MacVittie

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• Twitter Account Lockouts Continue to Plague Users

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Brute force attacks by spammers seeking easy access causing frustration for users with no resolution in sight At least once a day I see someone on Twitter broadcast that they have been “locked out of their Twitter account, temporarily.” A search for “locked out” returns thousands of tweets with a good ...
  2 days ago

• Maybe Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Makes Cloud Computing Too Easy

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  With just a few clicks you, too, can create a cloud computing environment. But if you’re like a lot of organizations, you may not know what to do with it after that. The latest version of Ubuntu Server (9.10) includes the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is actually powered by Eucalyptus . The ability to ...
  4 days ago

• Using Network-Side Scripting to Convert Microsoft Smart Quotes to HTML Entities

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  You can address the problem of converting smart quotes – and any other content - in your application if you control the code. What if you’re using third-party software for which you do not have the code? Or what if it is your code but the “defect” is so low on the priority list that you won’t get to it ...
  5 days ago

• WILS: Three Ways To Better Utilize Resources In Any Data Center

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Cloud computing is, at its core, about using resources in the most operational and financially efficient manner possible. It’s about spreading resources around and sharing them to achieve greater scalability with fewer investments in hardware and software. But what if you aren’t moving to cloud? Or virtualization? ...
  1 week ago

• To Take Advantage of Cloud Computing You Must Unlearn, Luke.

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Carrying over the provisioning and capacity planning techniques used in a traditional data center to cloud computing negates the full power of the Force cloud computing. One of the benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be efficiency, particularly in the utilization of compute resources. Over-provisioning ...
  1 week ago

• Vertical Scalability Cloud Computing Style

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Vertical scalability used to require optimizations inside the application, at the code level. Cloud computing changes the nature of vertical scalability and, one hopes, will lead to a new model of scalability based on the capabilities of Infrastructure 2.0 and increasingly granular resource management capabilities. ...
  1 week ago

• IT Myths and Legends: No One Understands Our Legacy Software

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  There is a common myth that the reason legacy code continues to run in businesses around the world is that no one understands it; that IT and businesses are afraid to replace it because they don’t know what it does. Once again, living in the mainframe capital of the world (the insurance industry heavy midwest), ...
  1 week ago

• Study Says Economics Not A Driving Factor in Cloud Computing Adoption

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Paul Miller , who pens Cloud of Data , had an interesting perspective during a chat this week on what effect infrastructure upgrade cycles might have on cloud computing adoption. Paul postulated that as these servers fail and organizations have to make the decision to replace or not replace them that cloud ...
  2 weeks ago

• WILS: Why Does Load Balancing Improve Application Performance?

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  IMAGE CREDIT: DANIEL PENNEY Everyone has surely experienced the frustration of an overloaded desktop/laptop. You’ve just got too many apps open at one time and the performance of your machine has been slowly degrading to the point where you can select an application from the toolbar, run down to the local ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Cloud Is Not A Synonym For Cloud Computing

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  “Where are you storing your data these days,” he asked casually after trying to come up with a better opening line but failing. “Ah, dahhling,” she drawled while gesturing in no particular direction with an almost deprecating wave of her hand. “The Cloud, where else?” Thanks to the nearly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meh. It’s Just Data.

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  All the applause over Google’s Data Liberation Front announcement and blogs is making my head hurt. Or maybe that’s the lack of sleep. Either way, it’s disconcerting to me that so many bright people are choosing to make much of what is just a baby step – if that - toward a much larger, much more ...
  2 weeks ago

• Location, Location, Location

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Mobile devices may still be somewhat awkward in terms of supporting rich, web-based applications but they are leaps and bounds ahead of most infrastructure in their ability to figure out where you are. GeoLocation technologies used to be used by load balancing solutions to address poor application performance ...
  2 weeks ago

• Putting a Price on Uptime

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  A lack of ability in the cloud to distinguish illegitimate from legitimate requests could lead to unanticipated costs in the wake of an attack. How do you put a price on uptime and more importantly, who should pay for it? A “Perfect Cloud”, in my opinion, would be one in which the cloud provider’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing Only Simple On the Outside

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Amazon’s ELB is an exciting mix of well-executed infrastructure 2.0 and the proper application of SOA , but it takes a lot of work to make anything infrastructure look that easy. The notion of Elastic Load Balancing , as recently brought to public attention by Amazon’s offering of the capability, is nothing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dynamic Infrastructure Makes Static Connection Limitations Obsolete

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  One of the benefits of Infrastructure 2.0 is connectedness: the ability to collect and share pertinent data regarding the health and performance of applications and infrastructure services. Based on that data a dynamic infrastructure can adapt on-demand and make decisions that respect real capacity limits, not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paradox: When Cloud Is Both the Wrong and the Right Solution

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Cloud offers an appealing “pay only for what you use” that makes it hard to resist. Paying on a per-usage hour basis sounds like a good deal, until you realize that your site is pretty much “always on” because of bots, miscreants, and users. In other words, you’re paying for 24x7x365 usage, baby, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Duty Calls: Data Portability in The Cloud is an Application Integration Problem, Not a Cloud Problem

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Spectacular “cloud” failures over the past few weeks have raised the hue and cry for portability and interoperability across clouds for data.The problem is that the cry is based on the false assumption that a “cloud service” is the same as an “application service.” Apparently Microsoft felt Google ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Thing Private Clouds Can Do that Public Clouds Can’t

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  When an admin brags they can do some task with their eyes closed there may be hidden process inefficiencies that orchestration can uncover. But the orchestration in a public cloud is effectively done for you, with little opportunity to design based on your organization’s operational processes. Orchestration in a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Infrastructure 2.0 Is the Beginning of the Story, Not the End

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  The term “Infrastructure 2.0” seems to be as well understood as the term “cloud computing.” It means different things to different people, apparently, and depends heavily on the context and roles of those involved in the conversation. This shouldn’t be surprising; the term “Web 2.0” is also variable and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Disk May Be Cheap but Storage is Not

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 583
  Remember at trade shows oh, a few years back now, the “hot” vendor swag was 256MB USB keys. I’m sure many of you spent time trying to collect them as fervently as kids collect Pokeman cards (or whatever the CCG du jour may be). Just a few years later you’d have laughed if someone offered such a small key ...
  4 weeks ago

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