January 19th

This week there is a lot information about the cloud being ready for you. We have a lot of events in the news around the Cloud, for you.  

• President Barack Obama having a portable phone/pda may be solved. Even though it is not a Blackberry. It looks like a clunky cousin to the Palm Treo 750. 
• Inauguration Events and Coverage of Barack Obama will be more so than any other president in history. No matter what aspect of the inauguration you can find it on Google. 
• Circuit City is Closing. A year after CompUSA closed their door, now Circuit City is closing. How many more of this big box stores will close for the economy or people going to online shopping.
• Look out sales tax for online purchases is coming to your computer. 
• Steve Jobs is having to take a leave from Apple Computer because of health issues. 
• Microsoft and Yahoo are meeting and talking merger, again. I think we will see them getting together this year. 
• Google apps and services for the Cloud are falling prey to the economy. Read Write Web post the list of service that Google will be taking away. Don’t get to excited. Many of these application are beta. These apps are just one that have shown minimal interest. Their recruiting positions are being cut. 
• Traditional newspaper is slowly disappearing. The daily printed newspaper is not just an endangered species it is definitely on its’ way out. LA Times finds that online ad content pays more than paper ads. 
• GoDaddy.com, the web hosting provider was hit by a DDoS attack. GoDaddy’s Communications Manager Nick Fuller confirmed the attack originally speculated to be an “outage”, and responded to several questions about it.
•  Seagate Technologies’ online support forum has been riddled this week with complaints from owners of the high-capacity Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive. It seems that these hard drives are freezing up. I smell a boom in the data recovery business.

API’s, SAAS and Bandwidth are three terms we will look at this week. 

Is the Cloud Ready For You is a look at some of the issues that need to be resolved before it is worth going to the Cloud.

Security Corner - There is 3 basic reasons for data leakage, according to Secure Computing:

1. Employee or end user, through oversight or error
2. Improper configuration or inadequate protections has left a “back door” open on the network.
3. Employee or end user acting maliciously to steal information

Tags: Barack Obama, Circuit City, Godaddy, Google Apps, Seagate, Security Focus, Steve Jobs, Yahoo

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