There are some interesting legal issues, says John Lawler, storage
analyst at
Infonetics Research Inc.. For instance, if someone is storing pornography on
their machine, and other machines are arbitrarily chosen to be its
backups, are all the machines storing the picture in flagrante?
In other words, there are still plenty of unanswered questions that
will determine whether Farsite is really a feasible alternative to
traditional storage systems. For one, companies have to archive their data
somewhere, for legal purposes. So will Microsoft set up giant server farms
and offer an MSN contract to turn up the service? Or will hosting providers
be able to play in this space?
And what happens to SANs? The majority of these are used for backup
today, but under this scheme that use would seem to disappear.
Its hardly earth-shattering, says Galen Shreck, analyst with Forrester Research Inc.. Others have been at this idea for much longer.
xFS: Serverless Network File Service, developed as part of the NOW
project at Berkeley, and
Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE: CPQ) are also researching the same idea.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
