Hollywood Hunter

In addition to the problem of the bank, the two business plans of the female housekeeper also need to face various challenges if they want to succeed.

Simon's attitude remains the same. Ideas are not valuable. The key is to transform ideas into realistic execution.

However, after nearly a day of meetings, the two business plans were quickly finalized.

The two plans this time will still be attached to Yigrete, using Yigrete's IE browser platform and e-mail user groups as promotion vehicles.

At the same time, the female housekeeper will serve as the head of the online software store team. For the time being, she will be assigned the title of project manager of Igreat, but she will report directly to Simon personally, and will continue to help Simon manage his private property. Because of the work experience of Wall Street Bank, Jeff Bezos will personally be responsible for the development of the online payment system.

Both AOL and Bell Atlantic will provide all necessary support for these two business proposals.

Other than that, as long as the online payment system can be implemented and users turn to online payment, both AOL and Bell Atlantic can save a lot of operating expenses in the future.

When the meeting ended, the names of online payment tools and online software stores were also confirmed.

Everyone is not too entangled in this issue, and they are named Ypay and Ystore respectively. The ‘Y’ is naturally the first letter of Ygritte.

I will stay overnight in San Francisco tonight. After get off work, I will send the housekeeper back to Woodside’s mountain villa to prepare dinner. Simon brings the female assistant who came to San Francisco as usual, as well as Jeff Bezos and Tim Berners. Lee, Carol Bartz and others rushed to another office building near Igreat headquarters.

The scale of Eaglet has been increasing, but unless the company achieves profitability or conducts an IPO, Simon does not have the idea of ​​building a corporate headquarters for it.

Because there is not enough office space in the headquarters, the various teams of Eaglet are now scattered all over Silicon Valley.

The cloud computing development plan team that was finalized and implemented last year was in this ordinary white two-story office building that Simon and others arrived.

After entering the door, Simon's first feeling was that the temperature inside the building was obviously higher than that outside, giving people the feeling that the heating was turned on. After listening a little bit, Simon quickly understood that this was probably because the dozens of large and small computers in the building continued to operate for a long time.

Signaling the employees in the office cubicle on the first floor to continue working, Simon and others walked to the stairs by themselves.

On the second floor, the buzzing sound of the computer is even more obvious. This is also a simple office cubicle. At the end of the cubicle, there is a row of servers with blinking indicator lights on the wall.

The office cubicle of the chief engineer of the cloud computing team, Ralph Goodall, is next to the row of servers.

Ralph Goodall is a top software engineer hired by Jeff Bezos from IBM. He graduated from MIT. Before leaving IBM, he had achieved the position of Vice President of R&D, mainly responsible for the development of Unix server systems.

Although a giant enterprise such as IBM has at least dozens of vice presidents, Bezos still spent a lot of trouble to get Ralph Goodall over. In addition to fixing the legal agreement for IBM to release people, he also Offered a high annual salary of 2.5 million US dollars for the other party.

The annual salary of $2.5 million is several times higher than the basic salary of the trio of Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz and Tim Bonas Lee.

Of course, Ralph Goodell does not have the generous equity award agreement of Bezos.

After entering the job, Ralph Goodell quickly put into work.

In just two months, I personally wrote the basic code of the cloud computing system and selected and formed a cloud computing development team. At this time, the more than 30 employees in this two-story office building were basically selected by Ralph Goodall and Jeff Bezos for interviews in various parts of the United States.

Right now, Yigrete’s cloud computing plan has a special code name: Housewife.

This is mainly from a call between Ralph Goodall and Simon before he confirmed his employment. Ralph Goodall asked Simon what kind of so-called “cloud computing” system he wanted. After all, this concept has not been available before. Appeared.

Simon naturally doesn't understand too deep technical principles, so he can only make a metaphor.

Igreat’s existing data center is just like a clumsy little woman just married, who only spends an hour mechanically washing clothes, an hour cooking, an hour cleaning, and so on.

Among them, the interval waiting time for washing clothes, the interval waiting time for making apple pie, and the interval waiting time for waiting for the floor to dry after mopping the floor are all wasted.

The server operation mode of the existing data center is like this, which only mechanically handles specific functions such as user login, data storage, and word processing in the confirmed order. Once there is no corresponding data operation request, the processing capacity is idle.

This situation can easily cause a strong imbalance in which some servers are idle and some are full.

What Simon needs is to train this clumsy little woman to be a housewife who can efficiently use her time and energy while doing laundry, cooking, cleaning and other tasks.

Specifically, all the servers in the Eaglet data center are connected in parallel to create an efficient computing instruction distribution system to achieve the purpose of making full use of the computing resources of each server.

Because of that conversation, the cloud computing project got its name.

Ralph Goodall, who saw the huge development potential of this plan, soon chose to leave IBM.

Everyone walked over and saw a middle-aged white man with a beard and highly myopic glasses staring at the computer screen. Two other engineers around the middle-aged discovered the presence of Simon and others. They were just about to greet Simon raised his hand to stop.

Everyone stared at the computer screen that kept flowing data and waited patiently for five or six minutes. Finally, a statistic appeared on the screen, 73%.

"Fak!"

Simon still didn't understand what was going on, but Ralph Goodall, sitting in front of the computer, subconsciously came up with an American curse.

Tim Berners-Lee noticed the doubt in Simon's eyes and explained in a low voice: "Ralph is testing fault-tolerant software."

Simon nodded, roughly remembering some project progress data that he had read before.

Once the cloud computing architecture is completed, all data centers are connected in parallel to form a whole. With thousands of processors and a greater number of components, failures may occur anytime and anywhere. The fault-tolerant software developed by the cloud computing team is used to detect faults and automatically transfer the computing tasks of the faulty nodes to other places.

Strong fault tolerance, which is actually one of the important advantages of cloud computing.

In a traditional data center, once a server fails, it may directly cause the shutdown of some functions. Even if you have complete backup measures, even if the engineer can handle it in time, it will take time after all, which may cause very serious consequences.

Cloud computing systems can solve this problem well.

The failure of a small number of servers will not have much impact on the operation of the entire system.

In the office cubicle, after Ralph Goodall uttered an American national curse, he awoke from the concentration he had just received, and finally noticed the arrival of Simon and others, and quickly got up to say hello.

Everyone chatted a few words, and then went to a meeting room next door together.

Ralph Goodall personally introduced to Simon the progress of all aspects of the cloud computing plan. During the period, he also said that if Simon wants a perfect cloud computing system, he may have to wait until next year, because he has had many good ideas recently. , Need more development time.

Simon neither agreed nor urged, just let Ralph Goodall do his best.

Cloud computing requires sufficient volume to form a scale effect. Therefore, Yigrete, which has only a few million users, does not have such an urgent demand for cloud computing systems. When all aspects of the portal's business are fully developed, and the number of Internet access users in the United States as a whole reaches tens of millions, that is the time for cloud computing to play its high efficiency and low cost characteristics.

At this point in time, it may take another year or two.

Therefore, Simon is not in a hurry.

In the next two years, Eaglet will continue to expand the data center according to demand, and these computing power will not be wasted. Moreover, as long as the cloud computing plan is completed, the redundant computing resources released can also support Yigrete to promote more development plans.

Because of the chatting, everyone did not leave the office building until the sky was completely dark.

Now that it was time for dinner, Simon simply invited everyone to have dinner at a nearby restaurant.

After nine o'clock, Simon finally returned to the mountain villa in Woodside with his female assistant.

Entering the living room of the villa, the housekeeper was sitting on the sofa in the living room looking through a document. Seeing Simon and the two appeared, she got up and asked, "Boss, do I need to make dinner again?"

Simon then remembered that when he left Igreat headquarters, he ordered the housekeeper to come back early to prepare dinner.

"No need, have you eaten?"

The housekeeper nodded, but there was nothing strange on her face.

Simon did not feel embarrassed either. Taking off the trench coat, the female assistant and the housekeeper subconsciously stepped forward at the same time. Just smiled and handed the trench coat to the housekeeper. Simon asked Jennifer, "Do you want to take a bath?"

"Okay."

The female assistant nodded, turned and walked upstairs.

Simon sat down on the sofa in the living room and took a look at the information the housekeeper had just read. It was a paper on data encryption.

Alice Ferguson helped Simon hang up his clothes and came back and sat down on the solo sofa next to her.

Simon patiently read the essay in his hand, only half-understanding. He didn't mean to spend time studying carefully, and casually asked, "Where are Zoe and the others?"

"I have taken a rest," the housekeeper said, looking at the information she was holding in her hands, and said: "I think the security of user accounts in the future will be a big challenge for us."

Simon smiled and said, "How are you going to solve it?"

"I think Yigrete should establish a technical team dedicated to network data security as soon as possible."

"It seems that this department already exists."

"There are only eleven people. I checked their information and they are all ordinary. None of them are experts in the field of computer security. This is far from enough."

"Take time to chat with Jeff, in fact, you should understand that the main thing is that Igreat now needs to focus on too many projects, and it is inevitable to omit," Simon said, adding: "Moreover, the matter of network security. Just do your best, because it turns out that no matter how tight the system is, the key to this is not technology."

The housekeeper curiously asked: "What is that?"

Simon looked up from the information in front of him, took a look at the housekeeper, smiled and patted beside him, and said, "Come on, sit next to me."

The housekeeper paused, got up, and sat down next to Simon.

He just couldn't help but straighten his back and his body was obviously stiff.

Simon sniffed the scent of the good women around him, very satisfied. There was no extraordinary movement, he relaxed on the sofa and answered the question just now: "The key lies in people."

The housekeeper was numb to her boss's occasional teasing behavior. Seeing that he obviously didn't mean to do anything, she quickly relaxed and asked, "What do you mean?"

"I just said that no matter how rigorous the system is, it will actually be compromised. The key is our handling. For example, a hacker stole $100 from our user account. What do you think we should do?"

"Call the police."

"Of course you have to call the police," Simon laughed. "But do you think the police will fight for 100 dollars?"

The housekeeper did not answer this time, but looked at Simon, waiting for her boss to continue.

"The police can't control even if they want to control it. This kind of thing is inevitable, so we need to deal with it." Simon said, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said: "Don't say 100 dollars, even if someone dares to get from Igreat The user’s account steals one dollar, as long as we catch the other party at any cost and send him to jail. Then, with such a case, the number of hackers who dare to attack the user account of Igreat will be reduced a lot, because they know that even if only If they steal one dollar, they will be caught."

The housekeeper can think of how a hacker who stole $1 would be sent to jail. Of course, the charge would not be $1. There are too many charges for stealing software and destroying the system.

Just, how to find this person?

Simon noticed the confusion in Alice’s expression, couldn’t help but stretched out his hand, picked up the housekeeper’s delicate chin with his index finger, and smiled: “It seems that you are a very serious and good girl, so just leave it alone and sit down. That’s my job."

For ordinary people, if the police don't care, then it will definitely be a bad idea.

For Simon, things are very simple.

In this world, there is still a profession called private detective. Even bounty hunters will not lack. In reality, there are bounty hunters, and the Internet will also have ‘bounty hunters’ who do certain things for money.

Even, Simon thought suddenly realized that he could even use this excuse and opportunity to create an intelligence network exclusively for the Westeros system. Including in reality, as well as on the Internet.

Thinking of this, Simon couldn't help but start planning in his mind.

It seems a good idea to hire a group of people from intelligence agencies such as FBI, CIA or overseas MI6 to form a detective company.

Well, it should be a lot of scattered mini detective companies, so that the target is not too eye-catching. As long as they are properly controlled, these detective companies can form a complete intelligence network.

Perhaps, you can also recruit some top hackers.

There are indeed some hackers who pursue technology and freedom, but there will also be some who pursue real money, which is exactly what Simon can give.

With the continuous expansion of the Westeros system, if such a private intelligence network can be built, it will definitely help Simon solve too many things.

The key to why Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director in the United States, was so powerful at the time was that he created and controlled the FBI intelligence network for decades.

Edgar Hoover experienced 8 presidents during his tenure. No one in power dared to mention the deposing of Hoover’s position until the death of the other party.

Subsequently, although the U.S. government immediately imposed various restrictions on the heads of intelligence agencies such as the FBI, those in power who discovered the potential energy of the intelligence network tried every means to reach into these networks in an attempt to obtain power similar to Hoover. .