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 A recent post on the HTTP 2.0 War beginning garnered a very relevant question regarding WebSockets and where it fits in (what might shape up to be) an epic battle.
The answer to the question, “Why not consider WebSockets here?” could be easily answered with two words: HTTP headers. It...Jun. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 854 |
 Data centers have undergone rapid change over the past few years. First there was the advent of virtualization, which allowed data centers to finally take advantage of their true capacity while reducing their footprint. Cloud solutions weren’t far behind as more and more business units...Jun. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 469 |
 Maybe you’ve noticed but I’ve been on an infographic kick lately – especially when it’s something interesting.
This time it is an aggregated infographic of data primarily from Forrester, IDC and Gartner as it pertains to the cloud’s impact and adoption thru 2015.
According to ...Jun. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,453 |
 Do you know who your storage hogs are? Every organization has them, whether it’s folks who save everything or applications that just need more capacity every year. And let’s face it: The need for increased storage capacity isn’t just a result of your company pack rats – it’s often a ne...Jun. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,333 |
 Next week I’ll be speaking at Cloud Expo in New York City, one of the premier cloud industry events in the U.S. Of the 150+ sessions that will take place over the four-day conference, a handful appears to address an essential element of the cloud: the network.
The importance of an ent...Jun. 9, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,288 |
 Microsoft announced on June 7th that Windows Azure will be enhanced to include several infrastructure-as-a-service offerings including Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Web Sites and Media Services. These new offerings provide increased flexibility when planning your P...Jun. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,177 |
 Cloud Expo 2012 is almost here. This promises to be an incredible event, with thousands of attendees and over 100 speakers. As previously mentioned, I’m privileged to be presenting on Making Hybrid Cloud Safe & Reliable. I’m particularly excited that I’ll be introducing attendees to th...Jun. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 Service Providers large and small have been delivering network-based services for decades, including infrastructure and software. These have come in the form of enterprise hosting, unified communications, managed security, and managed applications. In fact, it’s not a stretch to inclu...Jun. 8, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,368 |
| Using cloud based security to separate log data from actionable events. The ability to employ situational awareness across all the silos of an enterprise creates the necessary context to break through the white noise of network traffic.
I recently came across an article regarding the ... Jun. 6, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 As the conversations from FIRE sink in, I start to see IT evolve away from the conventional (and highly standardized) data center design to more advanced and highly-tuned architectures customized for particular operating missions. For all of the buzz about commoditized infrastructure ...Jun. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 875 |
 In the past year or so, we have witnessed a major shift from client-server to client-cloud. This shift is primarily fueled by two factors: mobile devices exceeding desktop computers and the thousands of different APIs available on the Internet today. What started in early 2000 on eBay ...Jun. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,457 |
 On June 6th, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the government’s cloud security assessment plan known as FedRAMP will begin accepting security certification applications from companies that provide software services and data storage through the cloud. On Monday, GS...Jun. 5, 2012 04:27 PM EDT Reads: 861 |
 We recently wrote about TechAmerica and their activities related to Big Data in the Public Sector. A Big Data Task Force in TechAmerica’s public sector group has kicked off a collaborative activity in a Big Data Task Force.
There has been a new development in domain. The foundation a...Jun. 5, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,271 |
 Access cloud storage from a local file server is different from accessing it from a desktop machine.
First the software on the file server needs to run as a background Windows server, while the software on the desktop can be a desktop application running inside user’s logon session.
...Jun. 3, 2012 12:11 PM EDT Reads: 488 |
 This is the second part of the SoftLayer series of articles, documenting features from Gladinet products and services that allow you, as an end user to more easily use SoftLayer Object Storage, without the need to do any programming.
Before we get into the more advanced Team Edition t...Jun. 2, 2012 11:59 AM EDT Reads: 650 |
 SoftLayer Object Storage was introduced earlier this year. Since it is based on OpenStack Swift Object Storage, Gladinet has a suite of solutions ready to use, ranging from a desktop client to web browser based file explorer to mobile clients. From a functionality perspective, there ar...Jun. 1, 2012 09:55 PM EDT Reads: 515 |
 The BASIC layer, on one hand, refers to the basic end user needs when it comes to cloud storage.
The BASIC layer, on the other hand, refers to the sum of Backup, Access, Sync/Share, Identity and Controlled Collaboration.
End user won’t use OpenStack Swift storage directly because the...Jun. 1, 2012 12:12 PM EDT Reads: 430 |
 Security is one of (if not THE) top concern companies and users have with cloud computing. The issue of cloud security, however, is much more complex than simply “is the cloud secure or not”. A cloud-based application can be hosted in a secure environment, with properly encrypted data ...Jun. 1, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,533 |
 We’re finalizing our membership options for the CCN, including one for ‘Cloud CIO Canada’ – CloudCIO.ca.
Cloud CIO is a global set of best practices we’re building and this will localize them for Canada, and thus provide the ideal kick-starter knowledge base for Canadian CIO`s who w...May. 31, 2012 09:39 PM EDT Reads: 796 |
 When it comes to cloud storage use case, everyone agrees that it needs to have web browser based access and mobile access, plus Desktop clients so the data can flow from desktop to web browser and to mobile devices.
Google Drive seems to have everything, it has a web browser based acc...May. 31, 2012 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 357 |
 When it comes to issues of capacity planning, many IT groups find themselves playing a guessing game. You can look at what you have today and try to extrapolate where you’ll be in six months or a year, but the fact is you just don’t have all of the necessary data. You can’t predict wha...May. 31, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,088 |
 The cloud revolution is in full swing, with dozens of new cloud-based software services popping up each month. We now have incredible business tools to manage everything from sales to marketing to accounting to inventory, and the software keeps getting better. As is the way with softwa...May. 31, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,183 |
 Providing Assured Cloud Services to the UK Public Sector London - May 31st 2012 - Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has signed up to the Government... May. 31, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 567 |
 In the spirit of leaving Las Vegas I started thinking about the transformation of Las Vegas from a desert oasis created by organized crime to a billion-dollar industry. How did big business and Wall St. push the mob out of Vegas? Movies and television shows, such as Casino, Goodfellas,...May. 30, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,116 |
 Edison is believed to have said "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration", and 9 out of 10 times "implementation trumps innovation" when it comes to achieving commercial success, but is it just me, or has the well of new ideas around cloud computing run a bit dry recently?
Big D...May. 30, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,143 |
 According to a recent survey from CA, 55% percent of US businesses expect to increase usage of the cloud to meet business continuity objectives. According to the study, all of the 300 businesses surveyed experienced some type of data loss event in the past year and the vast majority ad...May. 30, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,318 |
 If you have an HP Cloud account, you may be familiar with the following screen, which is the HP web based storage browser for HP Cloud Object Storage. You can upload, download and browse the files and folders in your HP Cloud Object Storage. Besides the HP Cloud Storage Web Browser acc...May. 29, 2012 02:18 PM EDT Reads: 715 |
 Gladinet has been working on the Mac client project since the iPhone/iPad client release. It is a natural development extension to the iPhone/iPad project since they both require a Mac to develop and share a lot of the same Apple design patterns. It also shares a lot with the Gladinet...May. 28, 2012 11:25 AM EDT Reads: 715 |
 A few weeks ago we were called by a frantic young business owner. His problem? His business – a 3 month old roofing company – was winning more deals than the founders and crew could manage. They were hiring sales reps and managers fast, but needed a system for, well, everyt...May. 28, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,195 |
 Cloud computing has been a key buzzword on the lips of every IT pro for the past several years. However, as more and more cloud solutions make it down to the consumer market, the meaning can get lost or muzzled. After all, with millions of users walking around talking about iCloud, ... May. 28, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,954 |
 There are two levels of reliability for an application. There’s local and there’s global. We might want to consider it more simply as “inside” and “outside” reliability.
Virtualization enables local reliability – the inside kind of reliability. Whether you’re relying upon clustering ...May. 25, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
 Healthcare data security has been around for a long time, but as cloud computing gains more and more traction, healthcare providers as well as healthcare software vendors, would like to use the cloud advantages and migrate healthcare data, or run healthcare software from a cloud infras...May. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,894 |
 Many see the terms risk and threat as interchangeable. However in the simplest of terms, risk the probability or frequency of doing harm while threat is the actual or attempted infliction of that harm. Tomato, tomahto? It’s all about keeping your IT assets protected, right?
I was chat...May. 24, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,134 |
 Gladinet has been supporting OpenStack since there was OpenStack. You can connect to an OpenStack swift (Object Storage) instance from Gladinet Cloud Desktop, Gladinet Cloud Server and also Gladinet Cloud Team Edition.
OpenStack KeyStone is an identity service (or user login service...May. 24, 2012 09:17 AM EDT Reads: 665 |
 In Part 1 of this series, we highlighted Enterprise Strategy Group’s 2012 Spending Intentions Survey, showing that organizations plan to spend 60-72% of IT budget maintaining existing infrastructure in 2012. This second installment takes a deeper look at the maintenance cost of data st...May. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 |
 Intel Cloud SSO is a pure cloud-based identity solution from three of the most trusted names in the industry—Intel, McAfee and Salesforce.com—that simplifies the cumbersome process of providing users with access to hundreds of SaaS apps.
A single point of management, control, access &...May. 23, 2012 02:19 PM EDT Reads: 1,002 |
 It is an interesting point/counterpoint to read up about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment or lack thereof. The industry definitely seems to be split on whether VDI is the wave of the future or not, what its level of deployment is, and whether VDI is more secure than trad...May. 23, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
 I will be showing how to build HTML5, jQuery Mobile apps connected to REST APIs with Tiggzi at the SF East Bay jQuery meetup on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Anyone who attends the meeting will also get free Pro plan. Definitely stop by.May. 21, 2012 06:33 PM EDT Reads: 1,082 |
 It’s pretty easy to pick holes in the current legacy storage products, especially when it comes to integration within both public and private cloud deployments. However it’s worth discussing exactly what is required when implementing cloud frameworks, as the way in which storage is de...May. 21, 2012 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,603 |
 Your application is running slow. You need to find out what’s going on. If you’ve used SQL Profiler on a local database you might be familiar with how you can capture a trace of database activity and use it to figure out where your resources are going. The visibility makes it MUCH easi...May. 21, 2012 11:13 AM EDT Reads: 885 |
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