Two airline tickets to SeaTac. That’s what die-hard Microsoft developers are booking. The first is to the Visual Studio 2012 launch event, to be held Sept. 12 at the Microsoft
Cloud security is gaining a renewed focus, now that Apple founder Steve Wozniak has issued a stern warning about Cloud security risks. In response, numerous vendors have lined up to
A new study from Mozilla shows some fascinating data. Some of the results mean more than others. For example, according to the study, more app developers are targeting the Web
Duty called me away from the final day of the Dataversity NoSQL Now Conference in San Jose this week, but I was there for long enough to gain some insight
In a blog post last weekI discussed how the CAP theorem prevented enterprise databases from taking advantage of the elasticity benefits of the Cloud. The problem: because the Cloud is
There is no reasonable chance of “rehabilitation.” That’s what SCO Group’s bankruptcy trustee claimed on Aug. 6 in a filing seeking to change the company’s status from Chapter 11 (reorganization)
The 2009 “SOA is Dead” meme may have turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, but there’s no question that interest in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) waned in the
Yesterday, in a moment of weakness, I managed to sit through most of a Gartner Webinar on Cloud brokerages (I know, what was I thinking?) We’re researching cloud brokerages for
You may have heard of the CAP theorem: no distributed computing system can offer partition tolerance, basic availability, and immediate consistency all at once. You can have any two of