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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
SOA & Cloud Computing
 Information technology is undergoing a major shift due to new paradigms and a variety of delivery channels. The drivers for these technologies are social networks, proliferation of devices such as tablets and phones. Social business and collaboration are continuing to develop further t...Oct. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,629 |
 Cloud Computing provides the technology foundation to capitalize on Big Data for corporate success. The flexible infrastructure offered through Cloud Computing--combined with increased storage and processing power of new technologies in the Cloud—provide the rich, agile compute platfo...Oct. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,322 |
 For all sports fans out there, the Cloud is becoming a reality for major sporting events. The recent US Open Tennis tournament had over seven hundred thousand estimated people attend the event. Traditionally all these folks would attend the event, enjoy the matches, check the web site,...Oct. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,152 |
 BancVue creates the services that empower its customers to beat the giants in their field by better leveraging agile IT.
The first thing we wanted to do was to abstract the applications and the operating system from the hardware so that a hardware failure wouldn’t bring down our syste...Oct. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,111 |
 Single sign-on is essential to driving engagement and usage of SaaS applications in large and mid-sized customer organizations. SAML is often promoted as an industry standard in the area, but is it really the de facto standard a SaaS vendor needs to drive growth?
No.
SAML is a protoc...Oct. 10, 2012 12:16 PM EDT Reads: 1,268 |
 If they plan to remain viable in today’s markets, now is the time for real estate firms to make some dramatic changes by offering intelligent amenities in their commercial properties.
How do we prop up our dying shopping center?
How do we develop and maintain more business for our st...Oct. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,309 |
 The “consumerization of IT” is a topic we’ve heard a lot about recently – especially when it comes to “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” One area that is less talked about, yet a growing trend under the “consumerization” umbrella, is the use of free, consumer-type file transfer services i...Oct. 5, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,641 |
 Do we need programming languages? You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you may need to change your mind. Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM (X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new pr...Oct. 3, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 35,788 Replies: 1 |
 Typically, automated sign-on is regarded to be something troublesome and costly, which slows down rollouts, adds complexity and requires involvement from customer IT organizations, something that SaaS vendors often want to avoid at any cost. However, automated sign-on can be one of the...Oct. 2, 2012 04:40 PM EDT Reads: 1,705 |
 It used to be so easy. The company needed more IT infrastructure, so you bought more components, built more technology, and scrambled to keep it all well oiled. Then along came the cloud and the world shifted under your feet – or perhaps more accurately, over your head. Suddenly they w...Oct. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,811 |
 What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product, i.e., a true Converged Infrastructure? What impact could that possibly have on the success of Visible Ops a...Sep. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,530 |
 Healthcare services provider McKesson has transformed the notion of IT by recasting the role of IT. How pharmaceuticals distributor and healthcare information technology services provider McKesson has transformed the very notion of IT. We will see how a shift in culture and an emphasis...Sep. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,659 |
 Any on-premise or Private Cloud-based app that is subject to spikes in demand that existing infrastructure can’t handle should be able to benefit, so the argument goes. Unfortunately, however, Cloudbursting has a number of problems, making it challenging for even the most suitable scen...Sep. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,596 |
 "#CloudExpo looks super interesting (almost sexy)," tweeted Xochi Adamé (@xochiadame) recently, referring to the Cloud Expo due to be held Nov 5-8 in Silicon Valley. "Who's going?" Adamé continued. She is just one of dozens of IT professionals who are using Twitter right now to connec...Sep. 29, 2012 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,222 |
 More than ever before, we are seeing cloud-based software and storage slowly becoming the benchmark. It simply cannot be ignored any longer; the concept is here to stay. Companies and certain growing industries that want to expand while also staying safe are turning to the cloud for co...Sep. 29, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,894 |
 In the past few weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences that provided me with a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of Big Data technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts have discovered ...Sep. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,944 |
 The end result of this ongoing specialization trend is that selecting the right product won’t get much easier. It used to be that when you needed a software product, you could consider the big suites or the smaller specialists, rank them according to quality and price, and make your se...Sep. 26, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,012 |
 With Microsoft's announcements at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), it is evident that change is coming to all enterprise software resellers. To better prepare for the inevitable transition to the cloud, here is an infographic that provides an overview of what it was like...Sep. 24, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,237 |
 Business Process Management solutions enable business people to quickly and easily capture their business goals as models that can be instantly turned into intelligent, automated processes. No or minimal software development, and no wait for IT resources.
The Business Process Manageme...Sep. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,668 |
 Much has been written here, and in many blogs, about Cloud Adoption. However, most of this has focused on the tangible and critical pieces like technical architecture and operational considerations. This can’t be minimized in the least. However, in my work with both vendors and end cus...Sep. 20, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,681 |
 Driven by large-scale government initiatives as well as private investment, cloud computing has become a hot growth area in China. Named a ‘Strategic Emerging Industry’ in the government’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011 – 2015), cloud computing is slated to become a primary force in the Chi...Sep. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,055 |
 With a growing amount of software applications using the Software-as-a-Service model, experts claim that software piracy will eventually be eliminated.
Others, however, are claiming that users will just find ways to circumvent everything so that they won’t pay for software use.
The...Sep. 14, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,087 |
 There has been a push for Shared services adoption across organizations for a while since such services reduce duplication and can result in cost savings. However there have been challenges to proposing and implementing shared services. Cloud is enhancing the pace to shared services mi...Sep. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,990 |
 “To manage a private cloud infrastructure, we have focused our efforts on the challenges that face our customers when deploying a private cloud for their collaboration environment.”
How did you come to the private cloud approach?
Bystran: As you may know, we have had over 600 custome...Sep. 14, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,641 |
 There is great excitement about the cloud; however, it is important to conduct a full assessment as part of the Cloud Transition. It is very important to decide which applications will be moving to the cloud based on factors such as alignment with business requirements, cost savings, l...Sep. 14, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,769 |
 In the recent release of '2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,' research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future . "Big Data" related technologies form a significant portion of the list, in particular the ...Sep. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,128 |
 Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, based in Tel Aviv, both satisfied current requirements and built a better long-term enterprise architecture, illustrating the multiplier effect of value and capabilities from IT transformation efforts.
One of the things that’s interesting to me is...Sep. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,486 |
 As cloud computing technologies and offerings mature and evolve in its services to customers, one common consumer use will be that of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
My earlier articles have touched on the various models, risks, security and forensics at several levels. There ...Sep. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,624 |
 The core realization behind Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA) is that everything is potentially part of the Cloud. There’s nothing in the NIST definition of Cloud Computing that requires Cloud resources to live in data centers, after all. We don’t mean to say that mobile devices are in...Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,029 |
 See how a common data architecture and fast SaaS delivery benefits combine to improve the efficiency, cost, and result of IT support of end users.
Our examples are intelligent energy-management solutions provider Comverge and how it’s extended its use of Salesforce.com into a self-ser...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,804 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, services and integration mechanisms. With the proliferation of smart phone and tablets, mobile devices are accessing new an...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,092 |
 Thinking cloud is thinking application-centric. Organizations utilize public cloud offerings because they want to focus on their revenue-generating applications rather than managing infrastructure. And from there we already can draw the significance of Application Performance Managemen...Sep. 7, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,065 |
 Change management is important for any Technology initiative and since many Cloud services focus on rapid deployments, this area is sometimes forgotten. The move to Cloud has not only technology implications but also business implications. Business processes and operations can be encap...Sep. 6, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,732 |
 Obtaining computing power from somewhere other than a privately owned data center or on-site room of servers is an increasingly big business. Gartner Research has predicted that, for the first time, the worldwide IT outsourcing market will surpass a whopping $250 billion in 2012, accor...Sep. 4, 2012 03:10 PM EDT Reads: 2,946 |
 Where will the cloud computing model of service-based virtualized computing resources for data storage and processing grow next? This is arguably the biggest question facing technology analysts today – and if we knew the answer we could all probably sleep a little more soundly.
Before...Sep. 4, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,513 |
 Some consider cloud computing to be a cure-all for virtually any type of IT infrastructure. And while the cloud certainly delivers on many of its promises, it will never truly provide all that it's capable of unless it's optimized for integration with other applications and evolution f...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,224 |
 There is an increasing demand for rendering rich content quickly on mobile devices due to the massive growth of such devices. In the past there have been silo applications that supported mobile devices, but a lot of that is being transitioned to the Cloud. The big advantage is that Clo...Sep. 3, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,719 |
 NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management...Sep. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,330 |
 Too often, Information Technology leadership lives in its own world, far removed from business decision-making. This can result in IT being an easy target for blame. If everything goes well, IT is a high-spend cost center. If things go poorly, then IT isn't doing its job. Non-strategic...Sep. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,125 |
 NYSE Euronext's innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders.
We'll learn about how this innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders, how the business of the financial services industr...Aug. 31, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,342 |
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