Cyberthoughts

Something new to think about when moving into the cloud... location. You should probably know the physical location of your data when moving...

I've never really thought of phone service as something that you can move to the cloud until reading a white paper from Polycom and Broa...

Did you feel it? There was a disturbance in the cloud on June 1st. Hosting.com went down for about 45 minutes . Hosting.com hosts over 65...

(Updated 10/25/2011) After writing about the benefits of cloud computing , I mentioned that it’s not without some risk and downsides. Clo...

Google Analytics is a free service that you can use from Google to get usage statistics on your various web sites. It’s not only free, i...

Updated 8/24/2012 Let's review the benefits of cloud computing. The core focus here will mainly be on cloud application deployment (...

Quick review of the Book The Big Switch " The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google " by Nicholas Carr ...

Flickr & Cloud Computing My sister-in-law recently started asking me about Flickr . As I started writing her, I realized that I was no...

Although I’ve written about cloud computing in the past, there was an assumption that people know what cloud computing was. As I get seri...

Exec Summary I don't like to depend on backup programs that create one big file and hope it works when I need it. My alternative i...

Have a laptop or PC you don't back-up. If you have a USB drive for backups, do you use it? Where do you put your backups in case there i...

After looking over all the preview materials, hype and papers written by early look users (and now the early adopters) as well as Google’s v...

A lot of people are writing about the new browser from Google, Chrome, and how it compares, how fast it is, etc. My first thoughts revolv...

The following are some key concepts and or thoughts from the book " Everything is Miscellaneous ", by David Weinberger. The book...

Google just announced a couple of new features and an apology for the outage last week. For me, I’ve already enabled the SSL feature (rolle...