Category Archives: Computer and Internet

Ad-blocker Wars

Posted on May 31, 2019 by halberenson

About a year ago I wrote my Adblockers are the new AntiVirus piece. In the intervening period the war between ad blocking and web sites that depend on advertising has gone exponential. Many sites put up a warning asking you … Continue reading →

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Prime 1-Day Delivery Really is Different

Posted on May 3, 2019 by halberenson

At last week’s earnings call Amazon announced it was moving Amazon Prime from its historical 2-day shipping to 1-day shipping. Inevitably there were articles saying how Walmart or Target or whoever already had this. Or even better than Amazon, had … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Computer and Internet, Retail | 3 Comments

DMARC or Die

Posted on March 2, 2019 by halberenson

It’s time to get serious about adopting DMARC. Continue reading →

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The Travel Buddy PC

Posted on November 19, 2018 by halberenson

There have been a flurry of articles and blog posts lately on the topic of can the iPad Pro replace a PC (Windows or MacOS), and I thought it was time to wade in to the muck. If you’ve read … Continue reading →

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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

Posted on October 31, 2018 by halberenson

Once again Microsoft appears to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, this time repeating a key mistake from the Windows 8 era.  Microsoft was on the path to a coupe, launching the seemingly excellent Surface Go well ahead … Continue reading →

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Google goes to the dark side on JEDI

Posted on October 9, 2018 by halberenson

Every time I read an article on the U.S. Department of Defense large Cloud project known as JEDI I find myself suppressing an urge to comment.  Google dropping out of the bidding finally made that urge difficult to suppress. It is … Continue reading →

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The Big Non-Hack?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by halberenson

This week Bloomberg Businessweek (BBW) published “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” which claimed that 30 companies, most notably Apple and Amazon Web Services, had servers using hacked Chinese-made motherboards from U.S. manufacturer … Continue reading →

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The Product Shipping Tax

Posted on September 21, 2018 by halberenson

There is an observation I had back in the 1980s that both holds in today’s Cloud world and remains one of the toughest messages to communicate to senior leadership.  When you ship a new product or service, major release, or … Continue reading →

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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 3)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by halberenson

Back in Part 2 I discussed the relationship between failures and the people resources needed to address them, and demonstrated why at hyperscale you can’t use people to handle failures.  In this part I’ll discuss how that impacts a managed … Continue reading →

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Keezel – Another Internet Security Device

Posted on August 20, 2018 by halberenson

I’m always on the search for new security tools, and this time my hunt took me to Keezel.  For full disclosure, I liked the concept so much I made a token investment in Keezel via crowdfunding site StartEngine.  Keezel is … Continue reading →

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