The Amazon Effect: Zuora, Citrix and the Acceleration of the Cloud Economy
When Amazon started making their infrastructure and IT processes available outside the company firewall in 2006 it was a tipping…
Has ‘cloud computing’ become a redundant phrase?
My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Pedrick, probably would have a field day with her red pen if she ever read…
Splunk: Big Data Machine for Operational Intelligence
Splunk recently entered the financial markets as a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SPLK) and also entered a new phase in its…
Does Apple Need Ten Years of Trustworthy Computing?
Researchers at Kapersky Lab recently concluded that Apple is an entire decade behin
CISPA Passes in the House, 3D Modelling of DoD Networks, and More
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news round-up:
Refuse to be a Cloud data hostage.
You should never be locked into one vendor, and should ALWAYS be able to walk away from a service provider…
Behind AmazonSupply, a Nuts-and-Bolts Service Oriented Architecture
As reported by ZDNet colleague Zack Whittaker, Amazon is expanding its retail store offerings to business and industrial clients with…
Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing Customer Relations in the Finance and Banking Sector
A recent Bank Systems and Technology report says that many U.S. banks and other financial institutions could benefit from implementing…
Why a Chargeback Model for Private Cloud May Be Problematic
While the economics of public cloud may be fairly clear for many organizations, public cloud is a murky area.