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Secret weapon of one IaaS Vendor: Utilisation management -- dynamic pricing(cloudsigma.com)
16 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|8 comments
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New in-browser VNC webapp in the Chrome Webstore(chrome.google.com)
5 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
There's definitely huge opportunities in the medical sphere. We do have customers from this sector in our cloud although how they handle client data is always very strictly controlled and I think its fair to say that only a subset of the po
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
That's a possibility, the concern is the performance implications, particularly latency involved in operating such a system which needs to interrogate every data access. The question is whether such a system would have more of a performance
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
That's great information and you are right. Secure disposal of drives by the vendor is of course also extremely important. For those deleting virtual drives in the cloud securely the points made in the post might seem obvious but I believe
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
The blog post looks at three main aspects to data storage: - keeping data private (to you as a user) - thinking about legal issues of location and control - thinking about migration issues Of the first point we outline how data leakage is p
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Vukk, The issue there is more about tracking. You'd have to track every single block and return zero for any that hadn't been used/altered since drive creation. I'm guessing it would prove pretty costly in terms of latency for drive access
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Our post is regarding IaaS clouds in general and has nothing specifically to do with EC2 or any other particular vendor. It may be the case that EC2 does have secure measures in place; I wonder how many of their customers can articulate the
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
You raise a number of interesting points. Firstly we can't comment on the arrangements of other companies for whom we don't have visibility. As a customer you can of course ask them and one would hope they are able to provide you with a ful
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Yes we believe that's the case too however like you say, object orientated storage services are a different use case to block-level storage devices. Customers running their own databases for example can have these data leakage issues if the
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Simply overwriting with zeros isn't a 100% fix by any means and actually it does involve writing perhaps 1TB of data in sequence. For any storage array that's a lot of data to write. It doesn't matter if its 0s or something else. Better is
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Secure deletion on physical spindles is extremely resource heavy especially if someone is deleting a very large drive. Storing encrypted first does affect performance but it is generally much less and more predictable (doing a big secure de
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
A lot of the compliance issues come from the mixing of infrastructure and the software and networking layers with many IaaS providers. In our cloud only the customer has root access and file system visibility. Essentially the cloud vendor t
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How your data gets compromised in an IaaS cloud: Vendor tells all(cloudsigma.com)
26 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|24 comments
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Yes and no. The main issue we see with 10Gbps is networking topology. We don't want to roll out a star type networking which has a big single point of failure. The whole point of moving to distributed block storage is to eliminate this. Its
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
OK fair enough. Most public clouds don't use VMWare for cost reasons. It would be cheaper than some of the other commercial systems alluded to but still a significant cost compared with other virtualisation platforms. Its also using a propr
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
You can use ButterFS in conjunction with Sheepdog to achieve de-duplification, snapshotting etc. There are a number of choices of combinations but ButterFS is definitely one option. Patrick, CEO, CloudSigma
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Yes I agree with your points. On our 1U boxes we run 8 drives in RAID6. On our 2U boxes we run 22 drives in RAID6 + 2 hot spares. So we use a similar approach in having hot spares on the bigger boxes. As pointed out in the article, using di
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Just to come back on the point regarding NFS versus iSCSI: - proprietary systems like IBM's, HP etc. are both expensive and complicated. This violates our 'simple problems' mantra as well as having cost implications. - our IaaS platform has
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Future of Cloud Storage: An inside perspective from an IaaS vendor(cloudsigma.com)
19 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|17 comments
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Fedora 14 cloud servers launched with full root access by CloudSigma(cloudsigma.com)
6 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|2 comments
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
All our pricing is available at http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/pricing/price-schedules . Best wishes, CloudSigma
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by cloudsigma 16y ago
Thanks for the full feedback. Hybrid Web Cluster is offering a PaaS product sat on top of our pure IaaS offering. We have an open software and networking layer which allows customers such as Hybrid Web Cluster to build quite powerful set-up
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3 Golden Rules for Server Monitoring in the Cloud(cloudsigma.com)
2 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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Free in-browser VNC service launched today(vnc.cloudsigma.com)
3 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|1 comments
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Ubuntu 10.10 cloud servers with root access launched by CloudSigma(cloudsigma.com)
2 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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We just added Rackspace API compatibility for our cloud servers(cloudsigma.com)
1 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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How do you keep access to your cloud servers secure?(cloudsigma.com)
1 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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New Cloud Server Security Suite launched for secure API & Web access(cloudsigma.com)
1 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments
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Benchmarking cloud servers: An Insider's Guide(cloudsigma.com)
1 points by cloudsigma 16y ago|0 comments

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