Tag Archives: Meta-data

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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Yottabytes by 2015!?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ray

Well, maybe an Exabyte a day was way too small for 2009. NSA is now reporting that they may be storing yottabytes (YB, 10**24) of data by 2015 somewhere in Utah. Later reports have NSA reducing this down to something … Continue reading →

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