November 26th, 2011 § § permalink
Making sure your data is encrypted when it’s being stored somewhere outside of your direct control is a good idea. When that system has your customers data on it, it’s a requirement. Unfortunately when your data is in a cloud environment like Amazon EC2 your options can be limited, confusing, or both. Questions like where [...]
December 5th, 2009 § § permalink
The pending acquisition of Lala by Apple signifies the beginning of an entirely new online iTunes platform and cloud computing media strategy for Apple
August 26th, 2009 § § permalink
My next post was going to start defining the security referee concept I came up with previously but something much more interesting happened today: Amazon Web Services announced their newest addition, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) which adds a new dimension to Amazon’s cloud service offerings. Based on the information available, Amazon VPC works much [...]
August 24th, 2009 § § permalink
In the world of information technology cloud computing is the latest game in town, but currently we can’t even agree on the definition of the game, much less what the playing field looks like or the rules of the game. The referees, if they are out there, are in hiding. Still A lot of people [...]
July 6th, 2009 § § permalink
The four great axioms that govern all information technology innovation are processing speed, storage, connectivity and bandwidth with a fith super axiom, cost, that defines the innovation threshold for each of these axioms. If you trace every major technological advance back to its starting point you will find the threshold of one of these axioms [...]