The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put out a notice about a “potential PII incident” this week.  PII of course means Personal Identifiable Information.  The issue centers on a recently discovered vulnerability that put the personal information of thousands and thousands of employees exposed since it was first implemented in 2009.  The software was in use ...

It’s been eight years since Microsoft launched the Xbox 360.  Obviously that product has been a massive success for a company that is not widely known as a consumer company.  Today we’ll hear what’s next as the company is set to launch its next generational console.  We’ve postulated and curated rumors throughout the past year ...

One of Amazon Web Service’s top priorities right now are security and compliance.  We have all touched on that subject here.  It has been clear in everything they’re communicating right now, it was clear at the Amazon Web Services summit in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.  To those ends the AWS Security Blog ...

Windows Blue – For some it’s a phonetic prophecy that well-describes the last several months of what was Windows 8.  Obviously that is changing now that Windows 8 becomes Windows 8.1 and “Windows Blue” is no more.  The pundits have had their day with criticisms of Windows 8.  Some have gone so far as calling ...

[24]7 announced they acquired Shopalize, a neighboring company that is involved in the world of social commerce.  Combined the company is integrating the features into its customer experience systems that rely on Big Data and are designed to improve and accelerate customer interactions at every possible level.  With Shopalize under its wings, the platform can ...

IT Operations Management in the industry is changing across the spectrum.  As DevOps takes root as a movement, it certainly appears that we are at the thin end of what will become a major disruption in the management market.  Launched just last May, San Francisco-based Boundary is at the forefront of this evolving field.  In ...

I recently had a briefing with CloudVolumes and this product is pretty amazing.  Capacity on Demand, Flexibility – it’s the stuff of legend, the goal so many datacenters are shooting for, investing, engineering, validating -rolling out internal clouds, building apps on them and so on.  There are lots of ways to define Capacity on Demand, ...

GoodData says Big Data is good for everyone, it’s just too bad that Big Data is not for everyone to implement.  That’s the notion behind their flexible and simple-to-use Big Data cloud-based product and it is seeing business go through the roof.  Last quarter they hit ten thousand customers, up from eight thousand the previous ...

It’s obvious watching this week’s Amazon event that security was a pretty hot topic. It is probably one of the most significant obstacles in Amazon’s push for the enterprise cloud market. Both Amazon and its ecosystem of partners, vendors, and developers have been working hard to tell a new security story – one where the best in proactive systems, layered security strategies, and a ...

SoftLayer is introducing a new product now that brings the open-source NoSQL database Riak to their cloud offerings.  The service makes for a pay-as-you-go Big Data service that is integrated into SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure in a simplified turnkey solution.  This push of ready to deploy cloud services that integrate Big Data out of the box ...