Bookmarks for October 27th

October 27, 2010

Here are my links for October 27th: Why Cloud Security Worries Are Overblown — Cloud Security — InformationWeek – Multi-tenant applications do have weaker security. However the risks can be mitigated and the advantages of multi-tenancy will make it more attractive for cloud applications.

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Bookmarks for October 20th

October 20, 2010

Here are my links for October 20th: Cloud computing in the enterprise: What’s the holdup? | ZDNet – Gartner says that security, compliance and auditing, contracts and service level agreements appear to be keeping 70 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees from cloud computing.

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Cloud Computing is not a Binary Decision

October 17, 2010

The discussion around cloud computing often takes on the characteristics of a “religious war” in which one side must be totally correct and the other totally wrong. A recent article in Computerworld (IT shifts to the cloud, anecdote by anecdote) reminded me that in the real world clould computing is usually made on a case [...]

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Bookmarks for October 8th

October 8, 2010

Here are my links for October 8th: Series: One year Amazon EC2 « – 4sysops – One blog (4sysops) discusses it's experience with running it's blog in the cloud instead of a dedicated server.

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Bookmarks for September 29th

September 29, 2010

Here are my links for September 29th: Virgin’s cloud failure: Rebuttal and a deeper perspective | ZDNet – The second of 2 articles about the recent problems at Virgin presents an interesting rebuttal from a read and inevitability of technology problems. Cloud-based IT failure halts Virgin flights | ZDNet – The first of 2 posts [...]

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Bookmarks for September 14th

September 14, 2010

Here are my links for September 14th: The big promise of Big Data: What you need to know today – Computerworld – Big Data makes big demands on your infrastructure. Make sure you plan to scale!

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Bookmarks for September 11th

September 11, 2010

These are my links for September 11th: Meet your next ‘Net? Academics rethink the Internet’s guts – Some studies into how the internet has to change to meet the demands that will be put on it in the future.

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Bookmarks for September 6th

September 6, 2010

These are my links for September 6th: Phones, TVs, Cars Leading the Way to 22 Billion Internet-Connected Things – And those of us who manage the infrastructure need to be ready to handle even more. Why Intel bought McAfee – Intel's acquisition reflects the growing importance of integrating security across all layers of the infrastructure.

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Bookmarks for August 12th

August 12, 2010

These are my links for August 12th: The End of IT Outsourcing As We Know It – Computerworld – Arjun Sethi from A.T. Kearney says that "In the next five years, outsourcing as we know it will have disappeared,". I think that 5 years is a little aggressive, but can't argue that cloud computing will [...]

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Bookmarks for August 9th

August 9, 2010

These are my links for August 9th: Is Your Site Prepared for an Onslaught? – Your site isn't wildly popular – yet. Just in case you hit it big you should have some plans and tools in place to deal with the best-case scenario. Thousands of Evernote users affected by data loss | Web Crawler [...]

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