Posts by ed 8 11 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Oct 2009
In-housing all IT is akin to keeping your money in a box under your bed. Does your company keep all its cash in a safe in the basement? no, it keeps it in a bank, so why does it do the same with its data and IT systems. Sure Amazons data center and infrastructure are going to be a big juicy target for hackers just like banks get robbed.Like banks they have some pretty significant security investment for that reason. Read the pysical security section on this document
http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf
Can you honestly say that your organisation has such safeguards. 12 years working with IT departments across the UK has taught me that almost all organisations are utterly hopeless at security.
"oh yeah the password is adm1n or passw0rd..? what do you men 60 bits of entropy? i cant rember it so i put it on this postit and emailed it to my hotmail"
At least EC2 goes some way to enforcing security best practice with ssh keys and such but you people will still leave themsleves wide open.
So im sure there will be high profile breaches and outages.. its inevitable but the direction and the cost case is set in stone. the internet is just about good enough now that you can stick your IT sytems "over there" and they will work just great, and its cheaper and more secure so happy days, quit bitchin and make sure your CV is nice and up to date.
Totally disagree, I have a widescreen monitor and like unity because the launch bar is in the right place by default rather than taking up the more valuable real estate at the top or bottom of the screen.
If your using the OS to do any proper work; what you actually want is for it to get the hell out of the way. Unity does a great job of maximising your work area by removing 20 pixels of clutter at the bottom of the screen and 15(ish) pixels of menu bar at the top, to that end i can totally forgive them some slightly chunkier buttons over on the right
Growth is what counts. Thats what corporations care about, Growth in revenue, Growth in market share, growth in profits. Sure there are plenty of ways to drive growth other than market share but market share is the best because it proves you are outpacing the competition with innovation and quality. Apple making inrodes into MS's market share especially now more and more of a users' attention is on web based apps rather than desktop ones that tie you to the windows platform is a serious problem. Apple or some other competitor need only create a month on month trend of falling market share at MS to really upset the apple cart, especially if MS are not capable of reversing it.
Even with a desktop monopoly you don't get to 90+% market share unless you have the best all round product at the time. In reality apart from that EU browse choice screen MS still has the monopolistic advantage but user have proven themselves capable of seeking out the alternatives like FF and Chrome etc. This is worth doing because they are better.
It was only a while after IE6 had become established that mozilla and others got their act together by concentrating on standards, speed and of course being free/OSS which helps.
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