I agree with Joe's number 3, Amazon's April 21, 2011, Easter outage is the poster child of cloud collapses. A human error of unplugging a main trunk network and replugging it into a backup net was compounded by automated...
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And make it work on tablets, too. App quirks that force me to put down the tablet and move over to the laptop are getting old quickly.
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I absolutely think that cloud deployments are less prone to downtime; NSA hacking I don't have a good enough sense of things. But we do give up control when we go to the cloud, which amplifies the cloud fiascoes.
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Since I got hit with that TROJAN, I'm not taking any chances!
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Over the years, IE is the culprit that doesn't follow standards or tries to create its own. IE 7 is still out there in use and is very difficult to accomodate. Spend money! Do you think startups want to...
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This seems like a solution in search of a problem. Why is a ring harder to lose than a phone? People take off rings and leave them on sinks all the time. They fly off at the beach, etc.
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Doug is absolutely right, there is no way to do an apples-to-oranges comparison of enterprise apps vs cloud apps on the topic of outages. There are also security issues relating to Snowden that have nothing to do with cloud....
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Damn! I'm an IW pick but I can't win because I'm a UBM employee! Thanks for the vote of confidence, just the same....
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Its a good step by Google. Now every can edit google docs sheet offline. Thanks to Google:)
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This artile actually made me see red. As a developer, I should not have to write differnt code for every browsser, nor should I be requried to purchase additional tools to support it. Though they are getting...
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I don't think the implications of robotic job replacement have been thought through by most; as time passes the displaced workers will have no jobs available to them unless they are highly educated and skilled. While this...
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One important thing that the author did not mention regarding the Search feature is that you CAN turn off "search everywhere" and even turn off Bing entirely. A little sloppy investigative review of 8.1 that needs to be...
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It is a humorous story, but even so it is not good to spread misconceptions. Global warming is due to carbon dioxide produced by cars, not the heat of the combustion itself. And the combustion takes place in the cylinders,...
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I took his fingerprints off of last year's Leapfrog.™
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Hi Li! What are your doubts with respect to telcos running content delivery networks. Is it technical skill or something else?
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Many of these slide commentaries seem to assume that on-premises deployments are less prone to failures and security leaks. Cloud infrastructure and service providers are under the microscope, so we read all about it. Meanwhile,...
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I get that wearable tech is hot right now, but I'm still not convinced many of these products will appeal to the masses (this one included). Pulling out my phone from my pocket or purse doesn't require that much effort,...
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I rarely use the messaging feature on Twitter, but often use it on Facebook. Readers: Will this update encourage you to use Twitter's direct messaging feature more? Why or why not?
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Dell's future lies in becoming a trusted IT integrator for those businesses that can't necessarily invest in a large, sophisticated IT staff themselves. But at what size of company and what level of operations do you shoot...
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Every business will be a social business; we won't need separate social managers. There will be no social conferences, no social technologies. It will simply become ingrained in what we do. Readers: Are you already seeing...
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It's ok Jane. He's the real thing. Cancel the call to 911.
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