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How Your IT Department Learned About Outsourcing

by Dan Ackerson on August 31, 2008 · 2 comments

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and this adage applies doubly to system administrators. After all, you pay these same people to protect your data and systems with tooth and claw, right? The problem is that sometimes they protect it too well. Ever needed quick access to data in order to [...]

Who Else Wants to Understand Cloud Computing?

by Matthias Marschall on August 21, 2008 · 2 comments

Evaluating hosting scenarios for our Ruby on Rails based web application, I finally had a good reason to dig deeper into “cloud computing”. While I was already watching the evolution of Amazon’s web services like S3 and EC2, a lot of offerings nowadays labelled as “cloud computing” were quite new to me. To better understand [...]