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By Richard Arneson If you are in any way connected to the IT industry, you can’t, and haven’t been able to for years, take a breath without stumbling across the word Flash. With apologies to the superhero created prior to World War II, flash was, as early as twenty (20)

By Richard Arneson His name might not carry the same weight as Abner Doubleday’s, who is credited with inventing baseball in the early- to mid-1800’s, but Walter Camp is the person widely regarded as the creator of America’s most popular current sport―football. It’s impossible to know exactly what Camp envisioned

By Richard Arneson Leave it Hollywood to allow the smallest attack surface in history to be breached. In the first Star Wars movie, the Death Star, which appeared to be only slightly smaller than Earth, had a tiny aperture that, if penetrated, would magically destroy the entire, menacing orb. Naturally,

HPEs acquisition of Plexxi

By Richard Arneson In May of this year, HPE announced its purchase of Plexxi, an eight-year-old, Boston-based company that set the IT world on fire based on this one (1) idea: data center networking needed to be less complicated, yet more powerful. They combined software-defined networking with intent-based automation that

Container Orchestration

By Richard Arneson Containers, if you recall from last week’s blogs, pull from the application layer and package code and related application dependencies into one (1) neat, tidy package. Remember, this provides a step up from hypervisors, which require each VM to run their own OS, making them less efficient,

By Richard Arneson Analogy Alert! When VHS recorders were first introduced to the marketplace, I couldn’t imagine a better customer than my Mother. She had just retired and watching re-runs of The Rockford Files consumed a large percentage of her free time (and there was plenty of it). I never

Docker containerization

By Richard Arneson I would be grossly remiss if I didn’t dovetail yesterday’s post about containerization without following up with info on the leader in that space―Docker. In fact, they’re so dominant in containerization, some use Docker and containers interchangeably, much like referring to all clear tape as Scotch tape,

virtual machine or container

By Richard Arneson Containers have been around for years, but we’ll leave its history for another blog. Hypervisors, if you recall, are software that manage virtual machines (VMs), each of which can run its own programs but gives the appearance of running the host hardware’s memory, processor and resources. Hypervisors

Shadow IT and Cloud Security

By Richard Arneson Everybody loves the cloud, and why wouldn’t they? The amount of innovation and productivity it has brought to businesses worldwide has been staggering. Where Salesforce once appeared to stand alone as the only cloud-based software service, it’s been joined over the past few years by thousands of