In case you missed it, Oracle missed their Wall Street numbers last week. This bad news from Redwood Shores led to some frantic hand-waving on the part of CEO Larry
An interesting development has arisen in the story of the CIA hiring Amazon to build a Private Cloud. By all accounts, Amazon had already begun work on this project, when
In my recent software integration post, I discussed the complex and myriad challenges that face organizations as they attempt to integrate systems. Sometimes, however, the challenges are deceptively simple. Take,
If you’ve ever tried to integrate software, you’re painfully aware that the reason integration is such a challenge is because this piece of software doesn’t want to talk to that
Headline: National Security Agency Caught Unawares by Cyberattack WASHINGTON DC, June 7, 2013: A massive Cyberattack hit US interests today from an unidentified foreign attacker, causing extensive damage to military
This morning’s breaking news on CNN: Under a legal PATRIOT Act court order, Verizon has been providing American citizens’ phone call information to the National Security Agency. The information in
The goal of Big Data analytics is to mine those valuable nuggets of truth from an immense heap of noise. If only we pile the miscellaneous data high enough and
One of Amazon’s newer offerings is Amazon Glacier, a low-cost, highly durable storage service for archiving and backup. By trading off speed of access for durability, they’re able to charge