It’s an inevitability: enterprise architectures are moving to the cloud. The logistical and financial benefits of commoditizing infrastructure are virtually impossible to ignore. Exhibiting the traits of a true paradigm shift, there’s also little chance of going back. You better get used to it. But every conversation about a cloudy future wouldn’t be complete without someone gripping their umbrella rather tightly, and raining down concerns about security.
Cloud connectivity has one chief disadvantage: exposure.
The naysayers aren’t just trying to be the proverbial stick in the mud (well, most of them anyway). In a world of increasing software complexity and integration, exploits are common, and hacking away at such flaws yields unfortunate headlines on a weekly basis. Even if this week’s exploits are covered, black hat teens may be socially engineering your administrator or the NSA may be thumbing through your email. It’s hard to keep government operatives, Chinese Nationalists, and LulzSec pranksters at bay all at the same time. Security concerns are legitimate. Continue reading
The Product Lifecycle Market (PLM) market is ripe with choice – or at least the illusion of it. The ever-expanding range of products and sub products, resellers, and various consultancy options associated with PLM has created what I would consider to be a rather perplexing and intimidating marketplace for all but the most tenacious, meticulous, and savvy of buyers. It’s easier to deal with bouncing a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish. Whatever the circumstance, the complexity has created a barrier that I firmly believe keeps PLM from truly expanding beyond traditional PDM strongholds. It’s definitely a seller dominated market.
One of the questions I see almost every single day: “Where can I get decent CAD training? Oh and it’d be great if it was cheap as free.”
Fellow blogger Andreas Lindenthal recently highlighted 