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Red Hat Wants to be a Dominant Force in the Cloud (Video)
Red Hat has two primary Cloud Evangelists: Gordon Haff and Richard Morrell. Richard says this about himself: "I'm Red Hat's Cloud Security Blogger and Cloud Evangelist based in Europe. Passionate about good code and Open Hybrid Cloud. Founder of SmoothWall protecting millions of networks for 13 years globally. My blogging and my podcasting is my own editorial and does not represent the views of Red Hat..." We have known Richard since the 20th Century, so this interview has been a long time coming. In it, he talks about how Red Hat is working to become as strong in the Open Source cloud world as it already is in GNU/Linux. This interview may not "represent the views of Red Hat," but it obviously represents the views of a loyal Red Hat employee who is also a long-time Linux enthusiast.
Buzzword bingo anyone?
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A buddy of mine spent a lot of money earlier this year to attend a Red Hat convention and take the (Paid) cloud training. What a waste. While the training was hands but very simple. The trainer didn't know much more than the attendees and it seemed clear to all parties involved it was not ready for prime time.
There's no video showing up, only blank space. This is 2013 guys, Flash died years ago.
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Still trying to de-buzzword it, but I think it means, "We want to host virtual servers."
It's like the 1960s but with better alternatives.
How do I submit my punch cards over the internet? Do I take a picture of them?
Do you even lift?
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the government NSA spys has killed any trust in telecommunications and internet connectivity, if i had anything of value that i wanted to keep private such as blueprints and plans for products soon to be sold on the market i surely wont keep any of that on any networked computer, and if i had to transport data anywhere it would be put on an encrypted usb thumbdrive which is easily hidden and/or transported anywhere
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Why would you want to submit them over the Internet when you have a perfectly good postal sevice?
WTF ? I mean, with such a job title, how ridiculous can one be ???
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Hrm. I wonder how much of a market there would be for an app that you can snap pictures of punch cards and run them in an VM.....
Well... I am going to have nightmares tonight now....
There are a lot of cloud providers, but what would be nice is a standard on client-side encryption and key management [1], regardless of what cloud provider destination. That way, if I'm sending files to Dropbox, S3, Glacier, RH's cloud, Azure, or another provider, all I have to do is change out the name and authentication info, not have to use a completely different API. This would also allow me to have redundant cloud storage for vital documents, automatically retrieving a document even if one of the providers is offline.
[1]: Key management is just as important as encryption, but it is something that gets forgotten about until a disaster, and one has a nice pile of tapes... but no way to decrypt them.
Anyways, it is far from ridiculous for RedHat to aspire to this. RedHat is used in many data centers and has contributed a very large number of software packages for clustering, management, and virtualization.
Slashdot video needs a cloud-to-butt plugin. But seriously, Ubuntu is now the dominant OS in the space (surprise!) largely because Canonical has been focused here since 2009, and they've made some very astute decisions backing the right technologies, e.g. shifting quickly from Eucalyptus to Open Stack.