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Defending The Data Center – Forbes.com. This “datacenter as terrorism target” meme has to die. Seriously. It clouds (pardon the pun) the real issues of physical and network security in our industry. If you have to seize a hot button topic like “terrorism” to communicate something important (yet completely unrelated) then you are not communicating … Continue reading “Defending The Data Center… from WHAT exactly?”
Schneier on Security: Terrorist Risk of Cloud Computing. Bruce Schneier gets it COMPLETELY right, (about Rob Enderle being completely wrong,) when he says: “…the main point of the article, which seems to imply that terrorists will someday decide that disrupting people’s Lands’ End purchases will be more attractive than killing them. Okay, that was a … Continue reading “Enderle Idiocy, Schneier Wisdom: “Terrorist Risk of Cloud Computing””
I was reading an article link on Slashdot which was talking about the “threat of outages on major Internet infrastructure” in general, and specifically about the “carrier hotel” in Los Angeles named “One Wilshire”. Every major city in the civilized world has at least one building like this. Here in Seattle it is “The Westin … Continue reading “Insightful Comment. Slashdot | Preparing for the Worst in IT”