Tag Archives: Data security

Google vs. National Information Exchange Model

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Ray

Wouldn’t the National information exchange be better served by deferring the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and instead implementing some sort of Google-like search of federal, state, and municipal text data records.  Most federal, state and local data resides in … Continue reading →

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Securing the cloud – part B

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Ray

A recent article from MIT’s Technology Review discussed cloud security (“Security in the Ether”). Most of the article was on how many cloud servers are vulnerable to a particular hack that can uncover private data in server memory/cache. But a … Continue reading →

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Securing data in the cloud

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Ray

We have posted previously about the need for backup in cloud storage. So today I would like to start a discussion on securing “data-at-rest” within the cloud. Depositing data into the cloud seems a little like a chinese laundry to … Continue reading →

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7 grand challenges for the next storage century

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ray

I saw a recent IEEE Spectrum article on engineering’s grand challenges for the next century and thought something similar should be done for data storage. So this is a start: Replace magnetic storage – most predictions show that magnetic disk … Continue reading →

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Repositioning of tape

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ray

In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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The future of libraries

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Ray

My recent post on an exabyte-a-day generated a comment that got me thinking. What we need in the world today is a universal deduped archive. Such an archive would be a repository for all information generated by the world, nation, … Continue reading →

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Chart of the month: SPC LRT(tm) performance results

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Ray

The above chart shows the top 12 LRT(tm) (least response time) results for Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. The vertical axis is the LRT in milliseconds (msec.) for the top benchmark runs. As can be seen the two subsystems from … Continue reading →

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What's holding back the cloud?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Ray

Steve Duplessie’s recent post on how the lack of scarcity will be a gamechanger got me thinking. Free is good but the simplicity of the user/administrative interface is worth paying for. And it’s that simplicity that pays off for me. … Continue reading →

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