Icebergs in the Clouds: the Other Risks of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is appealing from management and efficiency perspectives, but brings risks both known and unknown. Well-known and hotly-debated information security risks, due to software vulnerabilities, insider attacks, and side-channels for example, may be only the "tip of the iceberg." As diverse, independently developed cloud services share ever more fluidly and aggressively multiplexed hardware resource pools, unpredictable interactions between load-balancing and other reactive mechanisms could lead to dynamic instabilities or "meltdowns." Non-transparent layering structures, where alternative cloud services may appear independent but share deep, hidden resource dependencies, may create unexpected and potentially catastrophic failure correlations, reminiscent of financial industry crashes. Finally, cloud computing exacerbates already-difficult digital preservation challenges, because only the provider of a cloud-based application or service can archive a "live," functional copy of a cloud artifact and its data for long-term cultural preservation. This paper explores these largely unrecognized risks, making the case that we should study them before our socioeconomic fabric becomes inextricably dependent on a convenient but potentially unstable computing model.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Spartan Daily, April 11, 1980

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The Management of the Industrial Maintenance at an International Level (II)

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its products, through its market, its equipments, its people, the managers’ psychology, the organizational culture and, as a consequence, the industrial maintenance will be different. The present article will pursue to highlight the position of the maintenance activity having in mind the imperatives imposed to this activity, the maintenance methods applied at the international level and the methods that can be applied in our country.maintenance mission; corrective maintenance; systematic preventive maintenance; conditional preventive maintenance; palliative maintenance.

INFLUENCE OF THE REMAINS OF TOTALITARIAN PRACTICE ON THE REPRESSIVE STATE INSTITUTIONS WITH ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES

Transition represents a comprehensive process of structural changes and transition "from socialism to capitalism", i.e., the return to the market economy and the civil democracy. The transition process includes changes in all segments of society, especially in the reform of the political system. As a worldwide process it has begun in the \u2790s of the last century and it is still present in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The transition processes include a wide range of social and political changes, which are particularly obvious in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In fact, not caring for the transition, for the need to change legislative framework in the first place, as well as existing institutions, various political options limitand restrain changes in social awareness. That all lead to the strengthening of the influence of particular interest groups, which ultimately prevent the completion of structural reforms, which have economic consequences for the whole country. In this context, the repressive state institutions without a clear vision and goal and without respect for the law and its own acts, perform activities associated with the various political options, while they have no responsibility for damage caused by such acts, both, individually to persons and to the community in general