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 Although often misunderstood, cloud computing ultimately relies on the same technological underpinnings as traditional server and storage options. While software, platforms and even infrastructure are farmed out to third-party providers, their ability to operate efficiently is constrai...May. 25, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 740 |
 While movement to the cloud keeps accelerating, fears about security hang on. Let’s take a look at the most common myths about cloud security that might be holding businesses back from taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud model.
This is the piece of “common...May. 24, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 705 |
 Knowing what Big Data is, is one; knowing what a Big Data strategy is two; knowing how to implement that Big Data strategy is even more difficult. At least, that is how a lot of organizations perceive it. It must be said, in large process-directed organizations, what most of the large ...May. 24, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 618 |
 Don and I have four children, all of whom have had the fortune to take piano lessons (I'm not sure if the youngest would agree he's fortunate at this point in his life but at five, he's not really able to answer the question with any degree of wisdom, anyway. Come to think of it, not s...May. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 489 |
 Our prior post, A Roadmap to High-Value Cloud Infrastructure: Disaster Recovery and Data Protection, discussed both the benefits and limitations of a cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) strategy. As we highlighted last week, traditional disaster recovery options leave open a huge hole: ...May. 22, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 792 |
 According to a ComputerWorld article citing a recent Gartner survey, about half the world’s companies will stop providing computing devices to employees and embrace some form of BYOD by 2017. They also noted that about 40% will offer a choice between employee owned or company issued w...May. 21, 2013 03:11 PM EDT Reads: 411 |
 Online collaboration has evolved during the last decade, delivering even greater value -- thanks to a new generation of business technology applications. Forbes Insights released "Collaborating in the Cloud," a Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look...May. 21, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,081 |
 Daryl Taft’s article in eWeek reminded me that next month, on June 6th. IBM’s DB2 RDBMS product will celebrate its 30th. anniversary. This has a personal significance for me. I was part of the DB2 planning team then and on … May. 21, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 901 |
 New technologies allow schools, colleges and universities to analyze absolutely everything that happens. From student behavior, testing results, career development of students as well as educational needs based on changing societies. A lot of this data has already been stored and is us...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,025 |
 I'd like to address a recent blog post in CloudTweaks titled, "Cloudera Not Cutting It With Big Data Security." The author makes a number of very salient and valid points about Hadoop security… or lack thereof.
Indeed the Apache Hadoop platform, which includes HDFS and MapReduce and o...May. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,664 |
 Without an enterprise-level automated solution for ensuring the integrity of APIs and API-driven composite applications, organizations risk:
Brand erosion as faulty software drives away customers
Time-to-market delays that diminish market share
Exposure to legal liability associated...May. 15, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 783 |
 When you’re dealing with something as critical as your business infrastructure, you want to be sure that you’ll get what you signed up for. If a company promises something, and you promise your colleagues something based on it, you want it to happen. That’s where the service level agre...May. 14, 2013 01:21 PM EDT Reads: 835 |
 The age of data center automation is upon us. Whether it's cloud or SDN or devops in general, automation as a means to achieve efficiency and, one hopes, free up resources that can be then redirected to focus on innovation.
As is always the case when we begin to move further upwards...May. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,018 |
 The President's State of the Union address made it clear that data security is a top priority to keep personal, business-related and national security information protected.
During the last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama included improving data security on his list...May. 13, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 701 |
 Windows Azure Virtual Networks offers the power to open up several cross-premises use case scenarios, including Active Directory Disaster Recovery, SQL Database Replication, Windows Server 2012 DFS-R File Replication, Accelerated Cloud File Services with BranchCache, Hybrid Web Applica...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 Have you heard of products like IBM’s InfoSphere Streams, Tibco’s Event Processing product, or Oracle’s CEP product? All good examples of commercially available stream processing technologies which help you process events in real-time.
I’ve been asked what I consider as “Big Data” ver...May. 11, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,588 |
 My fellow Technical Evangelists and I have authored a content series that steps through building your very own Private Cloud by leveraging Windows Server 2012, our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ( IaaS ) and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
Week-by-...May. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,139 |
 When Lori and I were writing import/export routines for a large software vendor, we had a phrase to remind ourselves that what we loved was not necessarily the all-important part of what we were doing. We used to say “It’s all about the data”, almost as a mantra, to keep our team (I wa...May. 10, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,006 |
 Living Social, the popular online discount site, recently experienced a cyber-attack affecting more than 50 million of their customers. Users with a Living Social account received an email explaining the data breach, which included hackers accessing customer user names, email addresses...May. 9, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,410 |
 HIMSS 2013 was a big moment for cloud in healthcare. As a topic of discussion, it was certainly on the lips of many at the show, but increasingly the realities of cost and functionality are pushing direct-to-patient organizations to consider the cloud not only as part of how they run I...May. 9, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,246 |
 Do you think that you’re working with “Big Data”? or is it “Small Data”? If you’re asking ad hoc questions of your data, you’ll probably need something that supports “query-response” performance or, in other words, “near real-time”. We’re not talking about batch analytics, but more int...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,043 |
 You know those conversations that you have more times than you can count? Well, I recently had one of those at Design West with a very bright software engineer. This poor guy had a number of experiences with static analysis tools that left him with the “compiler warning equivalence” im...May. 8, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 928 |
 Master Data Management (MDM) is a very important data governance aspect in enterprises whereby MDM enables the development of a "Single Version of Truth." MDM establishes Single Version of Truth by providing common descriptions for enterprise-wide entities.
Need for MDM in Big Data Pr...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,588 |
 One of the major challenges facing organizations as they grapple with increasing traffic, users, devices, and applications is managing the connective tissue that enables the users, devices, and applications to communicate. This was already a growing problem when virtualization and then...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 969 |
 How do you know whether you are dealing with Big Data or Small Data? I’m constantly asked for my definition of “Big Data”. Well, here it is…for batch analytics.
Queries are complex requiring many concurrent data modifications, a rich breadth of operators, and many selectivity constrai...May. 8, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 927 |
 Are you AWS certified?
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the company, the announcement does raise some questions.
While ...May. 7, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,561 |
 If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either most fam...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,243 |
 We so often hear about companies putting "customers first" that the very notion can seem trite. But when it comes to innovation, listening to and learning from your customers is an absolute imperative. At Gazzang, the company I work for, we have a mantra that borders on religious fanat...May. 3, 2013 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 970 |
 My favorite and least favorite question I get is the same – “Can you help me build a business case and ROI for cloud computing?”
Well, yes… and no. The issue is that cloud computing has such a massive impact on how IT is delivered that many of the metrics and KPIs that are typically u...May. 3, 2013 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,522 |
 One of the established best practices in InfoSec is monitoring. People, products and companies get paid a great deal of money and expend a great deal of resources to watch pots. Monitoring simply is the central component to any security initiative. But with all best practices, there ar...May. 2, 2013 12:48 PM EDT Reads: 1,138 |
 As discussed in our prior installment, while there is no “one-size fits all” path to cloud infrastructure adoption, a roadmap can ease and simplify the transition to cloud while minimizing IT disruption. More importantly, a phased approach (as shown in the figure below) enables organiz...May. 2, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,577 |
 I was researching something totally unrelated today, and happened upon a couple of things that made me decide to write a quick blog about SPDY support and the tools available to you relevant to SPDY.
First, I found a ton of administrators asking how they could verify that SPDY was bei...May. 2, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 979 |
 We often discuss the virtues of private and hybrid clouds, since so many companies utilize more complex clouds as they scale. But where public cloud is concerned, we thought we’d share some ideas for how to frame a smart approach to ensure that your public cloud is serving the needs of...May. 1, 2013 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,526 |
 This simple phrase encapsulates so much more than just the notion of platforms capable of supporting multiple development languages. It comprises the notion of an operationalized polyglot platform, one that brings standardization to operations while providing flexibility for developers...May. 1, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,462 |
 We were serious about getting serious about managing hybrid cloud and federating application network services
Last month I brought up the need to manage application network services - load balancing, acceleration, optimization, application security.. you know, application services tha...May. 1, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 Even though today's crowning ceremony in Amsterdam enjoyed some modest sunshine, the temperatures across Europe are at an all time low. A more reliable indication that spring has started, are the annual Cool Vendor reports being published.
For the first time this series includes a not...May. 1, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,223 |
 BusinessSuccessWith cloud computing becoming the center of almost every new enterprise IT project, more and more startups decide to compete in the area. This raises the question: "Are they ready to fulfill the enterprise needs?" Forget the need to have one big customer. This can open f...Apr. 30, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,981 |
 Big Data. There are few conversations in the IT community which do not start, address, or end on the topic. Some conversations are visionary in nature, some critical, and many considering the challenges we’ll need to overcome in the process of understanding how to deal with Big Data.
...Apr. 29, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,509 |
 In-Q-Tel just posted a press release on a recent strategic partnership and technology development agreement with a firm called Apigee. That statement alone is all the savvy technologist needs to know to start diving into Apigee. In-Q-Tel has a reputation for applying lots of focused th...Apr. 28, 2013 09:35 PM EDT Reads: 1,101 |
 What does today's retail banking customer expect from a financial institution, and how can business technology be applied to enhance the overall experience. The latest results from the Cisco Customer Experience Report focused on the retail banking sector.
The global report examined co...Apr. 26, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,016 |
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