommendations and analytical materials from our blog and Telegram channel. / photo by Dennis van Zuijlekom CC BY-SA Industry Where is cloud infrastructure heading in 2019 A brief overview of this year’s key cloud trends: serverless systems, multi-cloud, 5G networks, quantum technologies and AI systems. In our Telegram channel, we provide statistics and expert opinion […]

What do you hear on the radio? We receive and decode the most interesting signals

Hello Habr. It’s already the 21st century, and it would seem that data can be transmitted in HD quality even to Mars. However, there are still many interesting devices operating on the radio and many interesting signals can be heard. Of course, it is unrealistic to consider all of them; let’s try to choose the most interesting ones, those that can be received and decoded independently using a computer. For […]

$6,9 billion deal: why a GPU developer buys a network equipment manufacturer

Most recently, the deal between Nvidia and Mellanox took place. We talk about the prerequisites and consequences. Photo - Cecetay - CC BY-SA 4.0 What a Deal Mellanox has been active since 1999. Today it is represented by offices in the USA and Israel, but operates on a fabless model - it does not have its own production and places orders with third-party enterprises, such as TSMC. Mellanox releases […]

Five Challenges in Operating and Maintaining Highload IT Systems

Hello, Habr! For ten years I have been supporting Highload IT systems. I will not write in this article about the problems of setting up nginx to work in 1000+ RPS mode or other technical things. I will share my observations about the problems in the processes that arise in the support and operation of such systems. Monitoring Technical support does not wait until a request arrives with the content “What Why... […]

How does the translation of the term trunk depend on the switch vendor?

I noticed this error (or, if you like, discrepancy) while checking the translation on NETGEAR switches. The fact is that when translating the term “trunk”, it is necessary to take into account whose interpretation the vendor adheres to - Cisco or HP, because there is a very different technical meaning between them. Let's figure it out. Let's look at the problem using the following examples: 1. Cisco 2. HP Attentive […]

How to quickly increase the disk size on the server

Hi all! Recently, I encountered a seemingly simple task - to increase the “hot” disk size on a Linux server. Description of the task There is a server in the cloud. In my case, this is Google Cloud - Compute Engine. Operating system - Ubuntu. A 30 GB disk is currently connected. The database is growing, the files are swelling, so you need to increase the disk size, say, to […]

Git Lab 11.10

GitLab 11.10 with dashboard pipelines, merged results pipelines, and multi-line suggestions in merge requests. Convenient information about the health of pipelines in different projects GitLab continues to increase the transparency of the DevOps lifecycle. This release adds an overview of pipeline status to the dashboard. This is handy even if you're learning the pipeline of a single project, but it's especially useful […]

Why do we need so many messengers?

Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger... Why do we need so many applications to perform one task? Decades ago, science fiction writers imagined flying cars, automatically cooking kitchens, and the ability to call anyone on the planet. But they had no idea that we would end up in messenger hell, having on our hands an endless number of applications designed for […]

IaaS and Managed IT: technology digest

This is a thematic selection from ITGLOBAL.COM, an IaaS provider, IT outsourcer, integrator and Managed IT service provider. We present to your attention our first habratopics and materials from the corporate blog about network security solutions, the work of a cloud provider, data storage systems and new technologies in these areas. Photo - Kvistholt Photography - Unsplash IaaS provider work, […]