Can the inherent abstraction of virtualization succeed where SOA did not?
My first read through a post on the Cloud Front Office led me to scoff disdainfully at the re-emergence of a…
1 day agoThe importance of stress-testing in production
Everyone is still a-twitter over the problems the web experienced last week right after the news of Michael Jackson’s death. There have been
2 days agoSomebody has to be first
Recently Microsoft came up with a solution, supported natively in IE8, to protect against clickjacking attempts. Apparently some folks have 
decided that…
I was chatting with my mother a couple weeks ago about cloud (she’s a used-to-be programmer turned project manager for a Fortune 500. Don’t look at me like that, I keep telling you it…
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Whether you are aware of it or not, if you’re deploying applications in the cloud or building out your own “enterprise class” cloud, you’re going to be using load balancing. …
1 week agoBut browser support is only half the solution, don’t forget to implement the server-side, too.
Clickjacking, unlike more well-known (and understood) web application vulnerabilities, has been…
1 week agoThe inclusion of a web server gives attackers clear line-of-sight to their targets
There’s been a few articles on Opera Unite that have called into question the security of the decision to…
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You can’t differentiate until you do something different
Gartner analyst and cloud pundit Lydia Leong reminds us that without differentiation, all clouds look pretty much the same…
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