{"id":1356,"date":"2012-11-06T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2012-11-06T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T21:19:27","slug":"establishing-a-data-haven-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"establishing a data haven cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In {{Neal Stephenson}}&#8217;s seminal book, {{<em>Cryptonomicon<\/em>}}, he describes the creation of a &#8220;data haven&#8221; in the fictional Sultanate of\u00a0Kinakuta.<\/p>\n<p>Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg {{AWS}} or Rackspace) and\/or create their own global network?<\/p>\n<p>Data backup and replication is not &#8220;difficult&#8221; &#8211; and neither is the concept of distributed (and replicated) storage (LeftHand Networks was doing RAID-over-LAN a while before HP bought them).<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; why is this not available as a service to which you can subscribe (or use anonymously)? Incorporating in a &#8216;friendly&#8217; country, offering anonymized connections (fully encrypted, etc), and giving a client that works\u00a0<em>a la<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tt\/Qy2BFhB\">Dropbox<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/Box.com\">Box.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There should be lots of companies who would love to offer a service like this &#8211; it should be fairly lucrative, and pretty easy to setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In {{Neal Stephenson}}&#8217;s seminal book, {{Cryptonomicon}}, he describes the creation of a &#8220;data haven&#8221; in the fictional Sultanate of\u00a0Kinakuta. Why has no-one started building such a service (or, at least not in a public way) on existing cloud services (eg {{AWS}} or Rackspace) and\/or create their own global network? Data backup and replication is not &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1356\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">establishing a data haven cloud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,41],"tags":[127,156,178,214,220,280,668,717],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-technical","tag-backup","tag-business","tag-cloud","tag-cryptonomicon","tag-data","tag-encryption","tag-security","tag-startup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}