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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
Real-World Cloud Computing
 New breakthroughs in cloud-based data management empower databases with the necessary elasticity they need to be truly responsive to the ebbs and tides of supply and demand.
Cloud computing allows all capital assets – computing power, memory and storage for example – to be exchanged a...May. 20, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,525 |
 Companies around the world are moving into on-premise private cloud environments. Many connect their private cloud to their public cloud service providers. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], Brian Patrick Donaghy will talk about examples of what worke...May. 19, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,023 |
 There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong ...May. 17, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,182 |
 The last few years in IT have seen us move from a proactive to a reactive environment. For decades, the boundaries in communication technology were pushed by government, military and business needs. As technology improved and costs dropped, innovations were gradually adapted for the co...May. 16, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,080 |
 Every business wants to protect its confidential financial information. But for an organization like ours, financial information is our entire business. Over the course of a year, Broadridge handles millions of trades worth trillions of dollars, so it’s easy to see how security must be...Apr. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,452 |
 In our Internet-driven world, both organizations and consumers have come to expect fast, always-on data access from any device. As a result, content providers are tasked with delivering massive files and streaming media to tablets and smartphones while simultaneously ensuring superior ...Apr. 27, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,311 |
 A new American workforce is emerging. A recent report from Accenture says the number of U.S. workers who are independent (such as freelancers, contractors or temps) is up 6 percent from 1989. Work as we know it is changing. Because of constant connectivity, companies across the globe n...Apr. 20, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 In recent years, IT departments have been confronted with the convergence of several highly disruptive trends that have fundamentally altered the enterprise IT landscape, particularly when it comes to how data and applications are managed. Mobility and the rise of BYOD (bring your own ...Apr. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,177 |
 IT departments within companies are seeing the growth of a more complex IT environment fueled by growing user demands for more flexible and productive solutions. The growing desire of users to have instant access to their IT services from any device at any given time – combined with IT...Apr. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,662 |
 Six months ago my boss sent me an interactive calculator that the New York Times created to help people decide whether it’s a better financial decision to buy a home or simply rent one. He shared the calculator with me because, at the time, we were looking for interesting ways to visua...Apr. 10, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,218 |
 Sharing personal information is central to the way people live, work and do business with each other today. And it’s only going to become more so, as the Identity Economy emerges to establish a new paradigm for commercial interactions. This raises a number of interesting questions and ...Apr. 7, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,753 |
 New technologies always generate hype. To cut through the hype and find the value, you have to see how things fit in the real world, both in implementation and in actual realized benefits.
That’s one of the reasons BlueStripe Software conducts an annual survey of IT Operations executi...Mar. 11, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
 Over the last few years, increased reliance on IT systems has meant that Change and Release Management has made its way to the forefront of major organizations. However, as far as the end-user base goes, Change and Release can sink into the subconscious as a simple-to-use to-do list, w...Mar. 9, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 2,323 |
 It may be terrifying for those caught in the vortex between the old and the new way of work. Most professionals earned the right degrees, responded to the demands of their professions, learned the intricacies of their industries and were rewarded under the old system. It feels like a m...Mar. 8, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,098 |
 I think the new cloud killer apps for enterprises will leverage cloud-integrated data centers (or true hybrid cloud adoption), and will strategically transform IT operating models. Those killer apps will include cloud-enabled agility, protection and scalability.
The public cloud has b...Mar. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,951 |
 Thereʼs a popular childrenʼs book called Whereʼs Waldo, in which the lead character – with his signature red-and-white striped shirt and somewhat goofy expression – is obscured by various collections of people and things. Heʼs hidden, but in plain sight (if youʼll excuse the oxymoron) ...Feb. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,937 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] hurtling towards us, let's start to take a look at the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in ...Feb. 21, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 19,585 |
 During a recent conversation with a CIO of a multi-billion dollar enterprise and his top executives, it became apparent that amid all the new technology advancements like cloud computing and Big Data, organizations are struggling to seek the concrete advantages in applying these techno...Feb. 19, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,898 |
 Collaboration in the cloud is a genius idea. Massively scalable and low-cost infrastructure is just what businesses need to bring seamless communication back to a mobile, global workforce. But the way that cloud has taken hold in most enterprises, via software-as-a-service (SaaS), may ...Feb. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,573 |
 Over the last few weeks I’ve been hearing a lot of discussion around HIPAA. When we speak about HIPAA, invariably the two components of data security and data privacy arises.
In the traditional data centers database managers and data owners know where their data reside and implement ...Feb. 7, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,426 |
 As Senior Director/IT Leader of Information Technology at Dole Fresh Fruit North America, I am responsible for providing consistent and reliable distribution services for our division. Dole’s mission is to provide our customers with safe, healthy, high-quality products and services. To...Jan. 28, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,985 |
 Hybrid cloud is early, yet promises to accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing. The question is: who will lead and what impact will they have on how enterprises buy technology solutions?
There are a handful of publicly-traded companies vying for leadership in cloud compu...Jan. 24, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,590 |
 Many companies and enterprises in 2012 witnessed the proliferation of network data as a huge and growing problem across data centers. Additional data center solutions were needed to access, process, analyze, and deliver it instantly on a global basis to millions of users. Several advan...Jan. 2, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 4,433 |
 The RESTful world distinguishes between resource state and application state, which is the state information the client maintains. And since hypermedia are the engine of application state, it makes sense that application state is more important to REST than resource state. After all, R...Dec. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,171 |
 Perhaps the only thing worse than a disaster happening is seeing it coming and knowing nothing can be done to stop it. Businesses along the northeastern seaboard had several days of warning before Hurricane Sandy struck, certainly not enough time to implement a disaster recovery plan f...Dec. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,296 |
 Backup of enterprise information and associated data protection are fragmented, complex, and inefficient. But new approaches are helping to simplify the data-protection process, keep costs in check, and improve recovery speed and confidence.
If you look back 20 years ago, we had heter...Dec. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,404 |
 The Cloud market is diverse and highly fragmented – typical of any market in its early stages. The broad range of cloud activities and the frantic pace of new products / services getting launched is driving the need to consolidate and unify cloud services for the end user and for the m...Nov. 30, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,141 |
 Technology changes so rapidly that a business will be left behind if it does not constantly consider newer and better ways of doing things. Chances are that if you are not thinking out of the box, looking ahead, and making continuous advancements, your competitors will.
The defining ...Nov. 29, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,585 |
 Cloud computing has dramatically altered how IT infrastructure is delivered and managed, as well as how IT functionality is consumed. However, security and privacy concerns continue to be major inhibitors for risk-conscious organizations to adoption of cloud computing – whether infrast...Nov. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,796 |
 Since ZapThink wrote our ZapFlash on Cloud Brokerages in April 2011, the Cloud Brokerage marketplace has exploded. Or at the very least, the noise level involving such Brokerages has reached a fever pitch, which the vendors in the space want you to think is the sound of an exploding ma...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,772 |
 Businesses must exploit open collaboration advances in procurement and finance to produce new types of productivity benefits, say an industry analyst and Ariba executive.
And the benefits of improved data integration and the process efficiencies of cloud computing are additionally hel...Nov. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,788 |
 Recently FireScope Inc. introduced the general availability of its Stratis product. Stratis brings all of the FireScope Unify capabilities to the cloud, with the added advantage of a new architecture that delivers near infinite scalability. Moreover, the new Stratis architecture provid...Oct. 26, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,406 |
 There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.
What I see driving it is three things. One is the advent of the cloud and mobile, which requires a lot of cr...Oct. 22, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,168 |
 Cloud computing has changed the way we work. People and businesses can now access services, applications and infrastructure over the Internet, with lower costs, higher productivity and an enhanced user experience.
While cloud computing has revolutionized many aspects of business, its ...Oct. 5, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,404 |
 Many firms still dismiss the importance of social networking and some of them even ban employees from using these services while in the workplace. They think that “social” starts and ends with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other networks that might be best described as informal, consu...Oct. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,034 |
 With Microsoft's announcements at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), it is evident that change is coming to all enterprise software resellers. To better prepare for the inevitable transition to the cloud, here is an infographic that provides an overview of what it was like...Sep. 24, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,281 |
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 Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...Aug. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,136 |
 Our headline professional service engagement is Cloud Migration Management (CMM). The issues that the service needs to address were recently identified through an auditors analysis of the progress of the US Government’s Cloud First program. In the GAO report Progress Made but Fut...Aug. 20, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,728 |
 A fascinating global ocean studies initiative helps best define some of the IT superlatives around big data, cloud computing, and middleware integration capabilities.Aug. 16, 2012 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,366 |
