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Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

It’s Time to Bring More AppSec Into AppDev

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Earlier this month Michael A. Davis wrote for Information Week that NoSQL equals “no security,” echoing Alex Popescu’s musing last month that for many NoSQL projects, security is an after thought. According to Davis: “In our InformationWeek 2012 Big Data Survey of …

8+ Splunk Alternatives

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Splunk just announced its IPO today, and it’s getting a lot of attention. But don’t forget about its alternatives. Splunk isn’t just for logs, and there’s not a clear general purpose alternative to Splunk. However, there are many purpose built log file …

The Origins of Splunk

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Today “operational intelligence” vendor Splunk officially announced its IPO. In a video interview with Dell’s Barton George, the company’s CTO and co-founder Erik Swan explains the history of Splunk and how it went from being a complicated dashboard product to being the …

Are We Too Concerned with Vendor Lock-In?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

I’ve written frequently about vendor lock-in and how to avoid it, but Matt Asay suggests that lock-in might be the least of a CIO’s worries. No one wants to get stuck being price gauged by a mega-vendor, but the truth is being …

Puppet Labs Announces OpenStack Support

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Today at OpenStack Summit, Puppet Labs announced a set of modules for deploying and maintaining the open source private cloud system OpenStack. The free modules will work with both the free version of Puppet and with Puppet Enterprise. Puppet already supports Amazon …

Good News on Security: Cybercrime is Grossly Exaggerated

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

“Damage caused by cybercrime is estimated at $100 billion annually, said Kilian Strauss, of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),” New Scientist reported back in 2008. Where are those supposed billions going? According to a Cisco report: “In Russia, …

Netflix to Open Source Chaos Monkey and More

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Netflix will open source Chaos Monkey and the rest of its Simian Army the company’s Director of Cloud Architecture Adrian Cockcroft told Wired Enterprise. In fact, according to Cockcroft, Netflix will release “pretty much all” of its platform in bits and pieces …

Cisco Building More Orchestration and Automation into UCS

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Today on our live show theCube, Cisco SVP Global Strategic Partners Wendy Bahr said that one of the keys to the success of Cisco’s Unified Computing System is the embrace of orchestration and automation through integration with BMC, CA and Cisco’s own …

Yammer Acquires File Syncing Service oneDrum

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Today Yammer announced its acquisition of Scottish startup oneDrum, a cloud to desktop file syncing service that emphasizes Microsoft Office document collaboration. Although a Yammer CEO David Sacks says that Box will continue to be an integration partner with Yammer, it’s hard …

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