OpenStack
Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
Feature
 When people think of "compliance" from a Microsoft SharePoint perspective, it can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. Every organization will have different considerations for compliance: Essentially, which regulations they need to comply with according to their specific...Feb. 25, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,138 |
 No matter which team you were cheering for (or if you even watched the game at all), Super Bowl Sunday 2013 was more than a football game. Since the late 1990s, Super Bowl advertisers have tried to successfully link their TV ads to their online properties, sometimes with mixed results....Feb. 10, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,702 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In Part I of this article we discussed the differences between testing traditional and mobile applications, specific challe...Jan. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,315 |
 The aim of the Architecture Assurance is to provide collaborative architecture processes for assuring complete implementation of the technical solutions that are aligned with the business drivers of an enterprise in a timely environment. The effective sharing of the information across ...Dec. 8, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,923 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In the past, mobile played a smaller role in business applications, so performance issues and outages were less of a concer...Dec. 7, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,283 |
 Swarovski – the leading producer of cut crystal in the world – relies on its eCommerce store as much like other companies in the highly competitive eCommerce environment. Swarovski’s story is no different from others in this space: They started with “Let’s build a website to sell our p...Dec. 3, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,842 |
 VMware is defined by its ability to present a virtualised set of hardware to an operating system, including video, network and hard disk adapters. This allows computing states to be ported between different hardware configurations at will while also giving administrators the power to p...Nov. 28, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,543 |
 If you are looking for a hosting service with the intention of having a dedicated server, a managed dedicated server plan is your best choice. It’s the best hosting account due to the fact that you get instantly set up, automatic migrations are included, you get full technical and hard...Nov. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,389 |
 In the past few weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences that provided me with a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of Big Data technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts have discovered ...Sep. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,707 |
 It’s become increasingly clear that Big Data, and the tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing it, are transforming the business landscape. McKinsey released a report in 2011 that projects 40 percent growth in global data generated per year. This is all well and good, but more...Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,363 |
 Are you suffering from double vision in your IT? As odd as it sounds, this is a common occurrence. Line-of-business (LOB) stakeholders often use a different set of criteria to measure IT than IT uses to measure itself. This can lead to a kind of “double vision”that can hurt IT prospect...Aug. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,228 |
 Major retailers like Sears, Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Shell and others announced last week their focus on developing MCX, Merchant Customer Exchange, to enhance their sales and cover the growing demand for capabilities to buy things from the smartphone.
This is a great milestone in ...Aug. 25, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,173 |
 Business management and ERP have undergone huge technological, social and economic shifts. The explosion of cloud computing, mobility of business users, Big Data demands and microscopic focus on cost cutting are changing the pace and direction of every company’s IT strategy.
Five yea...Jul. 20, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,013 |
 Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of c...Apr. 2, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,866 |
 Sustaining applications in the most cost-effective and efficient fashion is the foundation to maximizing a return on data. But it is only the foundation. Organizations have to move beyond sustaining applications to driving innovation, and the first step in that progression is learning ...Mar. 31, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,696 |
 Application owners / senior-level IT allocate a certain percentage of their budget to sustaining, enhancing, and transforming their applications. In most organizations, the largest percentage of the IT spend is on sustaining the applications or basically “keep the lights on” type of ac...Mar. 29, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,008 |
 Sooner or later, every organization faces with necessity of creating computer inventory reports on hardware and software installed. Creating dozens of reports manually is very time consuming and requires a lot of patience. Imagine a network with hundreds of computers and other network...Jan. 26, 2012 07:35 AM EST Reads: 1,285 |
 Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos became well-known as CEO of MySQL, a popular open-source database company that was sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in February 2008. The Finnish native then stayed on with Sun for another year.
Then a year or so ago Marten was named CEO of Eucaly...May. 31, 2011 06:05 AM EDT Reads: 3,372 |
 Some of the best web performance tools are still largely being run as browser plug-ins. If those tools can make the leap to becoming real-time and can be made to consider user context, the industry will have something truly powerful on its hands.
Initiatives like Yahoo’s YSlow and Goo...Jan. 20, 2011 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,310 |
 In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.Oct. 28, 2010 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 77,322 Replies: 5 |
 CNN recently reported on a funeral for Internet Explorer 6.
Anyone who has been in the business of Web software development will tell you it's a bittersweet thing -- except without the bitter part.
When we were designing an earlier form of WorkXpress, no less than 20-30 percent of ou...Mar. 10, 2010 11:47 AM EST Reads: 2,931 |
 This article discusses Open Source compliance and the challenges faced when establishing a compliance program, provides an overview of best practices, and offers recommendations on how to deal with compliance inquiries. Jan. 10, 2010 02:00 PM EST Reads: 10,328 Replies: 1 |
 I just can't help but share more technology forecasts for 2010, as it is January 1, 2010. Dan Grabham and the team from TechRadar put together some quality thoughts and I've included some of those and others below.
First, let's address mobile phones during 2010. "It's the beginning ...Jan. 2, 2010 02:00 PM EST Reads: 7,912 |
 If you’re seeking wealth and fame, journalism might not be your best choice. No one enters the field to get rich, and only a few ever become famous.
An entry-level journalist will barely earn enough to survive if a job is even available in today’s shrinking journalism job market. Even...Dec. 30, 2009 02:15 PM EST Reads: 5,048 |
 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology r...Dec. 16, 2009 11:15 PM EST Reads: 22,742 |
 "At Google, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments at any given time on Google sites all over the world," notes a Google spokesman in a recent statement on The Google Official Blog. "Right now, we are running a small experiment of a new Google homepage design that shows links when ...Nov. 27, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 8,740 |
 It was a clear, very beautiful morning in Sydney. Mike brought the Pitts biplane up to about 4,500ft, and you could literally reach out and touch the mountains from the open cockpit and passenger seat. I came close to better appreciating the words of the classic poem that is understood...Nov. 24, 2009 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,988 |
 Here's a little Drupal Tip O' the Day for our readers. As many of you know, we're platform agnostic here at Orchestra (meaning we run Macs, Linux, Windows and more), so we often end up discovering little tricks and tips about our different OSes. For those of you building a Drupal websi...Oct. 29, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,081 |
 Online marketing is under heavy pressure to be all things to a target market in the ways that market wants them to be—right now. Instant marketing, on-demand pressure and today's culture of constant change impact not just the speed, but the quantity of content you need to create contin...Aug. 30, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,832 |
 Businesses tend to focus their architecture on efficiency instead of agility. This clear distinction between optimising for the known versus optimising for the unknown inherently counteracts on businesses in their effort to seize any of the new opportunities that arises around them.
T...Aug. 16, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 10,335 |
 Organizations looking to reduce integration costs are increasingly adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to maximize their IT investment. The preeminence of Web services as a tool that can support a wide range of dynamic business processes has made it the SOA tool of choice.Jul. 20, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 23,940 Replies: 2 |
 With the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and speculation over whether a new stream of monetization is about to tarnish and dishonor the good name of open source, industry eyes are watching the open code zone more keenly than ever to try and gauge whether a new playing field is abo...Jun. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,798 |
 There has been a lot of talk this week about a new cloud storage service being rolled out by Google as part of their Google App Engine offering. The announcement was part of a presentation at the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, by Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google who indicated i...May. 20, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 12,380 |
 The definition of remote working is changing. Whether an employee is telecommuting or working at a branch office, they require the same connectivity to headquarters, to each other, and to business applications such as inventory and sales data. Many SMEs use the Internet to provide conn...May. 1, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,950 |
 More is better, right? Wrong. In "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less," Barry Schwartz explains how too many options actually cause more psychological distress. And nowhere is the overabundance of choice more prevalent than the Internet, where any given website can present us with ...Jan. 16, 2009 05:55 AM EST Reads: 8,702 |
 The Web is slowly changing from a visual resource designed to externalize information to people, to a non-visual resource that's able to facilitate machine-to-machine communications. The catalysts of this change are non-visual communications that are enabled using APIs, or Application ...Dec. 31, 2008 01:30 PM EST Reads: 7,754 |
 In the last two columns we talked about the emerging platform of the Web, and the use of Web APIs found through directories. Now I have something to show you that lives up to that hype, in essence a layer of technology, on-demand, that lives between the API provider and the API consume...Sep. 22, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,016 |
 Last week we launched a new column called “Web API Expert,” in essence, to provide a deeper focus on the emerging number of Web APIs out there, and show how to leverage them for mashups or other applications. This is the most exciting and interesting area of the emerging Web right now,...Aug. 26, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,312 |
 Google has told the SEC that its billion-dollar acquisition of 5% of AOL, made in 2005 to prevent Microsoft from doing it and giving AOL a $20 billion over-the-top valuation, “may be impaired,” accounting-speak for it ain’t worth what it was (if it ever was). Aug. 11, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,369 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 38,089 Replies: 6 |
Subscribe to Open Web Email News Alerts
Subscribe via RSS
