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On-disk encryption and https security – for accessing the storage through a web-based interface – help to reassure users, whilst it also offers infrastructure to set up a private cloud in-house for those specific bits of data customers just can’t face letting out from behind their own firewall. There are also three copies made of everything stored as standard back-up. |
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Ten years ago, industry reacted to the upcoming hacking risk by implementing data encryption on smartcards. This protection is necessary because ROM contents can be read with a simple optical microscope. For data encryption, very fast crypto algorithms have to be used to protect the Flash/RAM/ROM, typically while the data is on the bus within one the CPU's clock cycles. |
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Open source is even providing solutions for IT's most pressing problem of all: the urgent imperative to increase data center efficiency, agility, and cost effectiveness. Today's imperative, as I noted a couple of weeks ago, is "modernize or else" -- and private cloud software promises a means to that end. |
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Paul Ramsey of OpenGeo quoted a study from the 451 Group, which reported that open source is not a business model; it is a business tactic, a software and distribution model enabled by a software license. He drew an analogy with the publisher of a newspaper whereby the intrinsic value is in the sum of its parts. |
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Today, 30 years later, amazingly the situation is much the same. My little personal pantheon of gadgets include my Chromebook, my Sony e-reader and a Galaxy S II phone. I feel as ‘with-it’ as I did in 1982 (be envious). As before, my gadgets are overpriced and came from high street shops with a guarantee and need no maintenance. Most purchasers of these and similar items, like me all those years ago, have no more idea what OS runs each, or indeed what it might be. |
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