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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose

    Why virtualization is a feature and VMware will lose: VMware, despite its feature-rich ecosystem and early lead, will lose to vendors, such as Microsoft and Red Hat, who can incorporate the most important virtualization features into their OS. VMware has no OS to fall back on and thus has no long-term future. Some good examples…

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  • Are these the world’s most innovative big data companies?

    Are these the world’s most innovative big data companies?: Fast Company, the American business-minded glossy magazine, has published the latest version of its “Most Innovative Companies” franchise, and there’s a breakout section for what it calls “big data companies.” (Though, if the hype is to be believed, we are all big data companies. Operations-improver Splunk…

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  • One database to rule them all?

    One database to rule them all?: Perhaps the single toughest question in all database technology is: Which different purposes can a single data store serve well? — or to phrase it more technically — Which different usage patterns can a single data store support efficiently? Wouldn’t it be great…

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  • Two-factor authentication won’t protect Twitter, Google: OneID

    Two-factor authentication won’t protect Twitter, Google: OneID: We basically said, let’s take a clean sheet approach to the problem and design a solution that eliminated the use of shared secrets, used modern-day cryptography, and that made it user friendly. The result is a system that has the security that is far better than even using…

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  • Accounting and Auditing in Ancient India

    Accounting and Auditing in Ancient India: Professionals want to know the origin of their profession, the work done in olden times and the level of knowledge. I thought of sharing with you the history of Indian accounting and auditing profession. I discovered in Kautilya’s Arthshastra that it existed in ancient India in 4th century BC.…

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  • Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire

    Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire: James Hamilton is one of the key thinkers charged with solving such problems, striving to rethink the data center for the age of cloud computing. Much like two other cloud computing giants — Google and Microsoft — Amazon says very little about the particulars…

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  • Has the transparent smartphone finally arrived?

    Has the transparent smartphone finally arrived?: When will we see a transparent smartphone? It’s a question that’s been circulating for years, thanks to films like Minority Report and Iron Man 2, which sparked dreams of a diaphanous mobile future, and now, more than a decade later, it’s one that’s still without an answer. I would…

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  • Mobile App Security – Application Security’s “Where’s Waldo”

    Mobile App Security – Application Security’s “Where’s Waldo”: Over the last several years, there has been a major evolution in how applications are being built with new underlying technologies, application architectures and data formats, but have application scanners evolved with them? These new technologies have grown at such a fast rate, we haven’t been able…

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  • NoSQL on MySQL 5.6: Stating the Obvious

    NoSQL on MySQL: stating the obvious: Some of the NoSQL vendors seemed to have stirred up a mild controversy with their reactions to the launch of NoSQL access to InnoDB in MySQL 5.6 and their suggestions that NoSQL access is only a part of the NoSQL story. First they ignore you, then they laugh at…

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  • Banking Stack: The End of Mainframe Banking

    Welcome to the stack: the end of mainframe banking: Many years ago, enterprise software was written to run on mainframe computers. […] The traditional banking business model mirrors the mainframe: a vertically integrated, all-in-one solution with all the resources and tools needed to deliver banking products and services in one big (black) box. In the…

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