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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 What is the “Cloud”? What is “Cloud” computing? These are questions I get all the time. For the vast majority of people, the “Cloud” is a lofty term having to do something with computing or, let’s be honest, puffy cumulus wisps of moisture floating around in the sky. The truth is the “...Sep. 4, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,910 |
 Many years ago I prepared my first PowerPoint slide deck and used it as visuals in front of a small audience. Over the last twenty years I made tons of presentations on IT related subjects. In this blog I’d like to share with you a dozen rules I use while preparing my slide decks or sp...Sep. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an in...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,280 |
 Too often, Information Technology leadership lives in its own world, far removed from business decision-making. This can result in IT being an easy target for blame. If everything goes well, IT is a high-spend cost center. If things go poorly, then IT isn't doing its job. Non-strategic...Sep. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,729 |
 Virtualization is the process creating a virtual version of a resource such as an operating system, network resource or storage device. Virtualization of an OS involves hosting an OS on another OS using a virtualizer such as Oracle VirtualBox. Various Linux distributions such as openSU...Aug. 12, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,872 |
 According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, many agencies still have significant
reservations about moving essential information and functions to the public cloud. According
to the poll, nearly half of respondents indicated that worries about security were the primary
fac...Aug. 10, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 984 |
 As you may have heard by now, Stephen Covey – the author of “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” passed away this week. He published this book for the first time in 1989, just as I was entering the workforce and had a strong influence on how I analyzed about my own effectiveness. ...Jul. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,691 |
 As the organizations involved in traditional sales of shrink-wrapped software enter the Cloud business, they face a challenge dealing with the new paradigm. While the best practices of selling do not change much, they need to get comfortable pitching, positioning and selling the new ‘a...Jul. 9, 2012 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,283 |
 When you have an existing system, and you have a need to deploy a mobile app that won’t interfere with what’s already in place, the cloud can offer a great solution if managed correctly. May. 30, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,772 |
 Assuming you haven’t spent the last couple of years living under a rock, you’re bound to have been bombarded with all sorts of propaganda about “The Cloud.” “The Cloud,” according to the marketing types, is the greatest thing since the invention of bread, surely able to solve all of ou...May. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,902 |
 Like it or not, some enterprises have already entered a post-PC world -- where their business communication network must accommodate new user-driven choices. These include traditional applications, mobile apps, social apps and operating systems; various server architectures; and an arr...May. 18, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,573 |
 Tech entrepreneurs can see clearly now; the rain is gone, thanks to the cloud. Cloud computing is making it easier and more affordable for people all over the world to be entrepreneurs, and individuals and businesses are acting accordingly.May. 7, 2012 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,696 |
 Like other trends in technology, cloud computing is constantly being redefined and re-understood. The fact of the matter is that, while we have a general agreement on what cloud computing is, the term has come to mean many things to many people. The advent of cloud storage services ... May. 6, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,012 |
 This is Part III in a series by 6fusion Co-founder and CEO John Cowan on the emerging trend of Cloud Brokerage and the impact it will have on the technology industry and markets. Be sure to check out Part I of the series here and Part II here. May. 2, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,694 |
 OpenStack is an open-source cloud framework for building on-demand Infrastructure as a Service.
This tutorial in essence distills from this two-page set of instructions for setting up devstack on a single server primarily for use by developers.
I used a DELL 1950 with 8 GB of RAM, in...May. 2, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,385 |
 VMM, a member of Microsoft System Center suite, is an enterprise solution for managing policies, processes, and best practices with automations by discovering, capturing and aggregating knowledge of virtualization infrastructure. In addition to the system requirements and the new feat...Apr. 16, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,524 |
 Today’s enterprise is built on the promises of mobility, everywhere-access and flexibility. We work on multiple devices when and where we want – at the office, on the road or at home. We expect full access to our data and applications – on a sales call, in a boardroom or on a cross-con...Apr. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,284 |
 It is our goal at Monitis to make the lives of web developers and system administrators easy. We have reviewed the 5 leading hosted hadoop-based applications and given a short analysis of them in this post to help guide you in finding a solution that best suits your needs. Apr. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,766 |
 Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when...Apr. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,932 Replies: 1 |
 Sometimes you may want to restore the newer version of the file on the target computer over the existing (Older) version. This is particularly important in the Sync scenario, where you want to have your target folder look exactly as the source. In the previous version of CloudBerry Bac...Mar. 6, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 1,680 |
 Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations around the world use technology. Despite the fact that many refer to 2011 as the Year of the Data Breach, and cloud computing has earned a reputation of being inherently insecure, that stigma is simply just not true. Most cloud p...Nov. 28, 2011 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,403 |
 Anyone who purchases storage arrays is familiar with the many advantages of modular storage systems and storage area networks. However, they may also be familiar with one of the less desirable attributes of storage arrays: the typical three- to five-year lifecycle that forces decommiss...Oct. 3, 2011 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,689 |
 The first generation of cloud computing was revolutionary in that it added business value to organizations by reducing development time, eliminating the need to procure infrastructure, providing massive scaling potential, establishing scale through multi-tenancy and by allowing IT peop...Sep. 30, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,166 |
 Three years ago I began as IT Director for Fetch Technologies, where we started working on a new mission: to create the perfect network. Fetch wanted a network that would be cost effective, reliable and scalable, with a simple web interface to create and manage virtual servers. The inn...Sep. 29, 2011 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,048 |
 Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed before too long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account (@jg21) here goes with an expanded roster, listed as before in alphabetical o...Sep. 26, 2011 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 30,489 |
 For almost a decade now, organizations of all sizes have been leveraging server virtualization, but few have fully gained the flexibility and efficiencies it promised. The emergence of cloud computing and the promise of delivering on-demand resources has introduced new challenges and o...Sep. 8, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,936 |
 When you wake up in the morning and flip on a light switch, you don’t think about whether the local power company has enough electricity available to power the light. Likewise, when you switch on the coffee pot or turn on your stove to make breakfast, you don’t wonder about the availab...Sep. 6, 2011 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,273 |
 The “cloud era” of information technology is upon us. Connectivity is pervasive and everyone and everything is connected. Readily available, low-cost, Internet-based services providing access to new capabilities and infinite amounts of information have given rise to a new set of experi...Aug. 22, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,159 |
 The use of virtualization and cloud computing is growing quickly among companies of all sizes. Currently, 30 percent of servers are virtualized, and surveys show that by 2012, that number will grow to 50 percent.
Virtualization and cloud computing go hand-in-hand, and virtualizing se...Aug. 20, 2011 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,171 |
 Few areas of human endeavor can match the pace of change in IT. Even by IT standards, the change being driven by cloud computing sometimes seems surprising. To refer to a virtual environment that has only recently been deployed as “legacy,” as some organizations are now doing, undersco...Aug. 14, 2011 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,471 |
 It’s no secret that today’s IT professionals need to help their organizations capture, track, analyze and share more information than ever before. From mass quantities of transactional data, Web data, and huge and growing volumes of “machine-generated” information, such as sensor and l...Aug. 3, 2011 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,263 |
 Cloud computing has now passed the stage of hype to reality. More and more enterprises are realizing the benefits of remote hosting of IT services rather than local IT management, especially as managing and operating IT networks and services is not getting any easier.
Managing IT net...Jul. 27, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,087 |
 These days when we hear the term "cloud computing" there is an understanding that we are speaking about a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform that is being utilized or will be utilized to provide IT services over the Internet. As end users or researchers of all thing...Jul. 27, 2011 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,574 |
 Cloud Computing is an evolution of existing technologies to deliver services to end users. Communication service providers have an early adopter opportunity to compete with new entrants, increase their bottom line and play a dominant role in delivering cloud services.
Service provid...Jul. 25, 2011 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,048 |
 Feeling nervous about the cloud? Many CIOs understandably hesitate to send services requiring regulatory compliance to the public cloud. Though not outsourcing such services may seem like a good idea, this approach limits your flexibility in offering the best combination of services to...Jul. 21, 2011 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,110 |
 Developing your Software as a Service (SaaS) takes you away from the dark ages of programming and into the new age in which copyright protection, DMA, and pirating don’t exist. In the current age of computing, people don’t expect to pay for software but instead prefer to pay for the su...Jul. 21, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,232 |
 Cloud Computing is intrinsically service-based. But this is not just in the highly generalized sense of the term ‘service’, but also in the more specific Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) use of the term, where capabilities are provided via published service interfaces. In this resea...Jul. 1, 2011 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,925 |
 This excerpt describes fundamental terms and concepts associated with service-oriented computing, including those related to service-oriented architecture, service-orientation, and cloud computing.
Service-oriented computing is an umbrella term that represents a new generation distri...Jun. 27, 2011 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,154 |
 The economics of the cloud, the rise of the mobile workforce and the consumerization of IT are making the transformation to the cloud a foregone conclusion within enterprise IT. But not every company, organization or government agency is necessarily keeping up. Are you? Jun. 9, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,154 |
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