Lori MacVittie

Lori MacVittie is responsible for application services education and evangelism at app delivery firm F5 Networks. Her role includes producing technical materials and participating in community-based forums and industry standards organisatio…ns. MacVittie has extensive programming experience as an application architect, as well as in network and systems development and administration.

Latest from Lori MacVittie

Cloud adoption: Why you have to get the measure of scalability

People blithely talk about scalability as a driver for moving to the cloud. But unless you define scalability precisely, you'll never know if cloud is the best way of achieving your goals.

November 16, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Big data: Why it's really an architecture challenge

For big data to amount to a serious asset that business and operations can exploit, datacentres will have to take a long, hard look at infrastructure and architecture.

October 31, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Big Data

iOS vs Surface: Why Apple is not a patch on Microsoft

With its consumer focus, Apple has overlooked the importance for enterprises to be able to control and distribute patches and upgrades. It's a shortcoming to which Microsoft and its Surface tablet will not succumb

August 7, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Mobile OS

How big data in the cloud can drive IT ops

Exploiting big data is not just a resource for business users. It can also transform IT, says Lori MacVittie

May 12, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Can cloud help Tube ride out Wi-Fi peaks?

Plans for Wi-Fi on the London Underground are welcome, but the 'bursty' nature of rush-hour requests will be hard to address, says Lori MacVittie

April 15, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Are your internal networks a cloud block?

Organisations are shifting business-critical processes to the cloud without first weighing up how their networks will withstand the sudden onslaught of traffic, says Lori MacVittie

February 18, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Can cloud unravel the data-sharing puzzle?

Some assume that the internet lends itself to large-scale data-sharing. It's a mistaken belief, says Lori MacVittie

January 22, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

How Amazon is raising mega-proxy spectre

Cloud-based initiatives from Amazon and Google may amount to a return to the bad old days of the mega-proxy, says Lori MacVittie

November 19, 2011 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Can the cloud compete at London 2012?

2012's Olympic Games in London seem the perfect showcase for the cloud, but with this year's outages it's not clear whether the technology is stable enough, says Lori MacVittie

September 25, 2011 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

Small issue of getting big data out of cloud

It's all very well planning how to get data into the cloud, but moving it back out again requires at least as much thought, says Lori MacVittie

August 20, 2011 by Lori MacVittie in Cloud

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