Google Adds Full-Screen Compose Back Into GMail
Hooray! While Google is certainly guilty of not always listening to the user base of their various products… many of you former GReader users are hearing that loud and clear… in this instance I...
Cloud Computing
WordPress Blog Sites Under Attack
WordPress is a very popular platform for *MANY* blogs on the Internet. This website and blog (SKoenemann.com) is actually based on WordPress. Over the last week or so, security firms and network hosting companies...
PayPal Replacing VMware With OpenStack
In a move that could become increasingly common for large virtual data centers in the future, PayPal has announced that, over time, it will be replacing VMware in its data centers with OpenStack… as...
Google+ Surpasses a Half Billion Users
In its short 18 months of existence, Google+ has endured a lot of criticism and a few growing pains along the way. Once declared “dead” by many industry pundits, Google+ has rebounded spectacularly. Now boasting...
7 Cloud Computing Myths Debunked
As cloud computing has gained traction in the computing industry, there have been quite a number of “myths” or “urban legends” that have developed concerning its reliability, security, major players and etc. The link...
Your Brain by the Numbers
Check out the infographic from Scientific American containing some fascinating statistics concerning the human brain at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-in-pictures-your-brain-by-the-numbers To me, perhaps the most interesting of these statistics is the number of calculations per second that...
Leveraging the Cloud for Disasters
It is not really that surprising that regional devastation at the scale that Hurricane Sandy wrought has elevated the industry chatter concerning how cloud computing could significantly enhance an organization’s ability to survive such...
U.S. Again Has the World’s Top Supercomputer
Top500 released the 40th version of its twice annual list of the world’s top supercomputers and an American computer has come out on top once again. Owned by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the...
VMware Releases Horizon Mobile
This new product from the folks at VMware will enable enterprises to create a secure “corporate workspace” on iOS and Android based devices; thus allowing these devices to securely connect to corporate resources in...
OpenStack Fights Cloud Lock-In Worries
One of the biggest perceived problems with moving to the cloud is something called “cloud vendor lock-in” where, once you choose a cloud platform vendor, you are locked into the offerings and innovations that...
