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— The RSS feed for this subscription is currently unavailable. Please try this subscription again later.The many faces of EMC Atmos.
— While some competitors lament their ongoing failure to sell object storage systems and claim ‘it’s a market problem’ (It isn’t, the problem is that your product sucks) Atmos customers are busy getting real work done. I’ll explore this topic further @EMCworld Updat...Public Cloud with Confidence
— The benefits of public cloud are so tempting that many organizations have been quick to adopt; only to find out [...]Is VDI right for your BYOD requirements?
— Gone are the days when an employee would be issued a single desktop computer to use for all work-related tasks. [...]HP's layoff plans and what they mean
— HP is expected to announce a large layoff at its quarterly investors briefing on Wednesday, losing as many as 30,000 employees. But for now, the company isn't talking about its plans.Three Things I Learned At Technology Services World – 2012 Silicon Valley
— I recently returned from Technology Services World (TSW) in Santa Clara, CA energized after spending three days with people who live and breathe IT service and support. TSW is a bi-annual conference that takes place in Las Vegas and Santa Clara, in the fall and spring, respectively. After all o...Cloud Expo NY: Predictive Analytics Leads to Successful Recommendations
— Businesses today generate billions of events or 100s of TBs of data in a month. These data contain valuable insights into customer behavior, key trends, buying patterns, etc. If these are successfully mined, they can lead to successful decision-making to maximize revenue and traffic for the business. Successfully drivi...EMC World; Cloud Services & Mobility; Data Science & Big Data; GRC Framework, Quick & Clever, & Social Networking
— InFocus Weekly Roundup May 18, 2012 Vegas – Baby! The EMC World Virtual pass allows you to virtually join EMC customers, partners, and employees at EMC World next week. Listen to keynotes, participate virtually, join the discussions. EMC Global Services is participating in 3 Buzz Talks: 5/2...My Obligatory Facebook Column
— The Facebook IPO has no direct relevance to how IT professionals do their jobs. I'm sure everyone will be watching it today, though, and wasting, er, spending a lot of time discussing it. Thus comes my responsibility as a member of the IT industry's Fourth Estate to write about it. I've tried to work myself up into a...Cloud Expo New York: Industry-Leading CxOs to Present June 11-14
— What do the CTOs of the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, the VP of Big Data & ...SilkRoad Rakes in More Funding Ahead of IPO
— SilkRoad Technology, the aptly named competitor of, say, the up-and-coming Workday that peddles cloud-based social talent management solutions, has topped up its funding with another reportedly oversubscribed $35 million round. That makes an incredible $162 million since 2003. The latest money comes from new investors...Big Data Meets Big ERM
— During my recent travels and multitude of customer meetings, a recurring question has been, “with the massive amount of structured and unstructured information being generated and received, how do you archive and apply retention polices to this information, at speed and scale?” To help answ...Oracle VM 3.1 is here!
— Oracle is announcing the general availability of Oracle VM version 3.1. With this new release we have introduce many improvements, fixed bugs and added more functionality. Our main focus continues to be improved usability, faster and efficient deployment and additional support for backup and availability. In this post ...Design Guidelines for Cloud Computing
— Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service offer us easy scaling of services. However, scaling is not as easy as it seems to be in the Cloud. If your software architecture isn’t done right, your services and applications might not scale as expected, even if you add new instances. As for most distributed sy...Tape Data Storage Remains an Enterprise IT Workhorse After 60 Years
— It's no secret that explosive data growth and shrinking IT budgets are putting pressure on companies to find creative storage solutions to meet their organizational demands. Despite vocal naysayers from the spinning-disk school, tape storage& which turns 60 years of age in 2012& continues to hold its own, by an...Getting to Chargeback in “As a Service” Models: Think Pizza
— A recent industry conference featured session after session of presentations where people asked (appropriately or not, for the session) how they were supposed to do chargeback in the cloud. After listening to the sessions and queries I concluded the question is better framed as “how do we ...Cloud Expo New York: A Blueprint for Organizational Agility
— We are a part of a dynamically connected world where consumers are rapidly adopting new technology and dismantling business models in their wake. Disruption, unpredictability and variability happen without warning. The challenge for any organization is to evolve, to adopt new architectures and processes that increase b...Confusion over Consolidation of Storage and Consolidation of Data
— Randy Kerns, a blogger on Storage Soup and also a Senior Strategist at Evaluator group, recently blogged about Confusion Over Storage Consolidation. Randy says that “the confusion comes about because of some vendor messaging and what IT storage professionals actually view as storage consolidation. This leads to misco...Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 18, 2012
— It's HighScalability Time: 42 Billion: Netflix API Requests/Month Quotable quotes: @commonlisp: Ideas from the talk: In Haskell laziness + thunks + garbage collection (GC) impede multicore scalability. Parallel GC is crucial. @Bulldozer0: Global state is the enemy of scalability; not only in so...The Cloud Is the Future
— “Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka continued, “we gain acces...Huge job cuts rumored to be looming at Hewlett Packard
— In what could be Silicon Valley's largest layoff ever, tech giant Hewlett Packard is expected to announce -- as early as next week -- cuts of up to 35,000 employees.HP, Yahoo: Two IT Giants on the Ropes but Hardly Knocked Out
— NEWS ANALYSIS: HP and Yahoo may be down for the count now and looking at huge layoffs, but that in no way indicates that they won't continue to be the IT giants they are. - Two long-established and respected IT companies appear to be, as they say in boxing, quot;on the ropes. quot; Not the first time we've read som...Rethinking IT for the Cloud Era
— Private Versus Public Cloud Computing A plethora of applications are being considered for the cloud, but it may take at least another year before cloud computing goes mainstream in the enterprise. It seems that the private vs. public cloud debateFriday recruitment news
— It's the weekend! Sorry I have been quiet on the blog front, lots of exciting new hires has been keeping me busy and planning the relaunch of The Fantastic Tavern! A big welcome to the EMC Consulting team Director of UX - Robert Art Director - Flow Senior Designers - Ian & Ro...IBM’s Patterns and Its Impact on IT Services Purchasing
— Cloud computing is fundamentally changing the IT ecosystem in many ways, forcing related changes in business models. Other than customers (who are always “king” and make buying decisions), the IT ecosystem players being affected by cloud includes technology providers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems...Cloud Leadership to the Next Level
— 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 transitioned to the Cloud. Moving entire...Top 5 Ways to Migrate a Data Center like Chuck Norris
— So, many of you know I’ve been doing this whole data center migration gig for a while. It’s been 5 years and many different customers. In that span of time you naturally learn quite a bit. Everything from, “we totally need to do that again on our next project – it saved us to...Microsoft Azure – Or Is It ?
— Microsoft Azure, the umbrella name for Microsoft’s cloud computing services has over the past week or so come under focus because of the direct competition from Amazon who released Elastic BeanStalk for .NET as an alternative to the Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) and also SQL Server as part of their Relation...PaaS Deployment Models
— Rapid deployment capability is table stakes when we are talking about a PaaS solution. Every vendor touts it, and to be frank, every user simply expects it to be there. While I think it is interesting to talk about rapid deployment and perhaps compare speed of one solution to that of another, I think it is infinitely m...
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Nvidia Claims Cloud GPU
— Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform – reportedly the result of five years of effort – that it called the world’s first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers. IT departments are supposed to use it to deliver virtualized desktops with the graphics and GPU performance of offic...Is a 100% green datacenter practical, or even plausible?
— 100% renewable energy sounds great. But when you start to do the research the picture is much less clear.Where is your first line of defense?
— I recently attended a fantastic roundtable put on by The Financial Times in New York and as I’m sitting listening to a group of folks that specialize in anti-money laundering and fraud, one person stated that people detected the vast majority of fraud or money laundering with tools playing a ...Guest Post: Will the new QIR Program Move the Needle?
— The following is a guest post by Steve Levinson, PCI Goon. You can contact him here. The PCI (Payment Card Industry) Council (PCICo) has pointed its elbow in the direction of those responsible for installing payment applications. PCICo issued a press release recently announcing the PCI Qualifie...
May 18 11:57:43 am GMT /
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