The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
One View of the Amazon Game Plan I noted this passage: No company owes it to others to allow people to build direct competitors to their own product. I think companies using Amazon’s plumbing will want to do a bit of strategizing using “What if” questions to spark discussion.
Still lacking assured anonymity, identity, privacy, and security, but interesting. OpenStack adoption grows into multi-cloud formations The open source cloud platform sees a rise in unique installations, as well as more integration with commercial clouds. There is a strong trend to multi-cloud integration among OpenStack users. Close to half, 48 percent, indicate that they also …
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Privacy Is Lost in Translation Online translation tools are a wonder! Instead of having to rely on limited dictionaries and grammars, online translation tools deliver real-time, nearly accurate translations of documents and other text. It is usually good to double check the translation because sometimes the tools do make mistakes. Translation tools, however, can make …
The Cloud Panopticon: Google, Cloud Computing and the Surveillance-Industrial-Complex Christopher Ketcham & Travis Kelly EXTRACT: “When private data is held by a third party like Google, the Supreme Court has ruled that you ‘assume the risk’ of disclosure of that data.” When you store e-mail at Gmail – or, similarly, in the cloud at Yahoo …
Costs of the Cloud The cloud was supposed to save organizations a bundle on servers, but now we learn from Datamation that “Enterprises Struggle with Managing Cloud Costs.” The article cites a recent report from Dimensional Research and cloud-financial-management firm Cloud Cruiser, which tells us, for one thing, that 92 percent of organizations surveyed now …
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Amazon Web Services: Crushing the Competition? I read “Attack! Run. WTF? A Decade of Enterprise Class Fear and Uncertainty with AWS.” I am not sure if Amazon’s Web Services’ business is being praised or criticized. Nevertheless, the write up has some interesting factoids. I highlighted these statements: read full post
Red Hat’s CEO is dead wrong about the cloud A dustup ensues after Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asserts that the public cloud is ‘obscenely expensive.’ Guess who’s pushing back? EXTRACTS
