At Microsoft’s Build developer conference last week, the company announced Cosmos DB, a new cloud database offering that, if you believe the hype, entirely changed the database game. Before reelecting on what this means for developers and organizations, it’s worth… Continue Reading
It was a story that was too good to pass up. The Svalbard ‘doomsday’ seed vault had flooded because of global warming-induced high temperatures melting the surrounding permafrost. But according to one of the vault’s creators, the reports are pretty… Continue Reading
Along with NASA, Rackspace invented OpenStack in 2010. Today it has the industry’s largest OpenStack cloud and more than one billion hours of … RSS-1
Refueling a destroyer or any other large piece of military hardware is incredibly dangerous because it leaves troops very vulnerable to attack, especially if it requires a huge convoy. U.S. troops have lost their lives trying refuel vessels that are… Continue Reading
When it comes to file systems, scale is the enemy, according to Andres Rodriguez, CEO of Nasuni. And the best weapon in the battle for scale is the cloud. Nasuni claims to have developed the first cloud-native file system, delivering… Continue Reading
By combining virtualization and the public cloud, companies get the best of both worlds in most, but not all situations. RSS-1 RSS-4
… and implications tend to differ from one company to another depending on the sector in which they are operating and their use of cloud computing. RSS-3 Link to this post! RSS-4
It’s the start of the fall TV season, and this week alone a ton of pilots have aired. You can’t always judge a show by its pilot —they’re usually filmed months before the rest of the show , and terrible… Continue Reading