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November 6, 2009

When Is More Important Than Where in Web Application Security

While you spend your time arguing over where application security belongs, miscreants are taking advantage of vulnerabilities. By the time you address the problem, they’ve moved on to the next one.
via devcentral.f5.com

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November 5, 2009

Twitter Account Lockouts Continue to Plague Users

Brute force attacks by spammers seeking easy access causing frustration for users with no resolution in sight Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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November 4, 2009

The API Is the New CLI

Where previous generations of administrators evaluated the manageability of network and application network devices based on the CLI (command line interface) the next generation of administrators and the developers who will support integration efforts, will almost certainly look to APIs instead. Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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November 3, 2009

Maybe Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Makes Cloud Computing Too Easy

With just a few clicks you, too, can create a cloud computing environment. But if you’re like a lot of organizations, you may not know what to do with it after that.
via devcentral.f5.com

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November 2, 2009

Using Network-Side Scripting to Convert Microsoft Smart Quotes to HTML Entities

You can address the problem of converting smart quotes – and any other content - in your application if you control the code. What if you’re using third-party software for which you do not have the code? Or what if it is your code but the “defect” is too low on the priority list?
via devcentral.f5.com

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October 29, 2009

WILS: Three Ways To Better Utilize Resources In Any Data Center

Cloud computing is, at its core, about using resources in the most operational and financially efficient manner possible. It’s about spreading resources around and sharing them to achieve greater scalability with fewer investments in hardware and software. But what if you aren’t moving to cloud? Or virtualization? Or perhaps you are, but the benefits won’t be really seen until you actually get enough resources shared across your organization. Isn’t there any other way to better utilize the resources you have now to improve the bottom line? Check out this website I found at devcentral.f5.com

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October 28, 2009

To Take Advantage of Cloud Computing You Must Unlearn, Luke.

Carrying over the provisioning and capacity planning techniques used in a traditional data center to cloud computing negates the full power of the Force, er, cloud computing.
via devcentral.f5.com

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October 27, 2009

Vertical Scalability Cloud Computing Style

Vertical scalability used to require optimizations inside the application, at the code level. Cloud computing changes the nature of vertical scalability and, one hopes, will lead to a new model of scalability based on the capabilities of Infrastructure 2.0 and more granular resource management.
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October 26, 2009

IT Myths and Legends: No One Understands Our Legacy Software

There is a common myth that the reason legacy code continues to run in businesses around the world is that no one understands it; that IT and businesses are afraid to replace it because they don’t know what it does. In fact the truth may be just the opposite...
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October 23, 2009

Study Says Economics Not A Driving Factor in Cloud Computing Adoption

Paul Miller pointed out a recent ongoing study from Avanade in which C-level executives were asked, among other questions, how the economic climate effected their decisions regarding cloud. Interestingly “only 13% suggesting it had ‘helped’ adoption plans and 58% reporting ‘no effect.’”
via devcentral.f5.com

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