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The Business Value of Cloud Computing: Collaboration

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

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

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...

Feb 02 05:06:11 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

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 ...

Feb 02 04:18:28 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

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...

Feb 02 04:00:00 pm GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

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...

Feb 01 05:16:06 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

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...

Jan 31 09:31:38 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

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...

Jan 31 02:31:44 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

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...

Jan 30 03:40:02 pm GMT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

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 ...

Jan 27 02:51:00 am GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

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."

Jan 25 04:30:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

A Checklist for a Move to the Cloud

Jan 24 01:55:53 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

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 that

Jan 23 09:15:18 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

Increasing Productivity in Healthcare

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Nov 01 01:39:00 pm GMT / BlueLock»

We lost a Giant

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

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

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...

Sep 13 06:22:15 pm GMT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

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 ...

Jun 23 11:21:11 pm GMT / Perspectives»

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. [...]

May 19 05:02:44 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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...

Feb 23 05:13:27 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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...

Jan 13 04:12:54 pm GMT / Perspectives»

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...

Jan 11 05:38:23 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

looking 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)

Jan 03 10:19:16 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

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) &...

Sep 23 12:31:59 am GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

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.

Feb 26 12:00:00 am GMT / Servers/Hardware»

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.

Jul 17 12:00:00 am GMT / Servers/Hardware»

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

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

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