You are here
Home > Posts tagged "cloud computing"

Tag: cloud computing

The boogie-man that is internet cloud security vulnerabilities

Jason , , ,

After participating in a recent online discussion about security vulnerabilities in internet clouds, I was a bit surprised at how many people still seem to think that using publicly-exposed internet clouds are less secure than clouds or networks sitting behind private firewalls. It’s important not to be distracted by buzz words, a cloud is a large network of servers. The servers are set up to talk to each other to share the load. This has been something that’s been around for many years.

Read More

OnLive demoed at Columbia University, looks promising

drsquid , , , , , , 7 Comments

Gamertag Radio recently posted a 48 minute demonstration of OnLive, the cloud gaming platform that many claim is just smoke and mirrors, recorded at a lecture at Columbia University. While final judgement should withheld until the service actually launches – and someone outside the company has tested it in the ‘real’ world, this video goes a long way to proving to me that there is real technology here that will work, and could potentially revolutionize gaming as we know it. However I am not ready to give up local gaming…

Read More

ArchiveTeam.org steps up as your Public Data Watchdog

Paul L , 0 comment

In response to the recent unceremonious shuttering of tens of thousands of AOL blogs, Jason Scott — ASCII text files archivist, documentary filmmaker of the CC-licensed BBS Documentary, and writer of recent counter-technocultural foul-mouthed gems like Datapocalypso! and FUCK THE CLOUD — is striking up a kind of internet viligante, do-gooders league called Archive Team, which will cooperate, wiki-style, to save the sum total of cultural data on commonly used public blog servers and website shingles. Scott himself has already started the ball rolling, by personally saving (and making available…

Read More