DATA CENTER's : THE INDIAN SCENE

1.   The phenomenal growth of data in India is rapidly evolving but where is all that data being stored?.....not a big deal to find out that all your FB profiles,your friends list, Google hangout circle of friends and all the enumerable social networking sites on the web stores your data across the globe but not in India....yes that's the truth...every bit of data that your profile holds is actually residing off shores ...what India might be holding is just logs of transaction via various monitoring eyes like CMS as discussed in last post!!!

2.   But actually what debar's any big company with a global presence to set up a data center in apna India...recently there have a explosion of many posts across the web o sphere citing the query of why is it so?...the reasons cited culminate on one reason and that's known as SECURITY....the non existence of "DATA PRIVACY LAWs" in India.....more over the fact that there is presently no existence of GIS routing of laid OFCs and cables maps though there are always plans and proposals for the future. The problem of underground OFC in and around NCR is such that companies are afraid to commit 100% availability of up time because your OFC can get damaged any time owing to so many under construction sites in NCR with dozers digging out OFC like Hollywood monsters.And these diggings are ever to continue coz still there are no laid down GIS mappings that can accurately predict the route and depth of laid out OFCs....and the most important I feel is the promise of state ELECTRIC POWER supply which is surely unreliable during any season....it is indeed surprising that power is still an issue in NCR towns!!!

3.   The future will always remains bright because we always have plans to remove all these problem areas but how and when remains a futuristic answer.GIS routing of cables is an imminent need and so are the data protection laws.By default as on date most of the data centres are coming up in Singapore.

"Singapore offers an ideal combination of reliable infrastructure, a skilled workforce and a commitment to transparent and business-friendly regulations" is how Google explains its choice of the city. Oracle cites "excellent telecommunications infrastructure and efficient, well-qualified manpower".

Much like India set up software technology parks to nurture its IT services and BPO industry, Singapore is setting up a 13-hectare Data Center Park and inviting companies from across the world. It already has some 20 data centre hubs and offers tax and other incentives.

Source here

India developing own Secure OS to strengthen Cyber Security

1.   India is developing own secure OS to strengthen cyber security.Got this news piece from here.The key points from the news are :

- India's own secure operating system to strengthen cyber security.

- 150 Engineers across the country have already been working on creating an Indian OS for over one year and a half. 

- According to Times of India ,it will be ready in next three years.

- There is no foreign involvement in this project. It is purely build by Indians.

2.   It is indeed heartening to know all this...but whats the point? Does the team of 150 engineers and the vision behind think they are creating a secure and 100% fool proof OS?...The moment it is released...there will be many vulnerabilities that will be gradually known...and then the same cat mouse race will being like with any other OS..so whats the point of starting from scratch?....will it not be wise to securify existing opensource available and invest in something like improving upon existing resources?.....Case in point,the DESI OS....will lag behind in terms of experiences gained by Windows and other OS Communities who have been in the game for years...........who have been improving daily for so many years!!!like Fedora...Ubuntu...they have been improving for last so many years to reach a level like as on date available to us....

3.  Although it is a veri good thought to have a desi OS....but I sincerely feel that we are slightly late in realizing the need of a desi OS...

Bitter Truth : If NOT on FB,u r INSANE!!!

1.   Read this article today vide a TOI post that says that if you are not on FB ur insane.Facebook revolution has become so important aspect in people's lives, that increasing number of employers, and psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites, could be insane....does that bring a exclamation mark on ur face...it did to me.....the post is available here

2.   It is strange that such things come as a analysis/study reports from psychologists......it lets us know how psycho are these psychologists who r deeply gripped by the FB revol...

Accessing Blocked Sites

1.    So many times we come across  internet terminals who deny us access to certain pages because of certain customized blocking by the local administrator or at times even the ISP.....so what do u do then...just abuse the ISP or the local admin!!!!no ...till u know few tricks of trade....so for example as a first case we assume that a site like timesofindia or some similar news site is blocked for accessing....so to access this simply go to the following website :

http://archive.org/index.php

2.    After u click this u will come across a webpage similar to the shown below :

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3.   Now go to the bar and type ur site name.....this will give a option to even take you to the cached version of the site at an earlier date.For example I typed http://www.thehindu.com/ and i get the following screen.

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4.     Now click on the date that u desire to see the site on......and u see the cached site like this when i clicked 14tg Feb 2003

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5.    So we see that not only the blocked site is accessed but also we are able to access the site as it was on some past date .......though to access blocked sites there are so many proxies available on the web...thi one has this additional Cache feature.....