Rise of SFA, the 'server-free architecture'
Thanks to cloud computing and social networking resources, it now costs virtually pennies to secure and get the infrastructure needed up and running to get a new venture off the ground.
Thanks to cloud computing and social networking resources, it now costs virtually pennies to secure and get the infrastructure needed up and running to get a new venture off the ground.
Are CIOs becoming 'Chief Insight Officers'? Latest IBM research finds they see their roles shifting away from system caretakers to decision support enablers.
Stuff happens, no matter how many 9s are promised. Developers are advised not to get too enamored with the cloud.
Not everyone -- even small firms -- even small tech companies -- believes cloud computing has something to offer over on-premises systems.
Security has been a showstopper for cloud for some time. Is it now becoming cloud's best selling point?
EMC: Cloud computing clouds IT employee satisfaction. But haven't we already been through much of this with mainframe computing?
SOA-inspired best practices lead to profitable cloud consumption
Quote of the week, from Michael Coté, channeled by RedMonk partner James Governor. Think of the cloud stack as a burger:IaaS = servers, storagePaaS = middlewareSaaS = applications"There now, that wasn’t so hard was it?
This just in from the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas: Dan Kaminsky, a well-known IT security researcher, disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server flaw (or DNS cache poisoning vulnerability), and where it can bite. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading reported on Kaminsky's presentation, who said the flaw enables attackers "to exploit the DNS design to quickly guess the transaction ID of an address query and potentially re-route the user to an unexpected domain.
'Mainframes' and 'moonshots' are two words that were almost synonymous in the 1960s, as are 'iPhones' and 'apps' today.