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The NIST Cloud Computing framework defines the following essential characteristics of cloud computing: On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling…
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The NIST Cloud Computing framework defines the following essential characteristics of cloud computing: On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling…
Bad Things Happened at OVH If you work in infrastructure, you probably saw some reference in the last week to…
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…
So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…
Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…
Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…
This article came out on the 26th of September (US time), but since that was my birthday (27th, AU time),…
Or, I can’t see the emperor’s new clothes… More than a decade ago, Sun bet its future on The Network…
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The Small One!
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The Big One!
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