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 In 2012 AWS released their Storage Gateway that you can access and try for free here using either an EC2 Amazon Machine Instance (AMI), or deployed locally on a hypervisor such as VMware vSphere/ESXi. About a year ago I did a storage gateway post (First, second and third impressions) w...Mar. 29, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,424 |
 Okay, for those of you who’ve been waiting, this is the blog. For those who haven’t, welcome, we’re going to talk about https connections (specifically) on Android (TM) from within a native app and connecting to sites that Android views as possible security risks. Easy like learning t...Mar. 29, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 839 |
 Why are AT&T; and Google paying for New Yorkers’ free Wi-Fi? A recent Amdocs survey into service provider Wi-Fi strategies provides a pointer.
Announcing another free Wi-Fi service for a New York neighborhood recently, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made an interesting point:
“Keep in min...Mar. 20, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 673 |
 It is interesting, talking with people about what they read, and seeing how what they read is reflected in their daily lives. Even the occasional reader of this blog would not be surprised to find that I spend some amount of time with my nose buried in epic fantasy books and military h...Mar. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,529 |
 The cloud world seems to have been received some interesting announcements and offerings over the last week. There were some new feature releases and price offerings from Amazon.
Microsoft has announced some important updates to Windows Azure Mobile Services. Plus, Cloud Foundry has...Mar. 11, 2013 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,630 |
 Over the past several weeks I’ve been working on some content I’m excited to finally share with you through a series of blog posts. This series will introduce you to Windows 8 development from an Android developer’s perspective. Through the course of the series you’ll create your first...Mar. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,097 |
 Have you experienced a sudden traffic burst in your website today? If this is becoming a common trend already, you should seriously consider replacing your shared hosting plan with either a VPS or a dedicated server. Although the common shared hosting service is a good plan on itself, ...Feb. 27, 2013 08:58 AM EST Reads: 765 |
 Companies want to migrate data to cloud and work from cloud directly. However, they don’t have time to wait for the data migration to happen if it is taking a long time. Here is a typical conversation around data migration to the cloud.
“Can Gladinet work as a shared network drive for...Feb. 18, 2013 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,983 |
 Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud bursting, cloud storming, elastic compute, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, the list of terms goes on and on ad-nauseam. Like it or not, cloud computing has taken hold as an important design consideration in companies ranging from small startups to lar...Feb. 16, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,828 |
 When conducting code reviews then you should determine if code reviews are just something you check off your list or have they actually gotten you closer to better quality code? Your motivations and attitudes towards code reviews can greatly affect their effectiveness.
When my son sta...Feb. 12, 2013 12:03 PM EST Reads: 504 |
 Learn how to Install and Configure Parallels 8 on a Mac for use in Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development.
You'll need the following to use Parallels Desktop to install Windows 8 and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 on your Mac:
Parallels Desktop. To download a trial version...Feb. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,163 |
 As we get into the full swing of the new year and put another CES behind us, it’s time to take a look at the current trends in technology and get a feel for some of the developments we can expect in 2013. There are a lot of interesting products just around the corner – some of them wil...Jan. 26, 2013 12:45 PM EST Reads: 2,709 |
 Just collecting and storing 'big data' doesn't drive value to an organization's bottom line. The real issue is the ability to quickly communicate with users and ask any question, any time, no matter how much data you have.
Realtime push technology gives big data users a competitive ...Jan. 25, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,546 |
 Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical, revealed his plan to release a version of Ubuntu software for smartphones. Shuttleworth aims to target developing countries and believes Ubuntu will have an easy transition into these markets due to the software’s brand recognition in these ...Jan. 21, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,842 |
 Which ecosystem am I talking about?
IBM had ruled and still rules the mainframe ecosystem . But the game changed!
Microsoft lorded over the desktop ecosystem. It still does but we all know that the game is changing again.
You would be pardoned if you think that the new game in town ...Jan. 17, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,336 |
 The PaaS market is filled with noise. "Platform as a Service" is surrounded with blind men around the elephant, each with their own definition PaaS. This is further compounded by the fact that the Application Platforms landscape is changing quickly as well. We keep hearing that "Develo...Jan. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,023 |
 In this article of the Performance Tuning Windows 2012 series we’ll focus on the Networking Subsystem. We’ll approach the various optimization guidelines by layer, starting with the hardware and drivers. We’ll also cover NDIS, the protocol stack, and user mode applications. Let’s star...Jan. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,339 |
 It has been less than four months since we introduced the first public preview for Windows Azure Mobile Services and in this short time we have seen continual improvements to the service offering including:
SDKs for Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and iOS app
Auth using Microsoft Acco...Jan. 9, 2013 10:06 AM EST Reads: 1,817 |
 Now that SharePoint Server 2013 has been released, I frequently get asked about ways in which a SharePoint 2013 lab environment can be easily built for studying, testing and/or performing a proof-of-concept. You could certainly build this lab environment on your own hardware, but due ...Jan. 7, 2013 03:43 PM EST Reads: 4,844 |
 Happy New Year!!!! For the New Year all of my IT Pro teammates across the country wanted to get together and talk about 31 things we love and want to teach about having Servers (VMs) in the Cloud. Throughout this month we are going to be talking about Windows Azure IaaS (Infrastructu...Jan. 3, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,481 |
 Long a leader in storage technology, IBM last summer gave us a peek at some of the advances they’re making in storage. Today, IBM has created a high-speed storage system than can scan over 10 billion files in just under 45 minutes. The previous system from IBM scanned just 1 billion fi...Dec. 28, 2012 03:30 PM EST Reads: 1,743 |
 Richard Spragg examines an alternative view to one of his previous blogs, and accepts that he may just have been wrong.
There are times in life when you have to put your hands up to being in the minority, especially when you're in the business of putting your opinions out there in th...Dec. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,307 |
 Introducing a new security paradigm that leverages the cooperative functionality of various security tools. However, the key is still monitoring the results in real time; and the best case scenario (most efficient/effective means) for most companies to achieve this is via the cloud.
T...Dec. 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,488 |
 Voxeet is an improvement to conference calls so radical that it's hard to imagine going back to archaic audio bridges or spotty P2P services. Despite the fact that conference calls can be an awful experience, there has been little or no innovation over the past decade.
Those days are ...Dec. 20, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,766 |
 It’s been a busy and successful seven days for online retailers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic and sales were well above 2011, and there was the extra benefit to those businesses that started deals on Thanksgiving Night. The traffic data collected by the Compuware Ecommerce and...Dec. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,039 |
 A popular spot where the Cloud and Identity domains intersect is the idea of “Personal Clouds”, which would be ideal services to build via a concept of the `X Internet`.
With open standards like SAML providing the building blocks of interconnecting identity systems between application...Dec. 6, 2012 09:28 AM EST Reads: 1,553 |
 Yesterday’s WSJ.com video “Tablet Wars: How Are People Using Tablets?” had a shocking statistic: 98% of the web traffic from tablets comes from Apple’s iPad. Further, most of mobile commerce is from Apple’s iPhone.
Translation: No matter what the sales figures for Android, people jus...Dec. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,482 |
 A recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon describes a threat scenario that allows attackers to exploit cloud-based resources for malicious purposes like cracking passwords or launching denial-of-service attacks. The study has gotten a...Dec. 5, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,726 |
 Jack Clark at ZDnet recently published a great series of articles on the current state of cloud computing, which included an article on utility computing called “Cloud computing’s utility future gets closer“. It’s one of the best reviews of where we are in the progression toward utilit...Dec. 5, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,423 |
 For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming year. This is the second year in a row that they’ve invited me to contribute, and I thoug...Dec. 5, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,118 |
 The vast majority of new customers choose to seed their backup via the internet. Once you've configured the lightweight software client we call ZettaMirror with the paths to backup, it begins providing data protection by sending that data to Zetta's data centers and replicating your fi...Dec. 3, 2012 10:52 AM EST Reads: 597 |
 It is quite difficult to find any environment that is truly homogeneous today. Even home networks, which at one time may have been "all Windows" or "all Linux" today are a mixture of mobile device, Apple, and Windows-based products. As networks grow, the heterogeneity of its infrastruc...Nov. 28, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,955 |
 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced the concept of the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This builds on the concept that as more and more of the Data Center becomes virtualized (servers, desktops), delivering greater cost-savings and agility to customers, software-defined automation ...Nov. 28, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,852 |
 On October 24, 2012 Cloudera announced the release of Cloudera Impala and the commercial support subscription service of Cloudera Enterprise Real Time Query (RTQ). Impala is a SQL based Real Time Query/Ad Hoc query engine built on top of HDFS or Hbase. As I watched the demonstration u...Nov. 27, 2012 07:05 AM EST Reads: 2,182 |
 In our previous article, Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features, we introduced some of the many new features that Windows Server 2012 provides to its clients. In this article we will focus on some more, particularly features that ease remote access.
The opportunity to work from a...Nov. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 1,485 |
 I recently (finally) received the Google Chromebook in the mail. After over 2 weeks of intense waiting, it is here, and has absolutely matched all of my expectations. The device is thin and light and amazing looking. It is quite and never gets hot, even after extended use. The battery ...Nov. 21, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 4,578 |
 The Android development community, as might be expected, is a pretty vibrant community with a lot of great contributors helping people out. Since Android is largely based upon Java, there is a lot of skills reusability between the Java client dev community and the Android Dev community...Oct. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,505 |
 There has been an increasing amount of commentary about the growing shortage of Information Security folks. While the reasons for this shortage are manifold and easily explained, that doesn’t change the fact that it exists. Nor the fact that natural sources may well be causing it to wo...Oct. 18, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,174 |
 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: 2,684 |
 In today’s economy, many businesses are looking at employees using their own mobile devices at work as a way to cut expenses.
One reason for the growing BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend is because many companies can’t afford to keep up with the latest updates in mobile technologies....Oct. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,407 |
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