Cloud is “hot”, everyone is talking about it, everyone uses it, everyone keeps data in the “Cloud”. However, do we know what it really means? Let’s look at a cloud without a marketing shell – at the myths and facts. Confusion in the Clouds Where does the Cloud begin, and where does it end? You may say: “Yes, I have access to my data from various locations. I can choose the capacity of services. I [...]

What to do with old hard disks? What to do if your company is going to upgrade its equipment? How to get rid of any useless hardware? However we approach these problems, everything will always concern one important issue – the protection of confidential data. Data security policy Briefly and generally – data security policy is a set of precise rules and procedures created to organize the resources of a company including the issues of [...]

Modern technology – we all know its rules, laws (like Moore’s law), limitations, possibilities and direction of development (well, for the most part). Technology is still evolving… But what if we change the starting point? What if we bet on a revolution, not evolution? What if we stop thinking of computers as silicon-based systems? Let’s discuss the issue of biocomputers and DNA computing. The evolution of a revolution Have you ever heard of artificial DNA? [...]

Here are three invented stories, three good endings and three bad ones. It does not matter who you are and what you do – it can happen to you. Let’s say this article can be an anecdote for you – so you can sleep peacefully at night. John Smith, freelance graphic designer John Smith has been a freelance graphic designer for the past seven years. He uses a 1TB HDD to store his work. The [...]

Recently when headlines all around the world have reported about another spectacular hacking attacks of LulzSec or Anonynmous group, we all started to wonder – is data security and personal privacy may really exist in the network? If the Pentagon, CIA, and global corporations like Sony – which have enough money and huge teams of specialists to protect confidential information – cannot feel safe, then who can? For sure you remember Kevin Mitnick. He was [...]

Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that many of you want to participate in this lucrative market as well. So what features do you need to provide to offer virtual servers ‘in the cloud’?  These are the fundamentals: Your cloud service must be highly available, with automatic failover. The promise of cloud computing is that is it always on, and instantly available. Automatic [...]

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – always. The same applies to technological progress – It begins with the simplest solutions, if you look at it in terms of time. Take a look at the inventions which have become the starting point for present giant data centers. They were only the drop in the bucket, but remember, progress is a continuous process. It has continued, it is still ongoing and [...]

Mass data storage – you think it is boring. Am I right? If you believe so, let me change your point of view. We would like to present a list of ten ideas – or rather prophecies. Some of them have been fulfilled, some not, yet one question will remains unchanged: what will be next? Furthermore, where are the limits of technology evolution – or maybe revolution? Is it simply a limit of human imagination? [...]

Does size matter? When we were younger we had dreams – dreams about the future and technology. We remember science-fiction movies with all the flashing little bulbs hypnotizing us. Buttons have concealed mysteries, holding secrets about unattainable knowledge. And perhaps this knowledge, along with the incredible machines responsible for its storage, would even give us power to control the entire world. Was this all magic? Well, not exactly – not now, in the present. There [...]

Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is to find a way to make some unavoidable situations… avoidable. Every kind of hardware has its restrictions, week points, resistance etc. Whatever we do, we cannot be sure that our data is absolutely safe. Even James Bond-like data HQ cannot give us such assurance. So, [...]