Yes, you can fit a cloud on a USB stick. Founded by several of the brains who conceived OpenStack – the open source software platform for building Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” – San Francisco startup Piston Cloud Computing has squeezed the platform onto a memory stick in an effort to streamline the creation of such clouds behind the [...]
The cloud and its promises of web-based software, near limitless storage, and streaming media services, has long been predicted as the next arena for the tech industry’s heavyweights to do battle. While Google and Microsoft have been offering cloud services for years, each company has focused more on advanced or enterprise users. Then, in June, Apple unveiled [...]
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 opened the minds of CIOs to a Pandora’s box of possibilities. A decade ago, tech executives had no concept of the magnitude of attacks that could take place on our own soil. For the first time, we became more aware of our vulnerabilities — at our homes, in our [...]






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