Are you buying tickets for the Titanic?
My wife and I recently visited a museum exhibit of artifacts retrieved from the wreck of the Titanic. What a compelling story that is: the most complex and sophisticated human creation ever, launched...
View ArticleButterfly Wings and Nuclear Bombs
Both Google and Amazon have recently experienced software failures that led to prolonged downtime. This downtime wasn’t due to a hardware failure, it wasn’t due to natural disasters, or terrorist...
View ArticleFor want of a nail, the cloud was lost
I worked as a consultant in my university computer lab. We used UCSD Pascal, which had a very simple file system that relied upon logically contiguous blocks. Clumsy 101 students were capable of...
View ArticleUh, oh, Mumboe! You have 2 weeks to get your data
Gartner has heard from several sources that SaaS-based contract management application provider Mumboe told their customers last week that they have 2 weeks to pick up their data before their cloud is...
View ArticleSLA feather allows you to fly in the cloud
In the Disney cartoon Dumbo, a misfit elephant discovers that his ears are so large that he has the ability to fly. Lacking confidence in this unusual capability, he is understandably reluctant to...
View ArticleMegaupload and SaaS Escrow
Other than some analysis and speculation about how the takedown changed traffic patterns without actually reducing global piracy, and regular reports about the legal status of Kim Dotcom, the...
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