The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreVCs might dismiss small startups as "lifestyle companies," since with only small investments needed they're often too small for big VC firms to work with. But for the entrepreneurs themselves, it's a way to keep control and avoid dilution. And there may be another reason not to take money, particularly if you're targeting other small-businesses as customers: Personality.…
Read MoreVirtualization holds lots of promise: Move your physical machines to virtual ones, and you’ll reclaim capacity at the same time that you…
Read MoreFirst the money flowed to social sites like Facebook that showed the world how to get users to interact. Then it moved…
Read MoreMySpace this week won a ruling against Samford Wallace and Walter Rines, reinforcing the fact that there’s no love lost between big…
Read MoreIf you successfully launch a number of web firms, at a certain point the economies of scale of others’ clouds starts fall away and you may as well run your own. But is it always a good idea to build your own cloud when you get big enough to do so?…
Read MoreYou can tell a lot from a gamer’s hardware. And in the gaming world, nobody knows more about the platforms on which…
Read MoreAsk any IT professional what they dread most, and they’ll likely tell you that it’s change. Specifically, the act of putting a…
Read MoreIn the software-as-a-service world, source code becomes irrelevant. We don’t want to know how to make a telephone, just a dial tone. With IT, we want app tone.…
Read MoreIn its April 2008 web server survey, Netcraft reports that Google-hosted developers (largely on the Blogger platform) grew their relative share by…
Read MoreIn the debate around Internet regulation and traffic, it’s important to understand the things that drive how much bandwidth we need. Without…
Read MoreDubai port authorities have impounded two ships, MV Hounslow and MT Ann, believed to be responsible for damage to undersea cables that…
Read MoreBack in November, we looked at WordPress themes being distributed by third parties who’d embedded hidden code to allow the insertion of…
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