Posts by nobody_important

UK regulator moots data protection sandbox for organisations to play in

Re: ICO. Waste of Space.

Sure about that?

The ICO will be responsible for enforcing:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

"Conditions for consent"

"...If the data subject’s consent is given in the context of a written declaration which also concerns other matters, the request for consent shall be presented in a manner which is clearly distinguishable from the other matters, in an intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language."

Recital 32 for good measure:

"...When the processing has multiple purposes, consent should be given for all of them."

Data protection is best managed from the centre

Sorry...but.

...this reads like a sales data sheet/brochure, but hey, what would I know!?!

I'm just an account manager...

USB stick found in West London contained Heathrow security data

Re: How as this even possible?

There's a bit of an assumption that this loss was "accidental" isn't it?

On the train or by the roadside .. ok... but amongst leaves...?

BlackBerry's turnaround stalls

Are we there yet?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/28/blackberry_earnings_and_branding/

Forget the phone...

If you take a look at Chen's history, he's very software focussed, which means he's not really into phones as the main source of revenue.

Moreover, if you take a look here - I'd say that this is a clue which areas his next expansion plan will be:

http://www.qnx.com/news/pr_6118_3.html

Vibrating walls shafted servers at a time the SUN couldn't shine

Re: "SUN"?

..perhaps they might be using the acronym for "Stanford University Network"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_Network

Breathless F-35 pilots to get oxygen boost via algorithm tweak

Re: Why oxygen generators?

...more like you need to get rid of the pilot.

Y'know, those drones with AI thingies....notwithstanding latency, friendly fire etc etc..

More BlackBerry layoffs: 200 Venice devs binned amid Android shift

Re: Don't underestimate BBRY - some of this might be external manifestation of internal infighting..

I rest my case:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/28/blackberry-to-stop-making-phones-handsets

Look into our network, not around our network... you're under

...and if those dummy networks don't have any real traffic moving around, will anyone notice...?

Riddle me this: What grows as it shrinks? Answer: LTO tape

Another format waiting in the wings...

"...Eternal 5D data storage could record the history of humankind.."

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page

If this is to be believed then we could be onto a winner depending on how much that laser costs to buy "upfront"...

Go and whistle, IDC. The storage world's going to hell in a handbasket

Not so fast...

Yes, those no-value tin shifters will bite the dust - that much is true.

Whilst cloud-wavers are vying to gain market share, they're going to fall foul of the "trying to suck an elephan through a straw" argument...but I can see a gap for any enterprising object storage people to provide in-house capabilty, thereby allowing data storage at "much-cheapness" prices but at the same time allowing orgs to devolve the responsibility, management overhead and risk to another party.

Consulting lark you say? Not quite, even a 10 man team would have their hands full manning a 24.7 desk just for a handful of customers. If those bigger enterprises wake up and smell the coffee, they will realise that they already have the crown jewels sitting in their lap (so to speak).

They have the 24.7 capability and the logistics "heft" to manage JBODs/firmware & scale to leverage price discounts - all they need to do is brave the technology gap and provide an object storage package that is quick & easy to deploy.

I'll count myself as ignorant and say that Object storage seems to be remarkably complicated to deploy... but what happened if you owned all the h/w items/drivers in the h/w stack...?

When Michael Dell met Chris Mellor

..just a slight typo/auto-correct howler..?

"... Tarkan Maner at Nexan has it too..."

He probably meant Nexenta....