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S3 outage: time to double up

Amazon's S3 outage is proof that relying on a single cloud isn't enough, especially if, like RSS analytics provider Mediafed, your enterprise customers demand continuous service. You have to run on at least two. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Cloud, Mediafed, Williamson, Manufacturing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-21

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SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer

Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...

Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-21

D.D. Williamson & Co. Gains Global Visibility With Upgraded Enterprise Resource Management Solution

Founded in 1865, D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc. is the leading manufacturer of caramel coloring. D.D. Williamson & Co. wanted to consolidate disparate systems across multiple locations on a single-instance solution to centralize information and provide enterprisewide visibility as well as enable the company meet technology standards and language requirements...

Tags: Solution, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Quality, Sales, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-07-01

Calling out lawyers on their own FUD

Last week I did a little legal snark, suggesting that the BusyBox settlements do not, as attorney Edward Walsh wrote, add to the legal risks run by enterprises using open source. Now the Software Freedom Law Center has weighed in on this, and they agree with me....

Tags: Edward Walsh, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-10

A U.S military botnet in the works

Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can  simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Call for military to operate botnet

Filed under bold proposals: Col. Charles W. Williamson III. staff judge advocate, Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, writes in Armed Forces Journal that what the military really needs is an offensive bot-net. (via /. The world has abandoned a fortress mentality...

Tags: Cyberspace, America, Productivity, Robots, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Security, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Sorry, Google Phone hopefuls: someone else has already applied for GPhone trademark

Sorry, Google Phone hopefuls: someone else has already applied for GPhone trademarkSo?Infogear now part of Cisco held the IPhone trademark for a decade and a half before Apple released the iPhone. Just because there's a trademark out there, doesn't mean that the product's not going to happen now. ...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Gphone, Google Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

SteelEye Awarded Best Clustering Solution at Linuxworld

I'll admit it, I've been tardy in sharing some of the details of a conversation concerning SteelEye's Lifekeeper product family I had with Bob Williamson of SteelEye immediately after LinuxWorld. What can I say? I had the best of intentions. Life got in the way.Bob and I discussed LifeKeeper Protection...

Tags: Clustering, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Video games and school: A perfect match?

Although video games are often associated with wasting time, one professor is urging schools to incorporate their use in the classroom, reports PC Magazine David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says videos games could be a useful tool in helping prepare kids for...

Tags: Education Technology, Videogames, game

Blog posts 2007-01-12

In Iowa, camera tickets deemed illegal

In Iowa, the city of Davenport may wind up refunding traffic fines to some 14,000 drivers who were issued civil rather than criminal citations when cameras captured them speeding or running red lights, The Quad-City Times reports. District Court Judge Gary McKenric ruled that the citys policy that violations...

Tags: camera, Iowa, Law enforcement, Courts, State &, Local Govt, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-01-03

Facebook expands its reach beyond colleges

Facebook, the extremely popular social networking site has nine million members who are all associated with a university or another institution. But the company is making careful overtures toward expanding, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Facebook has nearly 6.5 billion page views, up from about 2 billion the year...

Tags: Facebook

Blog posts 2006-09-14