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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
SOA & Cloud Computing
 Everyone in IT knows Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years (sometimes 18 months). Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who first noted the trend in 1965, Moore’s Law...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,639 |
 Fascinating new findings from a recent survey uncovers what distinguishes leaders from laggards among businesses, and identify which IT approaches and solutions are driving the most powerful business results these days.May. 15, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,256 |
 With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers has y...May. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,332 |
 About once every five years or so, the technology industry blazes a new path of innovation. The PC, the Internet, smart mobility and social networking have emerged over the past 20 plus years, delivering new technologies and business ecosystems that have fundamentally changed the world...May. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,240 |
 Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator that is being used to find the elusive "God particle" generates about 40Terabytes (1 TB=103GB) of data per day from its four main detectors. Assuming an average size of 1GB for a movie, that amounts to a data stream ...May. 11, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,568 |
 There’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with Fle...May. 9, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,412 |
 Cloud computing has clearly sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages.
It now falls to CIOs to not only rapidly adapt to cloud computing, but to find the ways to protect their employees and customers ...May. 9, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,371 |
 In today’s business world, data is the lifeblood of most organizations. As such, it has become a prime target for both external and internal threats. Data breaches made plenty of headlines in 2011 and don’t show any signs of slowing down. In fact, a recent report from Privacy Rights Cl...May. 9, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,367 |
 After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of 2010, the degree of momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have placed their strategic bets to monetize the OpenStack wave in various ways. As an ecosyst...May. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,342 |
 I have been in technology marketing since my career began, and there is one word that I have come to loathe because of its misuse by marketing and business leaders in technology – enterprise, (or enterprise-class). I’m guilty of using it – it’s my job to ensure prospects know that we o...May. 8, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,933 |
 Community cloud services are services that are shared by multiple members of a community. They centralize the functions and can provide specific mission requirements. The mission requirements can be related to specific policies and compliance. Community clouds leverage the benefits of ...May. 8, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,967 |
 We are living in a world of unprecedented growth in the digital universe. In just over a decade, the Internet and the creation and utilization of digital data has gone from nascent to a vital part of everyday life. This is why electronic data is growing at rates that make Moore’s Law a...May. 7, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,586 |
 Policies and procedures for Cloud solutions and services should be established as part of Enterprise Cloud Giovernance. Plug and Play for Cloud Services is not enough!
Enterprise Cloud Governance is the specification of policies and procedures for Cloud solutions and services for the ...May. 4, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,090 |
 A transition from a traditional infrastructure-focused deployment model into a cloud-friendly, cloud-ready, cloud-enabled and service-centric delivery vehicle in enterprise IT is imminent, if not already happening. IT is no longer about servers, networks, and storage; instead IT is abo...May. 3, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,652 |
 The two primary commercial providers that signed on for the proprietary files systems – IBM and EMC (via partnership with MapR) – have retrenched.
As we’ve noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either co...May. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,000 |
 If you work in information technology and you passed through the city of London over the last week it would have been hard not to notice the InfoSec IT security conference being held at the Earl’s Court exhibition center.
Logically, of course, certain themes and trends came out of th...May. 1, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,556 |
 PaaS is nothing but uploading your small kernel of code with business logic and the PaaS service provider will run that code on allocated computing and storage instances. The aim of PaaS is to let the developers concentrate on developing their code rather than creating and maintaining ...May. 1, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 7,359 |
 Every cloud computing platform that is being sold today will be obsolete prematurely unless they can retrofit them with a single-source timing device. If cloud computing is going to be as pervasive tomorrow as some sales executives have hyped them, the need for a more sophisticated pla...Apr. 30, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,972 |
 IT managers at enterprises of all sizes are exploring cloud computing and virtualization as a way to address conflicting demands within their organizations. These mounting pressures include a lack of internal resources, mandates from the CFO to lower costs, and the struggle to complete...Apr. 30, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,895 |
 Business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic view of IT enabled disaster recovery.
When we started to get into DR, we handled it from an IT point of view and it was very much like an iceberg. We looked at the technology and said, "This...Apr. 27, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,500 |
 With the enablement of new sources of data flow into the enterprise, it is time to look at the issues of Information Delivery 1.0 of the current enterprises.
Disparate Data Sources, most enterprises have grown multiple database platforms and even within a platform, multiple databases ...Apr. 26, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,563 |
 The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas that ended last week saw a 10 percent hike in vendor exhibits from last year and a slight rise in the number of people attending at 92,112. The world’s largest media event since covering filmed entertainment and con...Apr. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,297 |
 This year, virtual desktop and cloud storage initiatives are at the top of many IT organization’s wish lists. But what is not obvious is how tightly intertwined these two initiatives have become as users embrace the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement. This new BYOD model forces IT g...Apr. 25, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,303 |
 With cloud comes the notion of liberation. Cloud is the natural evolution of the data center. It’s easy to deploy, infinitely scalable, and highly redundant. It is the shiny new component inside the storage controller and is making it possible for an old dog to learn some very impressi...Apr. 25, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,513 |
 With all the hype around “the cloud,” it’s difficult not to be skeptical about its value. While cloud computing seems complex, it is possible to understand the building blocks that help make the cloud more tangible for businesses of all sizes. In fact, understanding the innovation the ...Apr. 23, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,113 |
 Today, with enterprises migrating to the cloud, the security challenge around protecting data is greater than ever before. Keeping data private and secure has always been a business imperative. But for many companies and organizations, it has also become a compliance requirement and a ...Apr. 23, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,736 |
 It’s time to rehabilitate hybrid – and no, that doesn’t mean that you have to check the Prius into a 12-step program. We’re talking about that big buzzword “hybrid” and what you can do today to turn that trend into a true business environment that runs as efficiently and with as little...Apr. 21, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,380 |
 The scenario is fairly typical. You launch your SaaS application for $14.99 per month. A few months later, a competitor launches a competing service for $10 per month. How do you respond with a competitive offer without cannibalizing your existing customers? We asked three software exe...Apr. 21, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,068 |
 Today cloud computing facilitated by virtualization continues emerging as the service delivery vehicle for IT to shorten go-to-market while facing unpredictable data patterns and workloads. The increasing complexities and growing user expectations make system management on the center s...Apr. 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,926 |
 The industry has long worried that cloud computing cannot deliver the performance required for critical enterprise applications. For example, the very notion of multiple compute instances or multiple applications sharing the same infrastructure has meant that service providers cannot g...Apr. 20, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,594 |
 There are fundamental differences between data centers and the Internet of Things, which means that fundamental Cloud architecture principles must also transform to support this new reality. This transformation promises to be truly disruptive — a true paradigm shift as we figure out wh...Apr. 20, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,857 |
 This is a continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry is stressed for wider atte...Apr. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,673 |
 It’s almost a strange sounding phrase isn’t it? The rise of the term “Big Data” has been popularized to describe those data sets we now juggle with in the new world of cloud computing and massively distributed databases, fueled as they are by the multiplicity of desktop and mobile devi...Apr. 20, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,737 |
 Data explosion is one of the biggest issues facing IT today. The amount of data that organizations store has grown exponentially in the last 10 years. According to Gartner research director April Adams, data capacity on average in enterprises grows at 40 percent to 60 percent year over...Apr. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,490 |
 Cloud Computing , more specifically Platform as a Service (PaaS) is changing the business app developer demographic forever. Or should I say that, PaaS is reviving or giving a new lease of life for productivity focused business developers. The kind that existed during the Client-Server...Apr. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,139 |
 Businesses can be transformed, sometimes through new leadership, sometimes through new market realities or business relationships. But perhaps the easiest way, for IT at least, to transform the business is by enabling the business to evolve from a data silo’d organization to a data-cen...Apr. 16, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,762 |
 VMM, a member of Microsoft System Center suite, is an enterprise solution for managing policies, processes, and best practices with automations by discovering, capturing and aggregating knowledge of virtualization infrastructure. In addition to the system requirements and the new feat...Apr. 16, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,391 |
 Many organizations are starting to look at cloud computing as a universal solution, but there are many applications that cannot be considered unless the framework of cloud computing includes Timing as a Service (TaaS) as part of its fabric. Mission-critical applications require securit...Apr. 13, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,471 |
 Today’s enterprise is built on the promises of mobility, everywhere-access and flexibility. We work on multiple devices when and where we want – at the office, on the road or at home. We expect full access to our data and applications – on a sales call, in a boardroom or on a cross-con...Apr. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,341 |
 Okay, so an admission before I go one step further – the supermodel in this headline is something of a misnomer or misapplication of the term designed (I shamefacedly admit) to draw the reader in.
Forget supermodels if you will and jump straight to megatrends for analyst house Gartner...Apr. 8, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,207 |
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