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Trillions with a “T”

In late 2019, Accenture Strategy did an assessment on “Securing the Digital Economy.” Topics included: The Internet Just Can’t Keep Up The IoT Effect Identities in Crisis No Flow Versus Free Flow The Cost of Insecurity Keeping Tabs on Cybersecurity Investments Then they gave recommendations for actions in the following areas: Governance Infrastructure Technology This…

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Video Conferencing Testing

CIO Services Group (CIOSG) has continually leveraged a variety of collaborative technologies. In the realm of video conferencing, we have been using Microsoft’s Skype on many platforms. Skype has been effective and dependable with exceptional audio and video. We have exercised Skype with a variety of Windows browsers and clients and smartphone clients. Most of…

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Coronavirus Issues

With the introduction of the coronavirus around the world, home and work life has been changing daily.  New problems and new challenges are created with every new governmental, healthcare, economic or scientific announcement, however, it is important that we continue to seek positive, innovative solutions.  When will the coronavirus abate? When will the world return…

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A Fool and His Data Are Soon Parted

Azure just keeps having problems. And a recent incident happened while their CEO was speaking at a conference in Sydney “focused on showing off how Microsoft’s cloud technology can have a transformative impact on businesses.” While it’s easy to pile on with Azure, the situation is endemic to the cloud environment. Not withstanding my recent post, cloud implementations still…

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But Can You Do Better Than This

If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I worry about cloud availability. However, most of the time the big cloud providers have more availability and redundancy capability than almost any enterprise can provide. For an example, Microsoft recently had an outage of its Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for Azure and Office 365 users in North…

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Cloud Management Skills

Recently McAfee published a report on cloud adoption and risk. The Register did a review of the McAfee study. The Register concluded: The ongoing rash of data leaks caused by misconfigured clouds is the result of companies having virtually no visibility into how their cloud instances are configured, and very little ability to audit and manage them. That’s really…

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Undesign

There was a recent article in Quartz about Elon Musk’s quest for “undesign.” When Elon Musk leads engineering meetings at SpaceX, he says, “the thing I am most impressed with is, what did you undesign?” Which is to say, what complications did engineers remove? How did they simplify the vehicle? Without getting sidetracked on Elon Musk, I…

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Intel vs. Qualcomm and AMD

I’ve blogged several times (here and here and here) about the emergence of ARM in the (formerly) Wintel world (known as Windows On ARM – WOA). The last time I said “It’s coming faster than even I expected.” It’s here. In August 2019 Samsung announced their Galaxy Book S running Windows 10 with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx chip. It’s on a 7nm die. For Pete’s sake, Microsoft’s CEO…

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Primary, Secondary, Tertiary

I’ve been following the situation with Boeing’s 737 MAX airliners. I came across an article (archive.is / image) on USA Today that was a pretty good summary. In that article they mentioned that Boeing’s 777 airliner’s flight computers were not only triple redundant but from different manufacturers. For the 777, Boeing’s twin-aisle intercontinental jet, engineers created triple redundancy for…

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Outage Communication

This post isn’t bashing cloud providers, although that’s an easy target. What this is about is to give some examples of outage communication from various providers. And yes, Google and Facebook are in different sectors but the wide differences in their outage communications are still interesting. On March 12, 2019, Google suffered an outage that impacted Gmail…

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