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 New technologies allow schools, colleges and universities to analyze absolutely everything that happens. From student behavior, testing results, career development of students as well as educational needs based on changing societies. A lot of this data has already been stored and is us...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,350 |
 In the coming years, big data will change the way organisations and societies are operated and managed. Big data however, is not the only trend that will impact significantly how organisations operate. Another major trend at the moment is gamification. Gamification will change the way ...May. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,373 |
 I'd like to address a recent blog post in CloudTweaks titled, "Cloudera Not Cutting It With Big Data Security." The author makes a number of very salient and valid points about Hadoop security… or lack thereof.
Indeed the Apache Hadoop platform, which includes HDFS and MapReduce and o...May. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,202 |
 Without an enterprise-level automated solution for ensuring the integrity of APIs and API-driven composite applications, organizations risk:
Brand erosion as faulty software drives away customers
Time-to-market delays that diminish market share
Exposure to legal liability associated...May. 15, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 625 |
 The age of data center automation is upon us. Whether it's cloud or SDN or devops in general, automation as a means to achieve efficiency and, one hopes, free up resources that can be then redirected to focus on innovation.
As is always the case when we begin to move further upwards...May. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 682 |
 The President's State of the Union address made it clear that data security is a top priority to keep personal, business-related and national security information protected.
During the last State of the Union address, President Barack Obama included improving data security on his list...May. 13, 2013 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 615 |
 Windows Azure Virtual Networks offers the power to open up several cross-premises use case scenarios, including Active Directory Disaster Recovery, SQL Database Replication, Windows Server 2012 DFS-R File Replication, Accelerated Cloud File Services with BranchCache, Hybrid Web Applica...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,909 |
 As the infrastructure cloud market (IaaS and PaaS) continues to grow rapidly, we are seeing quite a few customers who are delivering an application – whether it is a mission-critical or SaaS application – and basing their solution on VMware.
VMware Security Cloud Encryption cloud keyb...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,365 |
 My fellow Technical Evangelists and I have authored a content series that steps through building your very own Private Cloud by leveraging Windows Server 2012, our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ( IaaS ) and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
Week-by-...May. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,020 |
 When Lori and I were writing import/export routines for a large software vendor, we had a phrase to remind ourselves that what we loved was not necessarily the all-important part of what we were doing. We used to say “It’s all about the data”, almost as a mantra, to keep our team (I wa...May. 10, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 910 |
 HIMSS 2013 was a big moment for cloud in healthcare. As a topic of discussion, it was certainly on the lips of many at the show, but increasingly the realities of cost and functionality are pushing direct-to-patient organizations to consider the cloud not only as part of how they run I...May. 9, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,125 |
 Do you think that you’re working with “Big Data”? or is it “Small Data”? If you’re asking ad hoc questions of your data, you’ll probably need something that supports “query-response” performance or, in other words, “near real-time”. We’re not talking about batch analytics, but more int...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 953 |
 ViPR is not a technology creation developed in a vacuum instead includes customer feedback, wants and needs. Its core themes are extensible, open and scalable.
What is ViPR addressing?
IT and data infrastructure (server, storage, IO and networking hardware, software) challenges for t...May. 8, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,779 |
 You know those conversations that you have more times than you can count? Well, I recently had one of those at Design West with a very bright software engineer. This poor guy had a number of experiences with static analysis tools that left him with the “compiler warning equivalence” im...May. 8, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 843 |
 Master Data Management (MDM) is a very important data governance aspect in enterprises whereby MDM enables the development of a "Single Version of Truth." MDM establishes Single Version of Truth by providing common descriptions for enterprise-wide entities.
Need for MDM in Big Data Pr...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
 One of the major challenges facing organizations as they grapple with increasing traffic, users, devices, and applications is managing the connective tissue that enables the users, devices, and applications to communicate. This was already a growing problem when virtualization and then...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 881 |
 How do you know whether you are dealing with Big Data or Small Data? I’m constantly asked for my definition of “Big Data”. Well, here it is…for batch analytics.
Queries are complex requiring many concurrent data modifications, a rich breadth of operators, and many selectivity constrai...May. 8, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 857 |
 Are you AWS certified?
Last week several reporters, including Gathering Clouds friend in the field Barb Darrow, analyzed Amazon’s recent announcement of its cloud certification program. Widely seen as a positive move for the company, the announcement does raise some questions.
While ...May. 7, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,458 |
 If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either most fam...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,129 |
 As with most new exciting (read: hyped) technology there's always some initial fragmentation that occurs in the market. Everyone wants to have their fingers in the newest pie and from that comes what musicians call "variations on a theme." The melody is the same, but the harmony and ch...May. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,054 |
 My favorite and least favorite question I get is the same – “Can you help me build a business case and ROI for cloud computing?”
Well, yes… and no. The issue is that cloud computing has such a massive impact on how IT is delivered that many of the metrics and KPIs that are typically u...May. 3, 2013 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,400 |
 One of the established best practices in InfoSec is monitoring. People, products and companies get paid a great deal of money and expend a great deal of resources to watch pots. Monitoring simply is the central component to any security initiative. But with all best practices, there ar...May. 2, 2013 12:48 PM EDT Reads: 1,096 |
 As discussed in our prior installment, while there is no “one-size fits all” path to cloud infrastructure adoption, a roadmap can ease and simplify the transition to cloud while minimizing IT disruption. More importantly, a phased approach (as shown in the figure below) enables organiz...May. 2, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,495 |
 I was researching something totally unrelated today, and happened upon a couple of things that made me decide to write a quick blog about SPDY support and the tools available to you relevant to SPDY.
First, I found a ton of administrators asking how they could verify that SPDY was bei...May. 2, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 913 |
 We often discuss the virtues of private and hybrid clouds, since so many companies utilize more complex clouds as they scale. But where public cloud is concerned, we thought we’d share some ideas for how to frame a smart approach to ensure that your public cloud is serving the needs of...May. 1, 2013 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,482 |
 This simple phrase encapsulates so much more than just the notion of platforms capable of supporting multiple development languages. It comprises the notion of an operationalized polyglot platform, one that brings standardization to operations while providing flexibility for developers...May. 1, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,376 |
 We were serious about getting serious about managing hybrid cloud and federating application network services
Last month I brought up the need to manage application network services - load balancing, acceleration, optimization, application security.. you know, application services tha...May. 1, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,177 |
 Even though today's crowning ceremony in Amsterdam enjoyed some modest sunshine, the temperatures across Europe are at an all time low. A more reliable indication that spring has started, are the annual Cool Vendor reports being published.
For the first time this series includes a not...May. 1, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,146 |
 A long time ago, before gray hairs appeared on my head, I was an IT manager. My title was B2B E-Commerce Manager for a computer manufacturer. I remember sitting in long meetings discussing how successful Dell Computer was with their just in time manufacturing and just in time supply ...May. 1, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,185 |
 BusinessSuccessWith cloud computing becoming the center of almost every new enterprise IT project, more and more startups decide to compete in the area. This raises the question: "Are they ready to fulfill the enterprise needs?" Forget the need to have one big customer. This can open f...Apr. 30, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,922 |
 Big Data. There are few conversations in the IT community which do not start, address, or end on the topic. Some conversations are visionary in nature, some critical, and many considering the challenges we’ll need to overcome in the process of understanding how to deal with Big Data.
...Apr. 29, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,457 |
 What does today's retail banking customer expect from a financial institution, and how can business technology be applied to enhance the overall experience. The latest results from the Cisco Customer Experience Report focused on the retail banking sector.
The global report examined co...Apr. 26, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 965 |
 Don't laugh or next week we'll talk fractals and tessellations and nature and tie that back to ERP. Somehow. Don't tempt me. I'm not kidding.
The other day I was shopping (on-line of course, because you know, Internets) as I often do: I was putting things into my shopping cart and o...Apr. 26, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 966 |
 Simply outsourcing your cloud technology isn’t where the benefits your company can access end. By leveraging your cloud provider for more than just the technology, you can gain a wealth of experience and know-how (read: tech support) that can help your business get more value from you...Apr. 25, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,556 |
 …Is one of the findings in #Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is chuck full of interesting data. 75% of the attack victims were selected because they had a weakness that an attacker knew how to exploit rather than being specifically chosen. The difficulty of the...Apr. 24, 2013 03:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,002 |
 Lori and I were discussing the entire topic of agility the other day, she looking at it from the SDN prospective, and I from the evolutionary perspective for development. While I know there has been a metric ton of writing about the topic, since I’ve used agile development, and find it...Apr. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
 A very real legal situation is brewing in the wake of the bring your own device phenomena. eDiscovery. You might be familiar with some of the various legal or liability issues that should be addressed with a BYOD policy, like privacy, the loss of personal information, working overtime ...Apr. 24, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,336 |
 Network perimeters are all but erased and traditional security strategies such as stacking don't adequately address the current needs of a modern enterprise. Many companies are still using strategies rooted in 2002 technologies and approaches. The new intelligence-based security model ...Apr. 22, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,855 |
 If you’ve ever developed for an enterprise IT department, and had to please the end user, you know very well that they don’t care about what your technical limitations are, they care about getting a tool that helps them do their job better. Oh some will commiserate with you about your ...Apr. 22, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,004 |
 Over the last week, the cloud world seems to have received some significant announcements from Microsoft and Amazon. Also, HP Cloud has introduced a new messaging service. Plus, Appcelerator has announced the release of Titanium 3.1 and Node.ACS GA.
Here’s a quick sum up of Cloud happ...Apr. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,920 |
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