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Governance: Service Catalogs and the Cloud posted @ Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:39 AM | Feedback (0)

To Boldly Go Where No Production Application Has Gone Before posted @ Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:14 AM | Feedback (0)

Intercloud: The Evolution of Global Application Delivery posted @ Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:25 AM | Feedback (0)

Being first to do something doesn’t automatically make it proprietary even if the first is Microsoft posted @ Monday, June 29, 2009 3:15 AM | Feedback (1)

Forklifts, Rip and Replace, and Other IT Fairy Tales posted @ Friday, June 26, 2009 2:50 AM | Feedback (1)

Five questions you need to ask about load balancing and the cloud posted @ Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:14 AM | Feedback (3)

Clickjacking Protection Using X-FRAME-OPTIONS Available for Firefox posted @ Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:27 AM | Feedback (2)

You are the new number 3ffe:1900:4545:3:200:f8ff:fe21:67cf posted @ Monday, June 22, 2009 3:54 AM | Feedback (5)

Opera Unite Cuts out the Middleman posted @ Friday, June 19, 2009 3:56 AM | Feedback (0)

What is server offload and why do I need it? posted @ Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:07 AM | Feedback (1)

Virtual Network Infrastructure: Virtually Good Enough? posted @ Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:27 AM | Feedback (0)

Not All Virtual Servers are Created Equal posted @ Monday, June 15, 2009 4:25 AM | Feedback (0)

Infrastructure Matters: Challenges of Cloud-based Testing posted @ Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:24 AM | Feedback (3)

The Infrastructure 2.0 Trifecta posted @ Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:20 AM | Feedback (0)

And the Killer App for Private Cloud Computing Is… posted @ Monday, June 08, 2009 3:14 AM | Feedback (0)

The Gluten-free Application Network posted @ Friday, June 05, 2009 4:08 AM | Feedback (0)

Can You Teach an Old Developer New Tricks? posted @ Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:07 AM | Feedback (1)

The Secret of the Security Safety Dance posted @ Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:58 AM | Feedback (0)

Facepalm: Google Wave Choice of XMPP Not the Death of HTTP posted @ Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:47 AM | Feedback (5)

Cloud outages don’t bother Stanley posted @ Monday, June 01, 2009 5:32 AM | Feedback (0)

The network ain’t big enough for the both of us posted @ Friday, May 29, 2009 3:49 AM | Feedback (0)

Beware Using Internal Encryption as an IT Security Blanket posted @ Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:02 AM | Feedback (0)

I am wondering why not all websites enabling this great feature GZIP? posted @ Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:50 AM | Feedback (3)

F5 and the Cloud posted @ Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:09 AM | Feedback (0)

The IT Security Flowchart posted @ Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:22 PM | Feedback (0)

How Reality Blew the Cloud Away at Interop posted @ Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:30 AM | Feedback (13)

Greedy (IT) Algorithms posted @ Monday, May 18, 2009 3:16 AM | Feedback (0)

The Revolution Continues: Let Them Eat Cloud posted @ Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:27 AM | Feedback (0)

Cool Communities: IT Knowledge Exchange posted @ Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:22 AM | Feedback (0)

Are admins developers too? posted @ Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:51 AM | Feedback (4)

How to secure virtualized applications against the unknown posted @ Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:45 AM | Feedback (0)

Get your SaaS off my cloud posted @ Monday, May 11, 2009 3:38 AM | Feedback (8)

The View from the Other Side of Interop posted @ Friday, May 08, 2009 3:42 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud computing is not Burger King. You can’t have it your way. Yet. posted @ Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:11 AM | Feedback (4)

Five Key Questions Developers Need to Ask before Starting the Troubleshooting Process posted @ Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:17 AM | Feedback (0)

Your load balancer wants to take a level of fighter and wizard posted @ Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:38 AM | Feedback (4)

The Real Meaning of Cloud Security Revealed posted @ Monday, May 04, 2009 3:37 AM | Feedback (3)

Confessions of a tech blogging grandmother posted @ Friday, May 01, 2009 6:20 AM | Feedback (4)

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel posted @ Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:45 AM | Feedback (0)

Is Social Media a Hostile Work Environment? posted @ Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:05 AM | Feedback (2)

Virtual Reality posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 AM | Feedback (0)

We’re sorry. The IPv4 address you are trying to reach has been disconnected. posted @ Monday, April 27, 2009 3:23 AM | Feedback (3)

Lack of Disclosure Taints Recent Debate posted @ Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:54 AM | Feedback (2)

Jedi Mind Tricks: HTTP Request Smuggling posted @ Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:39 AM | Feedback (1)

No soup for you! posted @ Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:18 AM | Feedback (4)

OVF: A few layers short of a full stack posted @ Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:58 AM | Feedback (3)

It’s like load balancing. On steroids. posted @ Monday, April 20, 2009 3:40 AM | Feedback (5)

Dear Slashdot: You get what you pay for posted @ Friday, April 17, 2009 4:56 AM | Feedback (37)

Have a can of Duh! It’s on me posted @ Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:46 AM | Feedback (0)

Why not network-side pre-fetching? posted @ Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:01 AM | Feedback (0)

The Web 2.0 Botnet: Twisting Twitter and Automated Collaboration posted @ Monday, April 13, 2009 4:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Architects Need to Better Leverage Virtualization posted @ Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 AM | Feedback (2)

The Revolution Begins: Arming the Data Center posted @ Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:47 AM | Feedback (0)

Ruby developers ignore security risks, claim X-JSON header ‘nothing serious’ posted @ Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:25 AM | Feedback (8)

SOA Announces Comeback Tour posted @ Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:37 AM | Feedback (2)

The URL Shortener-SEO Cage Match posted @ Monday, April 06, 2009 3:15 AM | Feedback (2)

HTTP Pipelining: A security risk without real performance benefits posted @ Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:30 AM | Feedback (4)

The Web 2.0 API: From collaborating to compromised posted @ Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:46 AM | Feedback (0)

How to recoup the costs associated with long URLs and variable names posted @ Tuesday, March 31, 2009 4:13 AM | Feedback (4)

Would you risk $31,000 for milliseconds of application response time? posted @ Monday, March 30, 2009 3:21 AM | Feedback (1)

The Revolution Begins: The IT Bill of Rights posted @ Friday, March 27, 2009 2:10 AM | Feedback (1)

Why you must dive Into the Breach posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:58 PM | Feedback (0)

Can the Cloud survive regulation? posted @ Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:47 AM | Feedback (0)

The Data Center Declaration of Independence posted @ Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:03 AM | Feedback (1)

Hardware Acceleration Critical Component for Cost-Conscious Data Centers posted @ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:27 AM | Feedback (5)

So you say you want a revolution? posted @ Monday, March 23, 2009 3:27 AM | Feedback (0)

Remember when…it was sprawl or nothing? posted @ Monday, March 23, 2009 3:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Load Testing as a Service: A Look at Load Impact (beta) posted @ Friday, March 20, 2009 3:21 AM | Feedback (1)

Computer Science: Cool versus Cash posted @ Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Control, choice, and cost: The Conflict in the Cloud posted @ Wednesday, March 18, 2009 2:49 AM | Feedback (3)

Not all application requests are created equal posted @ Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:34 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Strategy: Apathy or Architecture? posted @ Monday, March 16, 2009 3:45 AM | Feedback (1)

Remember when…you had to choose between security and speed? posted @ Monday, March 16, 2009 3:39 AM | Feedback (0)

Windows Vista Performance Issue Illustrates Importance of Context posted @ Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:11 AM | Feedback (5)

4 Reasons We Must Redefine Web Application Security posted @ Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:21 AM | Feedback (0)

Please fasten your seatbelts, there’s turbulence in that there cloud posted @ Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:30 AM | Feedback (5)

Remember when…you had to choose between agility and performance? posted @ Monday, March 09, 2009 4:30 AM | Feedback (0)

Using Resource Obfuscation to Reduce Risk of Mass SQL Injection posted @ Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:46 AM | Feedback (3)

WAN Optimization is not Application Acceleration posted @ Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:29 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Fail: Who and How is more important than What and Where posted @ Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:59 AM | Feedback (1)

All Your Data Center Are Belong To … You posted @ Monday, March 02, 2009 4:32 AM | Feedback (0)

The New, New Math of Cloud posted @ Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:07 AM | Feedback (0)

Do you control your application network stack? You should. posted @ Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:13 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Changes Everything posted @ Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:36 AM | Feedback (1)

Approaching cloud standards with end-user focus only is full of fail posted @ Monday, February 23, 2009 4:06 AM | Feedback (4)

Elvis is alive! He just logged into Facebook, or did he? posted @ Friday, February 20, 2009 3:51 AM | Feedback (2)

The days of IP-based management are numbered posted @ Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:55 AM | Feedback (6)

Dynamic Infrastructure: The Cloud within the Cloud posted @ Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:14 AM | Feedback (0)

True or False: Application acceleration solutions teach developers to write inefficient code posted @ Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:41 AM | Feedback (6)

The House that Load Balancing Built posted @ Monday, February 16, 2009 5:10 AM | Feedback (2)

If you aren’t asking “what if” now you’ll be asking “why me” later posted @ Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:41 AM | Feedback (0)

Interoperability between clouds requires more than just VM portability posted @ Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:59 AM | Feedback (4)

More on the Meta-data Menagerie posted @ Monday, February 09, 2009 4:19 AM | Feedback (0)

Who owns application delivery meta-data in the cloud? posted @ Friday, February 06, 2009 4:39 AM | Feedback (4)

You want what? To run where? Without THAT? posted @ Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:23 AM | Feedback (1)

Web Application Security: Where do we go from here? posted @ Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:01 AM | Feedback (1)

The Great Client-Server Architecture Myth posted @ Monday, February 02, 2009 4:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Virtual Patching: What is it and why you should be doing it posted @ Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:00 AM | Feedback (1)

Infrastructure 2.0: As a matter of fact that isn't what it means posted @ Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:19 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Computing's Other Achilles' Heel: Software Licensing posted @ Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:24 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud interoperability must dig deeper than the virtualization layer posted @ Monday, January 26, 2009 3:40 AM | Feedback (3)

Load balancing is key to successful cloud-based (dynamic) architectures posted @ Friday, January 23, 2009 4:51 AM | Feedback (2)

Twitter's API limit: Static control in a dynamic world posted @ Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:14 AM | Feedback (1)

Cloud Computing: Location is important, but not the way you think posted @ Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:13 AM | Feedback (1)

The Dynamic Infrastructure Mashup posted @ Tuesday, January 20, 2009 5:42 AM | Feedback (0)

SANS Top 25 Epic Fail: CWE-319 posted @ Monday, January 19, 2009 3:57 AM | Feedback (3)

How Obama's Blueprint For Change Impacts IT posted @ Friday, January 16, 2009 4:08 AM | Feedback (0)

I am in your HTTP headers, attacking your application posted @ Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:12 AM | Feedback (2)

3 reasons you need a WAF even if your code is (you think) secure posted @ Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:22 AM | Feedback (2)

Building an elastic environment requires elastic infrastructure posted @ Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:15 AM | Feedback (9)

Virtualization Gone Wild: Infrastructure as virtual appliances posted @ Monday, January 12, 2009 4:29 AM | Feedback (7)

Informatica: Data Integration in (and for) the cloud posted @ Friday, January 09, 2009 7:11 AM | Feedback (0)

Confession: I love Flex, but we're parting ways in 40 or so days posted @ Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:12 AM | Feedback (28)

SOA isn't dead, but its standards are posted @ Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:07 AM | Feedback (1)

Infrastructure 2.0: Flexibility is Key to Dynamic Infrastructure posted @ Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:56 AM | Feedback (2)

Stop brute force listing of HTTP OPTIONS with network-side scripting posted @ Monday, January 05, 2009 5:58 AM | Feedback (4)

The very last post of the year. Probably. Maybe? posted @ Friday, December 19, 2008 8:06 AM | Feedback (1)

How VM sprawl will drive the urgency of the network evolution posted @ Friday, December 19, 2008 7:10 AM | Feedback (1)

News Flash: Some applications aren't suited for the public cloud posted @ Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:14 AM | Feedback (3)

What's good for the network is not always good for applications posted @ Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:03 AM | Feedback (0)

The Secret Knowledge of Developers that Network Administrators Want posted @ Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:55 AM | Feedback (3)

Putting the network back in social networking posted @ Monday, December 15, 2008 6:03 AM | Feedback (2)

Curing the Business-class Broadband Blues with Cloud Computing posted @ Friday, December 12, 2008 3:46 AM | Feedback (0)

9 ways to use network-side scripting to architect faster, scalable, more secure applications posted @ Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:04 AM | Feedback (1)

Why Flash can't win the Web application war posted @ Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:35 AM | Feedback (29)

Cloud Computing: Will data integration be its Achilles Heel? posted @ Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:12 AM | Feedback (2)

Security is not a luxury item posted @ Monday, December 08, 2008 3:52 AM | Feedback (1)

SOAP vs REST: The war between simplicity and standards posted @ Friday, December 05, 2008 3:33 AM | Feedback (8)

Cloud Computing: Application session management in a dynamic environment posted @ Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:15 AM | Feedback (1)

How Sears Could Have Used the Cloud to Stay Available Black Friday posted @ Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:10 AM | Feedback (7)

The Context-Aware Cloud posted @ Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:15 AM | Feedback (2)

Managing Virtual Infrastructure Requires an Application Centric Approach posted @ Monday, December 01, 2008 2:59 AM | Feedback (1)

Cloud Computing: Vertical Scalability is Still Your Problem posted @ Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:29 AM | Feedback (3)

Infrastructure 2.0: The Diseconomy of Scale Virus posted @ Monday, November 24, 2008 3:47 AM | Feedback (0)

The death of SOA has been greatly exaggerated posted @ Friday, November 21, 2008 3:09 AM | Feedback (0)

As a Service: The many faces of the cloud posted @ Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:12 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Computing: Is your cloud sticky? It should be. posted @ Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:40 AM | Feedback (0)

Why routers should route and switches should switch posted @ Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Computing: Achieving full interconnectedness posted @ Monday, November 17, 2008 4:45 AM | Feedback (0)

A client is still a client even when it's on the space station posted @ Friday, November 14, 2008 3:08 AM | Feedback (0)

Amazing Application Acceleration: Simultaneously improve productivity, efficiency, and performance posted @ Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:36 AM | Feedback (0)

Cloud Computing: What's stopping service-oriented clouds? posted @ Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:52 AM | Feedback (0)

Why you should not use clustering to scale an application posted @ Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:05 AM | Feedback (0)

Infrastructure 2.0: Aligning the network with the business (and the rest of IT) posted @ Monday, November 10, 2008 8:23 AM | Feedback (1)

Virtualization: How to Isolate Application Traffic posted @ Friday, November 07, 2008 6:33 AM | Feedback (2)

Fail Open or Fail Closed? posted @ Wednesday, July 02, 2008 4:58 AM | Feedback (6)