I met with a client today who is trying to move to a DevOps model for software delivery. One question they asked caught me off guard: how do you deal
Eric Raymond coined the phrase The Cathedral and the Bazaar in his 1997 book of the same name, referring to the differences between the traditional, top-down approach to building software
I had an informative call with Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation today. He went over the features of OpenStack’s new Havana release. Good stuff – but
Just when you thought you finally had Cloud Computing figured out, the next great meteorological buzzword rears its ugly head: Fog Computing. Basically an extension of the data center-focused Cloud
Two stories of government-tech-gone-wrong hit the wire this week. Each one in and of itself promised to be embarrassing to the US federal government, as well as to any contractors
Last week’s announcement that large US telco Verizon was rolling out their brand spanking new Verizon Cloud created a modest buzz in the Cloud community. Instead of building on the
The Cloud storage marketplace got quite a stare last week when storage provider Nirvanix abruptly closed its doors. Fortunately, they provided their customers with a few days to get their
Remember the fascinating story of the Mechanical Turk? This chess-playing automaton was a sensation in the courts of eighteenth century Europe. Who ever heard of a machine that could play
You have to admit, the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has had a really hard time lately. Edward Snowden’s revelations of the heretofore top secret PRISM program keep on