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Is Big Data a Solution in Search of a Problem?

— If you look at the predictions made for 2012, you will find a new entry which was not there last year. Be it Gartner, Forrester or McKenzie – “Big Data” finds a place in the prediction. So, what is big data? Is it the next path breaking technology which will change everything or is it just a hype which will die...

Feb 04 10:00:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Some Friday Funnies, and customers sharing their view….

— REMEMBER – tune in for the big reveal on EMC Project Lightning on Monday (which will itself include the “hello world” of Lightning, but also the “hello world” for the NEXT big project in that vein) here. Trust me –... Update your feed preferences

Feb 03 09:44:53 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Open Data Center Alliance Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York

— SYS-CON Events announced today that The Open Data Center Alliance, an independent organization that gives stakeholders a voice in shaping the future of cloud computing, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in Ne...

Feb 03 05:21:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Stop Buying Database Licenses: You Have All the Capacity You Need

— Any organization that has deployed a business application has experienced the joy of procuring database licenses. Most database software licensing models are based on the quantity and type of compute processing cores in the underlying database server – the more cores in the processor and the more processors in the se...

Feb 03 03:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing – DevOps for Everyone

— In compliment to Jon’s headline focus on Enterprise Cloud Computing, my key specialism is where this technology overlaps with social media aka ‘Enterprise 2.0′. Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry t...

Feb 03 02:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

F5 Friday: New Services from F5 Ease Migration and Upgrades

— I get by with a little help from my friends… While cloud and virtualization primarily focus on improving the provisioning process, there is a lot more to managing a data center and its critical components than just deployment. There’s upgrades – both software and hardware – and migration to new solutions as...

Feb 03 01:14:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Cloud Storage Accelerates into 2012 IT Priorities

— Every year, our friends at ESG post results of their annual Spending Intentions Survey, indicating where many businesses are likely to spend their IT dollars over the coming year. Recently Steve Duplessie posted an article on his blog entitled Cloud – The Cost Containment Strategy that concludes cloud has finally “...

Feb 03 10:15:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Open Federation Standards – Personal Clouds for Personal Healthcare

— Earlier this week the Canadian Government announced $67 million in funding for ‘personalized medicine’. A big part of the challenge will be technology – Even for standard healthcare there is still slow progress in key areas like adoption of the basics like EMR. Cloud will play a big part in helping address this, ...

Feb 03 02:25:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

BPM on Demand – Fantasy or Fast Track to Agility?

— The automation of processes is a key enabler of the Cloud phenomena – without process the Cloud remains a passive environment that undoubtedly saves you money and removes some of the operational headaches, but does little else. The Cloud without process cannot deliver on the promise of Business Technology or the Serv...

Feb 02 07:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Criteria for Choosing a Business Email Solution

— Recently, the General Services Administration (GSA) solicited bids to take care of their massive email system. They embarked on a process many businesses are familiar with – finding the right fit of features, security, and cost to support their users. The GSA selected hosted email to serve remote offices, streamline ...

Feb 02 02:00:28 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

DevOps PaaS – Platform for Web Evolution

— The distinction between IaaS and PaaS, and why and how customers will use these services, is very effectively explained through the Elections Canada RFP from last year. I summarized their plans and requirements in a white paper, called ‘Web Business Evolution‘ because this was the term they themselves used to quant...

Feb 02 10:30:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

VSI Install Guide – Unified Storage Management

— Hopefully you had a chance to read my last blog post on how to setup and install the Virtual Storage Integrator – Storage Viewer plugin for vCenter. If not, you will want to go back and review it before moving on to this next plugin. You can certainly install these independently of...

Feb 01 04:00:39 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

The World of Web and Developers – Web Glossary

— Last week I directed you to my post on bartongeorge.net and told you a little bit about Dell’s focus in the Web/Tech space and what we’re doing to help the developer community and our developer customers. I also introduced my mini Web Glossary series which is designed to help create better understanding aro...

Jan 31 07:22:00 pm GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

New EMC + vSphere Techbooks–get em while they’re hot!

— The EMC VNX and VMware vSphere Techbook (this the reference text for any customers/partners/EMCers who use EMC VNX arrays with vSphere – which translates to a LOT of people) has been updated! It is downloadable – so click the link... Update your feed preferences

Jan 31 05:46:26 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Cisco, NetApp & FlexPod – The Momentum Continues at Cisco Live Europe

— by John Rollason, Senior Manager Product, Solutions & Alliances EMEA, NetApp For many years the server market was dominated by [...]

Jan 31 05:23:47 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

The Winchester House, Architectural-Led IT Strategy and Your Challenges – What You Told Us

— A few months ago, after a my previous blogs discussing cloud computing adoption, I changed subject and authored a short [...]

Jan 31 01:59:10 pm GMT / Data Center Networks»

2012, Year of the SPDragon

— This my latest installment of SPDragon – Now with SharePoint 2010 Web Parts!!! click on area below to watch on youtube SPDragon–click area to watch on YouTube Media Credits: chooyutshing via photopin cc cyndy666 via photopin cc Francesco Muratori via photopin cc tonbab...

Jan 30 12:24:46 am GMT / EMC Feeds »

Intel TXT Capabilities – I’m Loving It

— Recently EMC and Intel paired up on a webcast to talk about the relationship between the two companies… they provided a new proof of concept. As much as I love this relationship and enjoyed the presentation ( I have included them below ), the capability that I am most interested in is the...

Jan 29 04:38:48 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

eGRC Summit – June 5-7 in Chicago!

— I have participated in the the RSA Archer eGRC Summit in the past and have seen first hand the value of bringing over 600 GRC professionals together under one roof to discuss best practices, learn from each other and also have a great time. I have just submitted to speak at the conference a...

Jan 27 11:09:35 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Virtual Desktops and Security–Leverage, Control, Enable

— First, IMHO, VDI is not like the virtualization of servers where I consolidate 100 servers into 10 boxes and come out being a hero to finance because I saved $70k in A/C and electricity. The cost savings are not as blatant (and easy) as that. Instead, in my view, VDI is an enabling technology f...

Jan 27 05:48:55 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Blitzkrieg and VDI Edge Protection.

— By now, everyone even vaguely familiar with information security knows the military maxim of blitzkrieg – burst through the hardened defense at a single point and then rush pell-mell to the rear where the soft underbelly of any static army lies. It is a good military strategy, provided you have the resources to brea...

Jan 26 09:19:26 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

The Mobile Chimera

— #mobile #vdi #IPv6 In the case of technology – as with mythology - the whole is often greater (and more challenging) than the sum of its parts. The chimera is a mythological beast of scary proportions. Not only is it fairly large, but it’s also got three, independent heads – traditionally a lion, a goat, and ...

Jan 25 11:56:00 am GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Increasing Productivity in Healthcare

— Happy new year! Heading into 2012, many healthcare industry experts are saying this is the year where healthcare and mobility finally converge. It's a worthy goal–healthcare services are performed at many different locations (physician's office, specialist's office, hospitals, clinics, and so on...

Jan 03 04:04:41 pm GMT / Oracle's Virtualization Blog»

Notes from geekSessions – Network and Infrastructure Scalability

— Here are my notes from today’s geekSessions 2.2 in San Francisco: Allan Leinwand, CTO Zynga Allan gave a short talk on Zynga’s infrastructure, in particular Z Cloud, and Amazon EC2-compatible private cloud. Seems like another proof that AWS is the de-facto standard, at least for compute cloud and storage ...

Jul 27 04:57:46 am GMT / Cloudy Times»

The Advice and the Outcomes – On How to Enter a Foreign Market

— Jumping into starting up a regional business (for a multi-national company), I anticipated there would be a steep learning curve and quite a bit of risk. So along the way, you pick up whatever advice you can get and some of it becomes incredibly valuable.

Jul 11 03:01:27 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

The Five Pillars of Monitoring – Pillar One

— This post is the first in a series of five that will be released over the next few weeks. Today’s post is an introduction to the series and the first pillar of monitoring. When a website is launched there is one particular component of the system that is deeply important. That system is monitoring. Monitoring...

Feb 18 06:13:53 pm GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

Scala – Getting Started (1)

— There are many operating systems and IDEs. I will cover my favorites briefly. Installing Scala on Ubuntu (10.04 LTS) Now re-start your shell. Reference: http://tipstank.com/2010/11/26/install-scala-on-ubuntu/ Installing Scala on Mac (10.6.5) First of all: Install MacPorts. and then Reference: http://www.feastforeyes.co...

Dec 29 07:38:20 pm GMT / Cloudy Times»

Data Centre GreenTech – Sydney

— It's good to be involved in a surprisingly fresh movement around data centre efficiency. The overall attitude is constructive and people are trying out new ideas. Reminds me of why I didn't take the job on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico back in 1996.

Aug 12 12:27:14 pm GMT / Technology is Dead»

Celebrating Earth Day from the Emerald Isle

— By John Dwyer – International Datacentre Manager The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is a very appropriate time to reflect on the aggressive sustainability objectives that Microsoft has for the Dublin datacentre and the great progress we’ve made so far. As you will recall, the facility went into pro...

Apr 20 09:19:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

Space saving KVM

— Raritan has added to its data center management portfolio a new space-saving KVM console – with an integrated 19-inch LCD display and durable keyboard and touchpad – that provides easy, at-the-rack access to servers. Raritan’s LCD KVM Consoles -- used in conjunction with KVM switches -- help IT administrators man...

Feb 03 12:00:00 am GMT / Servers/Hardware»

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