Radiant Logic And ForgeRock Partner To Offer Powerful Identity Solution
Radiant Logic, the company offering identity and context virtualization solutions, partnered with ForgeRock, open source IAM player, offering a powerful SSO and federation solution with fine grained authorization. This is targeted at the enterprises wanting to take advantage of cloud based solutions while also wanting much fine grained controls over their users. Essentially, this combines […]
Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just […]
Updated: Living In The Clouds: Safari Book iPad App, First Impressions
I am revisiting the Living In The Clouds series after a big break. In this edition, I am going to talk about the new iPad app for Safari Books Online, a cloud based tech books lending service. I am a heavy cloud user and as a part of this strategy, I have started using Safari Books […]
Google To Crowdsource Web Application Security
Google is now trying crowdsource the security researchers from around the world (well, almost as the list doesn’t include countries in the banned list of US government) to find vulnerabilities in the web properties under Google. This is not something new and many providers use this approach to find vulnerabilities in their web applications and […]
A Conference is About Community
I’ve been watching with interest a great series of posts over on Pamela Dingle’s blog. It all began when Pamela tried to get a blogger pass for the RSA conference. What really caught my eye, though, was James McGovern’s response – specifically, “Achieving the goal of educating attendees is never the goal of those who […]
3 Free Tix to the Glue Conference
How timely of Rick Burnes to post his Trade Show Trouble cartoon. It expresses my feelings about large trade shows and conferences – am I suffering from acute conferencitis? Yes, large shows are half-dead nowadays – but some conferences are worth attending even in bad times. The Glue Conference on May 12-13th in Denver may […]
A Quick Intro to GlueCon
When Zoli Erdos first asked me if I’d be willing to write some guest posts on CloudAve around the topic of Glue Conference, I was actually a bit hesitant. After all, Zoli’s done such a great job of explaining why he likes the conferences I run, and what Gluecon is about, that I wasn’t sure […]
Data Standards for Web Applications
While many despise WMA, DOC, MP3 and other proprietary formats the discussions about data formats used by web applications have been surprisingly silent. It is true that this is mainly because a lot of web applications offer XML export or offer an API for exporting data to other services. But as data formats in the […]
Glue – Get Sticky Now
What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1 a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b: a solution of […]
Don’t Bury Desktops Just Yet
As laptops dominate, desktop PCs face obsolescence – reports Reuters: The age of the desktop PC appears to be over as its more portable cousin, the laptop, surges ahead with consumers clamoring for light-weight computers in funky designs for use at home, in cafes and on the train to work. Not a single desktop model […]
The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC
2008 REDUX Another piece in the 2008 Redux series, originally posted in March 2008. The computing landscape has somewhat changed with the appearance of netbooks, but I am still waiting for the cellphone-aware PC-less PC. Mike Egan @ Computerworld makes the case for PC’s to be smarter, with improved awareness of cell-phones, which means of […]
The Anti-Beta Revolution. Or is it a Counter-Revolution?
Gizmodo has just issued A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture – great article, and boy, do I love the illustration!. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system […]
Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves
How old is your work computer? – asks the Wall Street Journal. Mine is a year-and-a half old. The dual-core former screamer (obviously not the one the the pic to the right) has become an average slow machine now that quad-core is the standard, but I could not care less. I don’t need a faster, […]
Netbook or Notebook? It’s Not Only About Size.
Hardly a day goes by without another new Netbook announcement, at lower and lower prices. The first baby eee PC by ASUS was toy-like ( I returned it after a day), but the current crop are quite usable mobile computing devices. These new Netbooks are flying off the shelf, so much so that sometimes you […]
