“The danger of storing your data in the cloud, part n.”
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Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers’ Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers
March
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
In my opinion…
Well, that summarizes my thoughts quite well. Online storage / backup providers are especially hit by problems recently but others can have problems too, even “big names” like Google had privacy issues with Google docs recently.
So should you avoid SaaS all together ?
Well … even if online SaaS services have some risks associated with them doesn’t mean you’re safer with just your local application on your laptop or a local server on your PME network.
In this particular case, from a data integrity point of view, hard drives in a air-conditionned datacenter are safer than a single external HDD on your desk … For backups, the best option is probably not to rely on a single layer but have both local and remote backups. For more complex services, make sure you have exit solutions in case you need to. And if you become really dependent to a service, check
what SLA you can get and also what happens if that SLA is broken.
Ultimately the choice is yours to take …
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MicroPlaza Is a Link-Catcher For Twitter
March
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“It used to be that if a link was worth sharing, people would bookmark it for all to see on del.icio.us. Now, they just Twitter it (with a shortened URL). Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to separate out all the Tweets with links in them, and sort them by time or popularity? That is what MicroPlaza
does in a nutshell.”
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In my opinion…
I personally find MicroPlaza very useful for discovering new tools that improve search productivity – which is the main goal of our training sessions – without being disrupted by lots of inappropriate tweets. With MicroPlaza, I go and see what links are shared by people I follow, when I have time to read (and want to), all with a pleasant interface.
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The Importance Of A Competitive Search Market
June
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Is Microsoft’s vision to compete in search and reinvent itself as an advertising company nothing more than an attempt to get back into its familiar position as Top Gun? Should Microsoft, Google and everyone else just give up on search and outsource to Google? That’s what Tim O’Reilly argues in a blog post today, and I don’t think he could be more wrong.”
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In my opinion…
Starting from what seems like a misunderstanding, both Tim O’Reilly and Michael Arrington exchange interesting views on the importance of competition in the search market.
I agree with Michael that competition is important in the sense it drives innovations otherwise unexpected in a monopolistic situation. However I personally think this competition could come from an outsider as evolving technology is making search engine building easier and easier. In a near future competition will only be about innovation - provided you have sufficient ressources to implement it.
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Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services?
April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“So who are using these services? A high-ranking Amazon executive told me there are 60,000 different customers across the various Amazon Web Services, and most of them are not the startups that are normally associated with on-demand computing. Rather the biggest customers in both number and amount of computing resources consumed are divisions of banks, pharmaceuticals companies and other large corporations who try AWS once for a temporary project, and then get hooked.” Read the full article at www.techcrunch.com
In my opinion…
It is really interesting to see this move happening. Sensitive information is probably anonymised before its uploaded onto the Amazon services, but still it probably has caused a big stretch in the Security and Legal departments of these large corporations.
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SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis
April
An article originally posted on TechCrunch
“Palo Alto based Wiki startup SocialText, founded way back in 2002, is announcing version 3.0 of its software this morning. The upgrades are designed to put a little “social” into the enterprise.”
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In my opinion…
SocialText follows the widget trend by allowing users behind the enterprise firewall to mix and match widgets taking data both from the outside world and the inside world.
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