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Beware the Cloud

Beware the Cloud

BitTorrent Launches New “Share” Service, Takes a Stab at File Lockers

by Max Eddy | 11:36 am, January 6th

For years, BitTorrent has been the system of choice for moving large files to as many people as possible. However, many people have large files but not so large a group of intended recipients. For people like this, BitTorrent has introduced a new service called Share that takes aim at the everyday user with enormous files. Watch out, DropBox.

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Amazon Builds 42nd Fastest Supercomputer, but it’s on the Cloud

by Max Eddy | 9:45 am, December 27th

When we think of supercomputers, the image that generally comes to mind is one of racks and racks of specially built machinery kept in super-clean fluorescent rooms. While that may be true for the most powerful computers in the world, Amazon may be changing things. The online bookseller has apparently harnessed the power of its massive cloud computing platform called Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2) to create the 42nd fastest supercomputer in the world, which — strictly speaking — doesn’t exist here in meatspace.

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A Pileus Iridescent Cloud Over Ethiopia

by James Plafke | 2:00 pm, August 24th

From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, the above picture, taken by Esther Havens, features a dark cloud hiding a pileus iridescent cloud, sitting in the Ethiopian sky.

(via NASA)

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Dropbox Drops Password Protection

by Eric Limer | 12:00 pm, June 21st

Yesterday, the popular cloud storage service Dropbox accidentially disabled password protection for all accounts, leaving user’s files open to the public and modifiable for about 4 hours. Dropbox serves around 25 million users and while all their accounts were accessible, Dropbox asserts that only less than 1% of accounts were active during that period, which is not necessarily indicative of foul play. They are still investigating whether any of those cases might have been unauthorized access.

The error was caused when Dropbox changed some code at 1:54 PST and was discovered four hours later. Upon discovery, all active sessions were killed and users who were active during the password-free period were notified and advised to check their use history. But that’s where the buck seems to have stopped. As of now, Dropbox has yet to make a public statement on the matter. Neither their twitter nor their homepage makes any reference to the breach, which has some users a little upset.

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Amazon Can’t Recover All Its Cloud Data From Outage

by Max Eddy | 2:18 pm, April 27th

Many of us will look back on The Great Cloud Outage of 2011 that brought hundreds of sites like Reddit, Foursquare, and Hootsuite to their knees as a dark time, that forced us to look up from our phones or contemplate going outside. For users of the cloud service, however, it could be a permanent loss as Amazon has announced that some of the data will not be recoverable.

The data in question comes from the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provided by Amazon, as part of its Web Services. For users of the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) virtual machines, the EBS is similar to a hard drive on a desk top computer. Each block, or volume, is available in sizes from 1 Gb to 1 Tb, and more than one volume can be attached to an instance, or EC2 virtual machine.

According to Amazon, 0.07% of these volumes cannot be recovered.

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