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Legal Issues of Cloud Forensics — Part 2

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The use of cloud services has skyrocketed primarily because it is cheaper and more convenient than the alternative. Unfortunately, many companies have entered the cloud without first checking the weather forecast or performing a risk analysis. What happens if the cloud gets stormy, you suffer a breach, and you find yourself in the position of having to conduct digital forensics? What now? Can you collect data yourself? Where is your data? Who else has had access to your data? Is the provider the actual data holder or have they subcontracted? Many of these issues are better addressed before you enter the cloud. Failing that, what can you do?

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Cisco UCS Question of the Week

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Which option will give you a best compression ratio when FCIP compression is deployed over a slow fiber channel link? Compression mode 2 only Compression mode 3 only MTU size 1500, compression mode 3 MTU size 2300, compression mode 3 The correct answer is 4. MTU size of 2300 and compression mode of 3 will […]

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VMware Resource Pools: Misplacement

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A common issue is that VMs are placed outside of any resource pools, leaving them at the same level as the highest level of user-created resource pools. For example, an administrator created two VMs named VM-1 and VM-2. One resource pool was named Sales and the other was named Finance, each having Normal Shares, which is equivalent to 4,000 CPU shares. The Limit and Reservation settings of each pool and VMs were left at default values. The administrator was shocked that when under a period of heavy CPU usage, the Sales and Finance VMs appeared to drag excessively, yet VM-1 and VM‑2 continued working normally. Eventually, the problem was traced to the allocation of the CPU Shares. Each VM in the Sales and Finance Pools had obtained a much smaller number of CPU Shares than VM-1 and VM-2.

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