All the big players are buying into this. For the Google-challenged:
EMC's take from todays Cnet CA HP IBM(tho' they prefer the acronym HSM or Hierarchical Storage Management)
Veritas
Random googled pundit on the entire field.
ILM is the next big thing. Its the logical extension to the ever increasing SAN/NAS Server/Workstation exponentially-increasing-data problem (go google for pretenders to the law).
You can't oversee growing data storage without a parallel increase in administration costs. Instead, the idea is to build automatic archiving into your storage architecture.
In practice this means you build tiers of storage/archive methods. Tier 1 is a high tkt Shark SAN etc, Tier 2 is lower priced SATA RAID and Tier 3 is a DAS Tape Library. Build retention guidelines into the storage management playform (Tivoli etc). Older items are automatically moved to the Tier corresponding to that retention/access policy. Really old items "live" on Tape. Frequently accessed data lives on the high speed boxes near to the users/application. You snapshot updates to a DR replica offsite or burn periodic Tape sets etc. Its a good idea to team this with storage virtualization (virtual LUNS/ Metadata directory servers) and you can add/rotate/modify the storage tiers when necessary without any downtime.
From a user perspective, you click on the link and if applicable, get notified the item is being retrieved from media x (its mostly transparent). Worse case - access times are in the minutes.
Of course, all this comes with a high price. Enterprise Storage systems are not cheap. Recent legislated policy (Sarbanes Oxley etc) enforces the retention of some media (e.g. email). You cannot rely on end users to enforce data retention. This lets you mandate tiers of protection and is highly configurable to support per application monitoring.
Nothing is foolproof. Its still being finessed but if you can afford it - its truly a thing of beauty.
Its not only a question of supervision but also of authorisation.
Ad-hoc initiative in a battlefield leads to randomised variables outside of executive control. Thats fine in a safe urban environment - worse case scenario you fuck up and some fat geeks steal your bandwidth. In a hostile environment, its another ballgame and can be deadly.
Morale PCs are bottlenecks for a reason. You can't audit the unknown. You're not seriously thinking of setting up unauthorised communications facilities in a warzone? Get a clue.
Any1 else remember cheesy 70s SciFi with rubbermen holding an LP/Cassette up to their ears and pretending to hear the music. Adapted in the 80s to CDs but the same principal.
Maybe they had a scanning laser embedded in their skull transferring the sound directly to the inner ear through the bone.
Remember guys pressing their forearms to a book to read it?
Could happen. Wouldn't be the first time cheesy SciFi foretells the future.
The proud hacker ethic of yesteryear promotes user patching : the laissez faire school of security. Most major schools have no firewalls and scientists dictate IT policy. There is no staging prior to production. No patch management. No administrative oversight. Imagine buggy half-assed builds scaling to superclusters. This is not your mommas locked down corporate environment.
The only defense is to secure your department as much as you can - the "Islands in the Stream" model of network security. This will complicate your users lives. Depending on where you work, this may be a Career Limiting Move (CLM) in Academia OR the real world. However, the upside of all this malicious intent is the great opportunity for security exposure. Only firewall teams are usually schooled in active attacks. Fuck the corporate bootcamp cram session. This is live fire. Believe me, Honeyd and Tarpits are a godsend.
Of course universities are targets of hack attacks. The student segments are swarming with virii and backdoors. You wanna go tell Joe Jr $40k pa he's not allowed to use his laptop? One successful compromise will lead to a hackers paradise. Windows PCs on University address blocks are everyday targets. All we see here is someone targetting *nix boxes. This is a surprise?
NOO! Kiddies are targetting insecure machines with known vulnerabilities? Users/Admins didn't stay on top of their security patches? Why is this even news?
Absolutely. Multiple mac addresses will cause the switch to fault.... to a default HUB state. At which point any protection afforded by switched port isolation is meaningless.
I love sniffing the Cisco equivalent to CARP. Lots of HSRP calls to 224.0.0.224 with no security built in. A simple ARP poison will fuck the switch. More advanced attack methods can be found c/o Phenolit
I'd much prefer info on migrating an NT infrastructure to IBM supported platforms. As yet, there is no offical IBM guide to ditching Active Directory or an NT Domain and a move to Samba or IBM DS.
The myriad of Tivoli and e-Directory offerings are rather confusing. Worse again, sales support are often even more confused.
I don't see mention of being able to see internal objects? If the lightsource inside is stronger (nighttime), you may get the shadow puppet effect all around your house!
What about paint? You know anyone that wants gray walls in their house?
Quit. Think about the assholes you will never be forced to listen to ever again. Always remember the pent-up aggression and frustration. Gone. Sure, replaced with a large amount of anxiety but anything is better than the soul-sucking dread and constant pinkslip juggernaut.
Move on. Don't hang on. Don't ride the gravy train. Don't be a yes-man kowtowing to the axeman. Staying only serves to destroy your soul piece by piece. Stand up and reclaim your sense of self-worth.
Corporate culture promotes a hothoused atmosphere where you are deliberately blinkered to believe things suck all over. They don't.
Retrain, flex your intellect, rediscover yourself. The world is now your oyster for the first time since you left school. This is an opportunity, not a setback. Seize the opportunity to live again.
Can we trust no one in the light of Amazon barfing up reviewers glowing praise for their own work?
Scottish translation (in case Timothy is the author and reviewer):
"Kin we truss naebody aftherr th'Amazon beastie shat 'isself? Fook tha' cunt MacLeod onnyway."
Me dressed in a bunny suit sitting in front of a large black desk comprising a built in Gene Sequencer and PC. Me, hacking on the box to optimize memory settings in DOS. Memmaker, EMM386, QEMM. Mad German bastard standing over my shoulder ranting his bewilderment over how his home tuned OT-EKZEK-BAT blew up. Say OT-EKZEK-BAT 20 times a minute for a half hour.
Oh and don't forget the shuddering, moaning, shrieking, dying, diarrheal monkeys deliberately infected with the Simian Immuno Deficiency virus equivalent to HIV who were stacked against the wall 5 high and 7 wide directly behind the Mad German.
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Think lots of power, lan (VOIP/Data), whiteboards, deskspace and footroom everywhere.
Give everyone a trolley/shopping cart.
Rotate, Rinse, Repeat.
All the big players are buying into this. For the Google-challenged:
EMC's take from todays Cnet
CA
HP
IBM(tho' they prefer the acronym HSM or Hierarchical Storage Management)
Veritas
Random googled pundit on the entire field.
ILM is the next big thing. Its the logical extension to the ever increasing SAN/NAS Server/Workstation exponentially-increasing-data problem (go google for pretenders to the law).
You can't oversee growing data storage without a parallel increase in administration costs. Instead, the idea is to build automatic archiving into your storage architecture.
In practice this means you build tiers of storage/archive methods. Tier 1 is a high tkt Shark SAN etc, Tier 2 is lower priced SATA RAID and Tier 3 is a DAS Tape Library. Build retention guidelines into the storage management playform (Tivoli etc). Older items are automatically moved to the Tier corresponding to that retention/access policy. Really old items "live" on Tape. Frequently accessed data lives on the high speed boxes near to the users/application. You snapshot updates to a DR replica offsite or burn periodic Tape sets etc. Its a good idea to team this with storage virtualization (virtual LUNS/ Metadata directory servers) and you can add/rotate/modify the storage tiers when necessary without any downtime.
From a user perspective, you click on the link and if applicable, get notified the item is being retrieved from media x (its mostly transparent). Worse case - access times are in the minutes.
Of course, all this comes with a high price. Enterprise Storage systems are not cheap. Recent legislated policy (Sarbanes Oxley etc) enforces the retention of some media (e.g. email). You cannot rely on end users to enforce data retention. This lets you mandate tiers of protection and is highly configurable to support per application monitoring.
Nothing is foolproof. Its still being finessed but if you can afford it - its truly a thing of beauty.
Its not only a question of supervision but also of authorisation.
Ad-hoc initiative in a battlefield leads to randomised variables outside of executive control. Thats fine in a safe urban environment - worse case scenario you fuck up and some fat geeks steal your bandwidth. In a hostile environment, its another ballgame and can be deadly.
Think: Loose SIPs sink ships?
Anonymous Cowards speak volumes but no one listens. Automatic mod down. Stand up or shut up. Thats the point of /. dialogue.
For the military tribunal.
Morale PCs are bottlenecks for a reason. You can't audit the unknown. You're not seriously thinking of setting up unauthorised communications facilities in a warzone? Get a clue.
Novell eDirectory and the DirXML ADS driver will facilitate integration with the x.500 standards compliant (for once) ADS 2k3/MS-LDAP.
If you need an interim solution, talk to Interix. They can make ADS talk to anything.
Any1 else remember cheesy 70s SciFi with rubbermen holding an LP/Cassette up to their ears and pretending to hear the music. Adapted in the 80s to CDs but the same principal.
Maybe they had a scanning laser embedded in their skull transferring the sound directly to the inner ear through the bone.
Remember guys pressing their forearms to a book to read it?
Could happen. Wouldn't be the first time cheesy SciFi foretells the future.
I work in an Ivy League University
The proud hacker ethic of yesteryear promotes user patching : the laissez faire school of security. Most major schools have no firewalls and scientists dictate IT policy. There is no staging prior to production. No patch management. No administrative oversight. Imagine buggy half-assed builds scaling to superclusters. This is not your mommas locked down corporate environment.
The only defense is to secure your department as much as you can - the "Islands in the Stream" model of network security. This will complicate your users lives. Depending on where you work, this may be a Career Limiting Move (CLM) in Academia OR the real world. However, the upside of all this malicious intent is the great opportunity for security exposure. Only firewall teams are usually schooled in active attacks. Fuck the corporate bootcamp cram session. This is live fire. Believe me, Honeyd and Tarpits are a godsend.
Of course universities are targets of hack attacks. The student segments are swarming with virii and backdoors. You wanna go tell Joe Jr $40k pa he's not allowed to use his laptop? One successful compromise will lead to a hackers paradise. Windows PCs on University address blocks are everyday targets. All we see here is someone targetting *nix boxes. This is a surprise?
NOO! Kiddies are targetting insecure machines with known vulnerabilities? Users/Admins didn't stay on top of their security patches? Why is this even news?
Absolutely. Multiple mac addresses will cause the switch to fault.... to a default HUB state. At which point any protection afforded by switched port isolation is meaningless.
I love sniffing the Cisco equivalent to CARP. Lots of HSRP calls to 224.0.0.224 with no security built in. A simple ARP poison will fuck the switch. More advanced attack methods can be found c/o Phenolit
I'd much prefer info on migrating an NT infrastructure to IBM supported platforms. As yet, there is no offical IBM guide to ditching Active Directory or an NT Domain and a move to Samba or IBM DS.
The myriad of Tivoli and e-Directory offerings are rather confusing. Worse again, sales support are often even more confused.
Apply your logic to spyware etc and you get yourself back to where you started. Lotsa mom n' pops install that daily.
Mandrake and other multimedia desktop centric distros automate or build in EVERYTHING necessary to browse the web and send email SAFELY. Even Flash.
Thats a spoof article dude? Thats your evidence?
I like the idea of running a Spaulding Gray monologue through this. The sad little dot in a large blank space. A single node in the digital pool.
I don't see mention of being able to see internal objects? If the lightsource inside is stronger (nighttime), you may get the shadow puppet effect all around your house!
What about paint? You know anyone that wants gray walls in their house?
Quit. Think about the assholes you will never be forced to listen to ever again. Always remember the pent-up aggression and frustration. Gone. Sure, replaced with a large amount of anxiety but anything is better than the soul-sucking dread and constant pinkslip juggernaut.
Move on. Don't hang on. Don't ride the gravy train. Don't be a yes-man kowtowing to the axeman. Staying only serves to destroy your soul piece by piece. Stand up and reclaim your sense of self-worth.
Corporate culture promotes a hothoused atmosphere where you are deliberately blinkered to believe things suck all over. They don't.
Retrain, flex your intellect, rediscover yourself. The world is now your oyster for the first time since you left school. This is an opportunity, not a setback. Seize the opportunity to live again.
Speaking of the T720, the IP stack is vulnerable to remote exploitation
Thats grossly distorting that tragedy.
Goto http://linmodems.org/ and find a "Winmodem" that meets your specs.
Could also be y'Allah or yallah. An outreach to god.
Can we trust no one in the light of Amazon barfing up reviewers glowing praise for their own work?
Scottish translation (in case Timothy is the author and reviewer):
"Kin we truss naebody aftherr th'Amazon beastie shat 'isself? Fook tha' cunt MacLeod onnyway."
Me dressed in a bunny suit sitting in front of a large black desk comprising a built in Gene Sequencer and PC. Me, hacking on the box to optimize memory settings in DOS. Memmaker, EMM386, QEMM. Mad German bastard standing over my shoulder ranting his bewilderment over how his home tuned OT-EKZEK-BAT blew up. Say OT-EKZEK-BAT 20 times a minute for a half hour.
Oh and don't forget the shuddering, moaning, shrieking, dying, diarrheal monkeys deliberately infected with the Simian Immuno Deficiency virus equivalent to HIV who were stacked against the wall 5 high and 7 wide directly behind the Mad German.