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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
Infrastructure 2.0
 Big Data applications such as Hadoop and Hive are becoming more widely adopted and mainstream. There are increasing numbers of users who will select the cloud – whether private or public - as an efficient and scalable deployment vehicle for these large-scale distributed apps. Hadoop im...May. 13, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,156 |
 I have Google's Blogger app on my iPhone and iPad mini. I can write articles for publication from anywhere with an Internet connection, but are they read, are they shared? That is our subject for today.
One of the biggest growth areas involving mobility is mobile marketing. If your...Apr. 29, 2013 01:22 PM EDT Reads: 920 |
 The most essential element in optimizing performance is detecting issues before they impact your systems. However, you need to implement constant monitoring on your operating environment to gain this early insight. There are tools to help, but finding one that provides all the right in...Apr. 27, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,712 |
 Staying current with the latest and greatest in hardware and technology is challenging for organizations of any size, but especially so for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) who are often extra challenged with limited resources and personnel. It’s no surprise then that today’s SM...Apr. 20, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,931 |
 Today’s IT infrastructure is in the midst of a major transformation. In many ways, the data center is a victim of its own success. The growing number of technologies and applications residing in the data center has spawned increasing complexity, which makes IT as a whole less responsiv...Apr. 5, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,770 |
 Go ahead try saying Ubiquisys 10 times fast.
Surely that little tongue-twister will disappear now that Cisco has decided to
buy the place. Surely $310 million in cash and retention bonuses will fetch it
rechristening rights and make the receptionist happy.
The mighty switch hou...Apr. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 924 |
 Organizations today understand that better access to information assets can improve their bottom-line. But they struggle with the variety of enterprise, cloud and big data sources, and all their associated access mechanisms, syntax, security, etc. Data abstraction overcomes data sourc...Mar. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,951 |
 For most CIOs and IT managers, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) isn’t a new concept. In fact, many of them have dismissed it more than once amid concerns such as ROI, security and user experience.
But it’s time to take a fresh look at VDI because a slew of new technologies have e...Mar. 19, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,545 |
 The hybrid cloud opportunity (also called cloud virtualization) could turn the tables on server virtualization market leader VMware or help it to establish even higher growth rates.
I have heard of TAM (total addressable market) estimates for VMware of about $80B. I’m not sure if tha...Mar. 17, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,709 |
 Many organizations that are looking at implementing a new network infrastructure for cloud computing; a new building being built; or any other network capability, better look closer at their network designs.
Why? All the cabling needed to build the network should fit the lifespan of t...Mar. 6, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,810 |
 VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) implementation projects are going to be priorities for many IT Managers in 2013 and a key concern will be end-user acceptance. If the users don't embrace their virtual desktops they won't use them and the project is doomed to failure. The key to acc...Feb. 5, 2013 06:09 AM EST Reads: 1,434 |
 Server virtualization has already proven beneficial for many enterprises. Through data center consolidation, server virtualization is able to enhance efficiency and reduce operational expenses. As this technology continues to evolve, however, IT professionals are moving beyond the basi...Feb. 1, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,947 |
 Virtualization is spreading through the enterprise for a variety of mission-critical workloads. According to statistics from an August 2012 blog post on eginnovations.com, 59 percent of workloads are being virtualized. As we move forward into 2013, we need to decide how we will proceed...Jan. 21, 2013 01:35 PM EST Reads: 3,266 |
 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Role introduces a new capability, Hyper-V Replica, as a built-in replication mechanism at a virtual machine (VM) level. Hyper-V Replica can asynchronously replicate a selected VM running at a primary site to a designated replica site across LAN/WAN. Here bot...Jan. 15, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,126 |
 What changes in the cloud computing and big data landscape should we be expecting in 2013? In this article we offer a round-up of industry experts' opinions as they were asked by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan to preview the year ahead.Dec. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,504 |
 For a company like Lafarge, the dispatching of trucks and materials is mission critical. So when the performance of IT applications supporting this function suffers, it’s bad for business.
Based in Paris, France, Lafarge is a provider of building materials, with more than $15 billion...Nov. 30, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,950 |
 When I talk to CIOs, they usually complain that the trend of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, is undermining their ability to keep their organization’s infrastructures and data secure. Every employee who comes to work with his or her smartphone or tablet and pulls up sales reports, help...Nov. 23, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,766 |
 Enterprise IT has experienced a rapid evolution over the past few years. Cloud has revolutionized storage and brought with it a host of new and emerging information security challenges. Consumer adoption of mobile technology has forced enterprise networks to operate in a multi-platform...Nov. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,187 |
 Those familiar with deploying virtual machines (VMs) know that in order to ensure performance, VMs must be tied to physical platforms. As the demand for data-intensive virtualized and cloud solutions continues to increase, more powerful server platforms will be required to deliver this...Nov. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,177 |
 Based on different reports of companies in New York still caught “off-guard” with their computer systems, it is hard to believe that corporate computer systems are down for some major companies – especially financial ones – and there are no redundant systems up-and-running.
What happe...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,688 |
 The electromagnetic spectrum buzzes with activity. Smartphones, wireless headsets, desktop computers, in-car navigation systems, GPS-enabled gadgets, and many more devices compete for bandwidth as well as our attention. I served as the lead software developer for a team that recently c...Oct. 27, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,381 |
 If you are an IT manager, application owner, architect or developer in a corporation leveraging a mainframe, then today is a revolutionary day: Application Performance Management is now available end-to-end for the mainframe. Read about how this will drastically change the way we manag...Oct. 15, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,839 |
 If they plan to remain viable in today’s markets, now is the time for real estate firms to make some dramatic changes by offering intelligent amenities in their commercial properties.
How do we prop up our dying shopping center?
How do we develop and maintain more business for our st...Oct. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,335 |
 What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product, i.e., a true Converged Infrastructure? What impact could that possibly have on the success of Visible Ops a...Sep. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,556 |
 Consolidating data in an organized and highly accessible yet secure fashion is one concept many organizations are finding is helping increase productivity throughout the company. Unified storage, which is also referred to network unified storage (NUS), is a concept that the principles ...Sep. 29, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,780 |
 If Cisco CEO John Chambers, 63, steps in front of streetcar, COO Gary
Moore, also 63, would take over as CEO, Chambers told Bloomberg during
a drop-by at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York Tuesday.
Chambers’ plan is to remain CEO for the next two-four years – which at the
outsi...Sep. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,040 |
 Hear about findings from hundreds of one-on-one interviews with IT decision makers from Global 2000 companies and how the IT Infrastructure is evolving toward the use of internal and external cloud architectures. The findings will span TheInfoPro's research of the storage, servers, net...Sep. 24, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,397 |
 The Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency recently released their strategic plan for the next 5 years. DISA is a Combat Support Agency that “provides, operates, and assures command and control, information sharing capabilities, and a globally... Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,372 |
 “Because it simply works” is the most frequent answer to the question “Why would you recommend OpenNebula to a colleague?” that OpenNebula makes to its users in a short survey that tells them how they are doing. Other frequent answers are “Because it is easy to install, maintain and up...Sep. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,422 |
 Global legal services leader Foley & Lardner LLP has adopted virtual desktops and bring-your-own-device to enhance end-user productivity across their far-flung operations.Aug. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,392 |
 A principle theme of our next upcoming webinar is how to engineer an accelerated ‘DevOps’ environment. DevOps represents a fusion of the traditionally separate departments of software Development and Operations management. In short the teams who write software and those who...Aug. 25, 2012 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 3,428 |
 Morphlabs just announced its latest private-cloud infrastructure product, the mCloud Helix, at the Oscon conference in Portland. Company CEO Winston Damarillo has long focused this company on what he calls “dynamic infrastructure services,” meaning that he aims to bring touted benefits...Jul. 17, 2012 10:55 AM EDT Reads: 1,411 |
 The next phase of consolidated IT has hit the scene and it’s called edge virtual server infrastructure, aka edge-VSI. It’s a lot like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) but meant to help IT centralize and consolidate servers and storage from edge locations to the data center, yet pro...Jul. 6, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,494 |
 I read an interesting article the other day by a German employee of Fujitsu, in which he noted that 99% of German companies fit the definition of small to medium businesses, and are therefore prime candidates to benefit from cloud computing.
He was describing the legendary German “...Jul. 5, 2012 01:55 PM EDT Reads: 1,510 |
 This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spr...Jul. 5, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,958 |
 One of the most challenging things about being an advocate for a broad horizontally applicable technology is that it does not solve a particular business problem. Instead, it solves about 100,000 business problems. That means that everyone is impacted by it, yet nobody is particularly...Jul. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,850 |
 “Eucalyptus 3.1 is open for business,” writes Eucalyptus VP of Community Greg DeKoenigsberg in a blogpost. “No more artificial separation between Enterprise and Community. No more frenzied checkins to the 'enterprise edition' while the separate-but-equal 'community version' atrophies....Jun. 27, 2012 02:52 PM EDT Reads: 1,315 |
 Eight years ago, I made my first visit to Istanbul. I was the guest of a successful American businessman who was born and raised in Turkey, so I was able to visit a lot of places that most tourists or businesspeople wouldn't see.
In addition to making the rounds of the major histori...Jun. 26, 2012 02:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,378 |
 The Microsoft Surface, whenever it arrives, is actually two machines. The lower end system running Windows RT seems destined to compete with the iPad within the general consumer market, while the higher end system running a full implementation of Windows 8 may indeed be perceived as a ...Jun. 25, 2012 08:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,653 |
 Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner, arguably the most brilliant mind on the American bench, threw out the Android infringement litigation between Apple and Motorola Mobility late Friday with prejudice, denying Apple its hoped-for injunction against the Google satellite and its smartpho...Jun. 25, 2012 07:24 PM EDT Reads: 1,147 |
