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 think that Google was listening and … Continue reading →
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 have seen a huge increase in … Continue reading →
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 many as 80,000 servers, eventually. This … Continue reading →
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 more than 500 million users, it … Continue reading →
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 below examines 7 of these alleged … Continue reading →
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 the “average” brain is capable of … Continue reading →
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 disasters. Even though many companies are … Continue reading →
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 new king of the heap is … Continue reading →
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 the enterprise internal network. Access to … Continue reading →
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 vendor has on their future development … Continue reading →