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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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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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Evernote's Security Breach Leads to Leaked Passwords Another day, another security breach. Following in the footsteps of popular hacked services Dropbox and LinkedIn, software and service vendor Evernote announced this March that it had suffered a data breach and suspected that usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords had been stolen. |
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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. |
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It's All about the Data The volume, quality, and meaningful interpretations of data are turning out to be important, yet challenging, and companies of all sizes are grappling with the whole idea of Big Data and the associated technologies, development, and testing strategies. For most companies, it's all about the data. |
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Emergent Database Technologies and the New Platform War In the not-so-distant past, there was a war of railroad track gauges, a war of electric power currents, and a war of videotape formats. Now, rumblings of another format war are pealing through a formerly stable platform, and this one could directly impact those who build and test software. |
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FedRAMP—Securing the Cloud Data Center Federal Style In its continuing support of widespread federal cloud adoption, the US General Services Administration recently rolled out a security certification program, called the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) for public cloud data centers and service providers. |
