{"id":2803,"date":"2016-02-11T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:15:59","slug":"above-the-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"above the cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to go into business with me?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a super-cool storage company idea.<\/p>\n<p>Load up a metric buttload of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CubeSat\">cubesats<\/a> with radiation-hardened {{SSD}} storage, solar power, and [relatively] simple communicaton stacks (secured by {{SSH}} or {{SSL}}, of course), and launch them into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>You think <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?s=cloud+storage\"><em>cloud<\/em> storage<\/a> is cool? What about\u00a0<em>above-the-cloud<\/em> storage?<\/p>\n<h3>Pros:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>avoid national jurisdictional rules, since the data will never be housed &#8220;in&#8221; a specific country<\/li>\n<li>very hard to attack physically<\/li>\n<li>great reason to use {{IPv6}} addressing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cons:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>expensive to get the initial devices into orbit<\/li>\n<li>software maintenance on the system could be annoying<\/li>\n<li>need to continually plop more {{cubesats}} into orbit to handle both expanded data needs\u00a0<em>and<\/em> loss of existing devices due to orbital degradation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who&#8217;s with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to go into business with me? I&#8217;ve got a super-cool storage company idea. Load up a metric buttload of cubesats with radiation-hardened {{SSD}} storage, solar power, and [relatively] simple communicaton stacks (secured by {{SSH}} or {{SSL}}, of course), and launch them into orbit. You think cloud storage is cool? What about\u00a0above-the-cloud storage? Pros: &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2803\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">above the cloud storage<\/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":[9,22,41],"tags":[156,178,655,700,725],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-ideas","category-technical","tag-business","tag-cloud","tag-satellite","tag-space","tag-storage"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}