For many businesses, the initial rush to the cloud was mostly about saving money and keeping up with the competition. Companies were thrilled to avoid major capital expenses for new hardware and software by changing over to monthly subscription charges …
Growing any new, small business is tough. Although you may use different kinds of techniques and marketing strategies, you surely have to invest effort and time. Thankfully, these challenging tasks have actually been made easier because of technology. But how …
Data may be the new oil, but it isn’t a consumable. We don’t burn it up as we use it; we make more of it. And more. IDC research predicts that by 2025 — less than 10 years from now …
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As my colleague recently noted, some workloads are destined for the cloud, while others are best suited to remain on-premises. This was in response to comments made by Michael Dell around what he called a “boomerang effect” of the cloud. …
Even if your business sells the finest products on the market or offers a service that nobody else does, a poor performing website could render these commercial advantages useless. Did you know that just a one second increase in page …
DevOps strives to streamline development and help companies be more agile. Specific or unique constraints of one platform or another, however, sometimes get in the way and paint developers into a corner. Habitat, a new project from Chef, seeks to …
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By now it would be no surprise that a significant share of your personal and business data and applications are running in the giant clouds of Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Microsoft alone claims about 10 trillion objects are stored using …
I spent last week in San Francisco at the RSA Conference. The annual event is the biggest event for the security industry and takes over the Moscone Center and surrounding area. Throughout the week I walked the show floor, visited …
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When a company purchases cloud services from a third-party do those services include security, or is the organization still responsible for its own security? Regardless of which entity is ultimately responsible for security, it seems like it would be an …
Most of the time nature is beautiful and awe inspiring. But when nature turns violent you have to respect it. When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast ten years ago thousands of businesses found themselves under water and with …
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