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  3. China builds own phone OS, aims to be more secure than Android or iPhone China, wary of operating systems from the Western world, has built a new smartphone OS that it believes will be more secure than the likes of Android and the iPhone. While China claims it as its own, the OS looks like it's based on Android. China Operating System, or COS, was unveiled last week by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai-based Liantong Network Communications Technology, the New York Times reported. COS is "designed for use on many devices including smartphones and personal computers" and was called "a strategic product for national security," the Times said. US surveillance and the end of support for Windows XP reportedly played a role in the system's creation. Liantong Deputy GM Chen Feili said the ultimate goal is to make COS China's main operating system. While Windows is the predominant desktop OS in China, Android commands about 90 percent of China's smartphone market, with iOS taking most of the rest, IDC reports. A video of COS shows that it looks like an Android clone, is running on what is likely an HTC Butterfly S phone that normally runs Android, and can run games like Angry Birds. Ars' Android expert Ron Amadeo tells me COS looks like it's just a skin of HTC Sense, an interface HTC uses for its Android phones. Here is some visual proof: China OS on the left, HTC Sense on an HTC One on the right. Ron Amadeo Despite that, Chinese officials say it was developed "completely" by China. An article published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences "said existing open-source operating systems pose security risks, and foreign-made systems have 'acclimatization' difficulties in China, problems that COS addresses," the Times wrote. COS reportedly runs Java applications, supports HTML5 websites and games, and is compatible with more than 100,000 applications overall. China's claims about COS' origins raised suspicion, the Times reported: “Its full name should be Copy Other System,” said one user with the handle “byxu,” in one of the most upvoted comments on [social network] Sina weibo. “It’s not open source because they’re terrified that others will see that the source code is the same as Android, and accuse them of cheating the government out of money.” Separately, the Chinese government signed a deal with Canonical last year to create a new version of the open source Ubuntu for Chinese users that is intended to wean people off of Windows desktops. At the time, Canonical said that "future work will extend beyond the desktop to other platforms" such as servers, tablets, and phones. A recent financial report from Canonical said that China accounts for the "majority of global units shipped" by the company. The emergence of COS probably doesn't spell the end of Ubuntu in China, but it shows that the Chinese government isn't putting all its eggs into one operating system. Though COS phones aren't available commercially yet, China Mobile and China Telecom have reportedly been testing devices running the operating system.
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  19. Inside Facebook's Blu-ray storage rack. Facebook's hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers' homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage system that uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs to hold a petabyte of data. After that story posted we were able to talk to Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook, to find out just why he's so excited about the project. While the Blu-ray storage system is just a prototype, Facebook hopes to get it in production sometime this year and share the design with the Open Compute Project community to spur adoption elsewhere. If Facebook and others start using Blu-ray discs for long-term archival storage, Blu-ray manufacturers will see a new market opportunity and pursue it, Frankovsky said. "I think that the media suppliers, especially after all of the community excitement around it with Open Compute, they see a huge opportunity here," Frankovsky said. "Economies of scale could take over really quickly, and they could start producing those discs for the Open Compute community at much lower cost than they do today because, believe it or not, this is one of those areas where really high-capacity Blu-ray discs are in relatively low demand on the consumer side and in relatively high demand on the data center side." Facebook VP Jay Parikh discusses cold storage and Blu-rays. Facebook intends to use Blu-rays for "cold storage," data that can't be thrown out but may not be accessed for many years, if at all. The best near-term use case is backups of photos and videos, but the discs could also be used for any data that Facebook is required by law to retain for a certain number of years. Facebook's cold storage today is entirely on spinning disks. The prototype Blu-ray system is estimated to be 50 percent cheaper than the disk-based cold storage, and 80 percent more energy efficient. The discs are housed in a fancy rack that holds 24 magazines, with each magazine holding 36 cartridges, and each cartridge holding 12 Blu-ray discs, for a total of 10,368. A robot lives and works inside the rack. "We have a robotic picker that will go to a specified magazine and then locate a cartridge, it will unlock that cartridge, removing the drawer, and a picker will go down and is able to select a specified disc in that 12-disc arrangement," Facebook's Giovanni Coglitore said in a video demo posted yesterday. When the robot isn't working, the rack consumes virtually no power, he said. "Each disc is certified for 50 years of operation; you can actually get some discs that are certified for 1,000 years of reliability," Coglitore said. "Because the media is separate from the drives, if you ever have a drive issue, you simply replace the drive, and you won't have to replace the data within a disc. From a reliability and operational standpoint it's quite elegant and efficient." Facebook is careful in how it's rolling out the optical storage system to production. As Facebook does with other new technologies, "we'll start it out in what we call shadow testing," Frankovsky said. "Until it's proven, we'll take relatively small quantities, and we'll just mirror data from what's in production and shadow that data to the optical rack." While Blu-ray can't match the performance of hard disk drives, that isn't as important for cold storage. Frankovsky also said the Blu-ray system will be "far superior to tape" because of its durability and performance. It could also provide benefits in recovery from failure. Frankovsky said Facebook uses erasure encoding, which "distributes a file across multiple physical devices so that in any event of a failure of a physical device you can always recreate the file." With disk drives, "you need to have a relatively aggressive erasure encoding environment where you have a lot more physical spinning disks, so you can sustain multiple failures and be able to recreate the file in any situation," Frankovsky said. Because the predictive annual failure rate for optical discs is lower, "it's quite possible that you won't need to over-provision how much optical capacity you have to be able to get the same level of protection with the complete file rebuild. There's kind of a double goodness there. Bit for bit, it's lower cost, and if we can over-provision less with optical, you can move that needle even further on the cost-saving side." Separately, Facebook has also considered the use of substandard flash memory for cold storage. The idea is to take "partially good NAND flash which otherwise would have been sold off as thumb drives or potentially even scrap," Frankovsky said. Flash storage is often thrown out by manufacturers when just a few cells have gone bad, he said. With smart enough software algorithms, "you can be cognizant of where the weak or bad cells are and write around those cells." The bad flash initiative isn't as far along as the Blu-ray project. But both have progressed pretty quickly since Facebook revealed their existence last year, Frankovsky said. They could end up being important tools as data storage needs grow. IDC predicts that by 2020 the entire "digital universe" will grow to 40,000 exabytes, or 40 trillion gigabytes. "A large portion of that is going to be warm to cold data, and we need something better than tape and disk to store it," Frankovsky said.
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