Internets of Interest:2^nd Nov 09-​​5^th Nov 09

Collection of use­ful, rel­ev­ant or inane places on the the Internets for 4^th Nov 09:

• What the Cisco/​EMC/​VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing — 

Stacey Higginbotham and gigaom is also dubi­ous about the Cisco/​EMC/​Acadia matchup. Points out the neither Cisco or EMC are good at open systems :



Another big issue here is the open­ness of the plat­form. None of these play­ers are known for their embrace of open soft­ware, and most are far more fam­ous for squeez­ing high mar­gins out of pro­pri­et­ary code. IBM and Rackspace have been push­ing for some type of open cloud effort, which it defines as being built through a stand­ards group. Vblocks are a refut­a­tion of that model, and of the idea that com­mod­ity hard­ware will under­lie most clouds.

It’s a good point.

• Slashdot Technology Story | The Machine SID Duplication Myth — 

hav­ing mul­tiple com­puters with the same machine SID — doesn’t pose any prob­lem, secur­ity or oth­er­wise. I took my con­clu­sion to the Windows secur­ity and deploy­ment teams and no one could come up with a scen­ario where two sys­tems with the same machine SID, whether in a Workgroup or a Domain, would cause an issue. At that point the decision to retire NewSID became obvi­ous.’ He con­cludes: ‘It’s a little sur­pris­ing that the SID duplic­a­tion issue has gone unques­tioned for so long, but every­one has assumed that someone else knew exactly why it was a prob­lem. To my chag­rin, NewSID has never really done any­thing use­ful and there’s no reason to miss it now that it’s retired.





What else can I say ? Collective stu­pid­ity at it’s best.

• Guest Post: Yahoo’s Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server — 

Yahoo open sources their traffic man­age­ment server for their web­site. The soft­ware is a proxy, authen­tic­a­tion server, load bal­an­cing engine, applic­a­tion deliv­ery, fil­ter and more. Supports plu­gins and field tested for very large installations.

Blue Coat, F5 and Citrix could well see drops in rev­enue as dot com com­pan­ies use this in their star­tup stages. And once used, this would stop most dot coms from ever look­ing at appli­ance technology.

• Storage firm Drobo gets mys­ter­i­ous cash injec­tion • The Register — 

Drobo raises $10 mil­lion for unknown pur­poses. I get to meet them next week at the GestaltIT Tech Field Day where there may be an announce­ment. I wonder ?

• Intel Software Network Blogs » Windows 7 Brings Consolas Font to Command Prompt — 

How to use the Consolas Font in Win2K8.

• Internet Society Publications — The ISP Column — 

Geoff Huston writes about pro­ceed­ing at the RIPE59 meet­ing. Comments on DNSSEC and its pro­gres­sion are very inter­est­ing, espe­cially that America wants to hold the root sign­ing key. Clearly, not many coun­tries are going to be happy about that. : 



The path chosen to sign the DNS root does not appear to go very far in allay­ing the con­cerns of those who believe that US Government agen­cies main­tain an excess­ive level of poten­tial influ­ence over this some­what crit­ical ele­ment of Internet infra­struc­ture. VeriSign is to per­form the zone sign­ing func­tion and ICANN is to hold the Key Signing Key.

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