Cyberthoughts

(updated 12/12)  There has been a bit of a buzz regarding access to citizen and company data by the U.S government and the associated risks ...

A cottage industry of Cloud management tools has emerged to solve many of the issues companies face as they move to the cloud, like mul...

IT has a history of solving problems, but in the process, creating new problems that must be dealt with in the future.  For example, back ...

There’s a lot of media coverage on the use of cloud computing by this year’s election teams and as a GigaOM article points out: No matter...

In this article in InfoWorld , Gartner makes an interesting point.   Data loss is a bigger risk than security in the cloud.   They almost se...

I found the comments in this InfoWorld article  about the capabilities of MySQL vs a noSQL DB interesting. "A lot of people think the...

I haven’t written much about "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) up to this point but given Salesforce.com’s growing presence the...

Updated: I came across a white paper published by CloudPassage , most likely in the attempt to drive interest in their cloud security pro...

I sat in on a VMware call today where they reviewed the new features in VMware 5.1.  The one that caught my eye was the ability to use the...

I was on my way to a lunch appointment when I started thinking of the headache of managing patching in the cloud.  More importantly how wo...

Rackspace, a cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor, has been ramping up their advertising and recently announced that t...

I recently wrote about HP’s use OpenStack as part of their newly announced cloud hosting environment and how it could help feed their con...

According to a Google’s BLOG , in a survey of 800 CFOs, 81% think (AKA a believe) that completely implementing cloud technology would impr...

This is a good article on how to close security holes for Google Apps users.  At the core is “two-factor authentication”.   I’ve written...

NASA’s use of Amazon’s AWS is interesting.  I knew that NASA had a private cloud so I didn’t expect them to use AWS.  I’m guessing this...