Re: Status as of Saturday, December 2, 2017
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 5:07 pm
Do you have access to commercial leased line providers in your area? For security purposes, I've used Verizon Frame relay circuits for intranet connections with VPNs running over the Verizon links. But that will just get you your pipe, you would need to work out peering with a layer 1 or 2 provider, like HE.net for ip transit.
On the topic of backup servers and storage -- AWS must meet regulatory requirements for some of their largest customers. For this reason they offer solutions like encrypted elastic storage using either a KMS server or customer side provided keys.
One cloud security offering I have not tried, but may be worth taking a gander at is the Azure. While Azure also provides a encrypted data-at-rest solution, they are will soon be leveraging the virtualization based security introduced in windows server 2016 to provide encrypted data-in-memory. The Azure confidential computing solution does have sign-ups for early access, and may be worth a look. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ ... computing/
On the topic of backup servers and storage -- AWS must meet regulatory requirements for some of their largest customers. For this reason they offer solutions like encrypted elastic storage using either a KMS server or customer side provided keys.
One cloud security offering I have not tried, but may be worth taking a gander at is the Azure. While Azure also provides a encrypted data-at-rest solution, they are will soon be leveraging the virtualization based security introduced in windows server 2016 to provide encrypted data-in-memory. The Azure confidential computing solution does have sign-ups for early access, and may be worth a look. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ ... computing/
Steve Sokolowski wrote:Money isn't the issue.Helotours wrote:Are you guys really not making enough money at 5% to repair, upgrade and stay operational?
Actually, one of the things you quickly find out when you get some money is that nobody wants to take it. We gave up on Comcast and they lost a $72,000 contract after their salesman never called us back. We're willing to pay for overnight shipping, but the quickest the vendor can get a processor out is three days. We want to use restaurants to save us time but none of them will deliver to us because we're too far away, no matter how much we offer them. We've been working with lawyers and still don't have a signed document after five months.
It's astonishing how worthless money is. You need a certain amount of it to live, but after that, nobody seems to be interested in earning it.
The other issue is that you can't predict what will fail next. I never even considered that a processor on a computer would fail. Since we just bought a new processor, it's unlikely that the next failure is going to be a computer, so buying a backup computer isn't the right move. I'm not sure how one gets a list of things that are likely to fail.