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Homeland Security Adopts Agile, Cloud to Improve Efficiency The US Department of Homeland Security has been charged with changing the way it handles IT operations. The agency is improving quality and cutting costs by implementing agile methods and employing cloud services, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service. |
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Agile Development Tool Roundup One of the basic tenets of agile is to favor “individuals and interactions over processes and tools,” as stated in the Agile Manifesto. This, however, has not stopped the onslaught of vendors claiming that their tools are perfect for the different aspects of agile development. |
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Michelle Obama Hacked! Despite a recent White House executive order designed to beef up cyber security, First Lady Michelle Obama has fallen victim to doxing, a technique for collecting from the Internet personal information that then can be used to access more sensitive, security-critical information. |
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Object Storage: File System Database Mash-Up Cloud storage consumer subscriptions are targeted to exceed 625 million this year. A new generation of cutting edge data storage, modeled on the distributed database rather than the traditional hierarchical file system paradigm, is revolutionizing how storage is built and delivered in the cloud. |
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Choosing the Right Configuration Management Database Vendor If you are considering a configuration management database (CMDB) for your organization, then this is the story for you. Joe Townsend explores the many vendor offerings and provides insight that will help you in your decision-making process. |
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Why Is the Configuration Management Database Both Praised and Reviled? For the novice the configuration management database (CMDB) can be a daunting task when considered in its entirety. To the seasoned pro and others, however, it might be viewed as a complete waste of resources. Joe Townsend looks at why the CMDB is praised—and yet reviled at the same time. |
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Share Nothing Means Nothing Shared in the Cloud Beth Cohen details the use of share nothing in the cloud. Share nothing means that all application components are carefully segregated so that each customer has its own self-contained environment, application, and access. If a component fails, it will ideally affect only one customer. |
