Cyberthoughts

I've been using iDrive for quite some time and I continue to recommend it to most of my home and small business clients (read my revie...

Some IT departments want to utilize public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS) but aren’t sure how ...

Thinking about utilizing cloud services in 2012 and want to start mitigating some potential risks today.  I nfoWorld’s Tim Greene recommen...

Zoho “software as a service” (SaaS) company has always impressed me.   I use their Invoicing application and reviewed it last year .  Acc...

I n my last article, “ Exploring Amazon’s Cloud IaaS & PaaS ”, I introduced Amazon Web Services (AWS), and I used AWS to describe t...

From ReadWrite Cloud's David Strom,  " Gartner Has First Ever IaaS Magic Quadrant Report " A new Gartner Magic Quadrant rep...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a large offering of various compute and applications services that I will use for this article to help descr...

Although this is sort of IT 101, build an idea of what it looks like to shut down an application that you either built or are using as a...

Version numbers & product names are pure marketing.  In my opinion Apple made a marketing mistake in naming the latest phone the “4S...

What follows are my growing notes on the TouchPad.  It’s not really just about the touchpad but to help me understand why iPad is continu...

The first thing that prospective cloud users ask about a new cloud application is "What about security?".  It's a good ques...

Hopefully you’ve read my article about backing up your workstation to the cloud and using a secondary backup to something like a USB ...

UPDATE:   If you've read about Gmail account passwords getting stolen (hackers getting users to load a fake page and stealing passwor...

Although I’ve mentioned it in the past, I want to do a quick review of Dropbox , a “cloud network file system” for all your devices.  Al...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major failure last week and there was a lot of buz about it since it took down several major web sit...