Living in a lead-lined cave
Ovum’s latest survey into consumer concerns about privacy and use of personal data may just be the tip of the iceberg. As more disclosures of data collection and storage become public knowledge, the backlash may throw many organizations that rely on the sale of this data into disarray. In the last two weeks, The Insider has [...]
Cloud be nimble, cloud be quick…..
My last blog on Amazon’s cloud mishap was certainly not intended to scare off would-be cloud customers but the episode most certainly scared some off those enterprises directly affected. The lessons learnt for this fledgeling sector should be invaluable especially to the relative new-comers in the form of CSPs offering IaaS, PaaS, CaaS and SaaS. [...]
Clouds rain on Amazon
If you were hoping to access Reddit, Quora, FourSquare, Hootsuite, SCVNGR, Heroku, Wildfire, parts of the New York Times, ProPublica and about 70 other sites last Thursday, you may have been out of luck. It was also no fault of their own that they went offline, some for up to 36 hours, it was a [...]
Amazon’s WikiLeaks actions cloud Cloud’s future
Amazon’s ignominious dumping of WikiLeaks as a customer almost went unnoticed, except by myself, and a few others, including the venerable Wall Street Journal. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security committee had contacted Amazon after accusing WikiLeaks of illegal, outrageous and reckless acts, compromising national security and putting scores of lives at [...]
WikiLeaks kicks net neutrality in the teeth
The great WikiLeaks scandal has less to do with the publication of state secrets sent as cables from US Embassies around the world and their supposed threat to national security and more with how the secrets got out in the first place. Whatever the motives of WikiLeaks ‘founder, Julian Assange, he has single-handily made a [...]