We’ve grown complacent. Cyberattacks are so common, so ubiquitous, that we’ve grown inured to them. Phishing attacks clog our inboxes. Denial of Service attacks pepper our financial system. And attacks
Private Cloud Adoption. Scene 1, Take 1. Action! Business Exec — “Public Clouds are too risky! They scare me. We need to build ourselves a Private Cloud.” IT Manager —
Looking back at World War II, armchair historians might point to Allied valor, American industrial might, or the sheer evil of the Third Reich as essential enablers of the Allied
The notion of a workload is central to Cloud Computing, but a clear definition of this fundamental concept is more elusive than you might think. Essentially, a workload is a
In case you missed them, two stories last week emphasized a disturbing truth about the continuing Global Cyberwar. First, foreign hackers compromised the Government of South Carolina, stealing data from
As I’ve discussed before in this blog, REST is an architectural style for building distributed hypermedia applications much more than a way to simplify APIs. Essentially, REST takes the idea
Clustering has been an important tool in the IT architect’s tool belt for many years now. Put a group of servers or storage together on a LAN, add some well-planned
Organizations worldwide are eyeing their existing data centers and wondering what it would take to turn them (or some part of them) into Private Clouds. Install virtualization? Check. Are we
OpenStack is an open source Cloud platform effort that brings together hundreds of contributors, primarily from large and small software vendors. Founded by Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack is now starting