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 Organizations have become accustomed to accepting the inherent risk associated with point-in-time security assessments. With the emergence of new compliance regulations and the increasing ability to easily change environments through virtualization, we are shifting to a standardized ap...Nov. 5, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,408 |
 Another perfect storm is brewing in cloud computing fueled by the explosive growth of Internet-based mobile apps, network virtualization, and APIs for programmatic control of infrastructure. In addition, community-driven open source projects such as OpenStack make it possible for anyon...Nov. 5, 2012 12:00 AM EST Reads: 1,626 |
 Stratogent Corporation, an IT managed services company, announced it will exhibit again this year at the International Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 5-8.
“Stratogent is excited to return to Cloud Expo this year where Big Data and Cloud Computing are to...Nov. 3, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,318 |
 How are companies making money on OpenStack today, and where are the best opportunities for new companies to get engaged and serve the growing user base?
The OpenStack community and commercial ecosystem are not mutually exclusive. To build a successful OpenStack company or product li...Nov. 2, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,132 |
 In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Brian Clark, Vice President, Field Services, at Objectivity, will review different use-cases and discuss the advantages and benefits of using distributed graph database technologies to more efficiently discover the connections within...Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,044 |
 Platfora, a start-up with an ace or two in the hole, came out of stealth mode this week with the intention of taking the finicky, balky, ornery Hadoop mainstream and disrupting the $35 billion business analytics market.
The company’s aces include Andreessen Horowitz, the young VC wit...Oct. 29, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,945 |
 Microsoft’s got previews of its Apache Hadoop-based solutions for Azure and Windows Server, Azure HDInsight Service and HDInsight Server for Windows.
They’re supposed to deliver Apache Hadoop compatibility for the enterprise and simplify the deployment of Hadoop-based solutions. It s...Oct. 29, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,364 |
 Two types of cloud infrastructure have emerged to clearly differentiate the choices enterprises face in their cloud migration strategies: enterprise virtualization clouds versus elastic cloud infrastructure. The former defines infrastructure built to support legacy enterprise applicati...Oct. 28, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,444 |
 The Software-Defined Datacenter is a unified datacenter platform that will help you transform the way you deliver IT with unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency. VMware’s unique software-defined approach moves beyond traditional IT complexity and rigidity by liberating d...Oct. 26, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ManageIQ, a leader in enterprise cloud management, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ManageIQ is a leading provider of enter...Oct. 26, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,468 |
 MapR Technologies worked for months to make the elephantine curmudgeon known as Hadoop less snappy and irascible.
It dragged it out of the elephant house, scrubbed its hands and face, gave it some manners, told it which fork to use, slicked down its hair, polished its shoes and sent ...Oct. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,353 |
 Centrify, the outfit that leverages Microsoft’s ubiquitous Active Directory, has extended its cloud-based mobile security widgetry to include Mobile Authentication Services (MAS) and deliver “Zero Sign-On” authentication to mobile apps accessing cloud services via Active Directory.
E...Oct. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,701 |
 As data as a service providers are emerging to aggregate and manage large data set sources from multiple sources to make this information more easily available and usable to businesses, it is increasingly imperative to enable an easy-to-use service for data connectivity. As customers p...Oct. 26, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,250 |
 The latest OSX update released last week removes all traces of what used to be an Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from Mac-compatible browsers when it installs.
Apple doesn’t say why but it’s telling users to go to Oracle for the latest version of the plug-in if they need it for a...Oct. 25, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,077 |
 Rackspace has cut a strategic agreement with Hortonworks, the open source Apache Hadoop start-up, to resell its platform.
The two are also going to try to eliminate the complexities and time-consuming manual processes in Hadoop required to implement a Big Data solution.
The announc...Oct. 25, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,748 |
 Aryaka, the WAN Optimization as-a-Service start-up, is now offering what’s called Application Delivery-as-a-Service, which, it says, is purpose-built for the cloud.
It lets a company’s expanded circle of users – home office workers, mobile users, customers and partners – get optimize...Oct. 25, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
 HP may have thrown what the English call a spanner and the Americans call a money wrench into Violin Memory’s anticipated IPO. Whatever you call it, it can be bruising.
See, as soon as Bloomberg reported that the SSD array start-up had quietly filed to go public under the newfangled ...Oct. 23, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,003 |
 The bankrupt United States Postal Service is going to try its hand at same-day delivery, something it’s hasn’t done since baby boomers were tykes.
It’ll be trying out what it calls Metro Post starting in mid-November in San Francisco and deliver packages between four in the afternoon ...Oct. 22, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,219 |
 The last decade saw an explosion of web applications and mobile devices resulting in overwhelming volumes of data. Traditional database designs from 30 years ago have not kept pace and cannot scale to handle these large data sets and concurrent workloads. This has tempted some develope...Oct. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,731 |
 There are many strategies and possibilities when using Big Data technologies to reveal new business insights and the next generation of information services.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Mike Peterson,VP of Platforms and Data Architecture at NeuStar, will disc...Oct. 21, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,899 |
 Companies are engaging customers and prospects on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and through blogs and posts on internal or external websites. But are they in compliance with legal requirements related to social media, not to mention privacy?
Answering questions on every general counsel...Oct. 20, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,246 |
 What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? What security issues remain in the clouds being stood up in 2012, compared to cloud computing's earlier days? How are multi-national cloud init...Oct. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,908 |
 Some people have some BIG ideas about what Big Data is, but let's take a minute to look at the BIG picture. Let's take a BIG step back and talk about where Big Data really makes sense. Where do Big Data solutions fit vs traditional RDBMS solutions? What are the best deployment strategi...Oct. 20, 2012 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,850 |
 After Intel and IBM came up short this week, Google’s Q3 numbers were released early Thursday utterly surprising a market high on its business, an enthusiasm that had driven its stock to all-time highs.
It missed big on both the top and bottom line, instantly creating a big sell-off ...Oct. 19, 2012 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 Violin Memory, the high-speed flash memory array maker, quietly filed its papers with the SEC last month to go public according to Bloomberg, which was quoting “two people familiar with the matter.”
It puts Violin’s possible valuation at near $2 billion. At least that’s what Violin’s...Oct. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,265 |
 Fast and easy remote data access is essential for SaaS-based ERP systems today.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, David Shugars, Sr. Software Engineer, Research & Development at Plex Systems, Inc., will describe how Plex Online uses superior connectivity to provide...Oct. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,807 |
 Zadara Storage has announced their latest storage industry break-through: integration of their Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service with OpenStack® Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) for Public and Private Clouds.
The integration with OpenStack expands the availability of VPSA to de...Oct. 17, 2012 12:14 PM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced pricing for a deep transaction management solution for optimizing performance of Apache Hadoop applications. Compuware APM's dynaTrace Enterprise for Hadoop will be offered starting at just $1,000 per Hadoop Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Applications ...Oct. 17, 2012 09:46 AM EDT Reads: 1,246 |
 QLogic continues to deliver on its Adaptive Convergence strategy with its next-generation FlexSuite2600 Series adapters, available now through authorized QLogic channel partners. FlexSuite "dual-personality" adapters fit seamlessly into current installations as a 16Gb Fibre Channel ada...Oct. 16, 2012 01:57 PM EDT Reads: 952 |
 AMD is going to make “significant” layoffs, possibly amounting to 10%-20% of the company’s workforce, according to what the Wall Street Journal called “a person familiar with the situation.”
All Things Digital puts the number closer to 30%.
The Journal suspects that the company, whi...Oct. 15, 2012 01:36 PM EDT Reads: 1,235 |
 Alteryx thinks it’s managed to humanize cloud-borne Big Data, a good thing too since its analytics is directed at normal business folk as well as data analysts.
In the fashion of the times it’s combined its sophisticated analytics – its stuff is used by such as Wal-Mart, MacDonald’s,...Oct. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 AMD is going to squeeze into what it calls the performance tablet market with a new low-power 40nm Z-60 APU for Windows 8 platforms that has a two-core CPU running at 1GHz. The chip, codenamed Hondo and really meant for notebooks or netbooks, has a thermal design envelop of 4.5W.
It r...Oct. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,905 |
 Cloud-based enterprise backup solutions offer a plethora of benefits. Yet many companies face an uphill battle when it comes to using cloud-based solutions to back up critical business information. Whether due to data security concerns or strict compliance requirements, a standard clou...Oct. 15, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,690 |
 Traditionally, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets. The introduction of cloud services can offer significant cost savings and operational efficiencies but to recognize these benefits, IT dep...Oct. 13, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,406 |
 Private clouds are a great way to provide real-time service delivery of IT resources with a single-tenant, customized, secure environment. However, the challenge of scaling and managing physical resources still exists. The solution may be to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service prov...Oct. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,639 |
 Wal-Mart, which practically invented Big Data analysis to unseemly good advantage, is reportedly consolidating its disparate data analytics systems into one global system and bringing in OpenStack and its mentor Rackspace Hosting to help develop the platform.
At least that’s what inv...Oct. 12, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,790 |
 Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced a new generation performance analytics solution that raises the intelligence of software-as-a-service (SaaS) application performance management (APM). Outage Analyzer provides real-time visualizations and alerts of outages in third-party web...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,331 |
 Workday, the cloud-based human capital and payroll management house expected to IPO this week, has boosted the price of its shares from $21-$24 to $24-$26 apiece, suggesting that there’s investor appetite for the stock although the company isn’t making money yet.
It means to float 22...Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,360 |
| It is no secret that one of the main challenges for applications in the cloud is storage performance. The storage performance problem in the cloud has multiple facets. It is not just low vs. high performance, but also the fact that performance varies over time and one customer can impa... Oct. 10, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,899 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Precog, the leading developer of infrastructure for data warehousing and analysis, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Precog ...Oct. 8, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,727 |
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