Kim Jung Un
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Book Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
The latest in digital technology and Big Data in particular are increasingly fodder for novelists. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer is a wry story of mostly earnest millennials who end up in “pitched battle with a fascist consortium of data miners”. The Google–esque bad guys are too nerdy and tone-deaf to achieve full-on Bond…
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A Dispatch from Cloud City – 2014 Retrospective
In an effort to make this an annual event, here is a plumbing-palooza stream of cloud consciousness. Last year’s broad themes remain intact though my Rackspace call didn’t pan out. Cloud Infrastructure Public cloud has won. Thanks Target. Thanks Sony. Thanks Kim Jung Un. If your public cloud gets hacked, you get to blame someone…
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Announcing the 2014 Cloud Computing Person of the Year
Because if you’re on the public cloud and get hacked, you both have someone else to blame and are probably not alone.