Links for May 14th through May 16th

• Flash Crash
• Total Recall: The Musical (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  Pretty awesome.
• Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/83n4fp – Uploaded by issaco
• Go Big Always – The Magik Quadrant from a customer’s perspective
• Spice IT Up!
• RiverMuse Announces New Commercial Product | RiverMuse
• Cloud security – a pleonasm?
  “Managing the security of heterogeneous on-premise IT environments is a highly complex and almost impossible task. Minimising the amount of on-premise resources that a corporation manages mitigates risk associated with security breaches enormously. Ensuring that data is stored in a secure environment (in the cloud) rather than on portable devices such as laptops and smart phones also enables corporations to mitigate risk.”
• Reputation vs. Branding
  “The hard thing for social media folks is that they’re still working the Saying Stuff beat while Doing Stuff is what matters most. Getting companies to do different stuff, or to do the same stuff differently, is hard. Getting companies to do either of those things for long enough to earn a reputation for it is harder still.”
• Drumroll Please….Our New Blogger Is….
  Happy trails! “Welcome Denise Dubie to CA as the newest member of the CA Service Assurance team! Denise, who as most of you know spent the last 12 years at Network World, is the new Editor of ServiceAssuranceDaily.com (formerly the NetQoS corporate blog – NetworkPerformanceDaily.com). We are thrilled to have her!”
• American Companies Dodge $60 Billion in Taxes Even Tea Party Would Condemn
  Love that globalism! “If I’m purchasing it from Walgreens two blocks away, that money isn’t going to anything local, or anything national,” he said. “I’m giving my money to Ireland.”
• Citrix Unveils Open, Extensible, Turnkey Cloud Solutions – MarketWatch
• Citrix, Amazon to put XenApp in the cloud
• Adobe on Open Markets
  “Adobe isn’t arguing that the Flash toolchain is more open than Apple’s toolchain. We are arguing that the web is an open ecosystem where developers can choose how they develop and deploy their content.”
• Integration-as-a-Service: IBM+Cast Iron

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