Cyberthoughts

[Updated 5/1/2014] In some ways, developers have done themselves a disservice in the tool department, like the shoemaker’s children goin...

I, like many others, received a letter from OfficeDrop, telling it’s customers they were closing the doors on the company.  To it’s cust...

I enjoyed this comment to the article Will HP Moonshot Ignite or fizzle .  Is this what cloud infrastructure is coming to? PeterNic   •...

According to a report published in McKinsey Quarterly, “ Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture ”, corporate perform...

Do companies really know the total cost of local compute and storage?   This article in USA Today (hardly a tech mag) suggests that cloud...

To truly utilize the new paradigm of cloud computing’s scalable architecture, developers need to rethink their application design from the g...

Amazon is dropping prices again .   Is the cloud prepping for hockey stick growth ?  Maybe we are already there?   Another fun year in cloud...

(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...