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 One of the most challenging things about being an advocate for a broad horizontally applicable technology is that it does not solve a particular business problem. Instead, it solves about 100,000 business problems. That means that everyone is impacted by it, yet nobody is particularly...May. 9, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 923 |
 There’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with Fle...May. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 824 |
 Yes, data virtualization is definitely about agility. We covered this from different angles in my previous article. Agility in this context is about accelerating the time-to-delivery of new critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is also about an architecture t...May. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
 If you look at some of the headline-making breaches of the past few years, they all occurred at large companies with highly dynamic and complex computing environments. Securing these environments is impossible to do without automation, which is why so much of the innovation in IT secur...May. 5, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,200 |
 Today’s IT organizations have recognized the power of virtualization to improve service delivery while also reducing costs. Once relegated to the lab, virtualization now plays key roles across the IT organization. Companies are increasingly moving business-critical workloads onto virtu...May. 5, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,095 |
 It's 11pm – do you know where your data are?
This venerable public-service announcement could serve as a slogan for LogicMonitor, which partners with the likes of NetApp, VMware, Dell, HP, and Citrix to deliver SaaS-based monitoring software.
Case in point: company CEO Kevin McGi...May. 4, 2012 09:12 AM EDT Reads: 573 |
 IBM is going to buy Tealeaf Technology for its tealeaf-reading software, which lets marketing types analyze online buying data, spot trends in real-time and see if promotions work or not.
They call the stuff Customer Experience Management (CEM) software. It’ll replay all the details ...May. 3, 2012 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 937 |
 One of the problems of proliferating SaaS apps might be termed Clutter 2.0 – the end result can be a handful or more of new apps in your world in a mishmash, each with its own integration and IT management costs.
Daniel Saks, Co-CEO of AppDirect, aims to end all that through the co...May. 2, 2012 08:06 PM EDT Reads: 853 |
 ICCs can be used wisely to help, or unwisely to inadvertently hinder, adoption of new data management technologies such as data virtualization.
Because of both organizational resistance and technological concerns, enterprises often struggle when adopting new data management technolog...May. 1, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,014 |
 Essar Group is a large, Mumbai-based company with US$17 billion in revenues, operations in 25 countries, and interests in steel, energy, power, communications, shipping ports, logistics, and construction. It is also migrating toward the cloud with some of its Web-based apps with Micros...Apr. 30, 2012 09:22 AM EDT Reads: 536 |
 "All companies, even non-technology companies, have realized they are cloud companies,” says Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite.
“To effectively transition their business to this new model of reaching customers, they need to build their enterprise around an application suite like NetSuit...Apr. 26, 2012 08:08 PM EDT Reads: 727 |
 With the enablement of new sources of data flow into the enterprise, it is time to look at the issues of Information Delivery 1.0 of the current enterprises.
Disparate Data Sources, most enterprises have grown multiple database platforms and even within a platform, multiple databases ...Apr. 26, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,018 |
 This year, virtual desktop and cloud storage initiatives are at the top of many IT organization’s wish lists. But what is not obvious is how tightly intertwined these two initiatives have become as users embrace the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. This new BYOD model forces IT g...Apr. 25, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 |
 A new acronym, ZaaS (Zombies-as-a-Service), may enter the lexicon, thanks to Broken Bulb Studios, the Scottsdale, AZ developer that's unleashed the zombie game Braaains on Facebook. The studio expected what it described as a “huge” traffic surge, so has been working with SoftLayer and ...Apr. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 403 |
 Elasticity is among the benefits cited by Teradata's Dublin office in announcing its Active Data Warehouses (ADW) for offsite, virtualized, pay-per-use, private cloud services. By private, the company means that its customers' data remains discrete even as it sits on Teradata's hardwar...Apr. 23, 2012 09:21 AM EDT Reads: 633 |
 Amazon’s globe-encircling cloud infrastructure is compelling to many. From Virginia to California, from Ireland to Singapore, and from Japan to Brazil; wherever you find yourself there’s a local instance of the same familiar set of services. And, in all likelihood, Australi...Apr. 23, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,167 |
 Lack of bandwidth is a problem in many developing countries, including the Philippines, as I've written before. Now comes word that about 100 gigabytes-per-second capacity has been added to the Philippines, with completion of the country's portion of a cable that will reach many count...Apr. 20, 2012 10:13 AM EDT Reads: 472 |
 Earlier this month it became widely publicized that Apple maintains complete control over the master encryption key to their marquee cloud offering, iCloud. Now, to anyone familiar with security and encryption this should come as no surprise. In order for nearly all consumer cloud serv...Apr. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,206 |
 Graphics processing units (GPUs) are taking center stage in SoftLayer's latest high-performance computing (HPC) strategy in the cloud, as the company now offers HPC servers with NVIDIA GPUs starting at US$829 per month for what it calls an entry-level configuration of 16GB of RAM and 5...Apr. 16, 2012 08:38 PM EDT Reads: 710 |
 “To some degree, the term cloud computing has caught up with us,” says CenterBeam CEO Dr. A. Kevin Francis. “We've been doing it for awhile.”
CenterBeam, with its roots in New Brunswick, Canada and its headquarters today in Silicon Valley, built a hosted Microsoft Exchange environment...Apr. 11, 2012 08:27 AM EDT Reads: 383 |
 Digital/web agencies have had a lot of evolution to contend with over the past decade. From the rise and fall of MySpace to the increasing popularity of Facebook, to tiny flash drives and 1TB portable hard drives... technology is evolving faster than firms could ever imagine.
That's w...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,332 |
 Only ten weeks to go! Time for an alphabetical summary of the many leading-edge themes & topics to be discussed at Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) - being held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Convention Center in New York City and co-located with Big Data Expo 2012 New York ...Apr. 5, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,331 |
 The appzero approach of transforming an application during the move guarantees that the applications are running on an operations stack that is homogenous, uniform and consistent. And there you have your competitive advantage. A clean match between “the story” and the “install” means g...Mar. 28, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 947 |
 Back in March 2009, when Cisco announced the launch of their UCS platform and subsequent intention to enter the world of server hardware, eyebrows were raised including my own. There was never any disputing that the platform would be adopted by some customers, certainly after seeing ho...Mar. 21, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,031 |
 Too many technology leaders and corporate executives like to jump on the bandwagon and use the latest phrases they have read in some business magazine to define their next endeavor in saving or expanding their enterprise.
Without understanding anything beyond the key phrase or buzzwor...Mar. 14, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,763 |
 There’s a new segment emerging in the industry around storage hypervisors. This is a simple idea that makes a lot of sense. We all understand the benefits that server hypervisor technology brought to servers in terms of utilization, flexibility and cost savings. The promise of a storag...Feb. 27, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,148 |
 Application currency is the on-going process of determining how current an application is, compared to the latest available version. Application currency is an emerging concept, and is closely related to the concept of application compatibility. Application compatibility testing typica...Feb. 26, 2012 09:35 AM EST Reads: 934 |
 Data virtualization enables IT to provide business with the information it needs with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies.
In What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?, five data integration challenges that data virtualiz...Feb. 23, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 1,186 |
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 Cloud computing's potential for innovation in enterprise IT remains “virtually untapped,” according to a new report from IBM's Institute for Business Value, conducted among global business executives in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The IBM report also said its r...Feb. 14, 2012 07:18 PM EST Reads: 993 |
 Eucalyptus Systems and CoreSite Realty have joined forces to create the Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab, described by the companies as an enterprise-class facility. It will launch on March 1. It will be located at CoreSite's datacenter campus in Silicon Valley.
The Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab...Feb. 13, 2012 12:42 PM EST Reads: 602 |
 Virtualization technologies have changed the ground rules on monitoring and managing your IT services.
Most of us in the IT operations world tend to focus on the nuts and bolts of the infrastructure – our key concerns are: How hot are my Linux servers? How many IOPS are happening to ...Feb. 6, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,077 |
 Any data center with a virtualized environment has a real need for effective capacity management. This article discusses the reasons why capacity management is critical to achieving the benefits of server virtualization and outlines the three key requirements to consider when evaluatin...Feb. 6, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 983 |
 With hundreds of organizations deploying data virtualization, a number of best practices have emerged. In this article, I will pass along the lessons these ten organizations learned along the way, as they are a valuable to help other organizations avoid common pitfalls and realize the...Feb. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,306 |
 Continuity, a Big Data start-up that’s still in stealth mode, has gotten $2.5 million in seed money to grow on.
It’s not much but it comes from the right people: Andreessen-Horowitz, Ignition Ventures and Battery Ventures, where founder and CEO Todd Papaioannou, who was Yahoo’s chi...Jan. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,588 |
 2011 was a year where despite the economic constraints everything Big was seemingly good: Big Data, Big Clouds, Big VMs, etc. Caught in the industry's lust for this excess, 2011 was also the year I lost count of how many overprovisioned resources to ‘Big' Production VMs I witnessed. Mo...Jan. 13, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,187 |
 A Philippine technology start-up fund in the amount of about US$2.5 million has been announced by Manila-based Novare Technologies CEO Myla Villanueva. Self-described as an angel fund, it will be called “Wireless Wings.” It also remains open to additional investors, according to Villan...Jan. 13, 2012 05:43 AM EST Reads: 1,116 |
 I put it to you that there is no more emotive word in information technology than “sprawl”..! From the olde Middle English word ‘spraulen,’ it is surely the term (other than ‘crash’) most deeply loathed by network managers and individual users alike.
As the Oxford English Dictionary a...Jan. 11, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,160 |
 To judge by conversations I've had, tweets that I've read, and my own experience, there is dissatisfaction with bandwidth speeds in the Philippines.
This is a serious issue in an age when high-speed connections are a primary driver of social and economic development, as they empowe...Jan. 10, 2012 07:54 AM EST Reads: 1,480 |
 A new study found that 60 percent of UK businesses do not use any type of cloud computing. Furthermore, 20 percent of them “suspect they will sidestep cloud computing all together,” according to the report, which was conducted by IDC on behalf of the British hosting provider Fasthosts....Jan. 8, 2012 04:11 AM EST Reads: 5,403 Replies: 1 |
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