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 Here is my initial thought: are you kidding me ? David's theory is that the adoption of Cloud Computing would be far more "acceptable" (aka politically correct) if we didn't have executives like Unisys's Richard Marcello saying: "We were able to eliminate a whole bunch of actually U.S....Nov. 5, 2009 03:30 PM EST Reads: 312 |
 Infrastructure 2.0, from a purely developmental standpoint, is about APIs. It’s about offering up the functionality and capabilities of a wide variety of infrastructure – network, storage, and application network – to be externally controlled, integrated, and leveraged for whatever pur...Nov. 5, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 416 |
 The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 550 |
 The SMS message was desperate. AJ sent the plea “If I have to see one more picture of a cloud in a PPT I might lose it…” After two days of presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, where companies tried to bring the audience up to an Intro to Clouds 101 level, some at...Nov. 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 468 |
 Day One of the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo is in full swing. First off, it took me nearly 30 minutes to find parking. For some reason the top level of the parking structure of the Santa Clara Convention Center was closed off. Not sure why. Then I walked through the San Jose Hya...Nov. 3, 2009 11:15 AM EST Reads: 393 |
 So what does this mean? For some reason, Microsoft has not given us desktop virtualization software that can run 64 bit guest (even though Hyper-V can). So I think this left Microsoft a choice. Get 64 bit guests added to Windows Virtual PC, recommend developers use a non Microsoft v...Oct. 31, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 706 |
 Data-center consolidation and modernization of IT systems helps enterprises reduce cost, cut labor, slash energy use, and become more agile. Infrastructure advancements, standardization, performance density, and network services efficiencies are all allowing for bigger and fewer data c...Oct. 30, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 332 |
 Describing today’s enterprise IT environment as “complex” would be a gross understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity attributed to evolving applications, and the way people us...Oct. 29, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 404 |
 Google has certainly been busy building a lot of different software tools that can be used for collaboration, including Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Sites (formerly Jotspot) and Google Calendar. But there are a number of specialized tools that are more useful than these Google ser...Oct. 29, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 823 |
 A new search site is in beta called DeepDyve that has some promise. First, they claim that they index millions of medical papers from paid journals and free sites. The problem in the past is that this content wasn’t too readily available. Yes, there is Medline, but not a very user-frie...Oct. 29, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 447 |
 The result is BSMReview.com, a site which seeks to analyze the best and next practices in business service management from a third-party point of view. The experts that Bill has brought to the site are literally a who's who of the best and most trusted people in the field: Peter Armstr...Oct. 29, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 429 |
 The recent announcement from Amazon of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) represents the next big advance in the evolution chain for cloud computing. Enterprises can now integrate their IT infrastructure with Amazon's vast computing and storage ... Oct. 29, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 617 |
 This article explores the use of geospatial information to provide a network-centric view of the mobile work place and the real-time location of your mobile assets. USAF Colonel John Boyd is credited with the concept of the OODA loop. The OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide and Act) is...Oct. 28, 2009 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 408 |
 The data center industry continues to evolve with mergers, acquisitions, and a healthy crop of emerging companies. New data center products and services are hitting the street, an aggressive debate on the model of selling space vs. power, and alternatives to physical data center space...Oct. 28, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 392 |
 With Virtualization becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualization and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of...Oct. 28, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 534 |
 Welcome to our enterprise cloud computing blog where we'll share our perspectives on cloud computing trends and best practices for the enterprise. We're a team with extensive experience in IT software and systems (learn more about us), and we're passionate about the opportunity that cl...Oct. 28, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 428 |
 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 296 |
 Over the past several years, many IT departments have committed to virtualization as an antidote to the spiraling costs and inflexibility plaguing corporate data centers everywhere. By running applications on virtual servers and consolidating underutilized hardware, data centers can ge...Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 398 |
 In the most difficult economic climate in decades, CIOs are reevaluating their strategies and looking for new ways to reduce data center costs and overhead while improving responsiveness to business requirements. Cloud computing has emerged as a much more agile and efficient approach t...Oct. 28, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 394 |
 The cloud computing landscape is evolving rapidly, with more and more players introducing cloud products and services of all kinds. Most recently we’ve seen the announcements by VMware partners including Terremark, BlueLock and others, as well as the introduction of Rackspace’s Cloud S...Oct. 28, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 702 |
 A Box Life is a cute idea for QR Codes sponsored by clothing firm Columbia as a recycling initiative. Put a tag on a cardboard box so that when the box is reused you can track the 'life' of the box. By snapping the tag and providing your location data or entering the tracking code prin...Oct. 28, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 373 |
 Kooaba's mobile image recognition (MIR) technology will be used in the November edition of Wired magazine (US) to link print advertisements to online content. Kooaba claims this as a US first. Oddly enough Wired online are also running a vstory on augmented reality (AR) here. The adva...Oct. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 322 |
 Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an effective framework for implementing services as well as service consumers. Whenever you deal with WCF communication objects you need to pay attention to the disposal of the resources that these objects hold. However, these dispo...Oct. 28, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 548 |
 In this article I will present a step-by-step service-oriented solution development methodology and then describe how it is being used for the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) at a federal agency to integrate its financial systems with E-Gov Travel Servi...Oct. 28, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 610 |
 After several years of companies industry-wide combining Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed. Some companies have had substantial benefits moving to SOA, while others have had average results. All these companies used the app...Oct. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 662 |
 The Department of Defense (DoD) leadership understands the importance of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and other emerging technological methodologies, standards, and practice. Historically, information has been restricted to small...Oct. 28, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 819 |
 "The Secret" was launched by Rhonda Byrne in 2006 and says that thoughts have an energy that attracts like energy and you attract into your life whatever you think about. This tool refers to what Buddha said: "What you have become is the result of what you have thought". It suggests th...Oct. 28, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 645 |
 High availability for full server protection has never been more important. As virtualization and blade technologies continue to rapidly be adopted, IT infrastructures are becoming smaller and more efficient. Doing more with less has been a centralized theme for IT managers this past y...Oct. 22, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 344 |
 Should everything, that is all servers, storage and I/O along with facilities, be virtualized? The answer not surprisingly should be it depends! Denny Cherry (aka Mrdenny) over at ITKE did a ... Oct. 20, 2009 07:39 AM EDT Reads: 417 |
 Virtualization provides the facility to run multiple isolated computer operating systems on one piece of computing hardware. There has been a huge increase of interest in virtualization technology because recent advances in multi-core technology provide significantly more computing pow...Oct. 19, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 529 |
 A few of the more interesting tidbits included, the discussions around the future of the Open Grid Forum. It seems that the OGF is currently going through a major transition as the Grid world is quickly distancing itself from the stigma surrounding the use of the term Grid or High Perf...Oct. 19, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 712 |
 I’ve been doing a lot of work on private (internal) clouds lately – it’s a result of my new job with Unisys. Part of that work has been spending time with customers on their plans for cloud computing — internal and external. There’s some very interesting work going on in the private ...Oct. 18, 2009 10:42 PM EDT Reads: 628 |
 What’s really positive is that the top-down service perspective that says virtualization is great, but the end point is the service. On top of that virtualization, what do I need to do to take it to the next level? And, for many people now, that next level they are looking at is the cl...Oct. 18, 2009 04:22 PM EDT Reads: 415 |
 Although cloud computing momentum continues to build and scarcely a day goes by without a new cloud announcement or study, there’s been little real enterprise adoption and almost no meaningful case studies. In part, that’s because early cloud providers and vendors were focused on devel...Oct. 15, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 841 Replies: 1 |
 In about 25 years from now I can imagine having a conversation with my kids that goes something like this."Son, back in my day we used to store all our data on a single computer." My son in turn says, "Dad, that's crazy, I have every song I've ever listened to and every mov... Oct. 12, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,075 |
 I have a thesis I would like to try on you. In the IT world, like in many other human endeavors, the things that get measured get improved. And the things that don't get measured are easy to ignore. So, when the world's largest IT enterprise (the US federal government) starts measurin...Oct. 9, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 619 |
 Take a look at the various data storage offerings called "cloud" and your head will start to ache. How can so many things all bear the "cloud storage" name and yet be so totally different? The answer is obvious to long-time industry observers: Each provider has t... Oct. 6, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,009 |
 In my first post on policy, I tried to show what policy's influence would be like from a top-level standpoint. We see that policy can start from a localized array standpoint and "fix" performance or hotspot issues based on key LUN migration technologies (like EMC's FAST promises to d...Oct. 5, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 365 |
 Been doing some thinking around some of the opportunities for cloud providers to provide the seemless ability to utilize other "compatible" cloud service providers capacity as a kind of "cloud overdraft" protection. So it occurred to me, the concept already existing and is a core part ...Oct. 5, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 573 |
 Over the past several years, many IT departments have committed to virtualization as an antidote to the spiraling costs and inflexibility plaguing corporate data centers everywhere. By running applications on virtual servers and consolidating underutilized hardware, data centers can ge...Oct. 1, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,302 |
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