Category Archives: Security

‘Operators’ and ‘Administrators’

November 29, 2008 – 19:44

Operating and administrating Internet infrastructure is not the same. For the uninitiated it may seem that ‘operators’ and ‘administrators’ (systems or network) are not different, but there is one important distinction: The primary job of an operator is “risk aversion”, while that of an administrator is to “control, manage, or maintain.” Given [...]

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Can You Trust Cloud Computing?

October 17, 2008 – 06:24

A thoughtful blog posting from Khoi Vinh asks whether we can trust clouds given the current financial climate.
It’s good to be cautious about trusting all of your data to ‘the cloud’, but you should already be evaluating your cloud providers based on their ability to give you a backup option. Most providers already have [...]

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CIO Concerns about Cloud Security

June 23, 2008 – 18:29

There is a little here on CIOupdate about CIO concerns with cloud security. The article is short and a little overblown in how both sides are represented.
I’m currently talking to CIOs and CISOs at large enterprises and I’m not hearing any ‘panic’ so much as pragmatic concerns about securing cloud usage. The folks [...]

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Another take on Web-Scale Computing

December 18, 2007 – 16:47

Greg Borenstein, principal behind Music for Dozens and out loud thinker sums up the potential long term impact of Amazon’s successful cloud computing model. It’s an insightful article and I think worthy of a close read, including the comments.
First Greg correctly sums up the obvious:

With the announcement of Amazon’s much-anticipated SimpleDB service this week, [...]

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Micro Virtual Machines

July 12, 2007 – 06:51

Introduction
MicroVMs are a technology I was playing with for the first product we considered spinning out, the Virtual Server Room, a sort of virtual appliance micro-cluster in a box made up of back office IT servers. I thought I would write a bit about MicroVMs because I think they are going to have a [...]

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