By You will remember how anything and everything was going to be connected and reporting back to a user, even if it was just a low level on/off alarm to say the temperature was rising above a preset threshold in an area of a cold store? To do this we...
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A straightforward approach to cloud security
3CommentsEvery now and then I see a document that really answers a particular question in a way that makes simple straightforward sense. I can’t begin to count how much I have read on cloud security, and how few real answers I have seen. A really great...
Read moreOpenStack – is it a cloud play or a web play?
When NASA decided to join forces with RackSpace to announce the start of an open source cloud project under the name of OpenStack it was a natural headline grabber. Anything with the tags ‘Clouds’ and ‘Open Source’ gets attention as working...
Read moreBlack Turkey
Want to have something nice to read on the iPad this summer? Download Nassim Taleb’s very instructive The Black Swan. Taleb describes the phenomenon of the black swan as a metaphor for unpredictability. You see, until the end of the 17th century...
Read moreHow not to ‘Shred the Edge’; well not as much anyway!
This post follows on from my last one which discussed the arrival of new tools that enable the decentralisation of IT, or that enable shadow IT, to be carried out in an effective manner with some degree of enterprise control, but also introduced the...
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