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A pet peeve – what is up with the silence about the massive cloud data breach??? Also on the show today – Michael Crump and some great applications for Silverlight.
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Timeshare – The Old Cloud
Back in 1984 when I graduated from college I was looking for a computer system for a small non-profit organization. Back then there were manufacturers such as HP, Sperry, Burroughs, IBM, DEC amongst others. PCs were just hitting their stride and there networking was taking off.
But PCs were not networked in a fashion to share database resources like they are today. There was no centralized service you could connect at that time. 3Com had a product called Fox Base, later to become Fox Pro, which was capable of supporting multiple PCs on the network working in a single database. Even Dbase was not multi user network enabled at that point.
True shared data stores were a year or two from really being practical. So I ended up looking at higher end products. The cost of a system 36 or HP was far beyond our budget. So we ended up purchasing access to a DEC cluster across town, and used an application that was configurable for our needs.
We dialed into the service through the internet, connecting to a Modem hosted ad McDonnell Douglass Aircraft…companies like AOL weren’t available yet.
Today we call that the Cloud. Connection speeds are much faster of course. And we are probably not connecting to a PDP11 cluster but rather something much different. We don’t know, just as I didn’t know in 1994, where things physically reside, or what machine my app is running on. We just know that it works.
So, where are those technicians from the old days? These are the people who had to address questions like Steve raised in the last SelecTViews editorial regarding the security of the Cloud. They had security issues like we have today.
Some of you are still out there. How about some feedback regarding processes and policies you followed to keep things secure? Perhaps you can share some of the tools or infrastructure that you used to secure your applications and/or data?
Drop me a note at btaylor@sswug.org. Let’s hear from the old days, because they are just like the ones we are facing today.
Cheers,
Ben
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