1) DOUG ON CLOUD
By Doug Barney Before I start on the cloud, I want to pause and remember Pearl Harbor. This kick in the pants ultimately pushed the U.S. and her allies to defeat evil. It's as simple as that. Amazon Cloud Gets More Native All the Time
Many in IT want the cloud to function just like internal systems but with less of the hassles. In the early days, the cloud was a bit of a black box -- it only did what the providers let you. That just doesn't cut it for IT pros used to total control. That is the whole impetus behind private clouds, whether they are hosted in the cloud or act as a private cloud in the data center. Amazon, a cloud leader, is testing a new DNS service, RT 53, which offers IT some of this control, says Werner Vogels, CTO for Amazon. "Route 53 provides authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a worldwide network of highly available DNS servers," Voglels wrote in a recent blog. "Route 53 has the business properties that you have come to expect from an AWS service: fully self-service and programmable, with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing and no minimum usage commitments." Comment. A Cloud Dufus
Don't you hate people who don't practice what they preach? Well then, steer your anger towards me, for I am a hypocrite. I not only preach about the cloud, I wrote a huge article about data and file synchronization. I exposed the best tools and advocated that we all have an active role in the replica of our files, not just for backup, but for access from any device anywhere. Pretty good idea and pretty good advice. So what did this nincompoop do? It all started yesterday evening when my son was taking Tae Kwon Do and I was finishing and article on deadline. I fired up my Dell Latitude and was hit with security alerts and what looked like a virus scan which launched and ran on its own. This wasn't my virus scanner. I knew I was in trouble. Task Manager couldn't shut it down -- in fact I've never seen so many unrecognizable tasks running at one time. Microsoft Security Essentials was hosed as well. So now I am using my daughter's old college HP laptop (with a missing 'i' key). That article will have to wait -- I didn't have a backup. Doh! My Maxtor external drive has plenty of space, but the backup is hopelessly out of date. That's because I use Carbonite to back up files. The problem is I have a new machine and was too lazy to reactivate Carbonite. I guess admitting my flaws, even something as simple as activating a cloud backup system which takes about two minutes, is a lesson for many of us. Cloud storage and backups are great, but they don't run themselves. They need to be set up right and monitored. Comment. Doug Barney is the vice president of editorial for Virtualization Review. Keep up with Doug's blog online here.
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