Archive for August, 2010

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Intel Buys McAfee: Security in the chip vs. virtual environment

This was the big news I read yesterday.  Everyone talked about the price Intel is paying – $48 per share – which is 60% premium over McAfee’s previous day close of $29.93.  What is Intel going to get out of this deal?  I found a not-so-encouraging analysis from Forrester. One of the reasons everyone talked [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Technical Writing and Cloud Computing

One of my technical writers asked me how they can leverage cloud computing.  Interesting thought!!!. From a developers perspective, we have been talking about cloud as a development and testing resource.  For eg.  I can easily scale up my resources using the cloud environment if I need to run a scalability test.  In the past, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Technical by