Jim Turner, Beth Hayden, and Bethany Siegler discuss common questions related to business blogging. Is blogging really a necessity for my company? How do I get the most out of blogging? How can WordPress help to market our products or services? How can we make sure it actually reaches our target clients? What should we [...]
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The Data Center at the South Pole
July 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What’s it like to operate a data center at the South Pole? The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory maintains a small data center in Antarctica, where it harvests neutrinos for scientific research.
PaaS Elasticity Is Harder to Achieve Than You Think
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As the ideas and concepts behind PaaS platforms continue to evolve, it is becoming quite clear that they those platforms will consist of many facets. These systems will consist of application runtime services (both shared and dedicated), application modeling capabilities, and runtime monitoring to name but a very few. While all of these will be necessary to deliver a truly effective PaaS platform, if you ask the casual cloud follower what they identify as the key characteristic for PaaS, and I would be willing to wager that 9 out of 10 say runtime elasticity. read more
Cloud Quandary: Which Cloud Is Right for My Enterprise?
July 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Cloud computing has raised the eyebrows of many enterprises today. If you have begun to delve beneath the surface of this new computing model, you have certainly discovered that there are many “clouds” to consider, and it is not one single cloud that will be part of your future. One of the hottest trends we are seeing right now among enterprises is the shift to private clouds. What is a private cloud, and how does it fit in your future? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a definition of clouds that is useful to consider
BofA Thinks eBanking Is The Way To Go
July 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Bank of America is launching a new checking account that encourages customers to stick to banking online, through ATMs or over their mobile phones. Called eBanking, the new account will be free to customers provided they stick with electronic banking. Should the customer use a bank branch, they will have to pay an $8.95 monthly [...]
