Stop Trashing Your Data!
New York City mayor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg is a big believer in the saying, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. It is a simple and obvious statement that can apply...
View ArticleThe First Rule of Selling Cloud Services: Don’t Talk About Cloud Services
Customers Don’t Care While Cloud Computing is the marketing term du jour, if you actually want to sell anything it may be best to avoid talking about Cloud Computing. Why? Simply put, customers don’t...
View ArticleUS wants Internet, cell records held longer
This article from AFP came across the wire today. Interesting read: http://yhoo.it/dK4Cj7 The first sentence of the article says it all “The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and...
View ArticleIreland Requires ISPs to Store Internet Data
Now Ireland has legislated the storage and retieval of Internet Records for the purposes of Law Enforcement. In this case the Irish government will not help to cover the costs. http://bit.ly/e4DjnC...
View ArticleUS and Australia may require storage of browsing history for a year
A good read from our friends at ZDNet http://bit.ly/fCIp3o. Our head tells us that this is probably not a great idea but our gut tells us that this will happen anyway. The more ways there will be to...
View ArticleWaste Management: Turning Call Data into Revenue
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” - Helen Keller Nearly every day, I come across stories regarding complaints over companies’ practices on the tracking and...
View Article“Lawful Access” Legislation in Canada
In a continuation of the worldwide trend, Canada is introducing a bill that “would see service providers handing over data to cops with no warrant” under the guise of protecting children. As we have...
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‘Cloud’ as a Marketing Term has Officially Gone too Far!
We have touched on this subject before, but this is getting ridiculous. They use the word ‘Cloud’ no less than 15 times in the product description for an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE! The irony is that an...
View ArticleCloud Degradation Should Not an Outage Make
The Amazon Web Services outage earlier this week that took down popular websites like Reddit, Airbnb, and FourSquare, as well as many start-ups, has people questioning the wisdom of putting their faith...
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