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John W. Verity
Content posted in May 2012
Flame Wars: Paging George Smiley
John W. Verity   5/31/2012   13 comments
The Flame virus, which has been discovered attacking Middle Eastern computers, is the stuff of good spy novels.
Look Out Node.js, Here Comes Wakanda
John W. Verity   5/31/2012   8 comments
JavaScript has long been confined to use in Web browsers, but now it's showing up as the basis for many large-scale server applications, too.
Services, the Latest Chapter in a Long Yarn
John W. Verity   5/30/2012   13 comments
Cloud-based services, offered through widely published APIs, are poised to disrupt competition up and down the software stack.
Processor Density Takes a Leap
John W. Verity   5/30/2012   10 comments
There's an exciting new generation of datacenter servers that promise to do a whole lot more work in a whole lot less space.
VDI + (Enough) Bandwidth = Success
John W. Verity   5/29/2012   15 comments
Virtualized desktops work well only when fed by sufficient network bandwidth, one IT analyst argues.
Beware the IDEs of Cloud
John W. Verity   5/25/2012   20 comments
Now it's development by distributed teams, not just testing or running at scale, that is getting a cloud makeover.
Letting the Crowd Test Your Code
John W. Verity   5/24/2012   33 comments
Schemes are afoot to get new software tested by crowds of people all over the Web, some paid for their work and others not.
Keeping Customers in the Loop
John W. Verity   5/23/2012   11 comments
The idea of user-driven innovation looks like a good one for enterprises having to innovate rapidly in IT and elsewhere.
Fabric-ating the Datacenter
John W. Verity   5/22/2012   7 comments
Fabric-based architectures promise to make datacenters more agile in every way, but look before you leap.
Join Our Live Chat About Green IT on May 23
John W. Verity   5/22/2012   1 comment
Join us Wednesday, May 23, at 2:00 p.m. for an online chat about the greening of IT, with Mary E. Shacklett.
APIs Matter up in the Cloud Too
John W. Verity   5/21/2012   4 comments
Cloud computing's future may hinge on whether or not APIs can be protected by the copyright laws.
An Ink-Stained Kvetch
John W. Verity   5/18/2012   19 comments
Software-written newspapers may be just around the corner, but what's to applaud about that?
Graphs: Big-Data's Next Frontier
John W. Verity   5/17/2012   19 comments
Supercomputer maker Cray has come out with a specialized machine just for analyzing graph data, an emerging realm of big-data.
APM in the Cloud: a Work in Progress
John W. Verity   5/16/2012   6 comments
As enterprise apps move into the cloud, so must the tools that users need to managing their performance.
Analytics in Online Advertising
John W. Verity   5/16/2012   13 comments
FT.com has turned to cloud-based, on-demand analytics to help it sell its ad space more profitably than ever.
A Recipe for Migrating Apps to the Cloud
John W. Verity   5/15/2012   5 comments
Software called Cloudify offers a way to move existing apps up into your choice of private or public computing cloud.
Chart Junk on the Loose
John W. Verity   5/14/2012   19 comments
Visualizing complex data on the computer screen is easy -- or maybe not. Here are some thoughts on how it can go wrong.
The Attention Economy, Unfolding Now
John W. Verity   5/14/2012   12 comments
The notion of an economy in which people trade attention, not money, casts a revealing light on the "information revolution."
Embracing Open-Source Methods, Not Just Code
John W. Verity   5/11/2012   12 comments
Enterprises are encouraged to adopt open-source methods for use by their internal developers.
In Storage, Smarts Rule
John W. Verity   5/11/2012   10 comments
The ever-evolving intelligence of storage systems enables them to store more data and serve it up quicker than last year's models.
A Peek Into Zynga's Hybrid 'zCloud'
John W. Verity   5/10/2012   4 comments
Online gaming company Zynga has shared some more details about the workings of its massive IT cloud, which spans public and private infrastructure.
IT's Ecological Costs Run High
John W. Verity   5/10/2012   11 comments
There are reasons to believe that IT can't fix the world's ecological problems, even if many people want and expect it to.
Defining the Datacenter in Software Holds Big Promise
John W. Verity   5/9/2012   11 comments
Here comes the software-defined datacenter, in which all infrastructure is virtualized, from silicon on up.
The Steady Decline of Personal Email
John W. Verity   5/9/2012   23 comments
Research indicates that the daily volume of non-business email is steadily shrinking as people Facebook and tweet.
Green IT: a Partial Solution at Best
John W. Verity   5/8/2012   12 comments
On a global scale, IT consumes much electrical energy, but even if that dropped to zero, the problems of global warming would remain.
Big-Data = Big Traffic
John W. Verity   5/8/2012   8 comments
Big-data setups need to take into consideration how best to move larger datasets across the Net and between enterprise datacenters.
Big-Data: Big & Getting Bigger
John W. Verity   5/7/2012   10 comments
Recent revenue forecasts in the big-data marketplace show a high-growth business with enterprise spending soon to exceed that of pioneering Websites.
Yo, Coders in Da House! Rap Meets Software
John W. Verity   5/7/2012   6 comments
Rap songs about software development? It's true, and they're as witty as they are doomed never to make it onto MTV.
The API at Risk: Oracle v. Google
John W. Verity   5/4/2012   16 comments
Can APIs be copyrighted? A big lawsuit may answer that question in a way that affects software developers in a big way.
Smalltalk: Age 40 & Still Kicking
John W. Verity   5/3/2012   11 comments
The programming language Smalltalk is very much alive, inspiring a new generation of developers.
High Scalability, the Blog
John W. Verity   5/3/2012   9 comments
A blog called High Scalability is chock full of profiles explaining how many of the biggest and busiest sites on the Web stay that way.
Video Reveals Secrets of YouTube's IT Prowess
John W. Verity   5/2/2012   12 comments
YouTube, the video-sharing site, is showing a video that describes its approach to highly scalable computing.
The Case of the Dirty Disks in the Cloud
John W. Verity   5/1/2012   7 comments
Data that customers unknowingly leave behind in de-provisioned cloud computing infrastructure could help attackers do bad things.
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