Yesterday I was in a half day seminar about cloud business and services as a main topic – or so it was supposed to be. I’m usually very happy with the contents of the seminars that I choose participate. This time the reaction is a bit mixed. The seminar arrangements were very good, but why were there so many speakers talking about totally non-cloud related things like…
“Hi, we sell airsoft toys and we have an online shop.” or “Hi, I’m a boring dude from the EK, and I’m here talk you about some law proposals that somehow relate to the safety” or “Hi, we at Viestimaa sell smart phones”
Those speakers were clearly just pushing their non-cloud related agendas and services. And I had rather spend that 1.5 hour watching ‘any’ TV advertisements. For those who managed to remain awake the real news was the…
Oulu Data Center
Currently there is very limited amount of information available of the new Oulu data center. But the cloud data center will be operated by Oulu ICT, a telecommunications company controlled and half owned by the city of Oulu. The lecturer told that the data center allows hosting truly scalable cloud services. The expected customers are expected to be the companies in northern Finland – including startups.
The Oulu Data Center will be first located at a DNA company’s ‘s Kirkkokatu office. The exact same location where the third of Finland’s FICIX data hubs is located. In 2014 the data center will establish a second hall for computers nearby. That second storage location will then provide additional security for the data – in case the house collapses into a car park underneath. I think this is fantastic news for the internet startups in Northern Finland. Because the datacenter is…
- located at a central hub, there will be far less points of failures due to road works or electric failures
- located at a central hub, it will have enough bandwidth (10Gbit/s) to deal with almost any amount of traffic
- located at a central hub, it will be much more resistant to various DDOS attacks
- located at Kirkkokatu office in, Oulu then you’ll know where your data is and you’ll have a clear contract telling who owns the data
- not located at the massive storage halls, run Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and the likes. Those massive cloud companies quite typically insist that they are the owners of the data , or that they can do what ever with the data. For example…
“According to the Google terms of service, Google has the right to use consumer data to improve and even promote their own services. The company also has the right, according to the terms of service, to create “derivative works” from content stored in Google Drive, and to “publically display and distribute such content” even with their partners. Yet, the wording is not necessarily that alarming.”
Going Offline Until 12.12.12
I’ll be making a concentrated patenting, business plan and presentation material effort and I’ll be offline until 12.12.12. Then the Polar Startup will be back 