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 One of the primary reasons node.js is currently ascending in the data center is because of its core model: event-driven, non-blocking processing.
Historically, developers write applications based on connections and requests. It's blocking; it's not asynchronous; it's not fire and forg...Mar. 29, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
 by Joseph Rickert When talking with data scientists and analysts — who are working with large scale data analytics platforms such as Hadoop — about the best way to do some sophisticated modeling task it is not uncommon for someone to say, "We have all of the data. Why not just use it a...Mar. 29, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,265 |
 Technology has been taken over by the Cloud. Putting it in simple terms, ‘Cloud’ is the new meme used to describe nirvana from clogged up computers and saving files directly to the internet. So how does it work?
Essentially, instead of saving files to a hard disk or using software on ...Mar. 29, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,910 |
 Platform as a Service is one of the least used cloud computing services also has a great opportunity for providing value to users. Vendors need to create transparent services to grow adoption.
As enterprise cloud adoption increases, CIOs are looking not just to use the cloud as the ne...Mar. 29, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,069 |
 PrivateFew days ago I noticed a question on a LinkedIn group that made me thinking how important is the notion of private clouds. First, let's briefly look at what is the difference between public, private and community clouds as well as hybrid clouds. Once again those are very well de...Mar. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,559 |
 We (as in the industry) talk a lot about federating cloud. Usually solutions for federating cloud (aka hybrid cloud) are presented from the perspective of the end-user. We want to make it easier to transition between applications in the cloud and focus on identity management, single-si...Mar. 29, 2013 08:19 AM EDT Reads: 1,072 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the second (looking at S3) in a three part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part I ...Mar. 28, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,794 |
 Joe McKendrick reviews Jason Bloomberg's new book and posits that public cloud is better than private cloud and he provides twelve very valid reasons.
Yes, the debate is fierce between private and public..... security, cost, control, compliance
In response, here are my twelve reasons...Mar. 27, 2013 03:52 PM EDT Reads: 2,148 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added EBS Optimized support for enhanced bandwidth EC2 instances (read more here). This industry trends and perspective cloud conversation is the first (looking at EBS) in a three part series companion to the AWS EBS optimized post found here. Part II...Mar. 27, 2013 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,135 |
We’re now entering a world where cloud-managed big data is not just a topic of conversation in tech circles but a necessity for companies and service providers alike. Shifting data needs drive technological innovation. The truth is that as data gets bigger, older technology isn’t abl...Mar. 27, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,011 |
 It's interesting - and almost amusing - to watch the circle of technology run around best practices with respect to performance over time. Back in the day caching was the ultimate means by which web application performance was improved and there was no lack of solutions and techniques ...Mar. 27, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced global availability of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) optimized support for four additional Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) instance types. The support enables optimized performance between standard and provisioned IOP EBS volumes and EC2 instanc...Mar. 27, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,996 |
 It's the "do not disturb" sign on the hotel door....
I admit it. I'm guilty of using self-referential definitions when discussing the topic of programmable networks. Somehow, while trying to define what a programmable network is, I end up using the term "programmable".
Because that s...Mar. 26, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,379 |
 For years now server virtualization has been a core technology for larger companies. It’s provided the opportunity for businesses to reduce operating as well as capital costs, and offered them great flexibility and scalability. In more recent times, server virtualization has made its w...Mar. 26, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,341 |
 A recently released infographic from CloudCheckr sheds quite a bit of light on the importance of expert advice when an enterprise decides to deploy to the cloud.
When AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March, they took that opportunity to conduct an internal survey of thei...Mar. 26, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,412 |
 The cloud movement is about much more than the service offerings. It's a core ingredient of a larger commercial transformation movement -- where savvy leaders are using business technology to advance their operations and accelerate their key processes.
According to the latest market s...Mar. 26, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,086 |
 Last week seems to have been an important week for the Windows Azure team at Microsoft. They have provided some new and improved features to Windows Azure. There were also some new feature releases from Google, Amazon and Eucalyptus. And, Hortonworks releases new version of the Sandbox...Mar. 25, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,108 |
 The Who asked ultimate Access Management question..."Who Are You?" So do we listen to Paul McCartney said and "Open the door and let 'em in" or kick them to curb as the Stones suggest..."Hey You, Get off of my Cloud" The answer is different for each organization because, not every empl...Mar. 25, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,131 |
 Virtual Machine Guest Clustering allows us to extend the high availability afforded to us by Windows Server 2012 Failover Clustering directly to applications running inside a set of virtual machines that are hosted on a Hyper-V Host Cluster. This allows us to support cluster-aware appl...Mar. 23, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,434 |
 This blog post details how to install the OpenStack keystone (identity) service - first of five posts.
Following my high level description of OpenStack, I now delve in the install of OpenStack
This post is a manual install of OpenStack on Centos. Although the steps are detailed here:...Mar. 22, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,619 |
 MaaS (Model as a Service) sets a new concept to order and classify data modeling design and deployment to the Cloud. MaaS changes the way to move data to the Cloud because allows to define data taxonomy, size and contents. Starting from data model design, MaaS might guide the DaaS (Dat...Mar. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,916 |
 Traditional file sharing protocols, such as Server Message Block ( SMB ) in Windows Server 2012, are primarily designed for low-latency, high-bandwidth scenarios commonly found in Local Area Networks ( LANs ). When attempting to move file server workloads to the cloud, many IT Pros fi...Mar. 21, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,348 |
 It sure seems like 0-Days are now an every day occurrence. Headlines containing, ‘breach,’ ‘attack,’ ‘hack,’ ‘vulnerability,’ ‘passwords,’ ‘compromised,’ and ‘you’ are commonplace in the media these days. Typically a 0-day is described as a threat or an attack on a (previously) unkn...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,884 |
 Earlier this year, Gartner published their list of Top 10 Cloud Storage Providers, highlighting key features and differentiators of the top cloud storage providers in the world. More importantly, the report highlights the emergence of a maturing industry of cloud storage providers offe...Mar. 21, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,012 |
 It's been a while since I posted here, but it's not because I'm not working on NetWeaver IDM or writing. I've been doing a lot of the former and a bit of the latter. In order to help promote the growth of a NW IDM technical knowledge base, I've been posting most of my IDM specific th...Mar. 20, 2013 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,352 |
 This blog post distills critical information from VMware to help with an evaluation of VMware vCloud Director.
VMware vCloud Director is used by organizations wishing to build a private cloud (Infrastructure as a Service - IaaS). The purpose of this guide is to help you set up vCloud....Mar. 20, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,689 |
 Linux has been the gold standard of open source operating systems since the early 90s. Today, it’s used by programmers, coders, designers and techies of all stripes because of the flexibility and security. So it makes sense, then, that when NASA and Rackspace set out to build an open c...Mar. 20, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,660 |
 When first you build a bookshelf from raw wood, on your own, you learn a lot. While the first may be the only one you ever want to build, by the time you’re done, you know you could have done X, Y, or Z better. This is true of so many crafts. You get better by doing, in large part beca...Mar. 20, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,623 |
If your organization like StorageIO is a member of the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) you may be aware of the resources they make available about cloud, virtualization, security and more. Unlike so many other industry associates or trade groups dominated by vendors, the ODCA has an...Mar. 19, 2013 06:33 PM EDT Reads: 1,707 |
 Red Hat continues to press into the cloud computing marketplace with each new service offering. OpenShift Online, for example, is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. For more than a year and a half, OpenShift has served literally thousands of applications running on a vari...Mar. 19, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,965 |
 Amazon continues to add more features to make AWS more appealing to enterprises and developers. Also, Rackspace has announced the launch of Rackspace Cloud Backup and introduced new features on Rackspace Open Cloud Servers.
Here’s a quick summary of cloud happenings over the last week...Mar. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,944 |
 I think every IT Pro I’ve ever met hates tape backups … but having an offsite component in your backup strategy is absolutely necessary for effective disaster recovery. One of the new features provided in SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 2 is the ability to now backup S...Mar. 18, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,034 |
 While IT vendors typically lead a product pitch with cost benefits, it should be no surprise that cost savings alone don’t always drive IT purchases. For many organizations, revenue growth may represent an even more compelling driver.
Cloud compute and cloud storage have in many circl...Mar. 18, 2013 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,754 |
 The term hybrid cloud is replacing cloud computing as one of the most-hyped terms of 2013 because it articulates a cloud operating model (think cloud virtualization) that most if not all enterprises will find appealing. Hybrid cloud promises to allow enterprises to operate seamlessly a...Mar. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,150 |
 EMC and VMware (who is majority owned by EMC) have announced a new joint initiative called Pivotal (read more here and here) as part of their software defined data center strategies and architecture.
Is this a pivotal moment for both EMC and VMware signaling that they will be going he...Mar. 16, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,107 |
 According to a Wall Street Journal article today by Rachael King and Steven Rosenbush, the market for new databases serving Big Data reached $1.22B last year and is expected to more than double by 2014 (according to research firm Wikibon). That is quite impressive.
Since relational da...Mar. 15, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,754 |
 Securing your IT environment is not free, but there are new (cloud) options designed to mitigate costs while still providing a strong, manageable and proactive defense. While many companies still would rather spend capital on commodity assets, many CIOs recognize that information secur...Mar. 15, 2013 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,778 |
 One of the ramifications of relying on off-premise cloud infrastructure is that you're necessarily stuck with some of the idiosyncrasies that come with it. For example, it's not your network, and thus topologically-related identifiers such as host names and IP address are not within yo...Mar. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,030 |
 Seagate has announced that it reached a milestone of having shipped 2 billion hard disk drives (HDDs), something that is round stores data that keeps growing. As part of their announcement, Seagate has a good info graphics and facts page here going back to 1979 when it was founded as S...Mar. 15, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,848 |
 There are CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and a few other OpenStack competitors. With all the momentum of OpenStack, it might seem that these open source alternatives are little more than also-rans, doomed to drop further and further behind the burgeoning leader. But there’s more to this story...Mar. 14, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,651 |
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