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 When you’re a kid at the beach, you spend a lot of time and effort building a sand castle. It’s cool, a lot of fun, and doomed to destruction. When high tide, or random kids, or hot sun come along, the castle is going to fall apart. It doesn’t matter, kids build them every year by the ...Nov. 4, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,447 |
London, United Kingdom, November 02, 2012 --(PR.com)-- FinSer, a financial services company, based in San Antonio, Texas, today announced with Storage Made Easy its use of the SME Cloud Service Broker dedicated appliance for managing its RackSpace Cloud Storage.
The Cloud Service Bro... Nov. 2, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 410 |
By RyanKamauff Government Computer News has an in-depth examination of how text analytics are being used in the federal government. They examined how NASA is using text analytics for airline safety, how text analytics can “read between the lines” of terabytes of data, using... Nov. 1, 2012 07:19 PM EDT Reads: 747 |
 Interested in building Windows 8 applications and monetizing them in the Windows Store? Familiarize yourself with the driving philosophies behind the new paradigm, and find out what technical skills you can hone to best prepare you for success.
Did you spend the weekend getting to...Nov. 1, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 567 |
(Originally posted by Lori Macvittie on rishidot.com) Porticor, which earlier this year unveiled its split-key encryption technology for securing cloud data has taken the next step in its quest to assure users of the security of data in the cloud. In addition to adding VM... Nov. 1, 2012 01:31 PM EDT Reads: 570 |
Perhaps some "new" geeks do not understand and think that we are saying that 20 years ago or more, was much more exciting to work with personal computers. Those who think like we had the experience of not having everything available with one click. We had the experience of expl... Nov. 1, 2012 09:50 AM EDT Reads: 310 |
 This is an industry trends and perspective piece about big data and little data, industry adoption and customer deployment.
If you are in any way associated with information technology (IT), business, scientific, media and entertainment computing or related areas, you may have heard b...Nov. 1, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,190 |
Tim Gasper (Product Manager at Big Data platform Infochimps) has an informative article at TechCrunch that provides an overview of five open-source technologies trending now for Big Data applications. They are: Storm and Kafka (for processing stream data) Drill and Dremel (for ad-hoc q... Oct. 30, 2012 07:37 PM EDT Reads: 374 |
By BobGourley Cloudera and Cleversafe are totally different companies addressing different challenges. But the two firms have quite a bit in common. Here are key commonalities I’ve observed: Both invest in real engineering and deliver enterprise-grade/quality capabilities Both ar... Oct. 30, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 715 |
This Week in Website Performance is a weekly feature of the Monitis.com blog. It summarizes recent articles about website performance. Why? Because your friends at Monitis.com care. NoSQL or Traditional Database: From an APM Perspective There Isn’t Really Much Difference Author: Michae... Oct. 30, 2012 09:53 AM EDT Reads: 496 |
 As mentioned in Part I of this series, cloud technology has introduced a viable alternative to the practice of creating secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR), promising to save IT organizations hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in infrastructure and maintenance. Wh...Oct. 27, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,182 |
As promised, the source distribution for R 2.15.2 is now available for download from the master CRAN repository. (Binary distributions for Windows, MacOS and Linux will be available from the CRAN mirror network in the coming days.) This latest point-update — codenamed "Trick or Treat" ... Oct. 26, 2012 01:46 PM EDT Reads: 537 |
By BobGourley CTOvision writes with a focus for the technologists of the enterprise. We love you guys! And we know you need information on the fast moving shape of technology. But you also need ways to express technology to the non technical around you. With that in mind we want to br... Oct. 26, 2012 11:03 AM EDT Reads: 507 |
 In the second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016), Cisco forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016. The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow six...Oct. 26, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,063 |
 It’s interesting as a parent watching your kids grow up and learn how to do things for themselves. I have 2 boys ages 6 and 7 and they often amaze me and confound me. There are times when I think they are absolutely brilliant and other times where I think that significant amounts of re...Oct. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,164 |
At the Strata conference in New York today, Steve Yun (Principal Predictive Modeler at Allstate's Research and Planning Center) described the various ways he tackled the problem of fitting a generalized linear model to 150M records of insurance data. He evaluated several approaches: Pr... Oct. 25, 2012 06:23 PM EDT Reads: 439 |
By RyanKamauff Here are today’s top cyber news and stories. Federal News Radio has released their “Cybersecurity Rising” report which includes the top cybersecurity accomplishments of the 2006-2012 - this report has polled cybersecurity experts on the top accomplishme... Oct. 25, 2012 04:43 PM EDT Reads: 477 |
By Kelsey Atherton Editor’s note: What follows is extracted from a storify post . This is a first post in this format for the CTOvision blog. Let us know what you think on any aspect of this, including format in your browser, format in your newsletters and of course content- bg.... Oct. 25, 2012 01:26 PM EDT Reads: 502 |
INTRODUCTION There are a variety of ways to implement proxying capabilities for web servers. As Apache is the most popular web server, we will try to implement proxying on it. Everyone who knows Apache well, probably knows that Apache implements proxying capability for AJP13 , FTP, CON... Oct. 25, 2012 08:55 AM EDT Reads: 514 |
Record-breaking Database Continues to Power the World's Data-centric Businesses as the Platform of Choice for edo℠, EnvoiMoinsCher.com and FriendScout24New York, NY - Actian Corporation today announced that Vectorwise, the company's record-breaking analytic database, has been sel... Oct. 25, 2012 05:41 AM EDT Reads: 447 |
The O'Reilly Strata conferences are always great fun to attend, and this latest installment in New York City is no exception. This one is super-busy though; the conference has been sold out for weeks -- and not just marketing-sold-out, it's fire-department-sold out. It's non-stop conve... Oct. 24, 2012 06:39 PM EDT Reads: 417 |
 It's likely that IT network and security staff would agree that HTML5 WebSockets has the potential for high levels of disruptions (and arguments) across the data center. Developers want to leverage the ability to define their own protocols while reaping the benefits of the HTTP-as-appl...Oct. 24, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,573 |
 Today’s data center infrastructure has to be more agile than ever before. It needs to increase efficiency while increasing agility, and providing more and more services.
Having an agile infrastructure lets you change how IT operates. It lets you adapt to growth – even unexpected growt...Oct. 24, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,109 |
On Thursday next week (November 1), I'll be giving a new webinar on the topic of Big Data, Data Science and R. Titled "The Rise of Data Science in the Age of Big Data Analytics: Why Data Distillation and Machine Learning Aren’t Enough", this is a provocative look at why data scientists... Oct. 23, 2012 10:24 AM EDT Reads: 189 |
Patented Innovations in LANDesk Management Suite and Security Suite enable IT to Maximise User Productivity while Reducing Cost, Complexity and RiskLONDON - Oct 23, 2012 - LANDesk Software, a global leader in integrated systems and asset management, endpoint security, end-to-end mobili... Oct. 23, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 614 |
 A new report from analyst firm Gartner forecasts that IT organizations will spend $232 billion (US) on hardware, software and services related to Big Data through 2016. Some key findings from the report: $5.5 billion in new software sales will be driven directly by demands for new big ...Oct. 23, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,475 |
 According to Netcraft, who tracks these kinds of things, SSL usage has doubled from 2008 and 2011. That's a good thing, as it indicates an upswing in adherence to security best practices that say "SSL Everywhere" just makes good sense.
The downside is overhead, which despite improveme...Oct. 23, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,354 |
By BobGourley Maven is a widely used project management tool. It is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation which maintains a comprehensive project page at maven.apache.org Thetus is a company providing advanced analytical capabilities including model enabled analysis... Oct. 23, 2012 06:11 AM EDT Reads: 677 |
Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2012 --(PR.com)-- As the new Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Sessions joins AVOXI with eighteen years of experience and skill sets that include everything from cloud technology and VoIP to knowledge among varied operating systems including Linux. Mr. Sessions is... Oct. 23, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 487 |
You can now download the Vordel API Server v7.1 right off the Vordel website. It comes with handy QuickStart samples to walk you through API registration and management. But Oct. 22, 2012 11:53 AM EDT Reads: 260 |
GridGain is the sponsor and premier exhibitor at Strata + Hadoop World conference in NYC, October 23-25, 2012. Stop by our table and have a chat with GridGain team. Don’t forget to ask them about… Oct. 22, 2012 12:53 AM EDT |
I’m working on my PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 (SPC195) talk for SPC12 and I find this new cmdlet so useful I thought I would share it immediately. The cmdlet is Copy-SPSite and it’s easy to use. Just run it and before you know it, you’ll have a duplicate of a site collec... Oct. 21, 2012 11:44 PM EDT Reads: 177 |
 Nearly everyone has played musical chairs – as a child if not as an adult with a child. When that music stops there's a desperate scrambling to pair up with a chair lest you end up sitting on the sidelines watching the game while others continue to play until finally, one stands alone....Oct. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,224 |
 I had a chance to visit Plug and Play (the one in Sunnyvale) yesterday. I met Will Farino, who discussed at great length about the services that Plug and Play was offering to startups and he also showed me around the place.
"We work with about 300 tech startups with 2 to 80 people -- ...Oct. 19, 2012 04:19 PM EDT Reads: 446 |
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .038 – Tom Has Friends Edition Hosts: Bill Mathews (@billford), Ian Gillespie (@ianisgood), Patrick...Read More Oct. 19, 2012 02:29 PM EDT Reads: 526 |
If you’re anything like us, you are somewhat obsessed with web hosting, web hosting technologies and web hosting solutions. From dedicated servers, to VPS solutions, to knowing how to get FTP access into your server’s control panel, having a healthy … Read More Oct. 18, 2012 12:31 PM EDT Reads: 537 |
In a webinar today previewing Spotfire 5 (scheduled for release this November), TIBCO announced that it will include TERR: The Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R. TERR is a closed-source reimplementation of the R language engine, and not based on the GPL-licensed R project from the R Found... Oct. 17, 2012 05:59 PM EDT Reads: 442 |
 One of the biggest concerns IT managers have about moving business-critical applications into the cloud and away from the data center is the issue of security. What you may not realize, however, is that the same tools for automation and provisioning that function in cloud implementatio...Oct. 17, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 Sitting in traffic the other day reminded me of a stock trading company that gets millions of system alerts a day. Millions!!! Do they all need attention? Only some? How can you know without viewing them all? There is no way to personally handle such an enormous amount of alerts. ...Oct. 17, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
IGEL Universal Desktop Converter software extends life and manageability of old PCs by migrating them to fully manageable IGEL Universal Desktop thin client-like devices London, UK, October 17th 2012 - Angels were seen breathing life into old PCs at the IGEL Stand of IP Expo in Earls C... Oct. 17, 2012 07:33 AM EDT Reads: 498 |
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