CloudShield Blog » Cloud Computing http://blog.cloudshield.com Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:39:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 GoDaddy Goes Down http://blog.cloudshield.com/2009/01/26/godaddy-goes-down/ http://blog.cloudshield.com/2009/01/26/godaddy-goes-down/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:11:01 +0000 Peder http://blog.cloudshield.com/?p=37 Continue reading →]]> A couple weeks ago, Web site hosting company GoDaddy.com was hit with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down thousands of its customers’ Web sites for several hours. As CNET reports, this wasn’t the first time the domain name provider was knocked off line – a similar attack in 2005 affected 6,000 of its customers’ Web sites.

 

Companies like GoDaddy.com that are responsible for safeguarding e-commerce sites and Web infrastructures should ensure they have the proper technology in place to deal with mounting DDoS attacks. With the state of the economy being what it is right now, it’s essential that online stores remain open and running when a customer is ready to make a purchase. In this instance, customers were understandably upset about their sites being down and were quick to complain. Los Angeles based lifestyle blog LA Snark even posted a response to GoDaddy.com.

 

E-commerce merchants can remain confident that their customers will encounter a positive user experience if their Web-hosting company is well prepared to deal with these kinds of security threats. That said, the problem has grown considerably larger over recent years. In a recent report on DDoS trends published in late 2008, large scale attacks of 40Gbps or more are being seen. (Link To Arbor Report) Most hosting providers are not able to accommodate such levels of attack and this seems to be pointing to more managed security in the Cloud going forward being delivered by Tier 1 carriers and security providers with this kind of bandwidth. The real question becomes at what point with an increasingly Internet based economy does this level of protection become required versus a nice to have?

 

]]> http://blog.cloudshield.com/2009/01/26/godaddy-goes-down/feed/ 0 More Fuel To Put On The Data Center Fire. . . http://blog.cloudshield.com/2008/12/17/more-fuel-to-put-on-the-data-center-fire/ http://blog.cloudshield.com/2008/12/17/more-fuel-to-put-on-the-data-center-fire/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:15:02 +0000 Peder http://blog.cloudshield.com/?p=10 Continue reading →]]> Competition is an incredible driver of innovation and strong newcomers to any market often have the ability to act and move quickly.  In the Internet age and more importantly modern era of content being king, the cracks in the network have collided the computing at the edge world with the dumb network yielding this open landscape of an Intelligent Internet.  We will see it in many forms from Cloud Computing (http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2008/09/24/h700006x16255w91.html) to Intelligent Content Based Routing in the network (http://www.crn.com/networking/207000296) to next generation data center initiatives with grand and glorious names.  The simple fact is that the data center is no longer and end point but is moving to a central role in the network.  At the same time, the network must be more capable of performing new tasks with the flexibility to change quickly.  In a world of purpose built devices, this sounds a lot like software.  So much so that recent blogs hinted of Cisco thinking of offering blade servers in packaging similar to the Nexus systems (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/091508-cisco-blade-server.html).

To be fair, I must admit that I am quite biased to believe that the open blade server platforms will engulf routing and switching as delivering services and solutions within the network become a core offering.  With the enterprise economics and volume, data center economonics will win out in the end just like the PC beat down the mainframes and mid-ranges.  While we have had a few friends whom have helped us greatly along the way (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/info/bladecenter/pn41/index.html), we are just at the beginning of the battle.  For those of us in the networking industry, adding more processing ability deeper into the network isn’t new or rocket science, but developing new services in compelling and manageable ways while ensuring the robustness and scalability of the network is true heavy lifting.  Where the market turns in the end is up for grabs, but the chance to watch first hand for all of us is going to be a great ride.

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