Posts by the_dude 2 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2009
Execellent plan, if only they hadn't already outsourced support and R&D to India, and manufactoring to China you'd be on to a winner. I think they need to find new synergies in vertical markets to really get their ducks barking in the right direction so their senior people have the scope and time plans to have an ideas shower on how to get more money out of the company.
Thing is the DDOS would be on against the URL/logical (IP) address so even if the service could be moved dynamically the end result would still be denial of service, the bad packets would still reach their destination. So cloud computing could work for diaster recovery (power failure, nuclear war, whatever), but it's not a replacement for good security from the cloud and hosted service provider.
Also the thing about the storage being on the same interface sounds like nonsense. I am making a couple of assumptions here, that they access the service via the public internet rather than via private means (ie VPN/MPLS etc), and that they lost access to everything. In which case the DDOS would have been against the address used to provide access to the hosted service, not the storage, and hence deny access to the entire service.
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