Speaking of Clouds

With VMworld taking place this week, there’s been a lot of talk about VMware‘s success in getting various companies to announce VMware-based cloud offerings. So I thought it was time to take another look at the vCloud API, which VMware has submitted to DMTF for consideration as a standard. My assessment: nice clean use of [...]

I’ve always thought that there were one or two areas where the US government ought to use its procurement clout to set basic standards. After fighting with a new web site that has its own ideas of what a legal password should look like, I long for a “password FIPS“. (Actually, there is such a [...]