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Re: 8 Levels of Information Technology Security

VoIP Telecom — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:43:15 -0000

Thanks for the helpfull blog topic.

Re: Information Explosion & Cloud Storage

What is Cloud — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:50:29 -0000

Day by day, demand for cloud storage is increasing due to the flexibility, scalability, security and accessibility it offers. I believe cloud storage is the future on online file storage.

Re: Virtualize Everything – or don’t

stu — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:22:53 -0000

John - With VMware vSphere 5, Wikibon saw that most of the technical hurdles for adoption of virtualization were removed (see the Peer Incite discussion http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Wiki.... Of course, there are always organizational and political reservations about making change. Hyper-V typically lags VMware functionality.
As for a specific, virtualizing Oracle is still a challenge - see http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Orac...

Re: Malwarebytes takes significant growth steps

Malwarebytes Review — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:05:20 -0000

This is indeed great to hear! I love malwarebytes with a passion!

Re: Hacker Hierarchy

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Re: The Art of Cable Organization

MaxMoonMoney — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:41:38 -0000

6 Months have past. Pics?

Re: To the cloud: Get your governance house in order first

Mukesh Wani — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:34:11 -0000

This is a great post! I experience this first-hand as like many others. With not only "speedy" cloud services, but also the emergence of mom-and-pop service shops. From getting creative work done, to building websites and mobile apps to cloud/hosting services. Usually the culprits are business folks that have "connections" with such service shops (neighbor, friend, relative). The way they get around it is posing these service shops as "Media" agencies that are focusing on a "marketing" initiative. But the marketing plan also includes website, mobile app, hosting, cloud service etc etc. In these situations a strict governance is a must, but also a culture shift is needed. Otherwise the perception will continue to be that IT is a slow cost center instead of a fast value provider. All CIOs should read this post!

Re: Big Data Changing the Business Frontier

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:54:07 -0000

Definitely agree with the article above, and it's a message I personally take to companies on a daily basis. DataStax has an offering that integrates the Cassandra database with Hadoop + Solr...companies love the ability to "see the future."

Re: Dennis Martin Comments on the Storage Decisions Conferences of June 2009

LEDstrips — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:33:13 -0000

Yes. We all have a huge heart.

Re: Storage Grid Allows IT to Enable Mobile

Alex — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:35:57 -0000

nice post just shared this on our pinterest profile

Re: The Changing Role of the CIO [Infographic]

Patrice-Guy Martin — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:16:11 -0000

Very nice. What is the source of the data?

Re: To the cloud: Get your governance house in order first

Coolsport00 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:17:36 -0000

Working at a SMB myself, I'm very surprised at the % # of SMBs Spiceworks says have implemented some form of Cloud. I'm not sure I 'see' that as being accurate...I would be surprised if it was 30% to be honest. Regardless, Cloud implementation of some sort is where I'm wanting to take my org. Cost and "trust" to this point are hinderances. I'm awaiting the 'right' opportunity (i.e. a refresh cycle, or software license agreement renewal) to further investigate our ROI potential of moving some services to the Cloud.

Thanks for the post.
Shane

Re: 20 Movies Every Hacker Should See

Timmytallent — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:31:23 -0000

no sorrry man tron is like the hacker of hacker movies. tron move throughout a computer system.

Re: To the cloud: Get your governance house in order first

Scott Lowe — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:45:43 -0000

Stu - it depends on the organization, but it can be anywhere from a few days to a few years, depending on the willingness of the culture to accept the shift. I'm a big fan of speed and agility, but believe that a "throttle" is critical so that the speedy and the agile don't run into a brick wall or drive off a cliff. Some may see the throttle - governance - as an obstacle. I see the throttle as playing a very necessary part in getting from point A to point B in a successful way.

I wish IT didn't have to "compete" with these kinds of services. In an ideal world, the IT group would be seen as a trusted partner or shepherd of these kinds of services.

Scott

Re: To the cloud: Get your governance house in order first

stu — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:39:10 -0000

Scott - one of the reasons that lines of business turn to cloud services is for the speed (easy to grab a credit card and spin up some Amazon cloud services). It's this speed and agility that IT organizations need to compete against. In your experience, how long does it take to put proper governance in order?

Re: New Requirements for Cloud Service Providers: Turning IT Costs into Profits

website hosting company — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:12:56 -0000

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Re: Inside The Data Center Technology Powering Six Top Social Media Sites

machine to machine news — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:53:16 -0000

Twitter is one of the most important part of social media. It is good to use twitter. Combination of disqus and twitter provides most effective result.

Re: The Beauty of Fiber Optics

Andrew — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:11:45 -0000

Sweet stuff, gotta love the fiber optics clothes!

Re: The Beauty of Fiber Optics

tom — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:50:06 -0000

Great out of the box uses for fiber optics solutions!

Re: Infographics

Spirulina — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:23:02 -0000

really cool infographics!

Re: The Changing Role of the CIO [Infographic]

Spirulina — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:02:29 -0000

Really cool infographic!

Re: Predictions 2012: Big Data, Flash, Cloud and Facebook

web hosting — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:47:10 -0000

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Re: Why Dell acquiring Brocade would be a bad idea

USB 3G — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:05:47 -0000

Well, interesting post,
thanks!

Re: Data deduplication is an increasingly important aspect of storage technology

stu — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:10:46 -0000

Nice post @otherscottlowe . Deduplication has had a sizable impact on the storage market (even before usage on flash - remember the bidding war for Data Domain?). Dave Vellante did a recent video looking at the overall backup market and the deduplication landscape: http://siliconangle.tv/video/b...
I'd also agree that Pure Storage is an interesting start-up; just last week, we caught up with Pure's CEO Scott Dietzen at Strata Conference: http://siliconangle.tv/video/c...

Re: Hacker #FAIL

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:46:47 -0000

2 things:
1: a DDoS is a distributed denial of service, not a DoS, denial of service, both accounts are DoS', not DDoS' (as you cannot trace a DDoS the way it was stated in the article, and LOIC is a DoS, not DDoS)
2: Anonymous is not a hacktivist group, it's an adjective. (also there is no leader, sabu does not represent Anonymous (everyone without an official or accepted name) as a whole)