One big reason private companies are better than government is budgets. A government agency runs on budgets, they aren't motivated to save money if they don't spend all of it they don't get it back the next year, use it or loose it. Simple as that.
Does your setup allocate ZERO connections to certain servers over some length time, which are set up to reduce energy use upon such zero connections? If not, this looks like it might help. F5's BigIP, the load balancer in question, doesn't specifically allocate ZERO connections, your right about that. Although F5 does allow for allot of flexibility in load balancing, you can separate out traffic, ie http and https to go to two separate servers. This could approximate your zero connections.
When your talking zero connections though, as this algorithm suggest, whats the latency? I can't help think taking time for the load balancer to establish sessions (most likely in the thousands) on the fly when it's needed.
BigIP does allow for peak load and acceptable response time, these are utilized by health checks using Http Get's to determine response times, typically, they can use a variety of methods though.
F5 doesn't specifically have anything to manage energy efficiencies, I believe what they do have can come pretty close to it.
I would suggest breaking down what you want to divert to solar and what you don't, in other words do you just want to power the fridge or air conditioner on solar, then rewiring for it. I've only setup a solar generator to supply power to a UPS, in case of blackouts, I can recharge most items.
To be honest this is common practice, people, ie. customers and investors, find fictitious startup reasons sexier and makes for good marketing. People like a good story and they like a company that seems to have a good story behind, fictitious or not.
There's a difference between the memristor and flip-flops and any other device that mimics it. This is one device, not made up of transistors or capacitors, simplifying a circuit considerably. Also it scales beautifully to the nanometer size, allowing for smaller, simpler fast memory without need of capacitors.
I'm there, worked in IT for ages. Now it's just not what it used to be. One thing I am doing is creating my start-up, not sure if it's what your looking for, but it sure beats they daily grind and you get to plan it out.
Kind of reminds me of that short story about mankind's first encounter with ET who happen to be large duck like creatures. By accident one of the ET's gets electrocuted and the aroma smells so irresistibly good to humans that they go crazy and start trying to cook the ET's. Laughs and comical situations ensue.
Oddly enough I always look for someone who has problems socially when hiring an engineer or SE, then I know the guy will understand what I need and not "be my friend".
Imagine if companies held a short class or training session about once a week to identify, react, and report threats. A little bit of training goes a long way. You don't need an expert to tell you that.
I used to do that for one company, even had a newsletter that had easy security tips, such as complex password phrases, how to determine if your email had a virus, so on. Almost always they were forgotten because the companies mentality, like most, is to get the job done at least cost. Add to that that most of the users we dealt with ended up feeling like they didn't need it because they never encountered a problem, it's downhill battle, ends up falling on the security person all ways. Thats just the hard facts.
There is no way you can rap up INFOSEC in a simple way. Each company practices it in a different way because each has it's own acceptance of liabilities due to applications that they use or equipment that they purchase. You make the best of INFOSEC with those in mind because no company will change their technology infrastructure just because it's not the most secure technology. If the company is an enterprise you can have thousands of different types of applications and equipment all working together forming an even bigger security hole.
To say INFOSEC is dysfunctional comes from someone who doesn't understand just how complex it can be.
No amount of "security as infrastructure" will help if organisations do not have a good risk management and analysis framework or do not understand what kind of security they need and how much. If they don't understand it, they cannot ask it of the vendors and thus they will get either nothing or something random. I've only encountered a few companies that could even implement anything like "Best Practices" for security. Why? because currently INFOSEC is seen as a cost to the company without any type of revenue from it, like most of IT, only worse. When your blocking traffic from a poorly created application that a company depends on, or a mis-configured windows clustered server, INFOSEC is blamed for outages, because it's the one thing that actually does it's job, the rest of IT will see security as something preventing them from doing their jobs. Can't win for winning.
Ahh yes FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) The previous INFOSEC company I worked for was all about that. Best sales technique they had. It's definitely a self-perpetuating meme, that lately, companies have started to ignore.
Theres a desire for information security to be "easy" and automated, but when it comes down to it, thats the last it (information Security) can be, at least until AI is perfected. It will always take a human who understands the technology and the implications of network/workstation based attacks on the small and large scale. There are just to much complexities in todays networks that a single device/application/solution could deal with effectivly without human intervention.
They don't want to have to become IT security experts
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Damn, you young guys are rough.
Yes I understood that, sadly it was joke that seems to gone awry.
The plane will heal itself after a crash. Great for the plane, not so much for the passengers.
Hate to say it but the Cougaar link is dead one.
I knew you were going to say that!
One big reason private companies are better than government is budgets. A government agency runs on budgets, they aren't motivated to save money if they don't spend all of it they don't get it back the next year, use it or loose it. Simple as that.
How much more for the projector? won't come cheap no matter how you look at it.
BigIP's can use round robin and use prioritizing, in other words one server receives the most connections over the others. So how is this new?
I would suggest breaking down what you want to divert to solar and what you don't, in other words do you just want to power the fridge or air conditioner on solar, then rewiring for it. I've only setup a solar generator to supply power to a UPS, in case of blackouts, I can recharge most items.
To be honest this is common practice, people, ie. customers and investors, find fictitious startup reasons sexier and makes for good marketing. People like a good story and they like a company that seems to have a good story behind, fictitious or not.
There's a difference between the memristor and flip-flops and any other device that mimics it. This is one device, not made up of transistors or capacitors, simplifying a circuit considerably. Also it scales beautifully to the nanometer size, allowing for smaller, simpler fast memory without need of capacitors.
I'm there, worked in IT for ages. Now it's just not what it used to be. One thing I am doing is creating my start-up, not sure if it's what your looking for, but it sure beats they daily grind and you get to plan it out.
Sweet!
Verisign, always used them for public cert's.
Fourth is the engineer will solve the usual life threatening problem within the hour allotted.
Kind of reminds me of that short story about mankind's first encounter with ET who happen to be large duck like creatures. By accident one of the ET's gets electrocuted and the aroma smells so irresistibly good to humans that they go crazy and start trying to cook the ET's. Laughs and comical situations ensue.
All good except that the universe is flat
Oddly enough I always look for someone who has problems socially when hiring an engineer or SE, then I know the guy will understand what I need and not "be my friend".
I used to do that for one company, even had a newsletter that had easy security tips, such as complex password phrases, how to determine if your email had a virus, so on. Almost always they were forgotten because the companies mentality, like most, is to get the job done at least cost. Add to that that most of the users we dealt with ended up feeling like they didn't need it because they never encountered a problem, it's downhill battle, ends up falling on the security person all ways. Thats just the hard facts.
To say INFOSEC is dysfunctional comes from someone who doesn't understand just how complex it can be.
Ahh yes FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) The previous INFOSEC company I worked for was all about that. Best sales technique they had. It's definitely a self-perpetuating meme, that lately, companies have started to ignore.
Maybe not but someone will have to be, no matter.