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Major Data Loss Bug in WPEngine and Yoast SEO Plugin

Major Data Loss Bug in WPEngine and Yoast SEO Plugin

By Bob Warfield on June 2, 2017

What would you think if I told you that while using the most popular WordPress SEO plugin on one of the most popular WordPress hosting platforms you’d lose a blog post approximately every 30 days and be locked out of your account?  It’ll cost you the time it took to write the blog post plus […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged blog hosting, Cloud, customer service, Kinsta, platforms, SEO, service, wordpress, WPEngine, Yoast

Top Tech Trends for 2017

Top Tech Trends for 2017

By Michael Fauscette on February 1, 2017

For many years, like most analyst and/or analyst firms I know, I’ve published some sort of annual “predictions” at the start of the new year.  This year, in my new role (I can still say “new” for the rest of January, my 1 year anniversary isn’t till tomorrow) I’ve put together a small team (Rob […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, Analysis, analytics, apps, AR, Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Business Models, business modernization, Cloud, Cognitive Computing, collaboration, conversational systems, dasta clouds, data, decision systems, digital marketing, digital platforms, Digital Transformation, iaas, intelligent applications, intelligent security, intelligent things, marketing, Marketplaces, micro-targeting, networks, PaaS, platforms, SaaS, security, technology, Technology / Software, top tech trends, top trends 2017, trends, ui, usability, VR

Authentication as a Service:  Slow Progress, But Are We There Yet?

Authentication as a Service: Slow Progress, But Are We There Yet?

By Bob Warfield on July 14, 2014

Authentication as a Service solves a problem every Cloud Developer, mobile or desktop, has to solve.  As one player in the space, AuthRocket, puts it: Do you really want to write code for users, forgotten passwords, permissions, and admin panels again? To that I would add, “Do you really want to have to be a world class […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Cognito, Authentication, bootstrapping, Cloud, google, mobile, platforms, SaaS, service, Software development

How Moore’s Law Put Apple in the Driver’s Seat and Cost Steve Ballmer His Job

How Moore’s Law Put Apple in the Driver’s Seat and Cost Steve Ballmer His Job

By Bob Warfield on January 24, 2014

With the Mac’s 30th anniversary, lots of folks are writing all sorts of articles about it, so I thought it only fitting to bring up my own thoughts on what happened and how Apple got control away from Microsoft.  It’s not a theory I have seen anywhere else, but it’s the one that makes the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, moore's law, multicore, platforms, Software development, strategy

Big Data is a Small Market Compared to Suburban Data

Big Data is a Small Market Compared to Suburban Data

By Bob Warfield on February 4, 2013

Big Data is all the rage, and seem to be one of the prime targets for new entrepreneurial ventures since VC-dom started to move from Consumer Internet to Enterprise recently.  Yet, I remain skeptical about Big Data for a variety of reasons.  As I’ve noted before, it seems to be a premature optimization for most companies.  That post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, data center, enterprise software, multicore, NoSQL, Object database, platforms, SaaS, service, Suburban Data | 2 Responses

From Dreamliner to Nightmare

From Dreamliner to Nightmare

By Jeff Nolan on January 17, 2013

Complex systems fail in complex ways not anticipated by engineers. You can over-engineer the systems, test every imaginable scenario, build redundant system coverage, test again. and you can still fail.   Boeing’s nightmare is just beginning, their latest generation airplane, the 787 Dreamliner, has been grounded because of fire danger in the lithium ion batteries […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 787 Dreamliner, Boeing, Interesting Stuff, platforms, systems

Saw the Microsoft Surface Tablet and Liked It

Saw the Microsoft Surface Tablet and Liked It

By Bob Warfield on November 26, 2012

I was at Houston’s Galleria mall during the Thanksgiving weekend and got a chance to spend some time in both the Microsoft and Apple stores there.  I had read a few articles praising the device, such as Jeff Atwood’s piece (which fairly gushes), but was skeptical.  I’m not at all an Apple Fan Boy nor […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Microsoft Surface, mobile, platforms, strategy, user interface

The Two Most Desirable Features of a Platform as a Service

The Two Most Desirable Features of a Platform as a Service

By Bob Warfield on July 5, 2011

Big Data? Multitenancy? Uber DB scaling? Mad Hadoopishness? Faster app development? Universal Social Connectivity? Not so much.  Some platform or other claims all of those things, but the two most desirable features of a PaaS appear to be revenue generation and commodity pricing, not necessarily in that order. Let me first say that I’ve come […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Big Data, bootstrapping, Cloud, Cloud Computing, PaaS, platforms, SaaS, venture

Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…

Conspiracy Theory: the Vista-ization of Windows 7 has Started…

By Zoli Erdos on May 8, 2011

Three years ago I wrote: Windows Seven in 2010. Does Anyone Still Care? I simply don’t get it: Vista is barely out, nobody seems to like it, CIO’s refuse to upgrade, analyst firms tell them to wait, individual users who tried it switch back to XP, others time their new PC purchase so they can […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Just for fun, microsoft, platforms, rant, vista, win7, windows, Windows 7 | 5 Responses

Remember HP’s New Wave?  Here We Go Again!

Remember HP’s New Wave? Here We Go Again!

By Bob Warfield on February 15, 2011

Sam Diaz has gotten clarification on the future of Windows in the light of their Web OS announcements.  It should come as no surprise that Windows isn’t going anywhere, and certainly won’t be replaced by Web OS any time soon.  Instead, HP is saying: HP will integrate the WebOS experience into Windows, but not through […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Borland, Hewlett-Packard, microsoft, Microsoft Windows, mobile, Nokia, Operating system, platforms, webos

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