Whenever a multibillionaire like Jeff Bezos pulls out his personal checkbook and shells out $250 million of his own money for a newspaper, you have to wonder what was going
In a previous blog post I sounded the alarm about the insider threat. Someone in your IT organization must have the root passwords, the argument goes, so what’s to keep
The furor over CloudScaling’s acting CEO Randy Bias’s call for OpenStack to do an about-face and support Amazon’s APIs has only intensified since I called for a hypermedia-based Cloud meta-API.
I’ve already discussed in an article and a blog post the difference between the Agile enterprise architecture I write about in my book, The Agile Architecture Revolution, and the Agile
Fellow Cloud pontificator Randy Bias caused quite a stir at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention (OSCON) this week. Basically, he suggested that the OpenStack crowd capitulate to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
When you hire an employee, especially one with a sensitive role like a system administrator, what kind of background checks do you perform? Typical organizations will check candidates’ criminal records
Today’s announcement that Puppet Labs acquired Cloudsmith, coupled with other recent acquisitions in the Cloud space, including IBM’s pickup of SoftLayer, CenturyLink absorbing AppFog, and Aspect Software’s deal for Voxeo
One of my clients is a large US Government agency. As with all agencies, the Government’s Cloud First initiative is pushing them to move to the Cloud. The reasoning is
There’s an old IT joke that the only truly secure computer is broken, powered down, disconnected from the network, in a locked room, with no key. And as with all