My twitter profile currently includes that I am “passionate about #BigData”.  Recently, someone spammed me with a direct message “What is the big whoop about #BigData”?  Typically, I dismiss DM spam but my brain kept whispering “This is a c-suite challenge”. Today, cutting[…]

With all the recent news on government data collection, information flow, etc… I’ve been thinking about the issues of business transparency.  All too often, when risks are the primary focus of management’s attention, I suspect that many executives feel that the best policy[…]

I’ve written a few posts about PCI security.  I get quite a few questions about the cost of building and managing a PCI environment.  In a nutshell, it is expensive.  Below, I’ll outline the expenses that I am familiar with as it relates[…]

I mentioned in my Securing a Cloud Based Platform post that we embarked upon an effort to build a PCI compliant security program; we really needed to improve upon several areas: We needed to improve our documentation We needed to modify existing or[…]

When I’m building business platforms, security is a considerable issue.  Security is definitely one of the technology issues that can get extremely expensive, timing consuming and complicated.  Like so many business decisions, security solution are investments that need to be within the maturity[…]

Yikes, a very long time has passed since my last post, I guess this is what happens when you start a company. Nearly every train ride I think, I should write something because I enjoyed doing this last year. It also got me[…]

At the forest floor, young seedling all look the same and struggle to get sun light. I’m starting to see more Venture Capitalist move down the time line and wait for opportunities with more mature entrepreneurs.

Product Management is one of the most important disciplines in a technology company, certainly a top priority for both startup and scale.

I simply must enter through the gates of hell and get some testing done – no way around it. Load testing through reduction – no data movement, data cleansing, backups or load generation needed. Know thy products performance and scalability.