Posts tagged with the "cloud computing" tag
Clouding the Outsourcing Issue, part 2
January 5, 2012 | 4 Comments Don't bother trying to reach me the next few weekends; it’s playoff time in the NFL! I promised my wife way back when we started dating that she need not be a "football widow" every Sunday during the season. However, our relationship has spanned roughly the same time period as the …Read More
Sibling Rivalry: Code Quality & Open Source
September 26, 2011 | 2 Comments Why does “Free” always seem to have a catch to it? We know there’s “no such thing as a free lunch,” that “freedom isn’t free” and that if you get something for free, you probably got what you paid for. Even in the tech industry, when we talk about open source …Read More
Clouding the Outsourcing Issue
September 22, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Back in August, "CIO Zone" posted a blog outlining the top five cloud computing trends. Smack-dab in the middle of the top five was this one: "Custom cloud computing services," which delved into how outsourced IT organizations must focus on automated software and become experts in migrating to SaaS, PaaS …Read More
CAST Highlight Gives Enterprises a Kick in the Apps
May 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! System outages, software failures, security breaches and IT maintenance costs are all rapidly on the rise. It seems like not a day goes by that we don’t read about one company or another announcing that their system went down or revealed personal data to hackers. Couple that with published estimates …Read More
Who’ll Stop the Rain: Seeking Quality in the Cloud
May 5, 2011 | Be the first to comment! It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a trade publication covering the tech industry without reading something about cloud computing. The plethora of coverage is enough to make one think that cloud computing is the latest technological panacea, good for everything from live data storage to data archiving and …Read More
Certifiably Mobile
April 18, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Earlier this month, Symantec released its Internet Security Threat Report for 2010, and much like other reports on the state of software security for last year it showed significant increases in malware and other threats to application software and websites. In all, Symantec reported 286 million new Internet threats in …Read More
As IT Budgets Rebound, Companies Look to the Cloud for Quality
March 18, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Alyson Behr, a contributor to SD Times, wrote yesterday about companies beginning to increase their IT spending this year as the world begins to emerge from the global recession. This is all good news to those of us in the IT industry – it sure has been a long time …Read More