Hardware generally doesn’t interest me too much, so when I heard about the Open Compute project I didn’t give it too much attention. Casually reading up on the subject a little more left me even less interested. Why should Facebook have to design their own hardware, I wondered? Wouldn’t hardware vendors be clambering over each […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Activity streams and social networks now represent a fundamental aspect of the modern application. We use activity streams on Twitter to converse in 140 characters or less. We use the “like” gesture on Facebook to show approval for an update to a friend’s activity stream. In the enterprise, Salesforce.com Chatter uses activity streams to show […]
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The average user keeps more than $400 worth of digital movies and music on their devices, not to mention important information folders. “People have priceless photographs, critical personal financial information and hundreds of dollars of digital media stored on their computer,” says the CEO/chairman of Carbonite. “Most have experienced at least one major data loss […]
Posted on September 1st, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) added support today for a browser specification that defines ways for apps to allow resources to be accessed by web pages from different domains. The practice is called Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and has been requested by AWS users for the past few years. The new service represents another way that AWS automates tasks that developers […]
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I am not one to argue with abundance. I am a big believer in the way we can create so much, all the time. But I can’t stand an abundance of vendor one-upmanship and that’s just what I heard this morning at CloudOpen in a panel discussion about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) v. Platform […]
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