A “Cover Focus” Feature from the December 4, 2009 issue:
Each year, perhaps since the days of punch cards, data center managers have had to wrestle with storage demands. What IT department wouldn’t add “exponential increase in data” to such certainties as death and taxes? In a few years, worrying about a few petabytes of storage [...]
A “Featured Product” article from the December 4, 2009 issue:
Encryption is reaching a tipping point in the IT world. Although stories of stolen laptops holding anywhere between a few hundred and a few hundred thousand Social Security numbers have hit the media, solutions to stop such incidents have not gotten the same coverage, perhaps because [...]
I meant to post this a while back. It’s a story about my dog Nubbin:
He’s always been a soldier with those cigarette burns on his legs, his insanely defined haunches, and the single teardrop tattooed just under each tear duct. He’ll growl at you if you crowd him, but when he’s pleased with himself, he’ll [...]
My first article for the venerable Mac e-newsletter and Web site TidBITS (http://db.tidbits.com) looks at the ways in which third-party SDKs are being incorporated into other iPhone apps to obtain certain functionalities that Apple doesn’t provide in the iPhone OS:
An excerpt from the article:
I’m glad I waited both for the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone [...]
A “Featured Company” article from the November 20, 2009 issue:
Virtualization security vendor Catbird has dealt with confusion over its name since its founding in 2000. “We always get asked, ‘What is a catbird?’” Catbird COO Edmundo Costa says. Some think “catbird” is some sort of strained security metaphor about a cat catching a bird. Others [...]