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 Perhaps the only thing worse than a disaster happening is seeing it coming and knowing nothing can be done to stop it. Businesses along the northeastern seaboard had several days of warning before Hurricane Sandy struck, certainly not enough time to implement a disaster recovery plan f...Dec. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,306 |
 Enterprises are quickly realizing that their future success is dependent on their ability to adapt their business to the Cloud. That realization however comes with more questions and concerns about executing an effective cloud-based strategy. The explosion of the OpenStack community ha...Dec. 7, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,687 |
 The article discusses cloud strategy as the first and foremost step towards cloud adoption by larger enterprises. It talks about its merits and how vendors need to provide this critical piece in order to be successful in selling their cloud services.
Just returned from the AWS re:Inve...Dec. 7, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,219 |
 one of the main movers of the IT world.
The IT industry's transition to "The Third Platform," built on mobile computing, cloud services, social networking and Big Data analytics technologies, has dominated annual predictions from IDC over the course of the last several years.
For 201...Dec. 6, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,651 |
 Outsourcing the IT operations, support and associated infrastructure maintenance has been the norm for large enterprises over the last decade. Typically the multi-year IT outsourcing contracts cover the following aspects:
Application Development Services: These will be the set of reso...Dec. 6, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,903 |
 There is no doubt that Big Data holds infinite promise for a range of industries. Better visibility into data across various sources enables everything from insight into saving electricity to agricultural yield to placement of ads on Google. But when it comes to deriving value from dat...Dec. 5, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 3,466 |
 One of the major issues facing cloud service providers is the expense of building out infrastructure without knowing how or when revenues will follow. As a result, cloud providers are reevaluating their approach to hardware and software investments and engaging with technology and netw...Dec. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,476 |
 Cloud computing has reduced deployment times and the ability to try out new ideas without significant investments in hardware and software. Cloud supports business agility and Cloud projects may have a quicker turnaround time for releases. Many programs have declared victory as being A...Dec. 3, 2012 12:15 AM EST Reads: 4,756 |
 Cloud hosting has been creating quite a buzz lately as being the latest, and some claim also the best type of web hosting around. It is quite different to your usually hosting server and certainly requires a lot of skill to use. Most of the time it cannot be run by a single person, but...Dec. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,721 |
 Do chief information officers really prepare and provision their datacenter backbones especially for Christmas? Do CIOs honestly talk to systems architects, software development team leaders and individual programmers about the festive season and plan for an additional data burden?
Th...Dec. 1, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,159 |
 The Cloud market is diverse and highly fragmented – typical of any market in its early stages. The broad range of cloud activities and the frantic pace of new products / services getting launched is driving the need to consolidate and unify cloud services for the end user and for the m...Nov. 30, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,157 |
 Technology changes so rapidly that a business will be left behind if it does not constantly consider newer and better ways of doing things. Chances are that if you are not thinking out of the box, looking ahead, and making continuous advancements, your competitors will.
The defining ...Nov. 29, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,599 |
 With the cloud space getting crowded each day, cloud service providers list a host of benefits by moving to the ‘Pay as you Go’ model…. Among other benefits, reduced capital expenses (fixed Capex costs), and increased operating expenses (variable Opex costs) is listed as a key benefit....Nov. 28, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,562 |
 In a tough economic climate everyone is looking for ways to cut costs without sacrificing performance. More and more small and mid-size businesses are realizing the benefits of business management software. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and other business management tools ...Nov. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,808 |
 Big Data is everywhere. Predictive analytics and real time in-memory computing isn’t everywhere.
This truth (if we can accept it to be so) represents something of an imbalance.
As a subset of data mining, predictive analytics driven by in-memory computing efficiencies now has an opp...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,433 |
 Companies are continuing to move along with adopting cloud computing even though they haven't completed their formal strategies for using it, according to ZDNet.com.
Analyst IDC found that nearly three-quarters (69 percent) had already started using private cloud technologies, with ne...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,727 |
 A new survey about cloud computing explores the business growth opportunities for buyers and consumers of cloud services alike, with surprising findings about confidence and a high degree of ongoing experimentation.
The multi-year annual survey on the cloud market provides a springboa...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,163 |
 When I talk to CIOs, they usually complain that the trend of Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, is undermining their ability to keep their organization’s infrastructures and data secure. Every employee who comes to work with his or her smartphone or tablet and pulls up sales reports, help...Nov. 23, 2012 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,785 |
 It’s rather difficult to get a good read on public opinion, especially about things that half of them don’t know about. Cloud computing is one of those things.
How does one get a really good view on the overall public perception of particular things? Sure, you’ve got your own persona...Nov. 23, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,517 |
 For the real-world enterprise, cloud computing promises flexibility, efficiency and convenience. But those attractions mask realistic potential risks to data integrity, privacy and oversight. And that's enough to make even the earliest of early adopters hesitate to move to the cloud.
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 Cloud computing has dramatically altered how IT infrastructure is delivered and managed, as well as how IT functionality is consumed. However, security and privacy concerns continue to be major inhibitors for risk-conscious organizations to adoption of cloud computing – whether infrast...Nov. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,810 |
 The Society for Information Management (SIM) recently released findings from its annual CIO survey that indicate CIOs around the world plan to commit more of their budgets on IT outsourcing in 2013 to boost productivity and reduce costs. Not surprisingly, cloud computing was cited as a...Nov. 17, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,895 |
 Over the last decade, Business Process Outsourcing has become an enterprise standard way of delegating the non-core processes to third-party service providers, which resulted in cost controls and business efficiency. This BPO industry has further matured by providing innovation to the ...Nov. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 4,013 |
 A cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types of IT services to Thomas Duryea’s many Asia-Pacific region customers.
Why cloud services for your consulting and business customers now? Have they been asking for it
Certainly, the customers are the big driver while we are moving into...Nov. 16, 2012 03:35 AM EST Reads: 2,398 |
 Since ZapThink wrote our ZapFlash on Cloud Brokerages in April 2011, the Cloud Brokerage marketplace has exploded. Or at the very least, the noise level involving such Brokerages has reached a fever pitch, which the vendors in the space want you to think is the sound of an exploding ma...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,789 |
 Based on different reports of companies in New York still caught “off-guard” with their computer systems, it is hard to believe that corporate computer systems are down for some major companies – especially financial ones – and there are no redundant systems up-and-running.
What happe...Nov. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,704 |
 Both OpenStack.org and the OpenStack ecosystem intend to go into orbit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley today, November 5th. Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keyno...Nov. 5, 2012 02:15 PM EST Reads: 12,743 |
 What does Cisco's Cloud CTO have in common with the CTOs of Rackspace, Progress Software, Eucalyptus Systems, SOA Software, and the Cloud CTO of Symantec, as well as the CEOs of Nebula, Cordys, Adaptive Computing, and Virtustream, and the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation...Nov. 5, 2012 08:20 AM EST Reads: 4,688 |
 In the initial presentations at the 4G World Conference in Chicago’s McCormick Place this week, several executive insights from Verizon, Nokia, Telstra, IBM, and others focus on the need to expand speeds and network capacities. One talked about the need to expand networks in order to h...Nov. 4, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,256 |
 IT Asset Management, or ITAM if you prefer, is the lost link to the cloud. There, now we’ve said it, do you feel better?
Before we can decide whether this is true, we need to understand what ITAM really is of course.
Sometimes called EAM (Enterprise Asset Management), the practice o...Nov. 3, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,955 |
 With Strata, IBM IOD, and Teradata Partners conferences all occurring this week, it’s not surprising that this is a big week for Hadoop-related announcements. The common thread of announcements is essentially, “We know that Hadoop is not known for performance, but we’re getting better ...Nov. 1, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,558 |
 A look at the phenomenon of Human Generated Big Data, the petabytes and exabytes of structured and unstructured data that are currently being generated by users and organizations internationally. Is Big Data going to be another oil rush with a few winners and many losers or will it enr...Oct. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,276 |
 Cloud computing continues to hold a great deal of promise for a variety of business and personal implementations. A lot of buzz has been generated this year with regards to the potential of cloud-based applications and web services as well as a few recent developments that highlight th...Oct. 29, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,248 |
 I've been using WaveMaker since I started working at the startup in 2008 and it has been a great IDE for quickly creating robust enterprise AJAX Web applications integrating SQL databases, and SOAP/REST Web Services. Along came Cloud Foundry and deploying those applications on a scalab...Oct. 25, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,858 |
 Digital Forensics is not an elephant, it is a process and not just one process, but a group of tasks and processes in investigation. Examiners now perform targeted examinations using forensic tools and databases of known files, selecting specific files and data types for review while i...Oct. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,987 |
 Heartland Payment Systems moved rapidly from a security breach to an overall improved security stance largely thanks to embedding a security-as-culture position across their operations and into their business strategy.
Right now, we’re number six in the US, and with consolidation and ...Oct. 24, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 The smart investment money in software application development is in the management layer.
Actually that’s not true, the smart money is probably on almost every level of the application development lifecycle; but the deployment, release automation, testing, governance and release mana...Oct. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,795 |
 Cisco's "Kickstart-to-Cloud" Workshop at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Nov 5-8, 2012, is a free half-day event on Monday, November 5, that will offer Cloud Expo attendees a perspective on all the new technologies out there and how to not be distracted by the bright shiny objects.
Join Wa...Oct. 23, 2012 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,438 |
 The current pricing of Cloud services offers a wide range of configuration, choices and price points for the users. This in turn creates a lot of confusion for the buyer as it’s difficult to measure the value at a specific price point. The objective of this article is to analyze the ex...Oct. 22, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,886 |
 There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.
What I see driving it is three things. One is the advent of the cloud and mobile, which requires a lot of cr...Oct. 22, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,185 |
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