The online shoe seller Zappos.com sent me an email notification today informing me that my credit card and payment information was compromised on its website. According to reports by the Associated Press, 24 million accounts were hacked into by a outside party. To prevent further exposure to my credit history, the company has urged all of […]
In Friday’s (September 16,2011) edition of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. John Bussey wrote an OpEd article about small to mid-sized businesses (“SMB”), and how they are opting to leverage the advantages of cloud providers. The author reports that the SMB market has become more sophisticated when it comes to choosing which provider to outsource its […]
Vivek Kundra’s tenure as the Nation’s first Chief Information Officer will likely be remembered for designating much of the federal government’s IT architecture towards cloud-based services. The former CIO’s vision has recently come under scrutiny by the two most prominent agencies within the U.S. government – the Pentagon and State Department. While the main selling point for cloud-based technology is cost […]
On Wednesday night, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), Security Community, hosted an event at the Attachmate offices in downtown Seattle, WA, on one startup companies experience with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud outage of April 21, 2011. Jeff Malek, co-founder of the Seattle-based virtual economy platform BigDoor Media, Inc., did a post-mortem presentation […]