Both the short term, ephemeral storage and the longer term, block storage are based on SSDs, Ephemeral storage is what's assigned to your virtual machine, disappears when the VM does. Seems to me SSDs are an ideal scale-out...
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There are two things that service providers of any sort should never mess with, when it comes to the consumer. One is getting the accuracy of the intended transaction. The other is health care coverage. Somehow, HealthCare.gov...
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The point is that doing predictive analysis should not be like brain surgery. Earlier this year Forrester pointed to progress being made by a number of vendors to make anlytics easier, and it encouraged the rest of the industry...
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Sorry, no, not correct. If you looked at Microsoft's website in the last several hours, it makes sense that you saw $299 listed as the price. The reduced prices were only valid until stock levels were depleted. Microsoft...
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doesn't look like Microsoft put this device on sale -- still selling for $299.99
In reply to: Dell Venue 8 Pro Tablet (32 GB)
This article clearly highlights that accessing content is a given for any content sharing solution. Now a days users want to create and edit content using their mobile devices. The enterprise content management features...
In reply to: Mobile Productivity- Don't just access content, create content on your mobile device
Very good data on mobile security. Mobile security policies should not be just for top security conscious companies in government and financial services. Companies need to find tools that will allow mobile workers to truly...
In reply to: Enable BYOD by protecting your content
Bill, that's a great point. One other trend I see gaining a lot of ground is toward securing the data itself, as well as the environement, devices, and apps. Especially now that companies are adopting cloud services and...
In reply to: Re: Application Firewalls
Agreed. In fact, custom ROMs are generally more secure, due to constant updates(nightly, weekly, or monthly, depending on the developer). That is assuming, of course, your ROM dev is fast on their updates. In fact,...
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If your skillset is indistuinguishable from the rest of the pack you can go ahead and simply blame yourself, and leave the latent racism at home.
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Thanks for sharing your story. It's been so easy for so many to pile on the criticism -- even on those who had nothing to do with the site, but nevertheless rolled up their sleeves to try help get things back on track,...
In reply to: First Hand View
It's interesting to see, as the wind-down of the war and sequestration are pinching military hardware budgets, that DARPA is increasingly exploring innovations to virtual problems. As you may have seen elsewhere, DARPA...
In reply to: DARPA's Push Into Software
Cloud does not make your application agile... nor does it make it scalable - you still have to architect your solution allow for scalability. I annoys me when people attempt to sell the cloud as the "magic bullet"...
In reply to: Cloud avoids flexibility and availability issues?
Two interesting pain points here: One we don't often feel; and other we now plainly can: On one hand you have Forrester analyst James Staten noting: "It's naive and dangerous to think that the NSA's actions are unique....
In reply to: Who Can We Trust?
I work for a company that buys, and refurbishes or destroys magnetic tapes. we have never heard or seen any data ever escaping from a tape. - ...
In reply to: Re: Recycling Hard Drives - Green or Scary
when those spies look for anything on the internet, my Chrome browser responds
"Sorry, search found nothing for you."
If I were Microsoft, ...
In reply to: If I were google, I should have known some spies' machine ID
Very true. I don't think Sony or Samsung is attracting anyone to their smartwatches. The funcitonality is just lacking. And yeah, I steer clear of Web MD because it frequently leads me to conclude I have contracted the plague....
In reply to: Re: More Than Cool
Yep, I just found this thread: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/mobile-devices/f/4586/t/19533657.aspx A few other people have had the same issue, from the look of it. Glad it didn't take long to get it worked...
In reply to: Re: Office home is not included
Thanks Gerald for providing an outsiders view on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It's certainly been a bit frustrating to watch one administration after the next, and one Congress after the next, fail to gain real traction...
In reply to: NIST Cyber Framework
I'm curious. Why do you believe the government should not be bound by law when it comes to gathering information?
In reply to: Re: Citizen to Tech Giants
InformationWeek December 2013 Special IssueHybrid cloud standards promise a more open future, free of inflexible ties to vendors.
2014 Private Cloud Survey
Respondents are on a roll: 53% brought their private clouds from concept to production in less than one year, and 60% extend their clouds across multiple datacenters. But expertise is scarce, with 51% saying acquiring skilled employees is a roadblock.
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