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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 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: 9,449 |
 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: 3,492 |
 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: 3,366 |
 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: 3,233 |
 Sharing files with friends has never been easier. Whether it is via old-school hard copy methods like CDs, DVDs and USB drives, nefarious peer-to-peer torrents like BitTorrent or new shared, private cloud storage services like Dropbox, getting a photo or music file from one person to a...Apr. 7, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,818 |
 Cloud computing has found its way into many organizations as business leaders and IT departments look to capitalize on the many benefits that cloud offers. As your company considers moving all or part of its IT operation to the cloud, a key decision is whether to rely on public cloud, ...Apr. 5, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 6,276 |
 Anybody who is considering a move to the Cloud knows that the greatest economic motivation for Cloud Computing is the pay-as-you-go, pay-for-what-you-need utility computing benefit, right? Deal with spikes in demand much more cost-effectively, the public Cloud service providers gush, s...Apr. 5, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,058 |
 Cloud computing has sparked the imagination of business leaders, who see it as a powerful new way to be innovative and gain first-mover advantages -- with or without traditional IT's consent.
This now means that the center of gravity for IT services is shifting toward the enterprise’s...Apr. 5, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,709 |
 In the information technology world, perhaps no topic today is receiving more attention than cloud computing. Unlike the days of the past where cloud computing was once perceived as a cost-effective, flexible option for small to mid-sized companies, in 2012 cloud computing will dig eve...Apr. 4, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,891 |
 You can't imagine any business application without a business logic/rule. Yet, business rules are the most abused term and least understood. Everybody knows the importance of it, but sadly everyone has a cliched understanding. In this post, I set out to articulate business rules in gen...Apr. 3, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,310 |
 Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of c...Apr. 2, 2012 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,316 |
 Does your IT or devops team run a lot of do-it-yourself projects? DIY is tempting, isn’t it? You have smart engineers, easy access to storage and computing power, and a mandate this year to start moving some of (or more of) your applications to the cloud. Why not do it yourself?
I’m n...Apr. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,696 |
 Sustaining applications in the most cost-effective and efficient fashion is the foundation to maximizing a return on data. But it is only the foundation. Organizations have to move beyond sustaining applications to driving innovation, and the first step in that progression is learning ...Mar. 31, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,918 |
 Today's buyer is information overloaded, bandwidth constrained and fiercely independent. A recent survey by the Corporate Executive Board reported that 57% of the new B2B sales cycle is DONE before the buyer's first formal contact to the selected vendor. Understanding that simple fact...Mar. 31, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,694 |
 To gauge the potential business benefits -- and threats -- from cloud, we also need to examine the confluence of these developments and how together they change businesses and business ecosystems.
It's impossible to factor the implications of cloud computing without examining the cont...Mar. 31, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,417 |
 Most companies that have embarked on a private cloud journey find themselves in one of two unfortunate positions: they’ve already spent much more than they had planned or they’re struggling with how to make sure costs don’t get out of hand. These are typically companies with sophistica...Mar. 29, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,465 |
 In Part 1 I described how the cloud is revolutionizing load testing and the advantages it provides to ensure that your web applications perform well in production. We also looked at what capabilities you should seek out when selecting a load testing solution.
In Part 2, I will offer t...Mar. 29, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,758 |
 Application owners / senior-level IT allocate a certain percentage of their budget to sustaining, enhancing, and transforming their applications. In most organizations, the largest percentage of the IT spend is on sustaining the applications or basically “keep the lights on” type of ac...Mar. 29, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,251 |
 The appzero approach of transforming an application during the move guarantees that the applications are running on an operations stack that is homogenous, uniform and consistent. And there you have your competitive advantage. A clean match between “the story” and the “install” means g...Mar. 28, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,110 |
 Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a ...Mar. 28, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,367 |
 Much of the confusion over Cloud Computing comes from software and hardware vendors. After all, they’ve all had to scramble for a new Cloud value proposition once they realized that Cloud Computing would eventually doom the old way of selling their gear. For most such vendors, their Cl...Mar. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,071 |
 Cloud computing. The term derived from network diagrams that used a cloud to demonstrate the concept -- a dispersed computing network where your infrastructure was hosted offsite and delivered when you needed. Easy enough to understand.
Cloud computing was supposed to be so much more ...Mar. 24, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,320 |
 Big Data and virtualization are the two biggest revolutions underway in enterprise datacenters today. In the coming three to five years, they will unquestionably change the face of datacenters as we know them. Interestingly, both phenomena have been going on in parallel with little to ...Mar. 22, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,396 |
 The term cloud computing was first coined in 2007. Enterprise Cloud Computing seems to have emerged as a term in 2009. It’s now 2012 and many are trying to ride the wave of Enterprise cloud computing or private cloud into the future. In a short four years, we’ve seen this phenomena of ...Mar. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,955 |
 For all that global business has embraced cloud computing – welcoming its low cost, low barrier to entry and reduced IT burden – not everything about this architectural sea change is working out perfectly. Limitations in security and customization are a growing source of discontent for...Mar. 21, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,338 |
 There has been a lot of press around the notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS). It seems like a week doesn't go by without an announcement about a PaaS platform. In this article, I will try to explore the various types of PaaS platforms and distinguish between them.
Metadata PaaS pla...Mar. 21, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,643 |
 Organizations today rely heavily on their IT software to drive the business objectives to meet the needs of the market. There are a number of sophisticated software applications that have grown in demand and complexity to support an organization’s value chain such as Customer Relations...Mar. 16, 2012 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,571 |
 Multi-million user social networks, cloud hosting, Internet search and Big Data problems such as meteorology, complex physics and business informatics, all share one basic need – they each require incredibly large, complex and varied computer platforms. However, a common requirement ac...Mar. 16, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,128 |
 Harness the power of Cloud to gain cost and competitive advantages by leveraging cloud infrastructure for simulating high volume of user load and complex processing for near real time user simulation.
It has become the norm for current enterprises to rollout their systems to cater glo...Mar. 15, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,118 |
 In today's market, it is critical to drive high velocity sales and marketing programs. Velocity is a function of Delivery, Engagement and Experience, simply V=D*Engagement*Experience.
The HIGHEST velocity go-to-market programs, tailor their delivery to channel of communication and b...Mar. 15, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,185 |
 Remember the early days of the cloud? Outsourced application hosting seemed so…alluring. Public-cloud providers like Google, Heroku, EngineYard and DotCloud seduced us with promises of cost-efficiency, scalability and convenience. Early adopters spun off a few VMs, connected the users ...Mar. 15, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,709 |
 Too many technology leaders and corporate executives like to jump on the bandwagon and use the latest phrases they have read in some business magazine to define their next endeavor in saving or expanding their enterprise.
Without understanding anything beyond the key phrase or buzzwor...Mar. 14, 2012 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,872 |
 Hadoop is designed to store extremely large volume of data. HBase, an open source NoSQL data store, makes it possible to randomly access such large data sets. HBase is included in Cloudera's Hadoop distribution.
One of the major obstacles to a wider adoption of NoSQL databases is the ...Mar. 14, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,754 |
 Make complex enterprise applications moveable – encapsulate them for travel without the burden of a VM or OS. It makes so much sense to send an application-centric tool to do the application-centric job of moving applications. Yet, we are frequently in conversations that are dominated ...Mar. 8, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,224 |
 Everyone is talking about Big Data, but when it comes to taking action, most are taking a “wait-and-see” approach, and that concerns me. Skepticism or “late-adopter” mentality is understandable — if you want to forego a low-risk, high-reward opportunity and let your competition gain th...Mar. 8, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 7,056 |
 This is Part 2 in my series of post on the topic of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and in this post I have covered why PaaS for enterprises is more than just DevOps and a larger "technology convergence" in the core "Software Engineering" area is leading this perfect storm called PaaS. Th...Mar. 6, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,957 |
 When we Apply Steven Covey's Abundance Mindset to our Cloud Go To Market Positioning, Messaging and execution, we begin to see our opportunities in a whole new way, and drive an execution that can surprise even our most optimistic expectations.
In my Viewpoint, Value, Velocity or V3 ...Mar. 6, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,874 |
 It is quite straightforward to add more DataNodes i.e. storage to Hadoop cluster on AWS.
You just need to create another AWS instance and add new node to Hadoop cluster. Hadoop rebalancer will take care of balancing storage across nodes to keep it at predefined threshold.
Hadoop an...Mar. 6, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,895 |
 With the New Year having rolled in, you’ve probably had your fill of “This is the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)” predictions. After all, for how many years now have we heard, “This is the year for cloud computing?”
While there’s no doubt that the wave of cloud comp...Mar. 5, 2012 03:00 AM EST Reads: 4,629 |
 Analyzing massive amounts of unstructured content and extracting information out of them is necessary for many industry verticals and particularly important for academics. The following points highlight the growing needs for information delivery in the field of education and research.
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