Gartner’s Lydia Leong Mentions The Bitsource CloudFiles Review on a Post About CDN’s

In a review about the impact to the technology indusitry from smaller CDN's such as Amazon's CloudFront and Mosso's CloudFiles, she mentions the review of CloudFiles done on The Bitsource blog. Read Lydia's review here: Lydia Leong's Blog Read More...

Talking with Stephen Spector, Xen.org Community Manager, about Xen Training at LISA

Coverage of a chat with Stephen Spector, Xen Community Manager, about Xen training the the Xen.org team delivered at LISA this year amongst other things. Covered in the article: Future developments with Xen and training delivered from the de-facto Virtualization technology. Read it on the LISA blog here: http://lisa.usenix.org/2008/11/11/lisa-insider-the-xenorg-team-on-xen-training/ Read More...

Bruce Schneier’s Talk on Conceptualizing Security

While at LISA earlier this year, I had the pleasure of hearing Bruce Schneier's, Chief Security Technology Officer of British Telecom, talk on conceptualizing security. I found his talk to be abstract yet practical, and most of all intriguing. He speaks about some examples and misnomers such as peoples misconceptions about security, which Schneier calls "Security Theater" and how the ... Read More...

Rackspace Mosso’s CloudFiles Review

CloudFiles is Mosso’s (NYSE:RAX) latest offering in their suite of cloud computing services. CloudFiles is a cloud-based file-storage and content distribution network service featuring a simple-to-use web console, API, and the power of Rackspace’s cloud computing server resources. CloudFiles also offers a CDN for distributing files amongst a CDN, powered by Limelight, for increased availability and performance of file serving ... Read More...

An Interview with Clem Cole, President of USENIX: A Brief History of How Unix Became “Open”

I recently posted an article on the LISA blog about a discussion I had with Clem Cole, President of USENIX. We spoke about his experience writing software in the days of USENIX's beginnings and he offered a firsthand experience about using Unix and writing software in the mid-DEC years. Clem Cole is one of the original hackers that helped found ... Read More...