February 5, 2012, 9:25 am GMT  

105 item(s) containing the term "tech"

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” ...
Feb 04 07:00:56 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

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»

Is Big Data a Solution in Search of a Problem?

— If you look at the predictions made for 2012, you will find a new entry which was not there last year. Be it Gartner, Forrester or McKenzie – “Big Data” finds a place in the prediction. So, what is big data? Is it the next path breaking technology which will change everything or is it just a hype which will die...
Feb 04 10:00:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Tech 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...
Feb 03 07:11:15 pm GMT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

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...
Feb 03 05:16:00 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

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...
Feb 03 02:26:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing – DevOps for Everyone

— In compliment to Jon’s headline focus on Enterprise Cloud Computing, my key specialism is where this technology overlaps with social media aka ‘Enterprise 2.0′. Although it can feel like you’re playing an intense game of Buzzword Bingo, the key way to approach new technologies like Cloud Computing is to marry t...
Feb 03 02:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Open Federation Standards – Personal Clouds for Personal Healthcare

— Earlier this week the Canadian Government announced $67 million in funding for ‘personalized medicine’. A big part of the challenge will be technology – Even for standard healthcare there is still slow progress in key areas like adoption of the basics like EMR. Cloud will play a big part in helping address this, ...
Feb 03 02:25:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

BPM on Demand – Fantasy or Fast Track to Agility?

— The automation of processes is a key enabler of the Cloud phenomena – without process the Cloud remains a passive environment that undoubtedly saves you money and removes some of the operational headaches, but does little else. The Cloud without process cannot deliver on the promise of Business Technology or the Serv...
Feb 02 07:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

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»

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....
Feb 02 11:00:00 am GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

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 ...
Feb 01 09:45:05 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

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...
Feb 01 09:06:23 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

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...
Feb 01 06:19:41 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

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...
Feb 01 12:45:13 pm GMT / Storage - Infoworld»

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.
Feb 01 12:35:00 pm GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

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...
Feb 01 03:15:02 am GMT / ProductionScale RSS Feed»

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»

The World of Web and Developers – Web Glossary

— Last week I directed you to my post on bartongeorge.net and told you a little bit about Dell’s focus in the Web/Tech space and what we’re doing to help the developer community and our developer customers. I also introduced my mini Web Glossary series which is designed to help create better understanding aro...
Jan 31 07:22:00 pm GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

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

— The EMC VNX and VMware vSphere Techbook (this the reference text for any customers/partners/EMCers who use EMC VNX arrays with vSphere – which translates to a LOT of people) has been updated! It is downloadable – so click the link... Update your feed preferences
Jan 31 05:46:26 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

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.
Jan 31 02:16:01 pm GMT / HP»

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...
Jan 30 05:31:43 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

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...
Jan 30 04:28:43 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

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»

Virtual Desktops and Security–Leverage, Control, Enable

— First, IMHO, VDI is not like the virtualization of servers where I consolidate 100 servers into 10 boxes and come out being a hero to finance because I saved $70k in A/C and electricity. The cost savings are not as blatant (and easy) as that. Instead, in my view, VDI is an enabling technology f...
Jan 27 05:48:55 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

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»

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...
Jan 27 01:13:24 am GMT / Perspectives»

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...
Jan 26 05:12:00 am GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

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 ...
Jan 25 08:30:16 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

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 ...
Jan 25 04:15:00 pm GMT / Inside Enterprise IT»

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.
Jan 25 02:05:00 pm GMT / Computerworld NOSes and Server Software News»

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...
Jan 25 01:00:10 pm GMT / TechCrunchIT»

The Mobile Chimera

— #mobile #vdi #IPv6 In the case of technology – as with mythology - the whole is often greater (and more challenging) than the sum of its parts. The chimera is a mythological beast of scary proportions. Not only is it fairly large, but it’s also got three, independent heads – traditionally a lion, a goat, and ...
Jan 25 11:56:00 am GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

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...
Jan 24 10:57:17 pm GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

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.
Jan 24 03:11:49 pm GMT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

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.
Jan 24 10:30:00 am GMT / Techworld.com Virtualisation»

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...
Jan 24 04:24:28 am GMT / DevCentral Weblogs»

Facebook 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...
Jan 23 05:14:03 pm GMT / High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.»

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.
Jan 23 08:55:00 am GMT / Techworld.com Data Centre»

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.
Jan 20 05:34:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Servers News»

Buffalo 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...
Jan 18 05:49:03 pm GMT / Data Storage - RSS Feed»

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...
Jan 18 02:48:55 pm GMT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

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...
Jan 18 12:46:28 pm GMT / Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet»

Capgemini'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...
Jan 17 08:36:54 pm GMT / servers Resources | ZDNet »

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.
Jan 13 12:58:51 pm GMT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

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

Technology companies and business advocates in Texas agree that online crimes are a problem, but they contend that Lamar Smith’s SOPA bill would do more harm than good.
Jan 13 06:05:25 am GMT / NYT > Business Computing»

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...
Jan 13 12:31:47 am GMT / HP»

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, network
Jan 12 08:55:38 pm GMT / Arthur Cole»

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 [...]
Jan 12 10:08:58 am GMT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

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...
Jan 10 09:57:29 pm GMT / Cloud Computing»

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.
Jan 09 11:00:00 am GMT / Storage - Infoworld»

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...
Jan 04 05:00:33 pm GMT / Virtualization - Infoworld»

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.
Jan 03 11:15:31 am GMT / servers Resources | ZDNet »

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...
Jan 02 05:21:02 pm GMT / Perspectives»

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:
Jan 01 05:31:31 pm GMT / GigaOM Cisco»

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 forms
Dec 30 04:41:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

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. ...
Dec 29 05:37:28 am GMT / IBM Press Releases - Services and solutions - United States»

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."
Dec 26 11:00:00 am GMT / Virtualization - Infoworld»

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...
Dec 21 05:44:00 pm GMT / Network Computing»

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.
Dec 19 07:02:48 pm GMT / HP»

Young Adults Drive Smartphone Sales

— It is no surprise that the younger generation is in love with smartphones, but all age groups are increasingly embracing the technology.
Dec 16 06:13:00 pm GMT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

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...
Dec 12 01:00:35 am GMT / IBM Press Releases - Servers - United States»

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.
Dec 09 11:00:00 am GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

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 04 09:31:00 pm GMT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

High 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...
Nov 27 08:50:18 pm GMT / Perspectives»

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.
Nov 02 12:00:46 pm GMT / GigaOM Cisco»

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»

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...
Oct 14 03:59:23 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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 [...]
Oct 11 05:00:00 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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...
Oct 07 06:53:00 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»

Accenture pays $63.7M to resolve gov't kickbacks case

Technology services and consulting company Accenture has agreed to pay $63.7 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that it participated in a large-scale kickbacks scheme involving U.S. government contracts.
Sep 12 08:25:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

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?
Aug 22 11:20:46 pm GMT / GigaOM Cisco»

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? • ...
Jun 09 01:40:21 pm GMT / Perspectives»

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

— In the world of online communities, we need to learn to behave like one. The excerpt from my favorite session at SXSW11 as follows: The business world is looking more like a small town. Strong downward economic pressures combined with advances in technology have forced rewriting the rules of business. Advances in techn...
Mar 28 06:52:03 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

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...
Mar 24 05:31:18 pm GMT / All Things Distributed»

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...
Jan 27 09:05:56 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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.
Oct 27 08:36:09 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

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...
Oct 04 11:40:22 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

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

— I will be back in San Francisco to speak at the CTIA’s Mobile Business Conference from October 6th through the 8th.    I will be on a panel discussing ‘Embracing the Cloud’.   My Hope in these talks is to continue to highlight the coming impacts of the use of hand-held technologies on a g...
Sep 30 04:58:19 pm GMT / LooseBolts»

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 ...
Aug 27 12:11:44 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

Girls In Tech: The Fast Track of Mariam Naficy

— Back in August I attended a Girls in Tech presentation with Mariam Naficy, the founder of minted.com. Mariam is a serial entrepreneur who found an early success with eve.com shortly after graduating from business school. Here are the notes I captured from the session: On female purchase power… Women are responsib...
Aug 09 10:18:08 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

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...
Jun 02 07:57:21 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

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...
May 16 10:00:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Blueprint4IT»

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...
Nov 04 07:41:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

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»

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.
Jan 05 04:44:18 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

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.
Dec 03 08:32:10 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

HP’s Virtual Connect Flex-10 Technology

— The lowest cost, most flexible way to connect virtual servers to your networks.
Nov 18 10:22:38 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

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)
Jul 28 08:58:00 am GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

Logical Servers

— Podcast on Logical Server technology
Jul 17 05:10:05 pm GMT / HP Server News & Podcasts»

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)
Jul 17 04:59:24 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

new technorati profile

— <a href=" http://technorati.com/claim/m68uvqpah " rel="me">Technorati Profile</a>...(read more)
Nov 30 07:48:00 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

10 questions for Array Information Technology CFO Bob Deegan

— -- Name: Bob Deegan, senior vice president and CFO
Jan 01 04:00:00 am GMT / Data center news from Network World Fusion»

Virtualization Could Save Feds $30 Billion By 2015

— Implementing virtualization technology could save the federal government more than $30 billion by 2015, though lack of funding and technical challenges could impede adoption of the technology among all levels of government, according to a new survey....
Jan 01 12:00:00 am GMT / All DABCC Virtualization & Cloud Computing: Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft Resources - RSS»

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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.

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