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December 2011 Archives

Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Cloud Computing

AWS Multiple IP Addresses Coming in 2012, Elastic Interfaces Now

Organizations using Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud are now able to create network interfaces that exist separate from the EC2 instances. The upshot of this is that customers will be able to have a lot more flexibility in managing network interfaces for EC2 instances. The new feature, Elastic Network Interface (ENI) is created automatically with…

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Zynga Is Not First On Facebook's Top Games Of 2011

Yesterday Facebook released its list of top games for 2011. Only four of those games were Zynga-owned. The number one and number two slots were filled by Disney Playdom's Garden of Time, a game about locating hidden objects through time travel and EA's The Sims Social, which is most similar the "real-world" virtual game Second Life. Zynga's…

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VMware's 10-point Plan for Disaster Recovery

There is a continuing change in the way businesses are thinking about the concept of disaster recovery and system maintenance, brought on perhaps for the first time since the advent of the Internet itself by government agencies. In researching how huge, country-wide data networks should plan for the contingency of terrorist attack or natural…

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Content Shifting

We wind down the top trends of 2011 with one that's perfect for the holidays. Just as the frantic, real-time nature of the social Web hit fever pitch, the market trends this year made way for "content shifting." It's the simple idea of saving your articles, videos and podcasts for later. With the rise of the smartphone and tablet, all kinds of…

Jon Mitchell comments

GoDaddy SOPA Support Sparks Boycott

The list of companies that support the controversial piece of U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is fairly predictable. It includes huge media conglomerates, music industry groups, pharmaceutical companies and the like. One name that stands out, however, is that of domain name registrar GoDaddy. Whereas many of the big Web…

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