BattleSpeed, I think he may mean it uses fewer resources on Linux.
Oracle performs much better with fewer resources on Linux
"Fewer resources" than what, please?
I mean that I can take the same application and port it to Oracle Linux and Oracle Windows and it will perform better on Linux than Windows given the same hardware configuration. Or, I can use fewer resources on Linux to get the same performance.
Of course, I'm not talking about off-the-shelf Linux distros. I build my own using Hardened Linux From Scratch because it allows me to select only the libraries and processes that I need for a database server without all the other baggage. However, I have heard others who use RH or SuSE who also assert that performance is better.
I am also intrested in doing my project on cloud forenscic computing but I will want to come in from the legal angle and then go technical.
Now here are my not so bright ideas
¬What happens when evidence crosses border?( with cloud computing, this is bound 2 become a regular occurence!) How will one go about proving it?
¬ Who is liable when there is loss, damage or tampering of data in the cloud? To what extent could we rely on cloud forensic evidence?
¬Are Computer Forensic examiners ready for Cloud computing??
All these are areas I could focus on in the dissertation but I dont have a computing background so I dont want to do anything technical. I want to lean toward legal and non technical side.
How do u think I should proceed? What will be my topic? What will i be trying to prove? give me ur own opinions
Regards
¬The impact of cloud computing on law firms
¬The impact of cloud computing on Private Investigators
¬What happens when evidence crosses border?( with cloud computing, this is bound 2 become a regular occurence!) How will one go about proving it?
That already happens without cloud computing and it is a thorny issue since there are differences in data protection laws from country to country and, in many cases, there exist no treaties by which an entity in one country can request evidence from another. I was recently involved in a case where the US Department of State needed to be involved in order to get a simple answer to the question of what subscriber was associated with a specific IP address on a specific date and time.
One answer to this is to allow the customer to select availability zones, i.e., geographic areas which can be included in the cloud. This affords the user the chance to limit data sharing to systems in those countries where the data are protected according to law or treaty.
The bigger issue is liability for anyone who uses a cloud for sensitive data processing. SETI@home is one thing but I'd be reluctant to process my sensitive data anywhere that could be accessed via the Internet.
The promoters of cloud computing argue that this is analogous to the move from local electricity generation to electricity grids, but I think that this oversimplifies the issue since electricity is electricity wherever you go and has no intrinsic content.
¬ Who is liable when there is loss, damage or tampering of data in the cloud? To what extent could we rely on cloud forensic evidence?
The answer to the first question would depend upon the nature of the contract between the entities making up the cloud and the subscriber.
The answer to the second question is a little tricker. Cloud systems typically act by virtualization. Once the task is completed, the virtual entity should, in theory, be torn down, although the data may persist, somewhere. In theory, the cloud provider should not need to know what the VM is actually doing since they are billing as a utility not as the provider of an application (as opposed to software as a service where the provider is actually hosting an application that they have licensed or developed). To the extent that the investigation may need live analysis, you may be out of luck.
Of course, this is an oversimplification because there is a lot of confusion in the market place regarding the differences between cloud computing, application hosting/SaaS, grid computing, utility computing, all of which could be implemented via a cloud. So I am limiting myself to the infrastructure rather than the applications or services, themselves.
Once you get into the issue of actually hosting an application, there are a whole set of other questions, many of which have already been dealt with.
¬Are Computer Forensic examiners ready for Cloud computing??
Why not? What may not be ready is the law, itself, since the process of executing subpoenas and search warrants can be far more cumbersome and difficult with resources distributed, geographically.
As a model, look at the use of botnets, which is akin to cloud in many respects. The difficulty of tracing activity on a botnet is, by and large, due to the combination of geography and the differences in procedures resulting from differences in jurisdictions. The forensics isn't any more difficult; getting the evidence upon which to do the forensics is.
It would be a real irony if clouds ended up being used as legitimized botnets.
When FTK 2 came out, I gave up on the Windows install and installed the schema on a Linux system, instead, and have had no problems with DB performance.
Sorry to distort the original topic - but by that do you mean installed Oracle on Linux with the schema or installed MySQL on Linux with the Schema ? And, in either case, do you still have a copy of the schema ?