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Clouds gain steam as LA votes to go Google…

by Chris Orr

Boy I do hope they get this right… any security issues will be problematic for the millions of folks being served by city of Los Angeles. It will certainly raise the profile of cloud computing enough to get the attention of the Pirates that are out their…. Google’s IT Ninjas better be up to the [...]

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How on earth could this be a good idea?

by Chris Orr

Maybe its just me but implanting a chip in my arm heralds the coming of the zombie apocalypse… http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/implanted-microchip-reminds-you-to-take-your-pills-via-text-message/1096/ So apparently you stick this thing in your arm and it texts you when its time to take your pills…wouldn’t a cloud based web application have the ability to do the same thing? And what else [...]

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The Government has its head in the Clouds…

by Chris Orr

So my colleague Dwayne Melancon has been going on lately about Cloud computing, something that I really don’t think about much myself but I came across this little item from ZDNet about the launch of a new website based largely on government agencies being able to purchase cloud based applications from the likes of Google, [...]

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Talk like a Pirate Day is Sept 19!!!

by Chris Orr

So…Talk Like a Pirate Day is on September 19. This is the day when all ye landlubbers are supposed to go around and say things like Arrr! and Avast! and Keel Haul Him!!!!…. Actually, I often come across people who need to be keel hauled so it is a common phrase around here on a [...]

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Do Pirates Tweet? Use Facebook?

by Chris Orr

Apparently they do, and boy howdy…look out if you get on their bad side. It seems that last weeks major outage of Twitter and the slow down over at Facebook stemmed from the tweets of a single user who made some folks mad. How you cheez someone off in 140 characters I am not sure [...]

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Security and the Magic Bullet…

by Chris Orr

So…I am speaking to a customer today, and this actually happens quite often, when he mentions that he is looking for one tool that does everything from log analysis, to patch management and even change auditing and configuration assessment…a magic bullet if you will… Argh! Would a real Ninja go into battle with just one [...]

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