Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

As someone with a strong operational ethic, one of my pet peeves is the colo site that resembles a monthly self-storage facility.  I’m referring here, to allowing (or tolerating) tenants storing boxes, material, and debris in their cages.
A colocation facility that has cardboard and other such material in customer cages shows very poorly.  That is, [...]

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In my classes at the university, I sometimes give students a project to create a malware pet shop or malware zoo.  The purpose is to make the students more aware of the “biodiversity” that really exists out there in the malware world.  We also often talk about the increasing use of malware and other network-based [...]

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Confusion Persists
Through several posts on this blog, we discussed the many aspects of confusion around the term, “Cloud Computing.”  After attending this year’s Cloud Expo in New York City and seeing the same three-layer stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) slide in fifty half of the presentations, I have to conclude that confusion still exists in the [...]

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We’ve just wrapped up day-one of this year’s Cloud Expo at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.  You know, it’s been nearly a year since I attended Cloud World in San Francisco, and over that period of time it surprises me how little new anyone is saying about cloud computing.  It borders on [...]

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