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Just how big are Big Data anyway? There’s no fixed answer. In fact, Wikipedia for one defines Big Data as a “collection of data sets so large and complex that

Sometimes we spend so much of our day on the hot topics of IT — Cloud, Mobile, Big Data, and Social Media, to name some biggies — that we lose

One of the benefits of Cloud Computing that makes Clouds “Cloudy” is the location independence of its resources. When you provision a Cloud instance, you need not know or care

Anybody who has worked with WSDL-based Web Services knows that the loose coupling they promised was a challenge to achieve. One silver lining around this cloud big-vendor SOA was the

Anybody with even a vague understanding of Cloud Computing knows it comes in three basic flavors: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). If you press a general audience to

Encryption is our primary tool for providing data confidentiality, an essential requirement for many Cloud Computing applications. However, as I discussed in the previous blog post, encryption is not a

Can you use SSL to secure interactions with the Cloud? The answer: in part. Remember, the original intent for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, now known as Transport Layer Security, or

In the dark ages of distributed computing, all we had were fixed application programming interfaces (APIs). Want to call a function or procedure on a server? Read the documentation for

In The Code Reuse Paradox , I illustrated some problems with writing reusable code: developers must know which code to generalize, how far to generalize it, and how to tell