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— The RSS feed for this subscription is currently unavailable. Please try this subscription again later.Cisco - More than Half of Workloads to be Cloud
— More than 50 percent of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014. This statement comes from a Cisco “Global Cloud” whitepaper, which examines the current state of things and guesses where we'll be at in 2015. It also forecasts a 22-percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cloud datacenters, with ...IBM: Eli Manning Upsets Tom Brady in Social Super Bowl
— According to an analysis by IBM and the University of Southern California, Eli Manning of the New York Giants has edged out the New England Patriots Tom Brady as the top QB in the Super Bowl. - If Eli Manning doesn't beat Tom Brady on the field on Super Bowl Sunday, he has at least thus far won the battle of public ...An Arab Spring For IT
— Change in the air. It’s palpable. Those of us in the technology world are witnessing a transformation: a buyer-led revolution in how information technology is both produced and consumed. Smartphones and tablets are upsetting the PC order; social applications are impinging on traditional “workforce productivity” ...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...How Quickly Will Software Vendors Move to the Cloud?
— There’s an excellent discussion going on over on the Cloud Computing Google Group about the pace of migration of traditional software to a SaaS model. Here I recently went into some of the very real reasons why the migration is slower than some would like, but didn’t really talk about the pace of adoption. There a...CloudFlare CEO: China is Company's Second-Largest Market
— Yesterday, I posted the first part of an interview I recently had with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. Here's the rest of the interview... Cloud Computing Journal: Like it or not, you get dragged into censorship discussions, whether the topic was your customer LulzSec earlier this year, or some gover...
Feb 04 02:56:17 pm GMT /
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HP gave CEO Meg Whitman pay package valued at $16 million
— Hewlett-Packard gave new CEO Meg Whitman a package of stock options valued at more than $16 million last year, on top of her $1-a-year annual salary, according to regulatory documents filed Friday. More HP news | About Meg Whitman | Track stockIs 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...Getting Started with EMC Atmos Backup
— EMC Atmos is used in many places now. It is used by well know service providers such as AT&T Synaptic Storage or Peer 1 CloudOne. As we learned from our customers recently, it can also be used by private enterprise to backup data from employee’s local C drive.read moreFrom the Ground at Rio+2.0
— [written morning of 2/3] It's only the morning of the first full day of Rio+2.0 at Stanford U, but already it's been worth it ... for ideas, information, new contacts, and especially inspiration. My first encounter with other attendees was awaiting the shuttle to the Stanfor...Kelihos botnet remains very much dead after all
— A spam botnet brought down four months ago, which was once capable of pumping out almost four billion spam messages a day, remains very much dead, two of the companies behind the takedown said. That determination, announced late Friday by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab representatives, contradi...LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month
— The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project's rapid growth. Approximately 400 total developers have contributed code to the project. The number of contributors who are active each month generally ranges from 50...DevCentral Top5 02/03/2012
— We're putting the band back together. And by band, I mean team. And by "putting back together" I mean we're all going to be in the same place, physically. This is a rarity for our remotely distributed team, but next week it is happening, and that is a great thing. It means planning, policies, preparation, prognosticati...The future of hypervisors
— The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn't quite believe that...Which SQL Recovery Model should I use?
— This question keeps coming up over and over during the course of a typical month: Which SQL Recovery Model should I use? The answer is found in a simple matrix put together by EMC’s Mike Morris. I believe he is also starting up his own blog as well, and I can’t wait to see that!...Free, Cloud-Based Word Processor Zoho Writer Shows Promise
— Zoho Writer is an online (with offline and syncing functionality) word processing application that offers a nice amount of functionality, especially given the limitations of the Web as a platform for productivity tools. After creating a free account with Zoho, you can access Zoho Writer. It looks a lot like most word p...FDA whistleblowers say government retaliated with spyware
— A group of former FDA scientists who spoke out against the agency's allegedly flawed device-approval process are suing the feds for intercepting Gmail and Yahoo Mail messages by installing spy programs on their work computers. Although the computers were owned by the government, the plainti...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 preferencesStart 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...Micro Servers, Maximum Benefits
— What began as an oddity is poised to become a major factor in data center infrastructure. If the projections are correct, micro servers will be in great demand going forward as enterprises seek to streamline footprints and cut energy costs. According toTech Hiring Trends 2012
— San Antonio is known for its TexMex and margaritas, yet something that many people overlook is our technology scene. This is quickly changing. Mashable published an infographic by Acuity Group that shows San Antonio as one of the strongest markets for technology hiring in 2012. The Alamo City is turning into a tech hot...Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
— Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.Words in stone and on the wind
— After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein's term - can manifest itself in a book. I've been thinking about that and hav...Advanced Load Balancing For Developers. The Network Dev Tool
— It has been a while since I wrote an installment of Load Balancing for Developers, and now I think it has been too long, but never fear, this is the grad-daddy of Load Balancing for Developers blogs, covering a useful bit of information about Application Delivery Controllers that you might want to take advantage of. Fo...Capacity Efficiencies: Allocation vs Utilization
— As noted in previous posts, capacity efficiency has two dimensions: allocation efficiency and utilization efficiency. Allocation Efficiency Allocation efficiency is what most people think of first: eliminating the waste of over-allocation. In open systems this has been a major problem since we may not know ahead of ti...SeaMicro brings a very high density Xeon server to the datacenter
— How many CPUs can you stick in a single rack and still have room for storage and networking? Quite a few, apparently.Skin Scan wants to fight cancer using iPhones and big data
— Romanian startup Skin Scan is selling an iPhone app that lets consumers take pictures of questionable moles and get back information on its threat level. However, the company has much grander goals than helping consumers figure out whether to see a doctor.Herding Cats: No Bubble People (February 2012)
— kitten, by Clevergrrl Have you checked out ISSA Connect yet? The next issue is up there with my column, No Bubble People. We must assume malware will end up in our network. Unless we treat our users like the Boy in the Bubble, they will click things and infect themselves—many times without ev...Current Top Ten List FAQ’s
— ` I’ve been traveling a bit recently and wanted to share with you the top 10 questions I’m most frequently asked about right now by IT leadership and executive professionals evaluating cloud investments in 2012. 1. Should I build my own or rent one from someone else? Your te...
Feb 03 05:27:40 pm GMT /
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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...Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 3, 2012
— I'm only here for the HighScalability: 762 billion: objects stored on S3; $1B/Quarter: Google spend on servers; 100 Petabytes: Storage for Facebook's photos and videos. Quotable Quotes: @knorth2: #IPO filing says #Facebook is "dependent on our ability to maintain and scale our technical infrast...Cloud Needs Application Architects to Understand IaaS
— Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed on was becoming less important with increasing sophistication of the application platform for which they were develo...PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability
— The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform.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...Hands-on with Node.js support in Komodo IDE 7
— ActiveState has released a major new version of the Komodo integrated development environment (IDE). The update, which is called Komodo 7, introduces several useful new features and support for additional programming languages. Komodo is a high-end commercial development tool for programme...
Feb 03 02:30:35 pm GMT /
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State Department Conference on Real-time Data: tech@state
— I’m at a State Department conference at Georgetown U about real-time data. I’m unfortunately going to have to miss a chunk of the afternoon due to another obligation.) NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matte...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...Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
— Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser. It will allow users to receive notifications from websites without having to keep those sites open in their browser. The system will also be able to relay push notifications to mobile devices. The project is part of Mo...
Feb 03 01:30:03 pm GMT /
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Virtualization Certification: What Options are Available?
— Virtualization Certification, It used to be just VMware and the VCP, but things have changed as other players get involved and I thought it would be interesting to see what virtualization certification options there are out there. [...]Virtualization Certification: What Options are Available?|The Virtualization Practic...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...CloudPassage and Yubico Partner
— Yubico has announced a partnership with CloudPassage designed to deliver strong, secure authentication and protection of administrative network access in the cloud. Rand Wacker, vice president of product management for CloudPassage, noted that “security is a paramount concern for companies making the move to the clou...Virtualization no silver bullet for Macs or mobile
— In 2006, Apple's Intel-based Macs opened the door to running Windows via desktop virtualization; suddenly users could have their personal Macs and business PCs in one box. It's a big reason, I believe, that Mac market share has continued to grow faster than overall PC market share for the last five years. The shift to ...Big Moves in Big Data: EMC's Hadoop Strategy
— To date, Big Storage has been locked out of Big Data. It’s been all about direct attached storage for several reasons. First, Advanced SQL players have typically optimized architectures from data structure (using columnar), unique compression algorithms, and liberal usage of caching to juice response over hundreds of...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 “...AMD calls end to core growth on server chips
— Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day.Oracle-HP: How things got this bad
— Oracle and HP used to coexist quite well -- People forget that the first Oracle Exadata ran on HP hardware. Then Oracle bought Sun and things went downhill fast. Public spats played out in CEO letters to The New York Times, and now court documents.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, ...AMD sets out its plans for 2013, hints at a possible ARM future
— AMD today laid out its plans for the next couple of years at its Financial Analyst Day. The plans are a mix of familiar and logical extensions of the company's current products, but contained some more surprising elements: specifically, AMD opened the door to future processors that include ...Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”
— Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: "Pretty much everything tripled." Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million (2.5X growth), and employees went from 80...5 Stages of a Data Breach
— One thing I’ve noticed over the last couple years is that there are 5 Stages of a Data Breach: Denial: We do not believe these attacks breached our critical servers. Anger: We want to make it clear that we take security seriously! Bargaining: We’d like to offer our affected customers a credit monitoring service....Marketing Cloud Computing to Non-Believer CIOs
— Cloud computing is a pretty big deal. It's one of the top priorities for many CIOs. So, it should be a pretty easy process to build a B2B content strategy that helps CIOs make a purchasing decision. Or is it? I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and have a ton of Google Alerts to help me mine for information I use to le...SaaS, APTs and Asymmetric Risk Take Spotlight at Security Threats 2012
— What's your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? How can the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company's security exposure? CIO.com's Bernard Golden recaps the provocative discussions entertained at the Security Threat 2012 conference.Projections for 2012: Democratized Backup, Quality Assurance and DR to the Cloud
— When I was younger, I believed chronicling the past was far simpler than predicting the future. Little did I know that “history” means “incessant squabbling over what really happened in the past” (did you know there are multiple active magazines about the American Civil War?). On the ot...CareCore National uses Nexus 1000V and VSG to secure virtual data center applications
— Cisco has just released a customer case study ( PDF ) of CareCore National , a 1200 person healthcare insurance company located in South Carolina. [...]At long last, malware scanning comes to Google's Android Market
— Google engineers have unveiled a cloud-based service that scours the Android Market for malicious smartphone apps. Bouncer, as the scanner is called, automatically checks each title in the Google app bazaar to make sure it doesn't match signatures of known malware, Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice presi...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...VeriSign, maintainer of net's DNS, warns it was repeatedly hacked
— VeriSign, the company that manages a key internet database for routing traffic to websites and email addresses, exposed private information after being hacked on multiple occasions in 2010, the company quietly disclosed late last year. While executives with the Reston, Virginia company said they...
Feb 02 06:03:15 pm GMT /
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Using Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 SDK
— We released the Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 SDK which is delivered as Oracle VM Templates. The Oracle VM Server SDK Template provides an environment for third party drivers to be built for the Oracle VM Server for x86. This environment is being provided because the Oracle VM dom0 (management domain) only contains a mi...Partnering with Cisco helps Savvis set the bar for enterprise cloud
— We invited Mike Taylor, vice president of global infrastructure engineering and operations at Savvis, to provide his insight on Savvis’ [...]January 2012 Roundup
— Stay Classy, San Diego! What was popular in January? We’re already one month down in this new year and most of us have our sites set on RSA Conference in three weeks. Let’s talk infosec! Here are the five most popular posts from last month: Myth Busting with Ben Tomhave and Corpora...The Data-Scope Project - 6PB storage, 500GBytes/sec sequential IO, 20M IOPS, 130TFlops
— “Data is everywhere, never be at a single location. Not scalable, not maintainable.” –Alex SzalayWhile Galileo played life and death doctrinal games over the mysteries revealed by the telescope, another revolution went unnoticed, the microscope gave up mystery after mystery and nobody yet understood...Why It’s Good News HealthIT is So Bad
— I know of no industry where technology is as despised as it is in healthcare. It's telling that it took government money to incentivize healthcare providers to finally do what virtually every other industry has done -- apply information technology to streamline processes. "Established technology is being given a federa...Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head
— Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings.Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight on Digital Harmony Games
— The game industry today offers plenty of development engines to choose from. Unfortunately, there is no technology that allows all devices to plug into the same game server in real time. Almost 69 million Americans will be playing social games in 2012, according to analysis firm eMarketer. Within the Rackspace Startup ...Come Join DevCentral for the Seattle DotNetNuke User Group Meeting
— If you didn’t know, the DevCentral platform runs on DotNetNuke, the leading open source ASP.Net CMS. It’s a great development platform for turning out rich sites, and we’re excited to be hosting the next Seattle DNN User Group meeting next Wednesday, February 8th, beginning at 6pm at 401 Elliot Ave West, Seattle,...An Announcement, a Party, and Six Talks at Cloud Connect
— The week of February 13 is shaping up to be a milestone in the life of our company. There’s a lot going on, and we’d love for you to join us. Monday, February 13 We’ve got a couple of big … Continue reading →Nuclear Data Explosion
— We are on the verge of a nuclear data explosion. On Christmas day alone this year, 7 million combined Android and iPhones were activated, along with 240 million app downloads! The number of angry birds hurled that day must have been in the bizzilions. Staying on top of industry trends like this is o...Saint Zuck
— "Facebook was not originally created to be a company," writes Mark Zuckerberg at the start of his letter to would-be shareholders in the company's IPO filing. "It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." Hosanna! One of the great things about our newly transparent world i...Will clean power and microgrids be the future of data centers?
— Will an idea to build a data center park powered by onsite clean energy and paired with a microgrid in Colorado, represent the future of data centers?SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed as US regulators conduct investigation
— SAP's US$3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday.Google Docs offline comes to Android, but no editing allowed
— Google keeps taking tiny steps toward creating a full-fledged document creation and editing experience to users of computers and mobile devices. Recently, Google unveiled an HTML5-powered app for the Chrome browser that lets you read documents offline—but not edit them. Yesterday, Google br...Is the cloud really cheaper?
— That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise. Finance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing power for everything from operational management to hedge accounting are understandably tempted by SaaS, given the cloud's relatively low star...Microsoft touts plugin-free web, offers desktop fallback for Flash lovers
— Microsoft's new version of Internet Explorer has barred browser plugins in the Metro environment. But Microsoft has revealed a method that plugin-dependent websites can use to leap over Metro's walls and reach the green fields of the conventional Windows desktop, where Flash is still allowe...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 ...News: VMTurbo Delivers First Application Aware Service Assurance Solution
— VMTurbo has broken new ground by delivering the first application aware automated service assurance solution for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer. This is the first solution that takes advantage of the dynamic nature of these platforms and their control API's to actually ensure something (through...SoftLayer Introduces Flex Images
— The lines between physical and virtual IT resources are being erased with the introduction of SoftLayer Flex Images. Flex Images allow users to capture, replicate, and store an image of a cloud or dedicated server, and then deploy the image on either type of computing environment. Capabilities traditionally in the doma...Alfresco 4.0 heads for the cloud
— In anticipation of offering its open-source content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded its namesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a wider range of form factors, the company announced Thursday. "Alfresco Enterprise 4.0 is the foundational element in our cloud strategy," ...The Harvest Season is Just Around the Corner
— One year ago an online dating site called Lovely-Faces.com was lunched with over 250,000 profiles. These profiles were scraped from Facebook without the permission of the users. This incident illustrates exactly what web scraping is all about. Another good example when a web scraping attack may occur is when a web app...VMTurbo Operations Manager upgrade supports virtualisation platforms
— VMTurbo has upgraded Operations Manager to version 3.0 to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.Cisco Live, London - Day 2: Now We're Rolling
— With the day one issues all put to bed, day two was awesome. The conference seemed much more lively today, and we ended up having a great day of booth presentations, VPLEX demos and hands on labs. One of the presentations that I enjoyed the most was from Gideon Wilkins, the Director of Strateg...Trends in Cloud Computing Adoption – 2012
— What can we expect from cloud computing in 2012? Where will cloud computing be one year from now? If you look back at the important cloud computing events you will find that nothing of much significance had happened in 2010. The same can be said for the 2011 and I suspect that 2012 will not be any different. But, one t...How to Build a Private Cloud Using Microsoft Technologies
— ***This is a LIVING document*** I will be updating this article from time to time as things like Release Updates, Hotfixes, Service Packs and other updates come into being. Please check back often to get the latest information. I will keep the revision list updated at the bottom so you know what changes have been made....HP leaks Proliant Gen8 server details on its website
— HP has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch.Story of a 'Bad' Category - Gartner's iPaaS for Cloud and SaaS Integration
— "Categories" are supposed to help. But sometimes they hurt. When they help, they reduce confusion. When they hurt, they cause confusion. Helpful categories is one of those "Best Practices" that is high on my list of important things. Gartner's "iPaaS" confuses. When properly applied, categories help us, mentally o...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...Cloud Management: The Agentless Approach
— Automating the deployment and runtime management of large application deployments running on multiple cloud resources across various cloud providers is a challenging problem. Managing remote resources is not a new problem the big difference is that in cloud the resources are added and removed dynamically and at a...Investors and users beware: Facebook is all about IT
— Facebook's S-1 filing shows the company is all about infrastructure. The ad revenue and user experience it relies on to exist mean Facebook can't afford to take it easy on IT, which means shareholders and users will both find plenty of reasons to get upset.Look out Citrix HDX & VMware PCoIP: RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8 is awesome!
— At their Build conference this past September, Microsoft spend a fair amount of time discussing and demoing their plans for RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8. I finally took the time to watch the videos from the conference, and I gotta say: RemoteFX and RDP...(read more)For Facebook infrastructure concerns loom large
— Beneath all the Zynga games, likes, personal timelines and pokes, Facebook's business relies on fast, reliable infrastructure. And concerns about that underlying figure heavily in the risks it faces as it goes public, according to its S-1 filing.Is the Cloud Really Cheaper?
— That there is growing company demand for cloud or software-as-a-service solutions should come as no surprise.ShoreTel To Acquire Cloud Communications Company M5 Networks For Up To $146 Million
— IP phone company ShoreTel has today announced that it is beefing up its offerings by acquiring unified communications company M5 Networks in a deal that is valued up to $146 million in cash and stock.Post-IPO, Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public
— When it comes to information privacy concerns, Facebook already has a bullseye on its back. That won't change now that Facebook is going public in its highly anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO). But disclosure rules affecting publicly traded companies may force Facebook to reveal...Lightning Is Striking Twice…
— Be There When Lightning Strikes! EMC is introducing Project Lightning—EMC’s new server Flash caching technology. Pat Gelsinger, President and COO of EMC Information Infrastructure Products, will introduce this game-changing new product and discuss EMC’s future plans for Flash on February ...Storage Efficiencies Redefined
— If you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references t...Stealth Startup Numecent Raises $2 Million Series A For “Cloudpaging” Technology
— Numecent, a stealth startup building a patented "cloudpaging" technology, just raised $2 million in Series A funding from undisclosed corporate investors. The $2 million tranche is a part of a larger $10 million funding round, and is in addition to the $7.5 million in seed funding the company has already raised from pr...PaaS and the Private Cloud
— 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. The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate2001 all over again: Internet Explorer 6 share grows (and Chrome falls)
— It may be 2012, but apparently someone hasn't got the message. Internet Explorer's share of the desktop browser market grew in January, and most of that growth was due to Internet Explorer 6. Internet Explorer 6 only runs on one supported operating system, Windows XP, and that too gained ma...Meet our new Security Editor and help shape our coverage
— Welcome, readers, to our expanded security section. As the newly christened Security Editor here, I'll be directing coverage of hackers, botnets, encryption, electronic warfare, and similar topics. A little about me: I've been using computers since 1986 when, as a dyslexic English major, I...Communities Will Lead the Way
— Competitive advantage for network technologies will be determined by a vendor’s ability to allow its customers to create custom features through a programmable front end and then share these ideas with a broader community. The community will become a self feeding ecosystem that will create a higher level of st...Microsoft vows to fix "broken" Hyper-V code submitted to OpenStack project
— In October 2010, Microsoft started working toward making the OpenStack open source project compatible with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software. The project now seems to be hitting a snag—much as Microsoft's submission of Hyper-V drivers to the Linux kernel once did—but Microso...CoreVault Speeds Backup and Recovery Times by Up to 400 Percent
— CoreVault, an industry leader in providing cloud based data protection services and powered by Asigra, today announced the release of CoreVault v11. The backbone of CoreVault’s secure cloud backup and recovery solution, CoreVault v11 now delivers up to 400 percent faster backup and recovery speeds while supporting da..."No imminent data loss" expected, Megaupload host says
— The hosting company that provides service to shuttered file-sharing service Megaupload said today that data will remain in safe hands for now.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...How to Configure Static Routes to Traverse Traffic on CloudLink
— CloudLink is infrastructure so it can enable many use cases. However, you will be unable to use it until you configure your servers to use static routes. The rest of this post will describe how to create a static route from one server in US-West-1 to servers in US-East-1. This assumes that you have not [...]CloudBerry Explorer Brings Cloud Files to Your Desktop
— This is a guest post written and contributed by Alexander Negrash, Marketing Manager at CloudBerry Lab, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. CloudBerry Lab provides file manager and backup utility in order to help Rackspace users leverage the cloud storage (Cloud Files). CloudBerry Explorer freeware is an FTP-like file m...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...Why is Amazon hiring like a drunken sailor?
— The most striking thing about Amazon's Q4 filing was that head count was up a whopping 67 percent to 56,200 full- and part-time employees, compared with 33,700 from a year ago, according to Amazon's 8-K filing; 67 percent is a very big number -- even for Amazon.Citizen gateway gov.uk runs on Amazon
— Can it be that the UK government actually gets the cloud? Its gov.uk trial runs on Amazon and is aiming for savings of 80 to 90 percent.Nimbus announces E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage
— Nimbus Data Systems has announced the new E-Class Memory System all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centres that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else.Do government datacenters deserve awards for their consolidation progress?
— Awards to recognize progress are nice, but how about we try to determine if real world progress is being made?Hardware Security, the New Frontier?
— RSA Conference is right around the corner, and I’m excited to actually be able to see some talks this year. I’m on a panel with Dave Navetta and Serge Jorgensen on Tuesday covering the Dark Side of a Payment Card Breach (LAW-107, Room 131, 2:40pm). I am sure if you are there, we wil...SaaS valuations come back to earth — sorta
— It looks like some of the bloom is off the SaaS rose. New numbers show the booming growth in valuations of SaaS companies is slowing after a long run-up as pure-play SaaS companies face more competition from legacy players.Cloud Finance: Best Practices for Implementing Rolling Forecasts
— Rolling forecasts allow finance executives and key decision makers to see both a financial and operational vision of the future, by projecting four to six quarters or twelve to eighteen months ahead. It also helps them assess next steps in their execution of their plan, understand critical pivot points in the plan and ...The Cloud API is Pseudo-Consolidation of Infrastructure
— It’s about operational efficiency and consistency, emulated in the cloud by an API to create the appearance of a converged platform In most cases, the use of the term “consolidation” implies the aggregation (and subsequently elimination) of like devices. Application delivery consolidation, for example, is used ...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...Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012
— Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand. Shortage of drives by the end of this year is likely to be about 150 million units, it sa...Wyse expands Z class thin client range to support more peripherals
— Cloud client computing company Wyse Technology has made a new addition to its Z class thin client family, introduced last year, with a product that can support up to six external displays running high-load multimedia applications in a virtual desktop environment.Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing
— Salesforce.com will include some new analytics capabilities at no additional cost with the Enterprise and Unlimited editions of its CRM (customer relationship management) software, following complaints from customers who argued that the features should have been used to fill long-standing gaps in the products' core fun...Indiana students receive $100k to research cloud computing
— Two students have received grants of $50k each to use in cloud computing research projects.Cisco Ethernet switches make big leap to 40/100G
— Cisco this week unveiled significant extensions to both of its major switching lines with the addition of 40/100G Ethernet capabilities.Cisco Live, LondonDay 1: Calvinball
— Have you ever read the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips? I grew up with them, and am a huge fan. One of my favorite recurring things in the series was the concept of “Calvinball”, which was their way of rebelling against the rules they were surrounded by every day. The only rules were that...Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks
— Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's “core competencies”, with the aim of creating a networking operating system that is more intelligent and contextualised.AccuRev to add Git to Kando enterprise developer tool
— Developer tool provider AccuRev will release a package designed to help enterprises incorporate the increasingly popular Git open source version-control software into their development operations, the company announced Tuesday.Cloud Computing: Zenoss Posts Record Revenue for 2011
— Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT, today announced that the company achieved 196% new sales growth in Q4, nearly doubling its growth from the same quarter last year, and ended 2011 with record revenues. The key driver of growth was large organizations looking fo...A tour of Microsoft System Center 2012
— I admit it: I never liked Microsoft's System Center server management suite. If you are one of my long-time readers, you know I mention it only sporadically, and even then without enthusiasm. It's felt like a patch job of unrelated products. But the forthcoming System Center 2012 -- now available in the form of a relea...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...Galaxy Note and S Pen: Can a tweener smartphone-tablet succeed?
— The 5.3-in. Samsung Galaxy Note is called a smartphone, but its touchscreen and integrated S Pen stylus for drawing and taking notes elevates it into a somewhat harder to define category.C12G Labs Announces the Release of OpenNebula Pro 3.2 Cloud Manager
— C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula 3.2, released two weeks ago, brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders with full support for VMware that n...Linux kernel chief exits SUSE, takes vendor-neutral oversight role
— Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and the Linux driver project, is leaving his position with SUSE to join the Linux Foundation in a full-time fellowship role. Kroah-Hartman will now have more time to oversee kernel development and work with the Linux communi...People, Process & Technology
— I am often asked how I do things and why. In most cases it really does come down to thinking about three things and making sure they are properly tended to at all times. Those three things are people, process and technology in that order.With the right people you can do anything you can set your mind to doi...Get a list of VMs on a vSphere host using PowerCLI
— PowerCLI is a PowerShell snap-in that allows you to perform advanced scripting against either vCenter or individual vSphere hosts. Let’s assume that you have Microsoft PowerShell installed on a Windows system and you have downloaded and installed the latest version of VMware’s PowerCLI snap-in for PowerShell....Cisco aims Wi-Fi access point at iPad profusion
— Cisco Systems developed its latest enterprise access point with corporate bring-your-own-device policies in mind, aiming to give tablets and smartphones as well as traditional workplace devices strong and consistent performance.Etc: Symantec is now telling customers it is safe to use pcAnywhere as long as it is updated with the latest patches, days after revealing that stolen source code had fallen into the hands of Anonymous.
— Symantec is now telling customers it is safe to use pcAnywhere as long as it is updated with the latest patches, days after revealing that stolen source code had fallen into the hands of Anonymous. Read More: Computerworld Read ...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...Like Cars on a Highway.
— Every once in a while, as the number of people following me grows (thank you, each and every one), I like to revisit something that is fundamental to the high-tech industry but is often overlooked or not given the attention it deserves. This is one of those times, and the many-faceted nature of any application inf...TrainSignal releases VMware View 5 training
— TrainSignal has released a new VMware View 5 training course! Called VMware View 5 Essentials Training, “This course teaches a virtualization starter how to use VMware View 5.0 to set up a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Virtualization experts Brian Knudtson and Lane Leverett guide you from VDI basics, th...HP wins a battle, but war with Oracle rages on
— HP won a tactical battle last night when a judge tossed out an Oracle fraud claim. But it also lost one -- when he unsealed previously redacted documents that show just how desperate HP was to keep Oracle working on software for HP's Itanium servers.Fake Windows updater targets government contractors, stealing sensitive data
— Two security companies today released a joint report describing an ongoing series of attacks against government contractors that have been occurring since at least early 2009. According to the vendors Seculert and Zscaler, attackers are sending firms phishing e-mails with fake invitations t...Planetary-scale computing
— If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global levelGovernments Missing Out On Virtualization Savings
— Government agencies need to overcome funding uncertainties and other major barriers in order to realize savings from virtualizing their servers and desktops, according to a new study by MeriTalk. The report, "Virtualization Vacuum: The 2012 Government Virtualization Study," surveyed government IT decision makers. One o...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...Managing Data Center Assets
— Its hard to believe that almost an entire month has gone by since the beginning of the year. The year [...]Judge dismisses fraud claim brought by Oracle against Hewlett-Packard
— Decision ends bitter legal battle between the two companies over the Itanium platformNew 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 preferencesCisco, 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 [...]Sponsored Post: aiCache, Next Big Sound, ElasticHosts, Red 5 Studios, Attribution Modeling, Logic Monitor, New Relic, AppDynamics, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7
— Who's Hiring? Anybody interested in helping manage a 100+ Linux server deployment? Next Big Sound is a an analytics company for the music industry and is looking someone to help them scale. Red 5 Studios. Wanted: DBAs and Programmers interested in MySQL scalability and replication. If interest...HP extends discovery service to map Amazon and VMware cloud assets
— HP has updated its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) software package so it will allow administrators to map their IT assets in the cloud.Juice-Jacking Revisited
— It’s a crazy world out there. I ran (well, by “ran” I mean jogged slowly enough to pass the old ladies on the track) this morning at the YMCA, lifted weights for a little while, and then hit the elliptical for 20 minutes before heading home. My gym’s ellipticals have the Nike+ package where you can store your w...Vulnerability Assessment with Application Security
— The longer an application remains vulnerable, the more likely it is to be compromised. Protecting web applications is an around-the-clock job. Almost anything that is connected to the Internet is a target these days, and organizations are scrambling to keep their web properties available and secure. The ramifications ...How To Gain Early Access to GoGrid’s Amsterdam Cloud Infrastructure
— As you may have seen, last week we announced the opening of GoGrid’s European Headquarters in Amsterdam. This is an exciting milestone for GoGrid since it means that GoGrid’s cloud infrastructure is now available in even more locations across the globe and with a European data center, sales and account support. Tal...Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years
— Like your RHEL on your servers just the way it is? That's fine by Red Hat, which has extended its flagship Linux operating system's lifecycle to ten years.10000 Jobs, and All Requiring Cloud Skills. Who Said Cloud Was Just About IT?
— CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can...HP trims board in wake of controversies
— Hewlett-Packard said Monday that a second long-time director has decided not to seek re-election as the tech giant slims down a board that has faced heavy criticism for key decisions in recent years.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 [...]Virtualization Security is NOT Cloud Security!
— I and others look at Virtualization Security constructs with an eye towards Cloud Security, but they are not necessarily the same. Granted for some clouds, virtualization security can lead to cloud security but this really depends on how the cloud's architecture. Even so, what we know from Virtualization Security WILL ...Back in the US, Feeling the Freedom
— As we traveled over the course of three flights and 22 hours from Manila to Chicago last week, making a return to the US after about three years in Southeast Asia, there was plenty of time to contemplate the global nature of cloud computing, big data, and all the rest. This sort of trip is not unusual for many of our...How do you measure virtual machine boot time?
— A recent post in the vSphere forums asked what seems to be a simple question: How can I measure how long it takes to boot a virtual machine? I believe that the poster was attempting to find out if there is a performance stat that can be used for this purpose. However, it brings up a bigger ques. more...Amazon Announces Trusted Advisor
— When considering using cloud computing services, one of the major factors is the level of support that can be provided by the cloud vendor. In particular, when using Infrastructure as a Service, it is vital to ensure that cloud resources are not only appropriately secured but are also running at their most cost effecti...NaviSite Announces SSAE 16 SOC 1 Compliance
— NaviSite on Monday announced it has completed its annual Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 16 Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 compliance for its cloud-enabled data centers in Andover, MA and San Jose, CA. SSAE 16 compliance also extends to managed services and managed cloud services in ...HDFS: Coming Soon To An Array Near You
— As enterprises around the globe are beginning to exploit the value in their unstructured data, Hadoop is starting to find its way into more enterprise settings. Enterprise IT buyers are justifiably a demanding lot, which creates plenty of opportunity for... Update your feed pr...Compuware launches new Workbench tool to tackle 'New Normal'
— Compuware has launched a new version of its Mainframe Workbench tool, which it claims can increase developer productivity and improve application performance management.A deeper look at Ericom's "AccessNow" HTML5 client. Why wait for Citrix & VMware? This thing is out now & works with View and vWorkspace.
— Gabe wrote about how HTML5 clients work almost a year ago , and he mentioned Ericom's HTML5 client in his review of his Chromebook . Put simply, Ericom AccessNow is an HTML5 client for using remote desktops through web browsers. The client is "installed...(read more)The camera in the stands
— The wisdom of Pudge Fisk, channeled through Jon Udell: Somewhere in the 2000s, [Roger] Angell asked [Carlton] Fisk to reflect on what had most altered the game of baseball since his playing days. The salaries? The drugs? No. The game-changer, Fisk said, was instant replay. His game-winning 1975 home run is one of most-...Explore new Hyper-V 3 networking features
— As you may know, Hyper-V 3 includes a lot of new networking capabilities. Here, I’m going to discuss a few of the new features you’ll find in virtual machine configurations in Hyper-V 3. more...New Google reference doc shows comparison of Dart and JavaScript
— Google has published documentation that illustrates how traditional JavaScript syntax compares to that of its new Dart programming language. The page, which they call the Dart Synonym app, shows JavaScript syntax examples side-by-side with the equivalent Dart code. Google developed Dart wi...The official wrap-up post from Dell Storage Forum London
— The big fat review post for Dell Storage Forum London has been posted. Please let me know if I missed something! Once again, it was great to see the community coming together around Dell Storage. Will you be joining us in Boston in June?High-Capacity SSDs Pushing to Tier 1 and Beyond
— Five Data Storage Predictions for 2012 Flash storage has taken a kind of top-down approach when it comes to the enterprise. From the beginning, its chief benefits were transfer speed and lower operating costs, which made it an ideal solution for WebHackers put hijacked Web views up for sale for webfraud
— In the latest twist on website exploits for profit, Web hackers have begun to turn sites they've exploited into sources of fraudulent Web traffic for anyone willing to pay. By using inline frames (iframes) injected into the HTML of a website, they can redirect visitors to the site to anywhere on ...Bridge Building: The Sixth Habit of Effective Intrapreneurs
— This is the seventh in a series of articles that describe the unique traits of a corporate intrapreneur. The first three habits (productivity, initiative, and collaboration) accelerate idea innovation in a corporation. The next two habits (3-Box time Management and Plus-2 Visibility) allow an i...Are There Too Many Storage Solutions?
— It's a challenge to sort through the maze of storage products to find a solution to your problem--but it's better than not having choices.Why publishers should give away ebooks
— I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don't anymore. That's not to say I don't listen to MP3s. I have about 10,000 of the little guys squeezed like vienna sausages into my iTunes music folder, and I listen to them a lot. But when I buy music today I buy it on vinyl. I'm no audiophile, no retro hepcat, but my ears tell me that...VMware releases vCenter Operations Management 5.0 for virtualization and cloud infrastructures
— VMware's latest move to help accelerate private cloud adoption came last week with the official announcement of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0.Smartphone Adoption Higher In Europe
— More U.S. consumers hold on to feature phones and dumb phones. Are U.S. carriers to blame?My Continuing Infatuation With Storage
— During my many decades as a technology guy, I've been exposed to all sorts of interesting things: compilers, AI, networks, security, processors, databases, virtualization, apps, mobile, etc. etc. But no technology has held my interest over the many years as... Update your feed...Who Moved My Cheese?
— If you’ve read any of my blog entries, you know that I like analogies between what’s happening in healthcare and IT, and everyday life. Sometimes I have to think long and hard about this. Sometimes they just come to me. Imagine my surprise when one popped into my head as I was preparing for...37signals Still Happily Scaling on Moore RAM and SSDs
— There are so many architectural ideas swirling in the bit wind these days. Two of the biggest battles are cloud vs. bare metal and RAM vs. disk vs. SSD. 37signals has published two solid articles that are counter hype cycle in their message: Technologists who grew up when RAM cost $1,000 per megabyte can have a ha...EqualLogic joins the Dell ShipsFast Systems Program
— Posted on behalf of Ryan Steed, Storage Excellence Center—EqualLogic Product Line Manager When I was a kid, December was always a hard month for me—I just couldn’t stand that annoying 3-week wait to open presents. I wanted those toys now! I can’t help but think some EqualLogic customers ma...Lenovo, IBM Look to High Schools for Future IT Workers
— Big companies such as Lenovo and IBM are looking at high schools to tap into the next generation of IT workers to build the next killer apps and staff the jobs of the future. - As the need for more IT workers becomes more and more dire, major vendors are making efforts to seed the industry with trained technology st...[Infographic] A Proactive Approach to eDiscovery
— Update your feed preferencesMetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security
— Network security monitoring startup MetaFlows launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product that can be installed on low-cost hardware to monitor network traffic flow, detect possible intrusions and analyze event logs.Vishing: To Have Your Identity Stolen, Press One
— Of all the terms describing identity theft methods, “Vishing” (which stands for “Voice Phishing”) is perhaps the most ambiguous one. A simple Google query for the definition of the term shows just some of its multiple interpretations: “Vishing is the criminal practice of using social...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 ...RES Software Announce HyperDrive: follow-me-data more than sharing files or dropping stuff in a box
— RES is joining a crowded party of file sharing solutions but they bring a cloud pricing license structure to a on-premise file sharing solution. The RES Hyperdrive solution can span a range of end-devices be they VDI, desktop or a hybrid and at an interesting price point. With clients for PC, Mac, Windows mobile, Black...Facebook scammers use Amazon cloud to redirect victims
— Facebook scammers have started redirecting victims through Amazon's cloud in order to bypass malicious URL filters, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor F-Secure.Welcome to the club SharePoint (Club ECM)
— It was about six months ago when a friend of mine from Microsoft told me a story where he had been in a room with all of the established ECM solution vendors as well as some of the newer Cloud file-sharing vendors. He told me of a moment during this event where one of those Cloud vendor...Google, what happened?
— Google, it used to be I couldn't wait to see your cheery face in the morning. Now I'm not sure I can even get a straight answer from you.When you first showed up out of nowhere, I was charmed like everyone else. You dressed simply. There was nothing artificial about you. You just did what you did better than anyone els...CloudPassage launches firewall and authentication for cloud servers
— CloudPassage is launching a new security product for virtual servers in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services that it says takes care of the all-important need for security when using services from infrastructure providers.DMARC Promises A World Of Less Phishing
— Some 15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal plan to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but it's only started happening in the last ...F5 says Big-IP is now a network firewall
— F5’s Big-IP application delivery controllers are now certified as network firewalls, meaning they can replace separate network firewalls businesses might already have in place to meet regulators’ requirements.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...Partner Mac Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
— While setting up bonding on a Linux host running SLES 11, a colleague and I noticed that the output from cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 showed a “Partner Mac Address:” of 00:00:00:00:00:00. (BTW, we’ve also observed this symptom on at least one other distro (Debian)). We were i...
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Studying the Costa Concordia Grounding
— Don't be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. I first heard the latter part of this famous quote made by US Airmail Pilot E. Hamilton Lee back when I raced cars. At that time, one of the better drivers in town, Gordon Monroe, used a v...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...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...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...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.BYOD: Time to Roll with the Changes
— Seven BYOD Management Tips Change is difficult. Change is scary. This is why it is usually met with resistance at first. In time, however, what initially seems threatening often emerges as bold and exciting as anticipation of the possible overcomesCisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces
— Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.Power to the data!
— Seth Finkelstein, a long-time crusader against online censorship, made what seemed like a jaundiced comment on my recent post Piracy and Privacy. I had raised the possibility that online activists, fresh from their SOPA fight, might now come to the support of efforts to give people more control over the personal inform...Weekly Roundup!
— Welcome to the InFocus Weekly Roundup! Thank you for your support and continuing to contribute to the success of the blog. This Roundup serves to give a brief summary and link to the articles you may have missed out from in the past week! This weeks topics range from Bill Schmarzo blogging on B...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...What happened at Last Orders?
— We are very lucky to have Mark Wilson as one of our taverners as he writes up brilliant blogs to remind everyone who was there what happened and to show those who were not able to make it what they missed. Mark again has been a star and here is his blog for you to check out. Also for those of...Dell launches pre-packaged private cloud for your datacenter
— Dell announces it's largest pre-configured private cloud packageUbuntu creator warns businesses to be wary of cloud lock-in
— Cloud infrastructure was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, according to Ubuntu creator Canonical.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...Free Free Free Cisco UCS Development Free Free Free
— The other day I was “making” breakfast for my daughter, as I poured the cereal from the box I noticed [...]NJVC® and Virtual Global Announce Release of PaaS White Paper: Paper Clarifies the Confusion Surrounding PaaS for Federal IT Buyers—Why It Is Important and How It Can Cut Development Costs by 50 Percent
— VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC®, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions for a variety of industry and federal customers, announce the release of a joint ...Socrata Chief Technical Officer
— Ordinarily I focus this blog on areas of computing where I spend most of my time from high performance computing to database internals and cloud computing. An area that interests me greatly but I’ve seldom written about is entrepreneurship and startups. One of the Seattle areas startups with wh...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...Cast your Vote! Cloud Computing: SMB's only IT department?
— Final arguments are in for this week's Great Debate on ZDNet and the final winner will be announced today at 2:00 pm Eastern.Metrics: A Time Series Data Platform
— This is a guest post written and contributed by Fred van den Bosch at Librato, Inc., a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Librato is the creator of Metrics, a time series data platform that provides uniform monitoring and alerting for your operation. Would you consider building your own Database Management System? Probably...Logica says cloud is 'railway of 21st century'
— Logica has described cloud computing as “the railway of the 21st century”, claiming that the community clouds it is building with Microsoft will help to promote sharing and collaboration among like-minded companies.HP Envy 15: A great laptop marred by serious flaws
— The new Envy 15, which HP released right at the end of 2011, finally features a whole new design. For the most part, it's great, but a few nagging issues keep the system from being an easy recommendation.It’s Game On for CPBN with Rackspace
— You’re watching the big game; your favorite player shoots the ball, and…nothing. That’s what happened to University of Connecticut women’s basketball fans last year when Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network’s (CPBN) servers buckled under unexpectedly heavy traffic while broadcasting an inte...PagerDuty: A Loggly Customer Profile
— PagerDuty is using Loggly to quickly identify the cause of problems and bugs. PagerDuty explains why Loggly was selected.InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award Winner the Dell PowerEdge R715
— On January 9, InfoWorld announced that its internal Test Center has presented their Technology of the Year Award to the Dell PowerEdge R715 server. Kevin Schultz referred to the Dell PowerEdge R715 in his InfoWorld article as if it were not only the most important “multi-tool” available but also compared it...EU’s Proposed Data Laws Can Only Produce One Thing: Outsourcing User Data
— In 2011, Sony had several major security breaches: Sony Online Entertainment, Sony Pictures, and Playstation Network all were attacked and private data was successfully stolen. Their handling of the attacks, particularly the larger PSN one, was widely criticized. Many users are either unaware or acutely aware of how m...Guidewire Hits The Public Market Running; Shares Jump 30% In Early Trading
— While there were some big IPOs in 2011, Zynga and Groupon among them, overall it was a disappointing year for IPOs. Will 2012 be any different? As the first tech IPO of the new year, Guidewire Software certainly hopes so. Back in September, the insurance software company joined MobiTV, Angie’s List, Brightcove, and ...Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service
— Mozy released the beta of a new file synchronization service called Stash, which allows photos, videos or documents to be uploaded automatically to the cloud and shared across any device.Google Has Lost Control Of Android Fragmentation
— Fragmentation allows variety among device makers, but can cause frustration for developers and lower satisfaction among end users.Google Goes MoreSQL with Tenzing - SQL Over MapReduce
— MoreSQL is a cheeky idea Alex Tatiyants invented in NoSQL No More: Let’s double down with MoreSQL advocating that the cure for NoSQL is not less SQL, but even more SQL. Use SQL everywhere, for everything. This is of course creates yet another NewSQL. Hopefully we've exhausted all tasteful var...Are you managing your online reputation properly?
— This Saturday, Jan. 28, is Data Privacy Day. DPD, as it's known, is a day to "increase awareness of privacy and data protection issues among consumers, organizations and government officials and help industry, academia, and advocates to highlight consumer privacy efforts."What’s brewing in the Heineken datacentre?
— When Gerard Adriaan Heineken started a small brewery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1863, he had no way of predicting it would lead to 18 million hectolitres of beer a year. And just what would he have made of a datacentre of Dell Compellent Storage Center SANs with Dell Fluid Data™ technology? 140 breweries ...Alas, Poor Virtensys, I Knew Virtual I/O Horatio
— I must admit I was one of those folks who was intrigued by the idea of I/O virtualization. I led sessions at conferences exploring the various ways one could connect servers and peripherals to each other. The very idea that I could share expensive resources like RAID controllers and network connections from a shared po...Tibco adds geolocation to its Tibbr social platform
— Tibco has added geolocation technology to its Tibbr enterprise social-networking platform, in a move that will allow companies to use physical spaces as "data hubs," or launching points for information delivery and collection.Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise
— According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the Fortune 100, providing insight int...Teleconferencing vendors defend security
— Teleconferencing vendors say they're trying to strike the right balance between security and usability after security researchers found they could dial in to the conference lines of major companies and manipulate video cameras to spy on boardrooms.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 ...Daily implications of cyber-attacks
— I don’t know if you had the chance to hear about it but in the last couple of weeks a mini cyber-attack campaign was being held in the Middle East. It all started a couple weeks ago when a hacker (allegedly from the Arabian Peninsula) published several thousand Israeli credit card numbers and email addresses. This wa...Pieces of mind
— In an intriguing article at The Millions, Guy Patrick Cunningham wonders whether fragmentary writing may prove a cure for fragmentary reading: [David Shields's] Reality Hunger and [Masha Tupitsyn’s] Laconia are very different books, but they share this desire to use fragmentary writing to dramatize the act of thinkin...Rising Telecommuter Numbers Worldwide Form A Notable Trend
— A new poll of over 11,000 workers worldwide by Ipsos and Reuters shows that telecommuting is an increasingly popular choice, especially in non-Western countries. This will come as no surprise to many, but the numbers are higher than some might have guessed. Over 30 percent of workers in India, Mexico, and Indonesia cla...Opening enterprise collaboration to the world
— UK-headquartered cloud collaboration platform Huddle is targeting enterprise customers with an unlimited user edition and a generous uptime guarantee.iApp + iControl
— #iapp #iControl #orchestration Technorati Tags: iapp,iControl,automation,orchestration In the past few years there has been a lot of talk about dynamic data centers, automation, orchestration, etc. iApp has a very large benefit in these environments that might not be completely obvious. Last week I met with a cu...January 2012 Oracle Virtualization Newsletter
— The latest issue of the Oracle Virtualization Newsletter is now online! You can read about some of the awards Oracle Virtualization has recently won, get up to date on the latest product releases, read tips on accelerating Oracle VM and more. Read the January edition now. -Chris For more info...Words are numbers too
— Stanley Fish discusses the coming of the digital humanities, and what it portends, in two nicely circuitous longforms: Longform #1 and Longform #2....The Rise of Nimble Medicine
— In the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, at the turn of the 20th century, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed nearly half the workforce. Starting in Texas, a wide array of new methods of food production were tested. Long story short, food now accoun...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 devicesPiracy and privacy
— Internet activists flexed some impressive muscle over the last couple of weeks in working to block Congress from enacting the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), which would have put legal restraints and restrictions on search engines, advertising networks, internet service providers, and other online sites and services as...Marchitecture 101
— There was an interesting discussion on one of the table-top wargame lists I belong to (Two Hour Wargames if you follow the hobby) about the “production value” of a given set of printed products. While it devolved (as web conversations often seem to) to a comparison with Hollywood, the point was valid. The origi...Website Traffic Cleared by Cloud Avengers
— Can your website handle a sudden spike in activity? When LoveBook Online, an online retailer of custom books, made their first national television appearance, their site wasn’t ready to handle the ensuing traffic and crashed. When their second national television appearance rolled around, they had Managed Cloud a...The State of NoSQL in 2012
— This is a guest post by Siddharth Anand, a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team. Preamble Ramble If you’ve been working in the online (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger to terms like “the cloud” and “NoSQL”. In 2007, Amazon...RIM Investors Give Thumbs Down On New CEO
— Stock drops after new chief Thorsten Heins said he'll stay the course laid out by his predecessors.20 Lines or Less # 54: Pools, Geo-IP, and Mobile
— What could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That's the question I ask (sometimes?) every week for the DevCentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can be without getting in over your head. This week the forums provide us with ...Is there space for InfiniBand in your datacenter?
— Intel's move into the InfiniBand market may herald broader integration of this high-performance interconnect technology.The Cloud Playbook for the Big Game [Video]
— You just aired a commercial during the Big Game and are about to get blitzed with traffic to your website. John and Jerry give you play-by-play analysis on how to make sure your web config scores a touchdown. For more in depth information, be sure to check out our previous post that details the importance [...]A Checklist for a Move to the Cloud
— CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you ca...Remember the workers when building a cloud platform
— Last week, I discussed the importance of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, but they should not forget their employees who will ultimately be impacted by these changes.Defending against the Low-Orbit-Ion-Cannon (LOIC)
— It’s been a busy week for the security analysts at F5. The SOPA bill has been getting its technical teeth pulled out by the likes of Dan Kaminsky during congressional hearings but passions around the social implications of the bill are running high. On Wednesday, January 18th, federal agencies from the US and N...VMware Reports 67 Percent Profit Increase
— VMware posted quarterly net income of $200 million (46 cents per share) -- up from $120 million (28 cents per share) in the same period a year earlier. - VMware, the world's largest virtualization software and services provider, popped open at least a few people's eyes Jan. 23 when it announced a whopping 67 perce...Intel and InfiniBand: Pure HPC Play, or Is There a Fabric in the Works?
— InfiniBand has long suffered from the problem of having to serve two masters at once. On the one hand, it excels at high-end switching environments. On the other, its cost and limited industry support make it an expensive proposition. And now thatFacebook Timeline: Brought to You by the Power of Denormalization
— Facebook Timeline is audacious in scope. It wants to compile a complete scrollable version of your life story from photos, locations, videos, status updates, and everything you do. That could be many decades of data (hopefully) that must stored and made quickly available at any point in time. A huge technical challen...Nimble Goes After Salesforce, Wants To Be The “Pandora Of Contacts”
— Jon Ferrara thinks Salesforce is doing it wrong when it comes to social. The founder of Goldmine, a CRM company he sold for $100 million nearly a decade ago, is attacking the market a different way with his latest startup, Nimble. "We are effectively Salesforce but social," he says, taking a jab at what is now the 80...New data centre design looks like ordinary house
— A US ISP has revealed plans for a new type of data centre that it hopes will get planning permission to be built in a residential area by cleverly disguising it as an ordinary house.Cloud Computing Software Company Joyent Raises $85 Million To Pursue Global Growth
— Cloud computing software and service provider Joyent has secured an $85 million round of new funding, the company is announcing today. The round was led by European group Weather Investment II. It also included Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom giant Telefónica, which participated as a strategic...Thought Experiment--Forget ROI
— Boys and girls, today's homework assignment is a thought experiment. I want you all to put yourselves in the shoes of the CXO team making a decision to move to private cloud. There is, of course, one catch: You may not factor in ROI. We're dropping ROI because it clouds the subject (bad pun intended.) Let's skip the wh...HDS Places in FORTUNE’s 100 Best Places to Work with Innovation and Trust
— I have been working for HDS for almost 15 years, so, needless to say, I am very proud that we have been recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine’s 100 best companies to work for in the United States in 2012. This recognition helps to validate one of our stated company goals, which is to be [...]Bluelock Portfolio gives you the vCloud Forecast
— Portfolio, Bluelock's vCloud portal and decision support tool just learned a new skill: Cost Projection! Bluelock already excels in providing predictable costs in the cloud, but what about those months you need to burst by adding additional resources to your capacity? Portfolio is now outfitted with helpful run rate ca...The API is the Center of the Application (Integration) Universe
— #mobile #fasterapp #ccevent Today, at least. Tomorrow, who knows? Some have tried to distinguish between “mobile cloud” and “cloud” by claiming the former is the use of the web browser on a mobile device to access services while the latter uses device-native applications. Like all things cloud, the marketin...Second life: Revive your old workstation with SSDs
— I've written on a number of occasions about the capabilities of enterprise-class SLC solid-state drives (SSDs) when leveraged in demanding primary storage environments. Their ability to both provide impressive sequential read/write performance and shoulder enormous OLTP loads has made them an almost indispensable compo...OpenStack founder launches Piston Enterprise OS
— Piston Cloud Computing recently released the first private cloud operating system based on OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service framework that was first designed by a group of researchers at NASA.Micron bags UK virtualisation vendor Virtensys
— SSD-maker Micron Technology announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Virtensys, a maker of PCIe virtualisation appliance.We need a better definition of paperless
— A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not.The cloud is forked
— Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it.The cloud is forked
— Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it.The Summers' Tale
— "Before the printing press," writes Lawrence Summers in the Times's Education Life section today, "scholars had to memorize 'The Canterbury Tales' to have continuing access to them." That has to be one of the most dunderheaded sentences ever written by a former Harvard president and former Treasury secretary. The bound...Bank Chooses to Use Google Cloud Services
— This week Google has announced what could be considered as a breakthrough agreement for its cloud computing services. Spanish bank BBVA has signed an agreement to use Google cloud services internally for its 110,000 staff. This is the biggest single company deal Google has signed. The deal can be considered as a breakt...Wall Street Beat: Enterprise spending helps mixed quarter for tech
— There were weak spots in the last quarter of 2011 for sector bellwethers Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, but corporate demand for technology appeared to remain resilient going into what is expected to be a year of slower growth for global IT spending.HashDos – The Post of Doom Explained
— #infosec #adcfw My previous post was a quick analysis of the US-Cert Vulnerability #903934, coined the “Post Of Doom.” Much of the buzz has been about ASP.NET’s vulnerability to the attack, but that’s more because Microsoft has gone out of its way to quickly issue and publicize a patch. Microsoft has plenty...Can Nokia Crack The Verizon Nut?
— To be successful in North America, you have to have a device on the biggest network, Verizon.Atlantis VDI Ups IOPS Performance By 10 To 20 Times
— Atlantis Computing has announced Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI, a virtual desktop infrastructure product that makes use of server-based blade storage that it claims eliminates storage for Citrix and VMware virtual desktop operating system images. This means that users can reduce the capital expenses associated with VDI to...The Fundamental Problem with Traditional Inbound Protection
— #adcfw #RSAC #infosec The focus on bandwidth and traffic continue to distract from the real problems with traditional inbound protections … The past year brought us many stories focusing on successful attacks on organizations for a wide variety of reasons. Why an organization was targeted was not nearly as important...Windows drops to No. 3 cash-cow status in Microsoft' latest quarter
— Microsoft's two biggest cash cows in its second quarter were the Business Division and Server & Tools -- not Windows.AirPrint to almost any printer
— Back when I was young printing was complicated. Printer drivers were a nightmare of options and standards were rare. Now there are all sorts of standards for printing but the nightmare still continues. Even printers that sell for $50 have multiple drivers, often support various printing protocols, have multiple driver ...Microsoft Q2 revenue up 5%, net income slightly down
— Microsoft revenue rose in the second fiscal quarter, while its profits dipped a bit.How to hide your datacenter in plain sight
— A datacenter than fits into the look and feel of the local community is a great idea
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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 ...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 beBuffalo Technology Delivers Enterprise-Level Storage to Branch Offices With TeraStation
— Review: When is a NAS not a NAS? Thats a question Buffalo Technology wants its prospective customers to ask before picking a storage solution for SMB and branch office networks. Buffalo Technologys TeraStation is designed to add up to more than the sum of its parts and deliver a storage device that goes beyond what one...Razer Blade $2,799 gaming laptop
— Razer, probably best known for its gaming mice, is entering the laptop market with the $2,799 Blade premium, gaming laptop.Biggest Storage Trend of 2012
— Performance management skills--in both software and IT professionals--promises to be the biggest storage story this year.U.S. Losing Competitive Edge in Technology, Science: National Science Board
— The NSF has launched initiatives designed to better position the United States globally and at home by enhancing international collaborations. - The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology research and development, but only by a slim margin that could soon be overtaken by rapidly...City University to launch Masters course for CISOs
— City University London will offer a new postgraduate course from September, designed to help information security and risk professionals progress to managerial rolesMicrosoft Releases Windows 8 Tablet Specs
— Microsoft's forthcoming tablets have the bar set high for minimum hardware requirements.Shock as tech news site researches own story
— Kudos to InfoWorld for researching and breaking its story about the sudden-death vulnerability built into every Oracle database. This is a classic piece of technology journalism, researched over a two-month period during which the editorial team “conducted our own tests, verified information with sources we beli...PureSilicon Launches Kage Series Storage Platform
— Both products are available for preorder via the companys Website and begin shipping late in the first quarter. - Storage specialist PureSilicon announced the launch of a line of enterprise-focused storage devices designed to give IT administrators high-performance options for power users. The Kage Series comprises ...Customers and Partners Accelerate Time to Market and Improve Efficiency by Up to 60% with Cloud Services Built on NetApp
— Leading Service Provider Program Nearly Doubles in Size in Six Months, Enables Partners to Increase Profits and Help Customers Succeed with NetAppGet a New File Server in 15 Minutes
— Last week, a customer sent me an email that included the following. “The file server is full and slowing everyone down, and I’m tired of having to clean files off of it. Maybe we should get a new one.” So, I went to Dell’s Web site and found the cheapest file server they had. It [...]DDoS in the Middle East
— Hacker groups reported located in Saudi Arabia and Israel have been reported trading electronic blows, recently DDoS’ing stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi Haaretz News Story This again sheds light on a tough issue. In the electronic frontier, it can be near impossible to determine the real source of...Management in Multi-Hypervisor Environments
— Make the Financial Case for Virtualization and Cloud Computing When it comes to hardware infrastructure, the single-vendor environment is practically unheard of. So it stands to reason that enterprises would be just as willing to adopt the sameCapgemini's CTO on how cloud computing exposes the duality between IT and business transformation
— We're always hooked on this idea that we’ve used technology very successfully internally, but now we should be asking the question about how we’re using technology externally when the...RIM Taps Goldman Sachs To Explore Options
— Is hiring the investment firm a sign that the BlackBerry maker is ready to seriously entertain buyout offers?IBM: Shopping Experience Outweighs Privacy Concerns
— A recent IBM survey showed that consumers are willing to give up a great deal of information about themselves if it will mean a better shopping experience. - Privacy issues aside, customers are willing to share personal information if it means a better shopping experience. According to a recent IBM survey of 28,0...Need an agile infrastructure? Do your homework
— Companies looking for more agile data centers are increasingly turning to public (external) or private (internal) clouds with virtualized servers, storage and networks. Getting the lowest cost and the best speed and flexibility from those systems requires assessing everything from performance to control and interoperab...Live Webcast: Simplified, Anywhere, Applications Access with Oracle Secure Global Desktop
— If you are involved with end user applications in your organization, you've probably come across the following hurdles: People want to work from home, and they might even be against installing VPN software. People want work on various machines, not just their work issued...Google adds VMware co-founder to its board of directors
— Last week Google surprised many in the virtualization world by naming Diane Greene to its board of directors, filling the 10th seat vacated more than two years ago when Arthur Levinson resigned. In addition to the new board member position, Greene will serve on Google's audit committee.Virsto Software Beefs Up Storage Hypervisor
— Virsto Software, which claims to have coined the phrase "storage hypervisor," is now shipping Virsto for VDI, vSphere edition, and Virsto for Hyper-V 2.0, adding advanced storage management functionality to the two most popular server virtualization solutions. The company says its products increase existing physical st...The Ascendancy of the Application Layer Threat
— #adcfw Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Ta...ElasticHosts promises protection from the U.S. Patriot Act and DMCA.
— Can a UK-based firm protect non-U.S. companies operating out of non-U.S. data centers from the Patriot Act, DCMA and the proposed SOPA? Not completely.Kundra, first CIO of U.S., joins Salesforce
— Salesforce on Monday said that Vivek Kundra, who was the first person to serve as CIO of the U.S. federal government, has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets.Innovative Datacenter Design: Ishikari Datacenter
— Occasionally I come across a noteworthy datacenter design that is worth covering. Late last year a very interesting Japanese facility was brought to my attention by Mikio Uzawa an IT consultant who authors the Agile Cat blog. I know Mikio because he occasionally translates Perspectives articles for publication in Japa...Unified Storage: A Must-Have for the Cloud
— Accelerating the Enterprise Adoption of Public Storage Clouds Seven key attributes public storage cloud must possess to earn the confidence of enterprises. Now that the cloud is poised to make major gains in enterprise infrastructure this year, itObama’s in-sourcing is just a political rhetoric
— “You’ve heard of outsourcing. Well, these companies are insourcing,” the president said. “That’s exactly the kind of commitment to country that we need–especially right now, when we’re in a make-or-break moment for the middle class and those aspiring to get [...]Mobile versus Mobile: An Identity Crisis
— #mobileThe expansive options consumers revel in creates an identity crisis for IT that is best resolved via context-aware mobile mediation. Back in the days of the browser wars, when standards were still largely ignored and the battle for the desktop was highly competitive, developers had to make choices and compro...VMware Tools installation problems? Try this.
— In order to be able to make full use of your VMware implementation, whether it’s a vSphere install Workstation or Fusion, you really need to install VMware Tools inside each virtual machine that you create. At times, you may receive an error that starts with “Error 1316. A network error occurred while a...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...Lawsuit claims Epicor's two-year effort delivered 'useless' software
— Beverage distributor Major Brands is suing Epicor, alleging the ERP (enterprise resource planning) software vendor failed to deliver a satisfactory system after years of effort and significant cost overruns, and then offered a solution that would force the company to install a new version that hadn't yet been compl...Apple drubs all rivals in U.S. system shipment gains
— Apple was the only top-five computer maker to post shipment gains in the U.S. during the final quarter of 2011, a pair of research firms said this week.Verizon Gains More Than Consumers With LTE Shift
— To ease traffic on its 3G network, Verizon wants all future smartphone releases to support LTE.ISC seeks wider input for BIND 10
— The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for a few more good programmers to bring the next generation of its open source BIND DNS server software to fruition.Countdown to What is Next in AWS
— Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required.From datacenter to desktop: Hardware Rules!
— Software innovation continues to drive the engine that is the face of computer technology, but the underlying hardware is what makes it all possible.F5 Friday: Why SSL VPN Still Matters
— #mobile #vdi #infosec Scale and flexibility make SSL VPN an important part of any corporate remote access strategy You might have noticed a couple of news items from F5 this week that appeared related. If you noticed you were right, they are. First, we were very excited to announce recognition of our hard work on...Foxconn says it resolves pay dispute with workers
— Foxconn Technology, the largest contract electronics manufacturer in the world, said Thursday that it had resolved a pay dispute with scores of workers at one of its factories in central China, following a large protest that involved threats by some workers to commit suicide by leaping from the top of a factory buildin...HP's PC business suffered big hit last quarter
— Hewlett-Packard suffered a major drop in demand for its personal computers in the last quarter of 2011, two leading research firms said Wednesday, as competitors moved aggressively to capitalize on a period of confusion over HP's plans for its flagship PC division.Consolidation Still Rules Virtual Strategies
— Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization has taken a firm hold at most enterprises these days, but the fact is we've only just begun to unleash the true potential of the technology. With all the talk about cloud architectures, networkCES: Ultrabooks take show's spotlight
— Thin, light laptops --known as 'ultrabooks'-- are a much-hyped category at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, an annual showcase for the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other consumer-electronic devices.The Aldridge Company Signs MOU to Move Chinese Companies to the Cloud
— The Aldridge Company, a leading provider, consultant and integrator of Information Technology and Cloud Computing solutions for SMBs, today announced it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Shanghai Lingang Economic Development (Group) Co., Ltd. (SLED) to [...]Acer, Lenovo to launch Cloud sync services
— When Apple launched iCloud last year, many solution providers asked Channelnomics how it would affect cloud computing. The answer is coming this year at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas, where Lenovo and Acer are launching their own [...]Israeli Credit Card Numbers Exposed in Cyberattack
— The attack came in two waves this week by a hacker or team of hackers presenting themselves as Saudi Arabian.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" andNokia Promises Exclusive Phones To U.S. Carriers
— Will unique devices appease carriers and change Nokia's Microsoft Phone fortunes?Why RAID and Erasure Codes Need to be Considered in Disk Purchases
— Recently, I spent a few days with Garth Gibson, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and the founder of Panasas, an enterprise server and storage company. Garth and I were in Singapore for a review with the Data Storage Institute. Garth is best known for the research paper that he authored with David Pat...HP takes wraps off 'premium' ultrabook
— HP is hoping to grab the fashionable user with its new ultrabook, the Envy 14 Spectre.UK universities to combat data deluge with Education Cloud
— Non-profit IT service provider Eduserv has announced the launch of its Education Cloud, giving universities and colleges in the UK access to storage and processing power on demand.Dell announces XPS 13, its first ultrabook
— Dell on Tuesday announced its first ultrabook, the XPS 13, making some noise amid a smaller presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas compared to previous years.Consumer Clouds: Acer Announce AcerCloud
— Cloud Computing has been making headlines in the business computing world for some time now. As the technology matures it is interesting to see it now being built into consumer products and used in their associated marketing campaigns too. Last year Apple announced iCloud and Microsoft announced the cloud integration w...CommVault to combine backup, archive functions
— CommVault plans to announce a significant upgrade to its flagship Simpana backup software in the next several weeks that will blur the lines between backup and archive.Tips For Multi-Platform Mobile App Development
— New Forrester report has advice for enterprises supporting the consumerization of IT.Dell: PCs not under threat from tablets or smartphones
— The PC is not likely to be challenged by the tablet or the smartphone, and many users of the Internet on these devices will turn to the PC for a better experience, Michael Dell said in Bangalore on Monday.BlueStripe digs in to get the facts for application performance management
— Data and dependencies are the key focus of BlueStripe's APM products. Knowing what is working with what can mean the difference between knowing where you are or flying blind.The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services
— Was it the philosopher George Santayana who said, "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it?" Did he offer any hints for those of us who want to repeat the past, especially the successes? We're beyond the teary elegies of 2011 and deep into making resolutions for 2012. If we're going to stand half a...Picking the top technologies in a wild year
— Whenever someone asks me how InfoWorld differs from other IT publications, I cite two facts off the bat: Most of our articles are written by experienced, working IT people -- and we're one of the few publications that still does real enterprise product reviews.Big IT vendors lead patching laggards
— IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft led the list of companies that failed to patch vulnerabilities after being notified by the world's largest bug-bounty program, according to the TippingPoint Zero-Day Initiative.Lenovo IdeaPad Y, G, Z series laptops of CES 2012 (photos)
— The latest Y and G series IdeaPads get modest mainstream updates at CES 2012.Apple's Cool Factor Waning?
— Apple's best years are behind it, opines one financial reporter. Really? We don't see anyone getting a Samsung tattoo.Federal datacenter closures still seem to be missing the point
— It's not just about consolidating the infrastructureHitachi 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...A New Spin on DoS Web Server Attacks
— A slow HTTP denial-of-service (DoS) attack drags out the process to overwhelm the server.NextComputing Announces Nucleus Server For Small Spaces
— The small pedestal server is optimized for full-scale server deployments.AT&T adds 11 cities to 4G LTE network
— AT&T announced Thursday it has rolled out 4G LTE services to 11 more markets, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco.How to handle virtual desktops, wireless, network performance issues
— Schools are for learning, and the information technology and security professionals who support networks and applications in the nation's K-12 and university systems are discovering new tactics in what can be challenging IT environments. Here we talk to four professionals in the education realm to get a sense for their...Minkels Announces New Server Room Rack PDUs
— The VariconPower line of products intelligent Rack PDUs provide energy efficiency in server rooms.Microsoft To Open Azure Cloud Platform to Linux VMs
— Early reports claim Microsoft will let customers host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Servers on its Azure cloud platform.Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet strategy is based on their desktop OS and not their phone OS. That's stupid.
— Back when the iPad came out in April 2010, I showed mine to a friend who didn't like it. "This thing is nothing more than an iPod Touch with a bigger screen." "Yeah?" I thought, "that's why it's so brilliant!" The iPad is just a big iPod Touch. They didn...(read more)Meet Jo Maitland
— Last year was a great year for GigaOM Pro, and 2012 promises to be even better. Jo Maitland recently joined our team as a Research Director for Enterprise, and she will help us produce more research in the enterprise IT and cloud computing spaces.Thinking about reading
— To mark its 21st birthday, Vintage Books has released a collection of essays on reading called Stop What You're Doing and Read This! Contributors include Zadie Smith, Mark Haddon, Tim Parks, and Blake Morrison. I also have a piece in the book, "The Dreams of Readers," in which I mull over my own experience as a reader ...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...Cloud computing: why all of the vehemence?
— It would be wise of IT and facilities practitioners to focus on where and how new technology or new approaches can be of use to the organization rather than trying to fight them.IBM to Benefit from Unix Server Market Growth
— For the foreseeable future Unix server market growth will be enjoyed by IBM.The industrialization of the ineffable
— It dawns on me that there may be a correspondence between Steven Johnson's vision of serendipity as the output of a properly manipulated digital mechanism and Nick Bilton's belief in the scheduling of units of daydreaming as a means for the optimization of problem-solving. The Like button seems to be part of the same t...To tweet, perchance to dream
— The future, it seems, is too much for Nick Bilton. The New York Times's in-house webstud, and author of the book I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works, had something of a Joycean epiphany last week. Perched atop a rocky cliff, watching the sun dissolve majestically into the Pacific, he immediately did, he writes, ...ARM V8 Architecture
— Years ago, Dave Patterson remarked that most server innovations were coming from the mobile device world. He’s right. Commodity system innovation is driven by volume and nowhere is there more volume than in the mobile device world. The power management techniques applied fairly successfully over the last 5 yea...My resolution: advocate for women in tech
— As Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior looks to the new year, she wants to ramp up being an advocate for women in technology. Check out her 2012 resolution:From movable type to movable text
— The Review section of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal includes a brief essay by me on what I think will prove to be one of the most radical consequences of the rise of electronic books: the ability to perpetually revise a book even after it's been published. We take for granted the fixity of text in a printed book. But ...2012 tech predictions: From IDG's editors worldwide
— Consumerization of IT is the consensus choice of the new year's major technology force, one that will manifest itself in several formsBrianMadden.com Zeitgeist 2011
— Taking a page from Google's annual Zeitgeist metrics , we decided to compile some of our own for BrianMadden.com. (Actually we did this a long time ago, though it looks like we haven't since 2004 .) We posted 447 new articles & videos in 2011 (including...(read more)Will Windows Phone Take Off In 2012?
— Microsoft has two updates planned for its mobile platform next year, and its application store has a lot of apps. Will it spur sales?Spanish Bank "la Caixa" Signs Strategic Alliance with IBM for IT Services Infrastructure Management
— Spanish savings bank la Caixa and IBM today announced the establishment of a ten-year strategic services relationship. As part of the agreement, IBM and Serveis Informatics la Caixa, S.A. (Silk) will manage the infrastructure technology budget of la Caixa of more than 2 billion euro over ten years. ...The Cloud and the Great Data Center Race
— In the same way that the rise of the Internet led to the enterprise web (web-enabled enterprise applications) the public and private cloud is driving IT to new modes of operation, most of which demand more agility, more capacity and an even keener focus on operating and capital expenses. This profound tension -betw...Cloud Wars: Friendly Fire - Part 3
— In Part 1 and Part 2 of Cloud Wars: Friendly Fire, we covered some of the challenges cloud advocates and early adopters are experiencing within their own organization as well as some of the reasons that they may be receiving pushback. In this the third and final segement of the series, we'll cover some additional ...Will The FAA Relax Electronic Device Restrictions?
— Longstanding rules that require you to turn off your iPads and Kindles during airplane takeoff and landing may have no basis in science.What to do when Amazon’s spot prices spike
— Rapid price spikes are effecting buyers on the Amazon Spot Market, where users are bidding extremely high prices for scarce compute capacity. These price spikes are new, and they call into question assumptions that many users have made about how the auctioning of computing resources works.2011: the cloud has landed
— Cloud became mainstream in 2011. Looking back, it’s extraordinary to see how far we’ve come in the year.10 IT news stories to expect in 2012
— Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we just called that one too early. Then again, we also predicted last year that Oracle would buy Salesforce.com and have decided not to repeat ourselves this year, so we'l...December 2011: GovCloud Moves From Policy to Law
— Over the past years, government cloud computing has steadily moved forward from it's early beginnings as an interesting curiosity: December 23, 2008 - Now really. Should the Obama administration use cloud computing? Since Sunday's broadcast, I've been asked numerous times about my real answer to the question "Will 'C...Top 10 small-business tech predictions for 2012
— For small and midsize businesses, 2011 was an eventful year for the owners and managers tasked with technology decisions. The year's highlights range from the arrival of new technologies such as the introduction of Intel's Thunderbolt peripheral interface to the release of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich."Santa's army of electronic helpers
— Even on Christmas Day, consumers today can download gifts and purchases, served by a silent army of electronic servers and switches.Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' to power new PC line
— The vast majority of Linux users may get the operating system by downloading and installing it themselves, but there's no denying that there are distinct advantages to buying hardware with Linux preloaded instead.Sign of the times
— Stumbled on this while surfing the web today: I suppose it was inevitable....Mobile App Inventory Crosses 1 Million Mark
— Apple's App Store is the biggest, but it's the only one of seven app stores that didn't post double-digit growth in 2011.Extreme CEO: New products in 2012, growth in 2013
— After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches.
Dec 21 10:34:40 pm GMT /
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»
Move Data Closer To Apps
— The future of location-based storage tiering will be dependent on vendors being able to orchestrate movement of active data closer to the application.Year In Review: Virtualization Hot in 2011
— Virtualization was second only to cloud computing as a priority for 2,014 CIOs representing over $160 billion in corporate and public sector IT spending across 50 countries and 38 industries in Gartner's 2011 CIO Agenda survey, released in January. While IT budgets were expected to be flat for the year, these technolog...How to find greener tech products
— Several organizations are offering tips and detailed guides on how to buy green electronics this year. On Greenpeace's rankings of top five consumer electronics companies are Hewlett-Packard and Apple.Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.1.8 released!
— Oracle just released Oracle VM VirtualBox version 4.1.8! Not only does this release fix the issues listed in the ChangeLog, but it also solves those last-minute Christmas present problems, and will help you stay sane while visiting relatives this vacation. ;-) Download it right away. ...Dell pulls back from netbook market
— Dell has confirmed that it has ceased production of its Inspiron Mini netbook computer, in effect ending its pursuit of the receding netbook market, at least for consumer sales.Online retailers turn to social networks for holiday profits
— Retailers are going out of their way this year to integrate holiday season sales efforts with social networking sites to boost bottom line profits. Insider (registration required)30 events that shaped Cisco in 2011
— 2011 was a tumultuously transitional year for Cisco. The company came to the realization that its strategy for growth by entering new markets spread it too thin, distracted it from core markets and impacted profits. It cost thousands of employees their jobs.Facebook becomes renewable energy activist
— Social networking giant will include renewable energy criteria in its data center siting decisions.Are there really 509,147 datacenters worldwide?
— With over a half-million datacenters in operation worldwide, perhaps the emphasis on saving just a small amount of energy in each facility will eventually show significant economic results.NTSB Cellphone Ban Highlights Mishmash Of State Rules
— While many states have laws covering driver texting and mobile phone use, it's a patchwork of rules, with different levels of enforcement.Hyder: Transactional Indexed Record Manager for Shared Flash Storage
— If you work in the database world, you already know Phil Bernstein. He’s the author of Principles of Transaction Processing and has a long track record as a successful and prolific database researcher. Past readers of this blog may remember Phil’s guest blog posting on Google Megastore. Over the past few yea...Hitachi-LG Data Storage execs plead guilty to price fixing
— Three executives at Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) have agreed to plead guilty and serve prison time in the U.S. for their participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids and fix the prices of optical disk drives sold to large computer makers, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.Silicon Valley companies pitch in at food bank
— About 300 companies provide volunteers at Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties every year, especially during the holidays.VDI shoot-out: Citrix XenDesktop 5.5
— Citrix XenDesktop shines with unmatched flexibility and all the desktop virtualization bells and whistles. Insider (registration required)How warm can you run your datacenter?
— Intel wants you to start to consider running your datacenters almost 30 degrees warmer than you are running them now, citing the huge potential energy savings of such a move.Seattle hospital finds zero clients means better care, lower costs
— Seattle Children's Hospital has installed 2,600 zero client devices in four locations, many connected with a wireless LAN that helps doctors and nurses access patient data at the bedside within seconds.China beefs up its HPC training
— China can use its power of government control to bring major changes quickly, and it is moving to expand parallel programming training to help its supercomputing efforts.Hands-on: The ReadyNAS NV+ provides serious storage for prosumers
— Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+ device includes storage for up to four 1TB hard drives along with three levels of RAID synchronization. Insider (registration required)Efficient data center transformation requires tracking improvements incrementally
— One way to keep the interest high -- and those operating and investment budgets in place -- is to show fast results, and then use that to prime the pump for even more improvement -- and even more...IBM Online Simulator Makes Smarter Computing a Reality for CIOs
— Sometimes the best way to demonstrate the benefits of new technology is through more technology, like a cool online simulator. The kind of tool that lets people punch in information and receive instant feedback on possible alternatives. Add dynamically-built bar graphs and reports, and you’ve got something spe...Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots
— Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale … Continue reading →BlackBerry, Android Users Still Want iPads
— Platform loyalty only goes so far: Android and BlackBerry phone owners prefer Apple's tablet product.Image gallery: 'Cool stuff' 2011 holiday tech gift guide
— From tablets and smartphones to HDTVs and a few surprises, we've rounded up the best tech gear to give and get this year.Kindle Fire: Too Small, Too Large?
— Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says Amazon's 7-inch tablet is too small for full-size websites, but mobile sites offer poor user experience.Fuji Xerox to launch Dropbox-like cloud storage service for its copiers
— Fuji Xerox will launch a new cloud storage service that hooks directly into its multifunction copiers next week, allowing documents to be uploaded by scan or fax, then edited or downloaded by computer or phone.C# wins developers, but Java still reigns
— Tiobe survey has C# nipping at C++'s heels in popularity, but C++ holds edge in growing mobile development field
Dec 06 09:01:00 am GMT /
NetApp - Press Releases»
Dec 06 09:01:00 am GMT /
NetApp - Press Releases»
CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing
— Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading →IBM Opens Services Integration Hub in Singapore
— SINGAPORE, December 5, 2011: IBM announced today the opening of a new Services Integration Hub in Singapore that will drive the adoption of reusable solutions in growth markets and across the Asia Pacific region. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us ...CloudMASTER & CloudGURU Certification Comes To Washington, DC
— The National Cloud Technologist Association is bringing the CloudMASTER & CloudGURU certification classes to the Washington Metropolitan Area in 2012. First introduced in November at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, this continuing education program provides a solid technical back...
Dec 02 09:01:00 am GMT /
NetApp - Press Releases»
Must-Have Features In Your Next Storage System
— Storage managers should prioritize capabilities like thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, and cloning--along with price.Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year
— Cisco Systems in the first half of next year will release a tablet with a larger screen than the current Cius, the first move in the company's long-term plans to introduce tablets in multiple sizes, an executive said this week.Sprint Beefs Up Network For iPhone
— Carrier takes action to remedy users' reports of subpar smartphone speeds.Lenovo surges, challenging HP in PC market
— With Lenovo surging in the PC maker market, Hewlett-Packard (HP) is facing a serious challenge to its long-standing first-place position.Microsoft Apps Coming To Apple iOS
— Microsoft apps like Office, Azure, and SharePoint may soon show up on iOS and Android devices.Mobile mania spurs demand for unified communications
— Unified communications isn't easy or cheap, but for companies that want to differentiate their customer service, it's becoming a must-have. Insider (registration required)HP LaserJet printers vulnerable to attacks, researchers warn
— Millions of HP LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause them to overheat, according to two researchers from Columbia University.
Nov 29 04:51:52 pm GMT /
Virtualization.com»
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HP server revenue falls in turbulent quarter, Gartner says
— Worldwide server revenue grew 5.2% in the third quarter but declined for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Gartner Inc. said in a report on server sales during the quarter.Larger 15-in. MacBook Air 'makes sense' for Apple, say analysts
— Apple will launch a 15-in. MacBook Air in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from a Taiwanese publication that cited unnamed sources in the component supply channel.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 →Healthcare Providers Can Control Explosive Data Growth, Curb Costs, and Deliver Improved Patient Care with Cloud Services Powered by NetApp and Iron Mountain
— Partnership Will Deliver Secure, Scalable Cloud Archiving and Improved Disaster Recovery for Medical DataHigh Availability for Cloud Computing Database Systems
— While at Microsoft I hosted a weekly talk series called the Enterprise Computing Series (ECS) where I mostly scheduled technical talks on server and high-scale service topics. I said “mostly” because the series occasionally roamed as far afield as having an ex-member of the Ferrari Formula 1 team present. Client-s...Automotive supplier doubles in size after adopting HPC
— L&L Products, an automotive supplier in Michigan, grew dramatically after adding high performance computing to its manufacturing process.Remember that FUIT / Consumerization article I wrote six months ago? We launched ConsumerizeIT.com to address it.
— Many people read the article I wrote six months ago called " The Consumerization of IT: Why most vendors get it wrong, and why it's a real challenge today. (Part 1) ." And ever since then, most people have been asking me "When are you going to write Part...(read more)Building an Application upon Riak - Part 1
— For the past few months some of my colleagues and I have been developing an application with Riak as the primary persistent data store. This has been a very interesting journey from beginning to now. I wanted to take a few minute and write a quick "off the top of my head" post about some of the things we le...Smaller Companies and Larger Data Centers
— For months I’ve been preoccupied with Lew’s Law, or the theory that IT expenses over time will track to the cost of electricity (versus hardware, peoplepower, etc.) authored by Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker and shared in early 2010 with the then-billowing Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group. After watching an SAP web...Ultrabooks still trying to find their niche
— Despite backing from the top PC makers, high prices and a disorganized software and hardware ecosystem could slow adoption of ultrabooks over the next few years, analysts said this week.NVIDIA hopes that in the future, remote VDI won't mean a worse user experience than local computing
— Last week, Jack, Justin, and I drove down to Santa Clara to visit chipmaker NVIDIA. This was the first time that I really talked to anyone at the company, having just realized that they have a play in the virtual desktop space after their announcement...(read more)Protecting Mission Critical Workloads
— The wide-scale embracement of virtualization still has not convinced some companies to run their mission-critical workloads in this manner. To ensure mission-critical workloads are available in a virtualized data center demands meticulous attention to application performance requirements, resource utilization, and othe...DataSift launches in U.S., opens San Francisco headquarters
— DataSift, the British company that built its business filtering and sorting through reams of Twitter data in real time, has brought its act to the U.S., opening a San Francisco office. Businesses use DataSift to glean information about user impressions of their products and services.McKinsey getting in sourcing advisory? What do they know about it?
— I am a great fan of McKinsey. I love reading their Quarterlies. One of the greatest leaders of McKinsey’s , you might almost want to call him the father of McKinsey was Marvin Bower. No, not James O’McKinsey but Marvin. [...]Fusion-io to release 10TB PCIe flash module
— Fusion-io today announced a new in-server flash module that offers up to 10TB of capacity and 1.3 million I/O's per second performance.Backupify Names Top 10 Cloud Computing Experts to Follow on Twitter
— THANK YOU BACKUPIFY!!!! Thank you for the honor of being on your Top 10 List! Backupify is the leading backup provider for cloud based data, offering an all-in-one archiving, search and restore service for the most popular online services including Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter and more. With one account you get cen...Taking oVirt for a Spin
— The new open-source project is focused on delivering an openly developed and freely licensed virtualization system. - While many of the products and services that make up the x86 virtualization space are shot through with open-source components, these freely licensed and openly developed elements tend to serve as ...AWS Startup Challenge 2011
— Last week I got to participate in one of my favorite days each year, serving on the judging panel for the AWS Startup Challenge. The event is a fairly intense day where our first meeting starts at 6:45am and the event closes at 9pm that evening. But it is an easy day to love in that the entire day is spent with innova...Cisco stock jumps after earnings report beats expectations
— Cisco's comeback continued Thursday, as the San Jose networking company's stock received a healthy bump after its earnings report beat analysts' expectations.AMZN ‘Other’ Revenue in 2011+
— I had meant to put more content together around these numbers, but due to time constraints I won’t be able to. Regardless, the picture speaks for itself. Here’s my AMZN ‘Other’ revenue numbers with the blue bar representing my estimates … Continue reading →HP, Dell pass Nokia in new Greenpeace green IT guide
— While some consumer electronics manufacturers have cleaned up their act, making more energy-efficient gadgets with fewer toxic materials, others are continuing to make fine promises but no changes, according to Greenpeace. In response, the environmental pressure group is changing the way it scores companies in its Guid...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 EfficiencyCisco invests in Korean venture for smart buildings and cities
— Cisco is acquiring a minority stake in a subsidiary of KT, a South Korean telecommunications services company, which will offer managed services for smart buildings and smart city projects from January.For ISPs Skype sounds better on iPads, worse on MacBooks
— From the perspective of an ISP, making Skype calls on your iPad is far better than doing so on a MacBook Pro, while making calls via an Android handset falls in the middle when it comes to adding to the congestion of the overall network.Easier to Remember URLs for TCO
— If you haven't seen them before, you should have a look at our calculators for both server and desktop virtualization. These online calculators let you experiment with different scenarios and see the total cost of ownership in real world dollars for various solutions: These tools have been available for a littl...A final thought from The Wisdom of Clouds
— As the cloud market matures, James Urquhart changes companies and changes his focus from infrastructure to applications. It's time to say goodbye...What do young workers want: social media, device freedom
— The second chapter of the Cisco 2011 Connected World Technology Report shows that young workers are weighing their job decisions based on factors like social media access, choice of device and the desire for remote working arrangements, which can trump salary considerations in some cases.Cloud Wars: Why History Will Repeat Itself
— Battles over formats and standards in the technology industry aren't new. Whether it was e-mail, word processing, graphical images or even some more current like the apps on your smart phone, each new innovation typically starts out somewhat proprietary and incompatible.Today we live in a world where a lot of those bat...Presenting Tomorrow at University of Washington
— I’m not sure why it all happens at once but it often does. Last Monday I kicked off HPTS 2011 in Asilomar California and then flew to New York City to present at the Open Compute Summit. I love HPTS. It’s a once every 2 year invitational workshop that I’ve been attending since 1989. T...Crunch Time in the Clouds
— Two key industries industries face massive disruption in the coming years as IT becomes ever more strategic to enterprise operating advantage, and IT infrastructure scales to new levels of complexity and dynamism. The future of IT will likely be created by those who accelerate the pace of automation and who build mor...Is Brocade once again for sale?
— According to a published report, Brocade is again making it known that it has placed itself on the selling block, hoping to drum up interest in suitors with enough money to cover its more than $2 billion market cap.HP to keep PC division, rejects spin-off idea
— Hewlett-Packard Co. said late today that it has decided to keep its PC division.Linksys refocuses on Wi-Fi, video
— Cisco Systems' Home Networking Business Unit will keep both its Linksys brand and its place in the parent company as Cisco pares down its business, but the unit is also sharpening its focus.Apple launches in-store pickup of online orders
— Apple today kicked off in-store pickup of orders placed at its online store, letting customers retrieve their goods at a trio of stores in San Francisco.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.Want to control your broadband destiny? It’s coming.
— With myriad applications fighting for limited gigabytes on a mobile broadband plan or multiple users fighting for access to a wired home connection, what broadband users need is a connectivity thermostat that they can use to control how they can access their ISP's pipes. It's coming.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.Computerworld names Microsoft one of Top Green IT organizations
— Cross posted from the Software Enabled Earth blog Today IDG’s Computerworld named Microsoft as one of the top green IT organization as part of its annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature. Of the seventy organizations that participated in the ranking, Microsoft was ranked fourth. We’re very pleased to rank...Nudging IT forward
— There is basic agreement on the nirvana vision for the next-generation data center, but the tricky part is getting there from here.Software Define Networking Comes of Age
— From the Last Bastion of Mainframe Computing Perspectives post: The networking equipment world looks just like mainframe computing ecosystem did 40 years ago. A small number of players produce vertically integrated solutions where the ASICs (the central processing unit responsible for high speed data pac...
Oct 22 02:16:02 pm GMT /
CloudBzz»
HP updates TouchPad to WebOS 3.0.4
— The HP TouchPad hasn't gone the way of the dodo bird just yet, as Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday that an over-the-air update to WebOS 3.0.4 is now available.Dell ends 10-year reseller relationship with EMC
— Dell announced it has ended a decadelong reseller relationship with EMC this month through which it sold more than a billion dollars worth of midrange and entry-level storage products.Web 2.0 Summit to focus on value, pitfalls of online data
— This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the difference between success and failure in markets like online gaming, Web advertising, search, social media and mobile.ATC Ribbon Cutting
— In my previous post I had mentioned how extremely proud I was of the Technology teams here at AOL in delivering a truly state of the art Data Center facility with some incredible ground breaking technology. As I mentioned the facility was actually in production use faster than we could get the ribbon cutting cere...Google Translate conversation mode expands to 14 languages
— Google Translate conversation mode, which allows two people to speak in different languages and have their words translated in near real time, is now expanding beyond English and Spanish to 14 new languages. The service is also getting some additional features that help facilitate conversations.Breaking the Chrysalis
— What has come before When I first took my position at AOL I knew I was going to be in for some very significant challenges. This position, perhaps more-so than any other in my career was going to push the bounds of my abilities. As a technologist, as an operations professional, as a leader, and [...]IBM STUDY: Digital Era Transforming CMO’s Agenda, Revealing Gap In Readiness
— A new IBM study of more than 1,700 chief marketing officers from 64 countries and 19 industries reveals that the majority of the world’s top marketing executives recognize a critical and permanent shift occurring in the way they engage with their customers, but question whether their marketing organizations ar...Global Washington uses Cloud to Enable Non-Profit Organizations
— Global Washington’s mission is to help Washington State’s non-profits work together to alleviate world poverty, however they lacked the budget and IT expertise to build an effective technology solution. Bluelock, with Esri ArcGIS (Geographic Information Systems) and VMware, developed and launched a sophisti...The SaaS Aggregation Benefit Mirage
— In this service oriented on-demand world I’ve been running into something again and again lately that I’ve found interesting and a bit annoying.To start, imagine I’m going to build an application that uses two 3rd party services on-demand. We’ll just call them service A and service B and s...Wi-Fi roaming will make mobile operators connectivity providers
— In the coming year, Wi-Fi is going to become a much more vital part of the plan for mobile carriers transforming them from providers of cellular voice and data to purveyors of connectivity thanks to a new Wi-Fi roaming standard in the works.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...Changes in Networking Systems
— I’ve been posting frequently on networking issues with the key point being the market is on the precipice of a massive change. There is a new model emerging. · Datacenter Networks are in my way · Networking: The La...Heroku, Engine Yard bolster language support on clouds
— Platform-as-a-service cloud providers are adding Python, Java, and JRuby development capabilitiesCisco: Is the Internet as important as food, water, air, shelter? Some think so
— The Internet is just as important as water, food, air and shelter to a third of people with Internet access, according to an international poll by Cisco.The good, the bad and the ugly of Cisco’s cutting its growth
— Cisco said its sales would grow by 5 to 7 percent through 2014, cutting its revenue growth in half, and signaling the end of its massive restructuring effort at an analyst day Tuesday. The move sent the stock up, but Cisco isn't out of the woods.Fast Times in the Cloud
— The cloud hysteria and the “end of PC” debate is today’s equivalent to the dancing shadows on the walls of Plato’s famous cave (see Plato’s cave allegory); both topics are keeping companies and their customers distracted while the technology industry is entering an era of accelerating change more like K...Brick and Mortal Retail Doomed, Doomed I Say
— Not my usual blog topic, but hey, it’s Friday and I had a brutal week. But, I just had to relay a retail experience I had a week or so ago. I went into a local hardware store. It’s a pretty good one but I’ve always thought they were a bit pricey. But, I needed a new vanity mirr...Stop Staring at my Polyglot!
— I received an interesting comment/question via my blog recently. It went a bit like this... I’m developing a distributed cloud application but my developers are pushing back on me for having a polyglot database strategy. What should I do? I won’t get into exactly what it is they are doing ...MIT’s wormhole could make a window for remote workers
— There's nothing like a face-to-face conversation, but that hasn't stopped businesses and technologists from bridging the distance that separates us using telephones, video conferencing, fancy robots, and now wormholes, to give the illusion of being there. So what do these services need to succeed?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 17 08:51:26 pm GMT /
CloudBzz»
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CloudBzz»
Do Cloudfoundry and OpenShift have a Future?
— I am wondering if Cloudfoundry and OpenShift will become success stories (like Amazon Web Services). The idea of an open source application serving platform sounds intriguing, however, the community pages are somewhat deserted and documentation is poor… After downloading the Cloudfoundry source code, it looks mor...Welcome VGBuilder to the world!
— Build custom apps + deploy them to your cloud host of choice -- straight from the command line. The first applications using VGBuilder are live already and there are more in works.This Cloud Native Application Development toolset was created out of a genuine need for a big project about a year ago ...ProductionScale Communication Problem Discovery
— I discovered today a distressing thing about my blog. For the last few months two things have been misconfigured. One, my phone number was an old number that is out of service. So, if you tried to call me then please just note the new number on the about page and try again. Two, my contact submission form w...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 ...The Cloud Infrastructure Journey - From Containers to Modularity, Long Live Containment!
— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph.D.Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft In late 2007 we were intrigued by the opportunity of deploying servers in ISO (shipping) containers. Our analysis showed that we could pack as many as 2500 servers in a single 40 foot container and reduce our deployment ...The Disappearing Datacenter….
— By Christian BeladyGeneral Manager of Datacenter Advanced Development Sustainability is an interesting thing. It really means so many things to so many people but I really like the way it is defined in Wikipedia; “Sustainability is the capacity to endure.” Clearly, when taken in the...The Internet of Things [Infographic]
— In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Internet exceeded the number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks to a growing number of connected devices. Cisco has put together this infographic to showcase the growth of the Internet of things.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.Scale Planning and the AKF Scale Cube
— There are a lot of ways to draw diagrams for availability and scalability. I use different ones for different purposes all the time. However, when I was reading the Art of Scalability by AKF partners I ran across a nice compound diagram they call the AKF Scale Cube which helps simplify the explanation of th...APAC Summer Tour
— I have just landed in Tokyo for what will be a month long tour visiting our customers in the Asia Pacific Region. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners. This week in Japan there are three public events planned: July 4 - AWS HPC Night at Fuji Soft Hall...The Economic Impact of GovCloud
— What a month! June has really been busy!! Just now getting around to doing a post about CloudExpo 2011 in New York.With over 5000 delegates in attendance, it was just a massive gathering of Clouderatti. Due to another engagement I had at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on June 7th ( FCN/CDW-G Making...SIGMOD 2011 in Athens
— Earlier this week, I was in Athens Greece attending annual conference of the ACM Machinery Special Interest Group on Management of Data. SIGMOD is one of the top two database events held each year attracting academic researchers and leading practitioners from industry. I kicked off the conference with ...Apple's iCloud reps best vision yet for consumers
— While Apple's iCloud may seem like just another cloud storage service to some, it represents the best vision to date of a truly integrated cloud ...Amazon Technology Open House
— The Amazon Technology Open House was held Tuesday night at the Amazon South Lake Union Campus. I did a short presentation on the following: • Quickening pace of infrastructure innovation • Where does the money go? • ...What Went Wrong at Fukushima Dai-1
— As a boater, there are times when I know our survival is 100% dependent upon the weather conditions, the boat, and the state of its equipment. As a consequence, I think hard about human or equipment failure modes and how to mitigate them. I love reading the excellent reporting by the UK Marine Accident Investigation B...Meet Facebook, the Web’s Social Entertainment Operating System
— When Cisco all but confirmed it had shut down an ambitiously named Entertainment Operating System, I suspect some folks at Facebook may have chuckled to themselves. After all, Facebook may have designs on becoming for real what the Cisco product was only in name.Guido van Rossum: 21 Years of Python
— Guido van Rossum was at Amazon a week back doing a talk. Guido presented 21 Years of Python: From Pet Project to Programming Language of the Year. The slides are linked below and my rough notes follow: · Significant Python influencers: o Alg...Monster Help for the Military
— Today I had the honor and pleasure of working side by side with 50 other volunteers in support of Monster Help Day. While there were lots of incredible efforts going on throughout the company for worthwhile causes, as the executive sponsor of the military support group here at AOL, I felt it right to participate [......Chaos Monkeys, Donkeys and the Innovation of Action
— Last week I once again had the pleasure of speaking at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium. As one of the premiere events in the Data Center industry it is definitely one of those conferences that is a must attend to get a view into what’s new, what’s changing, and where we are going as an industry. [...]Architect or Chocolate Teapot?
— You routinely will witness the ‘everyone wants to be the architect’ behaviours, especially in large multi-disciplinary initiatives such as data centre modernisation, cloud architecture, or virtual infrastructure deployments.Best Quote of the Week: Consultants
— EMO is Bad, Robots are Good.“The Five Startups You Meet in the Deadpool”
— Another favorite session at SXSW 2011. Former entrepreneur, current investor and innovation community leader Charlie O’Donnell will discuss five different patterns of failure often seen in startups that don’t make it. It will cover how entrepreneurs can derisk their ideas, maintain momentum, and take advant...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...Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton
— Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time. Amsterdam is of course the ideal place for such a conference :-). The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an exce...Father
— 10,000 suns… 10,000 sons…marching marching across the broken patch of land breaking through to the east the great Aryan had arrived Took a walk…miles and miles Feet were torn like paper beneath You know, the future’s burning Behind the weary eyes, those curtains A parting pain coming…its coming Can’t l...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...From the Archives - Gapingvoid's Nobody Cares
— While cleaning out the digital attic I ran into this drawing that Hugh MacLeod (aka "gapingvoid") made for me in reponse to a storm-in-a-teacup about blogging Amazon. As usual Hugh came straight to the heart of the matter :-) BTW Hugh's new book "Evil Plans, having Fun on the Road to World Domination" was released la...Now Hiring -Apply Within
— Joining a company during a big transition is a pretty exciting thing. The amount of chaos and work to get done is immense especially when you are trying to fundamentally re-shape something that exists to best in class and ultimately industry leading again. While I can’t tell you specifically what I am think...Dileep Bhandarkar on Datacenter Energy Efficiency
— Dileep Bhandarkar presented the keynote at Server design Summit last December. I can never find the time to attend trade shows so I often end up reading slides instead. This one had lots of interesting tidbits so I’m posting a pointer to the talk and my rough notes here. Dileep’s talk: Watt Mat...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...Best of Luck to a Great Guy…
— I just read that Chris Crosby has announced his departure at Digital Realty Trust. As an alumni of that great firm I can definitely tell you that Chris’ hand-prints are all over that company. I had the pleasure of interacting with him, before I joined, heavily in my role there, and have maintained our relatio...Hanging out at RSA
— Hey all, I'm hanging out at RSA conference a bit this week. If anyone wants to show me something cool, let me know!Challenges and Trade-offs in Building a Web-scale Real-time Analytics System
— Ben Black always has interesting things on the go. He’s now down in San Francisco working on his startup Fastip which he describes as “an incredible platform for operating, exploring, and optimizing data networks.” A couple of days ago Deepak Singh sent me to a recent presentation of Ben’s I found interesting:...I’ve Got Mail….A new Aol.
— You may have seen the announcement today about my recent decision and move to join the new leadership team at Aol. To some of my friends in the Technorati, and most specifically the Valley, this move probably seems very contrarian. Having built some of the largest cloud infrastructure’s in the world, re-align...Interested in Core Database Engine Development?
— If you have experience in database core engine development either professionally, on open source, or at university send me your resume. When I joined the DB world 20 years ago, the industry was young and the improvements were coming ridiculously fast. In a single release we improved DB2 TPC-A performance by a fa...CAP Revisited
— PACELC I just found out about an excellent blog post on the CAP theorem by Daniel Abadi. I agree with his assertions that the CAP theorem is somewhat confusion and like the concept of PACELC. In my opinion, the main problem is an unclear understanding of what C, A, and P actually mean. My 3 [...]New Zealand, Aotearoa
— There aren't many people here. Major bonus. High season on the south island feels like low season in Europe. And secondly, there's not a lot of industry outside of agriculture and a king's shit load of rugged terrain, making it possible to be off the grid for days. No cell phone access if you point in the right directi...Google Megastore: The Data Engine Behind GAE
— Megastore is the data engine supporting the Google Application Engine. It’s a scalable structured data store providing full ACID semantics within partitions but lower consistency guarantees across partitions. I wrote up some notes on it back in 2008 Under the Covers of the App Engine Datastore and po...Clouds in 2011: A year of Facebook IPO, Apple Online Services, GroupOn and what not!
— All, First of all best wishes for 2011! To make our group more engaging we will be writing each week and discuss at large of what we are seeing in the market based on the [...]A Recipe for Cloud Design
— The deployment of infrastructure systems to support applications has been a challenge since we first developed a choice beyond the venerable mainframe. To some it’s a simple formula; take a server, toss in a little network and storage, bake for a few weeks and you’re done. If you’re having a few friends over (nee...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...GPGPU Sorting
— Years ago I incorrectly believed special purpose hardware was a bad idea. What was a bad idea is high-markup, special purpose devices sold at low volume, through expensive channels. Hardware implementations are often best value measured in work done per dollar and work done per joule. The newest breed of commodit...IT Change Management 101
— IT shops continually struggle with keeping resource documentation up to date. Too often IT departments seem resigned to accept mediocre results, as if the world conspires against them. Resource tracking is a prime example of this. Fundamentally, the different organizational aspects refuse to comply with these manual p...CMDBs in the Cloud
— As enterprises move inexorably towards the Cloud, a faint murmur in the distance is growing louder and louder. What is it – the security forces objecting…the CFO wondering where their money is going now…business teams clamoring for faster response time? Good guesses, but this group never makes quite that much noi...Fujitsu turns blade server on its head
— In a twist on blade server design, Fujitsu announced a new blade server enclosure today that can, in a pinch, be turned 90 degrees and rolled under a desk. The new PRIMERGY BX400 is the little brother to the 10U BX900, and is designed for two scenarios. Like most blade enclosures, the BX400 can be deployed [...]WipeCoin Startup
— As a serial entrepreneur, my goal is to start one company per year. This year, two friends and I invented WipeCoin, a revolutionary cleaning mechanism for smartphones: the combination of a case with a microfiber-coated “coin”. The coin can be clipped off the case for wiping the screen clean. After cleaning the scre...Gwtissandra: GWT + Hector + Cassandra
— A Twitter Clone Clone I built a toy application (Gwtissandra) to better understand Cassandra’s data model and new features of Cassandra 0.7, such as secondary indices and flexible schema updates. Gwtissandra is basically a GWT/Java port of Twissandra, a Twitter clone clone, so to say. The main parts that Gwtissan...Ent Arch Impact analysis for SharePoint/BPOS-D/Office365 Engagement
— I’m participating on a good team doing the Enterprise Architecture Impact for large customer for a SharePoint/BPOs-D/Office 365 strategy. At this point, we’re seeing some critical areas to examine current and future forecasted architectural...(read more)Dear CEO — Have you thought of Future of Work and IT’s new new role in it?
— While CEOs are sending their executives to events filled with non-sensical laughter, wine and plastic award ceremonies, I was tempted to add this to the story where the world is changing rapidly and how some industries might face extinction. So [...]VFORUM Sydney 2010
— Now were racing against a similar pressure clock to cloud enable anything with a bit and a silicon soul. It’s quite exciting to see VMware, with a leading market position in enterprise virtualisation, rally practically every hardware/software vendor, consultancy, and techy into a common charge.BMC improves inline software upgrade process, rolls out Control M v7
— BMC recently released a new version of its job scheduler, Control-M 7, with new features to help manage IT workloads in the cloud. The software has come a long way from prioritizing and scheduling batch computing jobs on the mainframe a few decades ago. Modern job scheduling tools run in the distributed, virtualized a...The International Internet Home Theatre
— Since settling in Sydney, I’ve been dabbling in setting up internet home-theatre. At this point I have all home entertainment media (local and online streaming) available through a single connection and server. Why, well partly because the technology is easy to figure out without cracking a manual and partly due to t...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...Ever Wonder WHY Your VMware Deployment Stalled?
— The past week hosted the increasingly popular VMworld 2010 event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The title of the conference was “Virtual Roads, Actual Clouds”, but the undercurrent of the show was all about ‘VM stall’ and of course whatever vendor XYZ can do to help you get your VM deployment moving ag...IT Innovation: From Cost Centers To Sales Enhancers
— IT must innovate - it's the new clarion call in this looming recession. Given the cost pressures required just to keep the lights on, how would IT be able to convince business to let IT innovate beyond a datacenter clean-up focus? The answer lies in the basic principle for any IT investment: Intelligence is king, onl...Global Relo Redux
— Last fall I liked to say….a global move is technically just like a cross country move, only you fly to get there and it costs a lot more money. Here’s the skinny with 20-20 hindsight: Planning – you can plan to death, but it doesn’t change the workload Things – you can throw away things ...SFAMA Presents: A Social Media Panel on Old Spice
— Here’s another event that I had attended in August. SFAMA rounded up 4 prominent marketing experts for a panel discussion on the success of the Old Spice campaign. Here are my notes from the event… The Old Spice commercial was done tastefully… Not at the expense of women, unlike Axe. In social media, ...Who Really Needs a Blueprint?
— A few days ago we facilitated a passionate discussion on the subject of Blueprints (ah, the joys of an emerging market). The gist of the conversation was focused on deciding where limited marketing resources should be applied, and during that exercise a surprising insight came to us. It seemed so counter-intuitive at f...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...Enterprise Cloud Unified Footprint – Network Ensemble(s)
— A complex system such as an enterprise network is subjected to many kinds of stresses from a large variety of business applications that have different demand profiles. Dig deeper into any large network and you will see that one solution doesn't solve all problems. Pockets of point solutions are installed to solve prob...IT Change Management: The Foundation to the Cloud
— IT shops continually struggle with keeping resource documentation up to date. Too often IT departments seem resigned to accepting mediocre results, as if the world conspires against them. Resource tracking is a prime example of this. Fundamentally, the different organizational aspects refuse to comply with these manual...I went home and cried realizing that I was about to spend all of the money I'd made
— Two years ago I sat down with John Keagy and David Hecht from ServePath (most widely known for GoGrids.com now). Unfortunately later that day I had a hard drive failure, with little recovered. About six months ago I found a VIM swap file of my notes with them, and today decided I should post what I have. My hope is t...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...In Cloud Market, Arming David May Be the Way to Take Down Goliath
— When all is said and done, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com might be battling it out for PaaS (and SaaS) dollars against a whole slew of smaller providers operating within the infrastructural confines of AWS, Rackspace, Terremark and Savvis.Speedy Web
— With Google incorporating a “website speed” factor into site rankings, it has created renewed interests in rendering performance of web sites/apps. As a techie who has spent most of her career around web app delivery & performance, I’d like to highlight some (known) techniques and offer a few insi...Realizing Cloud for the Enterprise
— Most organizations today continue to view technology as merely a back-office cost center, a viewpoint that diminishes the breadth of Enterprise IT's impact on a firm's competitive profile. To contribute to strategic growth, IT's role has to be understood as far more than a repository of software and hardware applicatio...when architects worship the model and methodology
— In the last 4 years of IT architecture, I’ve seen a movement to promote modeling and taxonomy discipline into the profession. This has promoted consistency where more and more IT architects can model systems with less confusion...(read more)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...Adaptivity Announces Blueprint4IT™ Design Suite
— Adaptivity - the IT Design Company, today announced the planned general availability release of its Blueprint4IT™ Design Suite, an intelligent design and blueprinting platform that will revolutionize how IT is designed, built and managed in the Enterprise. The software suite will be...Apples Don’t Fall Far from the Tree
— By Christian Belady Director of Hardware Architecture, Microsoft Research Some folks have already heard that I am changing roles in Microsoft, but the reality is that just like the evolution with our data centers, my career is going through a similar evolution. And that’s the way I like it….whil...A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail
— For an interesting discussion on Windows Live Hotmail and the importance of operating and engineering the service (at huge scale), please visit the Windows Live Team’s Blog site and Arthur de Haan’s December 22, 2009 posting titled: A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail /gfslooking at 2010
— The Job Market for IT Architects 2009 has been a crazy year for most of us in the industry. Many are looking or found new jobs as annual reviews became survivalist experiences as working in fear became the new norm. Of course, ...(read more)Presenting our Datacentre Strategy at Tech-Ed EMEA
— Just a short post to let you know that I’ll be in Berlin for Tech-Ed EMEA from November 9 - 13 and I hope to see some of you there. I’ll be providing deeper insight into our new Dublin and Chicago datacentres, including our approaches to delivering on the scale and efficiency required to meet the capaci...Keeping the lights on
— Having spent years running 24×7 internet-facing production systems, I find that the monitoring element of an application delivery environment is often the last item to be addressed and built outside of the application delivery architecture. As we continue to build our application delivery infrastructure in the clo...Technology as a service
— Cloud computing concept is transforming the IT industry and shaping the IT service delivery into a pay-as-you-grow model. Here’s a whitepaper from Cisco on Cisco-powered “network clouds”. Thought I’d share some keypoints / highlights… Abstraction of physical hardware (virtualization) &...
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Strategic partnership
— PIC WITH THIS ARTICLE - PUBLISHEDAiredale and Prism have launched a strategic partnership which features the introduction of the OnRak range of expandable, high efficiency rear door heat exchangers. Part of a new LogiCool range of high density solutions, the compact, 32kW OnRak can be integrated with a Prism cabinet or...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...EU code of conduct signed
— TelecityGroup is the first network independent provider to sign up to the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.The EU Code of Conduct is a European-wide voluntary initiative, developed in collaboration with the industry, which promotes energy efficiency performance standards for data centres.Enterprise spammers, corporate shuysters, and how the mighty have fallen in this economy.
— In the past three months, our world has fallen apart. Banks have crumbled, VC has dried up, and the Fed has thrown about hundreds of billions of dollars willy-nilly, hoping we wouldn't notice. These are tough times for most industries, and it appears that ours is not immune. Read moreNo Barr to growth
— Fujitsu Siemens Computers will supply a data centre upgrade to AG Barr. The six-figure deal will cover new servers and storage to replace existing Fujitsu Siemens Computers hardware serving AG Barr’s four production sites at Cumbernauld, Mansfield, Forfar and Pitcox.Server solution launched
— Server hosting company Melbourne is launching its virtual server solution in December after successful beta trials earlier in the year.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...Macworld Expo Recap
— After a long week of Macworld, I've come to the (non)startling re-realization: Apple is still irrelevant in the datacenter world, but it spawns some fabulous after-parties. Speaking of which ...ISS Technology Brief HP BladeSystem C7000 Enclosure, 3rd edition; Part 2
— Part two of a podcast of the ISS Technology Brief HP BladeSystem C7000 Enclosure, 3rd edition. This technology brief provides an overview of the HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, including Thermal Logic power and cooling technologies and interconnect options.Available for short-term consulting projects.
— Greetings readers, I'm in-between contracts right now and am available for some short-term infrastructure consulting (telecommute, San Francisco or Seattle) between now and March 15th. You can view my credentials on LinkedIN and on my resume. Datacenter build-outs including site location, vendor evaluation, contract...Seeking quantity 200 HP DL145 G2
— I'm trying to find quantity 200 Proliant HP DL145 G2 servers, no disks, any memory configuration, and at least 1 Opteron 246 processor per unit. Must all be in working condition. Email hpservers@datacenterjunkie.com.SoftLayer's network gets more awesometastic.
— Shawna Furr over @ SoftLayer told me today that SL just undertook quite a network upgrade this past month. For Seattle they've added 10G connections to Comcast, SIX, Level3, and NTT adding to their existing 2x 10G connections to Internap for a total of 60Gbps of network capacity. In their Dallas datacenter they've bro...HP Modular Cooling System Generation 2 water cooling technology
— This podcast explains why densification creates power and cooling challenges and how the technologies offered by the HP MCS G2 overcome them.Savvis sharpens its edge in a competitive market with HP
— Savvis selects HP quad-core, quad processor servers to reduce customer costs for managed hosting services by up to 50 percentHP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology
— The lowest cost, most flexible way to connect virtual servers to your networks.HP’s Rack and Power Infrastructure Solutions
— Learn about HP's variety of rack options - designed to integrate with each other and your current infrastructure your IT environment needs.HP Discusses SPECpower
— Listen in to learn how HP manages the relationship between power and performance at the server levelHP Discusses Power and Cooling Fixes
— Listen in to a few quick, low cost fixes that will make a big impact to the amount of power you consume and to your bottom line.HP Discusses AC or DC: Fact vs. Fiction
— Listen in and hear how HP weighs in on the electrifying topic of AC vs. DC in the data center.Heros will always ruin your it organization
— Working in an IT organization can be challenging. There are exhausting late night emergencies and deadlines, unpredictable technical complexities as well as executive management commonly suffering from extreme ADD. As this leads to countless hours...(read more)Enterprise ARCHITECTURE TEAMS FINALLY RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF infrastructure ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP
— Forrester recently published a report: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA and Business Goals It’s a decent article. For far too long many enterprise teams have viewed infrastructure architects as too low level...(read more)New blades have arrived
— HP has introduced the industry’s first high-availability, fault-tolerant blade server, which it says delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any server in its class.My Vacation in April: 1 solid week without my laptop in Venice...
— I spent a week vacation in Venice in April. It was a beautiful place. It was also the first time I went on vacation without my laptop (my wife's request). Loosing the connection with the Web Collective... This is more difficult...(read more)Microsoft's new environment website
— I hope you had a good weekend. http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ As you know, I've been heavily involved promoting architecture best practices for sustainability. Microsoft has established a new environmental site which has...(read more)HP Insight Dynamics VSE
— This software is the first integrated solution to visualize, plan, and change physical and virtual resources for HP BladeSystem, HP ProLiant and Integrity servers.HP Enterprise Drives
— Designed for maximum reliability, high performance, scalability, error management, and unconstrained I/O workloads.Environmental ratings and analysts
— The demand for environmental impact information from organizations have increased significantly this last year. and for good reason. Customers, regulators, investors and partners are very concerned about carbon footprint, overall pollution and ecological...(read more)HP ProLiant iVirtualization Powered by Citrix XenServer
— Listen in to hear how this solution combines seamless ProLiant integration and active hardware management to ensure confident virtual deployments.Thinking about Eric Janszen's article: the Next Bubble
— In Feb 2008 edition of Harpers, Eric Janszen wrote an article titled "The Next Bubble" where he descibed the wave of investment in altnerative energy as the next bubble. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/0081908 While I aggree, there is good probability...(read more)Briefly speculated for web server farms for electricity management
— This might make an interesting pattern to investigate. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22266034/...(read more)new technorati profile
— <a href=" http://technorati.com/claim/m68uvqpah " rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>...(read more)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.St. Luke's Hospital Manages Exploding Infrastructure and Cost
— How do you manage an exploding infrastructure and keep a handle on spiraling costs? Learn how St. Luke’s, Robbie Tomison turned to HP’s C-Class BladeSystem to build out his data center to meet St. Luke’s fast growing demands.Blue Cross Blue Shield grows their data center without adding space
— When Blue Cross Blue Shield was faced with the challenge of expanding their datacenter, they realized they were literally out of room. They could not add anything further to their power grid or physically in the room itself. They turned to HP and the new c-Class Blade System.How did Collier County replace 7000+ scattered desk-tops in a two month period?
— What if you were challenged to replace 7000 or so geographically dispersed desktops in a short period of time? Listen to Tom Petry from Collier County School district and see how he streamlined the high cost of maintaining PC's with centralized remote administration.Amazon CloudFront: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Making Plans
— Looking Back In 2011 we added a total of seven edge locations to Amazon CloudFront and Route 53. We also added lots of new features, as I documented last year. Looking Forward Our newest edge locations are located in Milan,...New Elastic MapReduce Features: Metrics, Updates, VPC, and Cluster Compute Support (Guest Post)
— Today's guest blogger is Adam Gray. Adam is a Product Manager on the Elastic MapReduce Team. -- Jeff; We’re always excited when we can bring features to our customers that make it easier for them to derive value from their...New Tagging for Auto Scaling Groups
— You can now add up to 10 tags to any of your Auto Scaling Groups. You can also, if you'd like, propagate the tags to the EC2 instances launched from your groups. Adding tags to your Auto Scaling groups will...U.S. Finds Flaws in ES&S DS200 Voting Machine
— A ballot scanning device slated for use in the upcoming presidential elections misreads ballots, fails to log critical events and is prone to freezes and sudden lockups, the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission found.John Deere plows into agile
— John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.Juniper's financial challenges continue
— Juniper Networks' challenges are due to timing with new product rollouts and shifts in investments from customers and channel partners.10 questions for Array Information Technology CFO Bob Deegan
— -- Name: Bob Deegan, senior vice president and CFO
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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.
I'm also very passionate about wine and have created a mobile platform for wine lovers to remember and share the wines they are having. How often have you asked yourself "What was that great bottle of wine I had last night"? Corkbin solves that problem by being your pocket wine memory. The app records the label, notes, & gps location of a wine so that you can look it up the next time you're in a restaurant or wine shop.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
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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.
I'm also very passionate about wine and have created a mobile platform for wine lovers to remember and share the wines they are having. How often have you asked yourself "What was that great bottle of wine I had last night"? Corkbin solves that problem by being your pocket wine memory. The app records the label, notes, & gps location of a wine so that you can look it up the next time you're in a restaurant or wine shop.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Looking for less "geeky" content? Check out my travel blog 1-Day Itinerary.
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Articles in the IT Section
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NetApp - Press Releases
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Data Center Migration Blog
CloudAve
DevCentral Weblogs
Thinking Out Cloud
Data Center Networks
Servers/Hardware
LooseBolts
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Amazon Web Services Blog
The Database Column
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Rational Survivability
Cloudscaling
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Server Farming
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Inside Enterprise IT
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