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Linux on the Cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat

Today, March 16th, has been filled with Linux and cloud news. Which is great, I guess, if you’re ready to trust your data to the cloud.

In case you don’t follow Linux as closely as I do, here’s the round-up. Red Hat and Novell have joined up with IBM to provide a new open cloud environment [...]

March 16th, 2010 | Category: Business, Cloud Computing, IBM, Infrastructure, Linux, Novell, Operating System, Red Hat | 5 comments

Torments of the Internet damned

I live on the Internet. I work on the Internet. I keep in touch with my friends on the Internet. Without the Internet, I’m out of business. I’m not the only one. But lately, with my rock-solid AT&T DSL connection (6Mbit/sec. down, 512Kbit/sec. up), I’ve taken it for granted. That was before my [...]

November 10th, 2009 | Category: Applications, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Internet, Network, Office Software, Web Services | Comments are closed

Ubuntu 9.10: Linux for business

When you think Ubuntu, you almost certainly think of it as a desktop distribution. And, make no mistake about it, Ubuntu 9.10 is a great desktop distribution, but that’s not what Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is focusing on with this release and the next, long-term support version, which will follow this one. No, Canonical has [...]

October 28th, 2009 | Category: Business, Canonical, Cloud Computing, Linux, Operating System, Server, Virtualization | 2 comments

Sidekick: Microsoft’s biggest failure yet?

You can’t make stuff this bad up. Many T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone users lost all their contacts, calendar entries, photographs, you name it, when Sidekick’s back-end software provider Microsoft, Danger, went down.

Danger turned out to be an all too apt name. Sidekick users use the Danger servers to synchronize their smartphone’s content with a cloud-based storage [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Category: Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Internet, Microsoft, Mobile, Security, Server, Storage | Comments are closed

21st-Century Backups

So you’ve never gotten into the habit of making regular backups? Fortunately, nowadays copies of your e-mails probably rest safely with the likes of Yahoo, your photos with Flickr, your word-processor documents with Google, your music with iTunes, and so on. Whew! These applications reside on massive server farms, surely making your data as secure [...]

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Applications, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Internet, Network, System Repair | Comments are closed
 
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