I used to work for a large telecommunications company. They had guards posted at the entrances for the data center, and elaborate procedures in place to handle vendor, employee and data center worker access. Mostly it boiled down to the guard having to disarm the door to let you in after you properly identified yourself. This worked great, unless you got the fateful combination of a door alarm, and a rookie guard who didn't know how to turn it off. On at least two occasions, the big red button was selected as the solution to the door alarm. It was later determined that while the guards were required to speak English, they were not required to read it... After the second event, they got a new set of guards.
The ultimate distributed storage device...
1) Secure
2) Uploads to it are incredibly fast
3) Comes with every *NIX OS, gratis.
4) Limitless capacity.
5) Easy to use.
6) Incredibly reliable.
The only downside: retrieval times are somewhat slow./dev/null is the distributed storage solution for the masses!
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I used to work for a large telecommunications company. They had guards posted at the entrances for the data center, and elaborate procedures in place to handle vendor, employee and data center worker access. Mostly it boiled down to the guard having to disarm the door to let you in after you properly identified yourself. This worked great, unless you got the fateful combination of a door alarm, and a rookie guard who didn't know how to turn it off. On at least two occasions, the big red button was selected as the solution to the door alarm. It was later determined that while the guards were required to speak English, they were not required to read it... After the second event, they got a new set of guards.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/03/14
Pictures of the twins!
http://arstechnica.com/guide/system/index.html
Good resource for putting together a system, keeping prices (mined from pricewatch.com) in mind.
The ultimate distributed storage device... 1) Secure 2) Uploads to it are incredibly fast 3) Comes with every *NIX OS, gratis. 4) Limitless capacity. 5) Easy to use. 6) Incredibly reliable. The only downside: retrieval times are somewhat slow. /dev/null is the distributed storage solution for the masses!