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The Computer Security Institute (CSI), an educational membership organization for information security professionals, released the 15th edition of its annual CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey this month (December 2010). Until 2007, these surveys were a collaborative effort between the CSI and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and it was available publicly. The current [...]

Early in November, Ray Lucchesi from Silverton Consulting posted on his views about pure commodity hardware versus customized hardware within the storage industry. To recap his thesis in a sentence: where there is clear value and it can be solved with a platform including differentiated hardware, users aren’t shy about acquiring the solution, even if [...]

As Andrew Reichman of Forrester put it in his report “Prepare for Object Storage in the Enterprise,” there seems to be agreement on the sweet spots for the technology mentioned in the title (archiving, cloud storage, imaging applications, etc), as well as where it isn’t the best choice (OLTP, dynamic files, HPC). But, as Dave [...]

I was just reading David Linthicum’s article on the subject of bogus myths about the private cloud. He talks about how vendors of private and public clouds are serving up tall tales to drive customers away from the opposite approach and instead into their own camp.  Let’s take a look at the three myths highlighted [...]

Huh? The definition of innovation according to Merriam Webster dictionary is: