Creating continuous cloud
Like the avaricious and the prodigals in In Dante’s 4th circle of Hell who push giant boulders in opposite directions for eternity, shouting at...
Ubi talks IoT
Near ubiquitous broadband, cloud technologies and processor miniaturization, which has enabled the distribution of intelligence across multiple sensors and devices, have combined to ignite...
It's time to get paranoid about cloud
For customers of cloud-based services, the July 31, 2014 ruling by a US district court judge that data stored on Microsoft's email servers in...
BlackBerry returns to its roots
The key message at BlackBerry’s Security Summit last week in New York came across loud and clear: BlackBerry is returning to its roots as...
Distributed intelligence and IoT fog
By this point, anyone who is connected to the Internet knows how many ‘things’ will be online by 2020. Numbers of connected devices, first...
Enterprise ready Hadoop by RainStor
It's a common question: is Hadoop enterprise ready? Viewed from one angle, this is a moot question. Hadoop, v1.0 and v2.0, are already in...
DC for less than the price of power?
Notwithstanding the industry’s fixation on growth in cloud services markets, the colocation business is alive and well. While many individual players are executing on...
Vitamin Y: An alliance analysis of IBM/Apple
Context: On July 15, Apple and IBM announced a "global partnership to transform enterprise mobility." It spanned several different areas of collaboration: "industry-specific enterprise...
Building cloud security from the end up
In the spring of 2009, Gartner identified data security as one of the top five inhibitors to broader adoption of cloud computing. Research commissioned...
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
Who can you trust?
Technology, like any tool, can be used well or badly. Sometimes the bad is malicious, and sometimes it's just the result of laziness, carelessness,...
Heartbleed should be making you sweat
It’s been a couple of months since news of the Heartbleed vulnerability first spawned global near-hysteria. The bug, which sat virtually unnoticed on approximately...
Spambots say the nicest things
During the course of our first year, InsightaaS.com has marked a number of milestones. We’ve published more than 400 posts. With the help of...
Building support for cloud adoption
For users of IT, cloud entails new ways of thinking about the acquisition and consumption of technology. But if properly understood and managed, cloud’s...
IoT Has Arrived
The Internet of Things (or, as Cisco likes to call it, the Internet of Everything) is apparently close to hitting that inflection point. Cloud...
