Tag: cloud
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Cloud Services and Availability
From the way that Cloud vendors promote their wares and how apologists fawn over these services, one would think that Cloud was the be all and end all of computing. The fact is that we’ve been here before and Cloud is just a more advanced form of central or mainframe computing from the 60s and…
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The cloud and security
Moving your applications and data into the cloud presents a paradox when talking about security. A recent Thales survey found that over 60% of respondents thought that the cloud provider was responsible for protecting their sensitive and/or confidential data. And over 50% said they didn’t know what their cloud provider does to protect their data.…
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csync CLI usage and mirall tuning
This post provides ad collates information regarding the client components which is not provided as yet by ownCloud. csync cli usage The ownCloud csync version uses the same syntax as the original csync but with a differing url syntax/module. 1. create a folder/repository through the web interface that you will sync to 2. choose a…
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The Cloud, Security and IT Skills
Seeing as everyone is writing about Cloud Computing lately, I thought I’d rehash some of my concerns about this ‘new’ technology. New in parenthesis because the idea is actually quite old, coming from the time-sharing Unix systems of the 60’s and 70’s. Cloud obviously takes this to a new level ( supposedly with non-stop availability…
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Microsoft: Cloud Services fail
Well if there’s ever been an advertisement against cloud services, Microsoft is it. The recent spate of outages on Microsoft’s BPOS system continued this weekend past with a 7 hour outage at their Dublin data centre after an ‘act of God’ took out their power grid and backup generators. Microsoft said it would “proactively provide…