Sonian: Outsourcing scalability to Amazon
A former co-worker of mine, Jeff Richards, has surfaced at Sonian Networks, which is offering a new on-demand email archiving service. What’s unique about Sonian Archive SA2 is its architecture. It’s built almost entirely using Amazon Web Services, and is architected in such a way that each customer gets their own “virtual stack.” As additional [...]
Edwards out. At least until the convention
John Edwards bowing out of the race is no surprise after South Carolina, and I guess neither is his refusal to endorse a candidate. I think he’s setting himself up as a kingmaker, and unless either Hillary or Obama are particularly persuasive, he’ll probably hold off on an endorsement as long as possible. But popular [...]
The application is the perimeter
An interesting trio of articles hit yesterday. One is a summary of industry response to the announcement that President Bush intends to fund a massive network security initiative. The money quote is from Veracode’s co-founder and CTO, Chris Wysopal, who compares the initiative to “posting police on every corner in a dangerous neighborhood, but failing [...]
