Technically News - 3/7
This week in Technically News: Red Hat Linux Now Available on Amazon's Secure Federal Cloud; Cybersecurity Priorities Unveiled in FY 2015 Budget; Top Obama Adviser Speaks Mind on Cyberthreats; 9 Worst Cloud Security Threats.
Technically News - 2/28
This week in Technically News: DHS Offers Incentive to Adopt Framework; Red Hat Answers Governments’ Open Source Questions; NetApp in the Cloud Age: CEO Tom Georgens Q&A; Symantec's Vision of Enterprise Security Rests Upon Collaboration, Sharing Data
Technically News - 2/14
This week in Technically News: NIST Releases Cybersecurity Framework; Who Bears Blame for Data-Center Consolidation Setbacks?; Cybersecurity Trends for 2014; The Outlook for Government IT Spending in 2014; DLT Solutions Offers Amazon Cloud Services to Texas Schools, Public Sector
Prevent “Cloud Spare”: Professional Services in the Cloud Era
Whenever I get the chance to talk with our sales divisions, I always like to weave in a statement that gets their attention. During a recent meeting to discuss Professional Services, I started by saying, “The products that you resell are worthless!” After a pause for effect, I added, “Unless the customer actually uses the product.” I now had their attention.
Technically News - 2/10
This week in Technically News: Senate Cybersecurity Report Finds Agencies Often Fail to Take Basic Preventive Measures; Does 3-D Printing Change Everything; How APIs Will Drive Agency PaaS Adoption; Open Data Gurus Share Best Practices
CAD & GIS News for Govies 2/14
CAD News for Govies is a weekly feature on Acronym that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a regular source of CAD and GIS news, events, and ideas that impact the public sector. Here’s the latest round-up:
Mapping the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Google Earth
Strong & Weak Decoupled Architectures
In most cases, a standard SOA environment won't fail too badly if forklifted into a cloud. SOA’s weak decoupling works fairly well as a starting pattern in a cloud environment. There is another step to decoupling applications for cloud environments, something I'm going to call “Cloud Oriented Architecture.”
Technically News - 2/3
This week in Technically News: Federal Contractors Should Implement Cybersecurity in Operations & Products, Says DoD & GSA; 20 Cloud Computing Statistics Every CIO Should Know; One Way Lawmakers Are Trying to Prevent Government IT Disasters; Internet of Things Adds to Cybersecurity Challenge; FedRAMP Deadline Looms For Agencies, Cloud Providers
Technically News - 1/27
This week in Technically News: NIST Drops Privacy Appendix From Cybersecurity Framework; Integrate Cybersecurity with Federal Cloud Computing Adoption, Says Karen Evans; How FedRAMP Lifts All Cloud Ships.
Chasing 9s
My point is you need to change your focus to get application uptime in a cloud environment. In fact, you need to realize that your fancy and expensive HA solution was nothing but a band aid.