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The Problems with Encrypting Data in the Cloud

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

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Raising your pH Levels for the Cloud

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

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SCO Away and Never Come Back

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)

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The Real Reason SOA is Making a Comeback

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

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Beware Cloud Brokerages

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

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The CAP Theorem in the Cloud

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

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The Real Trick to Hadoop

If you were to list the top half dozen overhyped, buzzy topics in IT these days, I’m sure Hadoop would make the list. Hadoop is an open source framework for