psilva's prophecies

…scrolls across the small 16:9 LCD protruding from my chest cavity. In case you missed it, I’m from the future, where we all have become our own personal cloud.  Some clouds you can actually see, like auras, but look somewhat like the classic Peanuts character Pigpen.  We’ve all become walking antennas, routers, hotspots and hubs for all the other personal clouds.  If auto-discovery is enabled, once you are in r...

I meet with Bruce Butterfield, Principal Software Engineer for Management Solutions, to get an inside look at the new Enterprise Manager v3.1 including the awesome LogIQ.  ‘Inside Look’ takes a deeper dive into BIG-IP Technology.   ps Related: F5’s YouTube Channel

#HealthCare #Privacy Challenges I always wanted to write, ‘In the USA Today, today’ in the Life section snapshots sidebar there is an interesting stat from a December 2012 Ponemon Insti...

If Homer only knew back in 1994 that smartphone mobile apps would someday start to creep into precious TV viewing time, he probably would have written, ‘No Smartphone and No Specialty Beer Make Homer Go Crazy,’ in the Simpson’s classic Treehouse of Horror V.  It’s no surprise that t...

In case you missed F5’s latest video, you can check it out either on F5’s YouTube Channel or right off our home page, F5.com. IT Style honors the heroes which make the connected world run better. Watch it. Like it. Share it. Wear it. Sweepstakes: Enter for a chance to win a Cloud Ninja t-shirt like the one featured in the video.

It’s that time of year when we gift and re-gift, just like this text.  And the perfect opportunity to re-post, re-purpose and re-use all my 2012 blog entries.  If you missed any of the approximately 130 blogs including 73 videos, here they are wrapped in one simple entry.  I read somewhere that lists in blogs [...]

Like last year, everyone has their Technology predictions with their annual lists for the coming year.  Instead of coming up with my own, I figured I’d simply regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen. Cloud computing in 2013: Two warnings: @DavidLinthicum has his two tragic cloud computing predictions for 2013 (price wars & skills shortage).  [...]

Had a short but interesting twitter exchange with @securityincite @Gillis57 and @essobi ‏(Mike Rothman, Gillis Jones and not sure (sorry!!) respectively) about using Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt when talking IT security services.  @Gillis57 initially asked, ‘Question: We discuss FUD constantly (and I agree that it’s too prominent) But isn’t security inherently built upon fear?’  I [...]

…is probably one of the most memorable lines of any Holiday Classic.  Of course I’m referring to A Christmas Story, where a young Ralphie tries to convince his parents, teachers and Santa that the Red Ryder BB Gun is the perfect present.  I don’t know of there was a warning label on the 1940’s edition box but it is a good reminder from a security perspective that often we, meaning humans, are our...

Close to 70% of smartphone owners plan to use the devices for holiday shopping, according to Deloitte (pdf).  Smartphone ownership has jumped from 39.7% last year to 46.1% this year and tablet owners have doubled from...