Web creator criticizes Brazil's local storage plans

World wide web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has criticized the Brazilian government's plans to demand that organizations store data locally at a United Nations gathering in Geneva yesterday (5).

Berners-Lee was quoted by newspaper O Estado de São Paulo as saying that the requirements for local data storage, which are part of Brazil's upcoming set of regulations to govern internet use, are an "emotional reaction" to the NSA spying episode and will not have any practical impact in reducing espionage risk.

The statements were made at the launch of the Web We Want campaign, which aims to create a national bill of rights for the internet in every country to protect online freedom. The initiative is led by a coalition of influencers around the world including Joaquim Arruda Falcão, the dean at Fundação Getulio Vargas, one of the most prestigious business schools in Brazil.

The British scientist added that the Brazilian government's plans to demand that data lives only inside the country are not applicable for two reasons. One is related to the difficulty of managing social networks, as well as the fact that the web is based on the principle of not having government controls - meaning that nationalizing servers would not be a good idea.

Berners-Lee pointed out that while the Marco Civil da Internet is generally positive, the requirement to store data locally should be removed.

But Brazilian ministers have affirmed in the last few weeks that the government will not back down on its decision to introduce rules that supposedly increase control for the better and reduce the likelihood of NSA-like spying occurrences.

Meanwhile, corporates are moving to adjust to the possible new realities. Microsoft, for example, has announced this week that it will enable cloud customers in Brazil to store their data locally from next year. Other companies such as Facebook and Google have voiced their disapproval of the proposals.

As I said before in this blog, even the enforcement of stricter rules regarding data protection do not mean that our information is safe. While legislation can help create a safer environment on the web, the law is never going to be ahead of the technology.

We can only hope that Brazil's politicians and their advisors can realize that - before voting an ill-conceived set of regulations that is utterly irrelevant in this day and age.

Nimble $150 M IPO data storage startup files

Summary: There are still a number of blank spaces in the S-1 - namely the initial quote, the number of shares to be sold, and that bag in which Nimble plans to be listed.

It continues the wave of IPO in the technology industry. The most recent entry on their way to the scene public is agile storage, a provider of storage platform based on San Jose aimed at business customers.

Compared to that other, highly they buzzing about from Twitter IPO, Nimble fundraising goal is considerably less than $150 million.

Taking into account the alterations with the Act of Jumpstart our business Startups (jobs) that emerged at the beginning of this year, Nimble could actually have that encrypts a secret (for a short time) taking into account that the aim of fundraising was less than $1 billion.

But Nimble identified as an "emerging growth company" under the rule of job, simply explaining "irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption and, therefore, will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies not emerging growth companies".

However, Nimble seems confident enough in its form S-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.

According to the S-1, Nimble had $50.6 million for the six month period ending on July 31, with a net loss of $17.1 million.

But there are still a number of blanks of the form yet to be filled, namely the initial stock price, the number of shares to be sold, and that bag in which Nimble plans to be listed.

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been tapped as joint administrators offering book. Pacific Crest, William Blair, Stifel Nicolaus, Oppenheimer and Needham will act as co-managers.

The imminent public debut Nimble, Twitter and a host of other brands of technology solidifies the projections of analysts earlier this year that technology IPO in general is ready for a comeback this year, driven by strong growth confidence and investors from the market.

Topics: Start-ups, Big Data, data management, storage, technology industry

Rachel King is a writer for San Francisco-based ZDNet.

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Cisco Whiptail purchase for $415 million in the midst of solid state storage run

Overview: Cisco acquisition highlights career in solid-state storage enterprises as players data center are intended to accelerate applications.

Cisco Tuesday said it will acquire Whiptail, a system of solid state memory company, for $415 million. Cisco plans to integrate memory technology of solid state of Whiptail in their software products unified system (UCS).

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay $415 million in cash and Whiptail retention-based incentives. The agreement is expected to close in the first quarter of Cisco. Cisco acquisition highlights career in solid state storage companies. On Monday, Western Digital recogías Virident for $685 million.

According to Cisco, Whiptail will increase performance in UCS for speeding of applications. Cisco plans to integrate data acceleration technology in its coat of calculation.

Whiptail employees will be integrated into the Group of computer in Cisco systems.

In a blog post, Cisco said:

Whiptail is architecturally perfect for UCS because together the two combine architecture cluster with acceleration based on fabric - all of which are automatable via the UCS Manager and Director of UCS. The end result is performance optimized atop of UCS for emerging critical applications and business, as virtualized workloads, of Big Data, database, High Performance Computing and transcoding.

Whiptail has a number of systems - Accela, Invicta and Invicta infinite - and an operating system called Racerunner.

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet SmartPlanet as Editorial Director of ZDNet TechRepublic site sister.

Best Storage devices: From USB flash drives to multi-drive RAID units

Summary: Here are my top five storage devices, ranging from something you can pop into your pocket, to a whopping 24TB RAID enclosure.

As we go about our day creating more data, so the demand for storage space increases, While the cloud has appeared just in time to offer free and easy access to gigabytes of storage space, some people like to keep their data close to hand. This is where personal storage comes into play. Also, it's not easy to shift gigabytes of data to and from the cloud unless you have a serious web connection.

As well as being a tech geek I'm also a photographer, and this means that I create enormous quantities of data. Just the other day I created a 10 second timelapse video, which on the face of it doesn't seem like much, but adding up the input, output and intermediate files put the total space consumed by this one project at 10GB.

That's a lot of data. I remember when all I had was a 10MB hard drive!

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.