Kate's Comment
Thoughts on British ICT, energy & environment, cloud computing and security from Memset's MD
About Kate Craig-Wood
Kate is a multi-award winning technology entrepreneur; co-founder & managing director of Memset, the UK's best Web host.
She is a nationally-renowned expert-advocate of ICT’s role in greening the economy and cloud computing.
Kate is also in the final year of a part-time PhD researching energy intensity of cloud computing and in her spare time enjoys hacking on things like her pet robot BOB. See her personal site for a full bio.
Articles and comment
Security Aspects Of Open Source Software
Nick and I have built a market-leading, multi-award-winning, multi-million dollar hosting/cloud IaaS company using entirely open source software and an “automate everything” philosophy. We have recently attained a cross-government CESG accreditation for our service under the G-Cloud project, incorporating the open source hypervisor Xen, even though Xen itself was not certified. Here are my views on why open source is actually more secure and reliable than alternatives.
Evolution of storage #1: resilience
I contend that the next stage of evolution of storage is “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD), comprised of a range of media types with different performance characteristics, and with software doing the cleverness. In this first post (1 of 2) I shall address the resilience aspects of this evolution. RAID failings Large RAID (Redundant Array of Independant Disks) systems…
How safe is cloud computing? (infographic)
Infographic summarising cloud security including using cloud computing as a weapon.
Hacks and projects
Skiiers thumb (torn ulnar collateral ligament)
So on Sunday, the second day of our week’s skiing in Whistler Blackcomb, I had my first and last incident of the skiing season yesterday. Izzy and I were doing a double-black diamond in very low vis (low cloud). We did the hard part just fine and it was quite smooth. She had stopped and I thought I had a…
Multi-screen work station – sharing keyboard & mouse between Macs
At my home office I’ve got three screens plus my Mac Air (see right). I’m driving the middle one as a secondary monitor for the ‘Air and the other two from a Mac Mini under the desk. In a perfect world I would want to be able to drag things seamlessly between all four screens. I have been reliable informed…
Rimelands: Hammer of Thor – blueprint codes, strategies & hints
I have recently hugely enjoyed an iPad game called Rimelands: Hammer of Thor. It is a turn-based role playing game where you can specialise your character into any one of three trees; barbarian (melee), assasin (ranged), shaman (magic) or a combination of the three. It is set in a delightful post-apocalyptic world with a fusion of steampunk and magic. It…
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