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Ex-NASA Man Squeezes Cloud Onto USB Stick
- gvb 15y agoWe're going to look back with fondness to the days when USB sticks only carried passive viruses that required a vulnerable Windows computer to activate. Now they can carry dataloggers, sniffers, active attacks, ... Stuxnet on steroids. :-O
- kokey 15y agoI'll hold off until they implement a cloud in Javascript.
- EmmEff 15y agoThe guy who created this has great cred, but geez, this is gimmicky as hell! Hardly something to be taken seriously in the large enterprise datacenter.
- joss82 15y agoIs it just me or this article is built on the fact that "cloud" has a very vague definition? If I try to anchor the information in the article onto the real world, I got this: the combination of a magic usb key and a compatible switch gives us a fully automated installation system, complete with PXE boot-over-network and remote OS/software installation and configuring. But I'm only guessing, because this article lacks technical details, don't you think?
- nknight 15y agoI think the "private cloud" concept can be restated as "Big blob of semi-automatically-managed computing resources onto which diverse applications can be easily deployed." They're basically giving you a way to easily bootstrap your own little EC2 zone.
- kylek 15y agoThis is genius. I'm going to start putting an nginx installer on usb drives and sell them as full fledged web servers. (Incoming downvotes...but really, this is silly)
- jbbuck 15y agoDoes the whole "onto usb stick" really mean much these days? I'd hope you could get a software stack onto 8 (16, 32, ...) GB of storage. Also, that article is quite light on details (as has already been stated)
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