It has been 25 years since AltaVista, one of the first major Internet search engines, was made public. AltaVista was launched on September 15, 1995, by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). DEC’s search engine aimed to show how powerful their new line of computers was. DEC was the leading supplier of computer hardware, software and services
The last version of the PHP language, PHP 8, was released on November 26, 2020. This last major update includes many new features and significant optimizations, compared with previous versions. The development of the 8th version of PHP has been focused on creating new functionalities. Named arguments, attributes, constructor properties and JIT are some of
SD-WAN is short for software-defined Wide Area Network, a cloud-oriented approach to manage Wide Area Networks (WANs). As bandwidth demand grows due to cloud traffic, video streaming rise, mobile connectivity, etc., traditional WANs have become more limiting and less efficient. That is why SD-WAN is becoming more and more popular. SD-WAN is a virtual Wide
The Tarugoconf 2020 will be a 100% online event, due to the current situation, but there are some things that won’t change: it will be an event full of interesting content, networking and inspiring experiences. Stackscale sponsors the event once more, as we have done for previous editions. Despite being an online event, the conference
Among the news planned for 2020, we have launched a new line of compute nodes which go up to 768 GiB RAM. This new line of compute nodes is based on the latest microarchitecture from Intel®, Cascade Lake, and powered by second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. CPU and memory optimized nodes Our new line
Stackscale is one of the sponsors of the CTO Summit 2020; an edition that will be online in order to adapt to the current situation. This online tech event will take place from November 17th to November 21st on the online events platform Brella. During those five days, more than fifteen national and international speakers
Stackscale is one of the sponsors of the first cybersecurity documentary made in Spain: “El enemigo anónimo” (“The anonymous enemy”, in English). Diverse experts in fields related to cybersecurity have participated in this documentary, which has been created and directed by the journalist Carlos Otto. Our co-founder and VP Sales, David Carrero Fernández-Baillo, participated in
This year we participate as sponsor in the CISO Day 2020 event that will take place on September 17, in a hybrid format. CISO Day is a yearly cyber security congress, focused on the role of Chief Information Security Officers, organized by CyberSecurity News. This event is targeted to all kinds of cyber security professionals
178 Terabits per second is the new Internet Speed world record, achieved by a team of engineers at University College London (UCL). 178 Terabits per second: 178,000,000 Megabits per second This new record sets the world’s fastest Internet Speed at 178Tbps. It was achieved by the research team led by Dr Lidia Galdino at UCL,
At the beginning of August 2020, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux Kernel 5.8. This latest Linux kernel version replaces the previous stable version, Linux 5.7. Months ago, Linus Torvalds described this new version of the kernel as one of the biggest releases of all time. Linux 5.8 introduces many improvements, such as
