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Yearly Archives: 2010

Cloud Computing: A Treasure Trove for Hackers

By Dick Weisinger

Security usually tops the lists of concerns that people have about the cloud.  And now it seems like there is good reason.  On a recent survey of 100 “elite” hackers at the 2010 Defcon conferenece, 96 of them said that

Storage: Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency with Storage Virtualization

By Dick Weisinger

While unstructured Data in the enterprise is growing at a break-neck speed, the actual enterprise dollars being spent on hardware for new storage has remained relatively flat over the last 10 years.  Moore’s law when applied to the increasing storage

Cloud Computing: Beginning to Take Shape

By Dick Weisinger

In 2008 Oracle’s Larry Ellison said that all the talk about cloud computing is ‘complete gibberish’ and that he just didn’t understand what it was all about.  Two years later, cloud computing has taken more shape.  It is used now

Storage: Open Source Hardware Creates Peta-Byte Capacity on the Cheap

By Dick Weisinger

First there was server virtualization technology like VMware and Citrix Xen.  But there hasn’t been much equivalent activity around storage virtualization.  It’s really been the software to support storage virtualization that’s been lacking.  Storage hardware costs have dropped significantly.  Commodity

SaaS: Software Will Never Be the Same

By Dick Weisinger

“Software will never be the same” — that’s the subtitle of a new report from IDC research that describes rapid changes that are occurring around software licensing and delivery because of SaaS .    IDC estimates that worldwide revenues for SaaS