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The Business Value of Cloud Computing: Collaboration

— Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approa...

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

Start at the beginning!

— RSA recently published the SBIC report entitled ‘Getting Ahead of Advanced Threats’ a copy of which can be found here; Security for Business Innovation Council report. It introduces the concept of Intelligence Driven Security as ‘Developing real-time knowledge on threats and the organ...

Feb 03 09:14:43 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

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»

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»

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»

Service Desk Optimization via the Cloud

— Service management systems are IT’s online face to the business. Sure, enterprise apps and personal productivity tools may be how users get their jobs done, but when someone in sales or marketing has a problem or needs something, they turn to the IT service system for satisfaction. They’re often disappointed, leadi...

Feb 01 03:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Intelligence-Driven Security

— RSA released the ninth installment of the Security for Business Innovation Council report last month, and through a series of blog posts on Speaking on Security, we’re going to analyze the various areas highlighted in the findings. Today I’m going to explore the concept of Intelligence-Driv...

Feb 01 12:59:59 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Europe's IT Commissioner Announces European Cloud Partnership Initiative

— "The cloud has the capacity to make lives easier for many of us, including the smallest of businesses. But to achieve that requires us to take many different policy areas and really test them to make sure they are as cloud-compatible as they can be." Writing in her official capacity as Europe's Commissioner for the Int...

Feb 01 11:00:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

From CIO To Chief Digital Officer

— In the new digital information economy, who leads the transformation from the previous business model to the new one? In an interesting bit of serendipity, two powerful ideas have connected that give light to a fascinating new career pathway for... Update your feed preferences...

Jan 31 09:35:13 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Performance in the Cloud: Business Jitter is Bad

— #fasterapp #ccevent While web applications aren’t sensitive to jitter, business processes are. One of the benefits of web applications is that they are generally transported via TCP, which is a connection-oriented protocol designed to assure delivery. TCP has a variety of native mechanisms through which delivery ...

Jan 30 12:46:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

What Happens in Vegas … Will Transform Your Business

— By Phil George, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Avamar Calling all partners! VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2012 Feb 12 -16 in Las Vegas offers a fantastic conference to accelerate your business and learn how VMware and VMware Partners solutions can transform your customers’ data centers for...

Jan 28 01:48:39 am GMT / EMC Feeds »

Why you can't afford to resist the cloud

— Large and small enterprises are creating new business opportunities through their use of the cloud, at the expense of those who are slower to adapt.

Jan 27 09:48:07 pm GMT / Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet»

Cloud Economics

— According to an IDC report on IT Cloud Decision Economics, research shows that there are 5 key factors that influence the decision around Public and Private Cloud services (outlined below). Similarly, you can use these same factors to develop the financial model and business justification for P...

Jan 27 04:07:06 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

F5 Friday: Goodbye Defense in Depth. Hello Defense in Breadth.

— #adcfw #infosec F5 is changing the game on security by unifying it at the application and service delivery layer. Over the past few years we’ve seen firewalls fail repeatedly. We’ve seen business disrupted, security thwarted, and reputations damaged by the failure of the very devices meant to prevent such catastr...

Jan 27 12:45:00 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

AT&T to launch communication services

— AT&T on Thursday will launch new cloud-based unified communications services that give businesses the ability to integrate chat, email, VoIP calls, audio and videoconferencing and more over desktops and many mobile devices

Jan 24 07:10:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Polycom Rolls Out Product Updates, IBM Partnership

— Polycom offers a new video-as-a-service solution for carriers. - ORLANDO, Fla.--At Lotusphere, videoconferencing and unified communications developer Polycom unveiled product updates and a partnership with IBM designed to bolster its social business strategy and simplify enterprises integration of video, as well as ...

Jan 19 12:50:47 pm GMT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

Cloud-based VDI: The End of the Desktop?

— When Is It Right for a Business to Consider Desktop Virtualization? Tips for determining whether desktop virtualization is right for your business. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has been trying to get off the ground for some time, and, to be

Jan 18 08:12:45 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

Getting your business plan through screening

— Vishal Gulati, a VC in the healthcare sector, spoke to my MBA cohort today and gave a few tips on mistakes commonly found within business plans… Competition is a good thing. Statements such as “We have no competitors” signals that either you don’t know your market or you’re making somethi...

Jan 14 05:41:10 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

The Texas Tribune: Anti-Piracy Bill SOPA, by Lamar Smith, Gets Texas Pushback

— Technology companies and business advocates in Texas agree that online crimes are a problem, but they contend that Lamar Smith’s SOPA bill would do more harm than good.

Jan 13 06:05:25 am GMT / NYT > Business Computing»

Apple vs. Microsoft Redux: A Rematch for the Ages

— 10 Business Uses for Your Apple iPad Uses for your iPad that your boss will approve of. Isn't it funny how some of the wisest, oldest folk sayings endure even as the world around them changes? I'm reminded of "what is old is new again" and

Jan 11 08:56:25 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

Hitachi VSP Kicks off the New Year with Another Award

— Happy 2012! While this year is starting with a lot of uncertainty around the world economy and supply/demand questions, there are still areas of assurance. One is that you can still do more with less to meet your storage needs. Today, Nikkei, the leading business magazine in Japan, announced that Hitachi VSP was th...

Jan 06 03:54:45 pm GMT / Hu Yoshida»

Two Disruptions for the Price of One

— We stand at the beginning of a Cambrian explosion of new business models, driven by the colliding disruptions of cloud computing and mobile ecosystems. A conversation last week between Randy Bias and mobile analyst/Asymco founder Horace Dediu maps out how … Continue reading →

Nov 28 04:01:32 pm GMT / Cloudscaling»

Bluelock Clients Offer Candid Cloud Stories

— VMware recently released their first installment of ‘Public Cloud Diaries.’ We’re proud to announce that Bluelock offered up nine of the sixteen cloud entries. This project documents business situations and challenges that companies experience when moving to the public cloud. Entries capture the clien...

Nov 08 02:37:43 pm GMT / BlueLock»

Midsize Businesses with Growing Business Demands, Limited Resources and Unprecedented Data Growth Turn to NetApp

— New Entry Portfolio Priced and Packaged for Midsize Businesses and Channel Delivers Three Times the Performance and Simplicity, Greater Value, and Industry-Leading Efficiency

Nov 08 09:01:00 am GMT / NetApp - Press Releases»

Dell Boomi cloud service adds business rules engine

— In addition to using Dell's Boomi integration service to move data from one cloud to another, users of the service can now also create simple business rules to reroute data to different locations, the company announced Tuesday.

Oct 25 01:09:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

HP ProBook 4430s: A business laptop With a dash of class

— The HP ProBook 4430s is endowed with above-average looks, but in other respects it is the epitome of a basic, all-purpose business laptop.

Oct 24 09:28:00 pm GMT / Computerworld HP News»

We lost a Giant

— Earlier today we lost one of the giants of technology. Steve Jobs was one of most creative, demanding, brilliant, hard-driving, and innovative leaders in the entire industry. He has created new business areas, introduced new business models, brought companies back from the dead, and fundamentally changed how the world...

Oct 06 01:39:29 am GMT / Perspectives»

The Shrink Wrap Redemption

— I never thought I would hear Steve Jobs hail the post-PC era, much less IBM PC legend Mark Dean . They must be right, because HP just announced its exit from the PC business. But then Microsoft has said that the PC isn’t even middle-aged. This is as close as it gets to a meaningless [...]

Aug 20 04:06:44 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

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»

Notes from #SXSWSmall: What We Can Learn from Small Town Entrepreneurs

— In the world of online communities, we need to learn to behave like one. The excerpt from my favorite session at SXSW11 as follows: The business world is looking more like a small town. Strong downward economic pressures combined with advances in technology have forced rewriting the rules of business. Advances in techn...

Mar 28 06:52:03 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

Offering Support to Help Victims of the Japanese Earthquake

— By Charlie McNerney, GM, Business Management, GFS On Friday, March 11th, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit Japan followed by a series of tsunamis, causing widespread damage. In response, Microsoft activated its Disaster Response protocol. We are currently accounting for all our employees and assessing all of our fac...

Mar 12 01:45:38 am GMT / ms datacenters»

Speaking at CTIA ‘Mobile Business Conference’ Event Oct. 6-8

— I will be back in San Francisco to speak at the CTIA’s Mobile Business Conference from October 6th through the 8th. I will be on a panel discussing ‘Embracing the Cloud’. My Hope in these talks is to continue to highlight the coming impacts of the use of hand-held technologies on a g...

Sep 30 04:58:19 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

Girls In Tech: The Fast Track of Mariam Naficy

— Back in August I attended a Girls in Tech presentation with Mariam Naficy, the founder of minted.com. Mariam is a serial entrepreneur who found an early success with eve.com shortly after graduating from business school. Here are the notes I captured from the session: On female purchase power… Women are responsib...

Aug 09 10:18:08 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

Getting back into the blogging game.

— It's been quite a while since I last wrote anything here, as I've been focusing more on building up my businesses and blogging at http://mhalligan.com/. After my untracked hiatus, I'm back. To start I'm going to post the four or five interviews that I did over the past year and a half but never got around to posting h...

Jun 09 09:36:48 pm GMT / mhalligan's blog»

DatacenterJunkie coming to your city!

— That's right, it's almost conference season again, and I'm gearing up for quite a bit of activity. I'll be attending a few conferences in the next few moths, as well as doing quite a bit of personal & business travel. I am especially interested in interviewing Cloud Hosting start-ups this year. If you're in any of th...

May 02 10:04:38 pm GMT / mhalligan's blog»

Learn how Nth Generation Reduced server sprawl

— Learn how Matthew Weiner, Project Manager from Nth Generation was able to reduce server sprawl and focus IT support on business critical applications while providing the flexibility to grow his business and contain future costs.

Jun 14 12:19:00 am GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

Selling To Enterprise - Power Struggle Between IT And Line Of Business

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Jan 01 12:00:00 am GMT / cloud computing»

Hidden threats to business, case in point - the Thailand floods.

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Jan 01 12:00:00 am GMT / ServerTech Blog - Information for the Data Center Equipment Manager»

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My name is Catherine Liao and welcome to my blog. Under news you'll find the latest postings of various blogs I follow. The topics tend to center around WAN Optimization, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.

These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Business Development Manager for Cisco. I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.

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