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 Rapid and proactive containment of problems and breaches -- in addition to just trying to keep the bad guys out of your systems -- makes sense in today's environment.
A lot has changed in the past five years. Two key economic trends have really accelerated our security changes. First...Oct. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,784 |
 If they plan to remain viable in today’s markets, now is the time for real estate firms to make some dramatic changes by offering intelligent amenities in their commercial properties.
How do we prop up our dying shopping center?
How do we develop and maintain more business for our st...Oct. 6, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,334 |
 Cloud computing has changed the way we work. People and businesses can now access services, applications and infrastructure over the Internet, with lower costs, higher productivity and an enhanced user experience.
While cloud computing has revolutionized many aspects of business, its ...Oct. 5, 2012 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,393 |
 What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product, i.e., a true Converged Infrastructure? What impact could that possibly have on the success of Visible Ops a...Sep. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,553 |
 Healthcare services provider McKesson has transformed the notion of IT by recasting the role of IT. How pharmaceuticals distributor and healthcare information technology services provider McKesson has transformed the very notion of IT. We will see how a shift in culture and an emphasis...Sep. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,690 |
 Any on-premise or Private Cloud-based app that is subject to spikes in demand that existing infrastructure can’t handle should be able to benefit, so the argument goes. Unfortunately, however, Cloudbursting has a number of problems, making it challenging for even the most suitable scen...Sep. 30, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,619 |
 One does not typically draw associations between manufacturing, wilderness hikes, the theory of constraints, and the management of information technology solutions. In this discussion we take a look at how applying some of the long-held techniques for optimizing manufacturing processe...Sep. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,271 |
 If Cisco CEO John Chambers, 63, steps in front of streetcar, COO Gary
Moore, also 63, would take over as CEO, Chambers told Bloomberg during
a drop-by at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York Tuesday.
Chambers’ plan is to remain CEO for the next two-four years – which at the
outsi...Sep. 26, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,038 |
 The end result of this ongoing specialization trend is that selecting the right product won’t get much easier. It used to be that when you needed a software product, you could consider the big suites or the smaller specialists, rank them according to quality and price, and make your se...Sep. 26, 2012 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,071 |
 With Microsoft's announcements at this year's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), it is evident that change is coming to all enterprise software resellers. To better prepare for the inevitable transition to the cloud, here is an infographic that provides an overview of what it was like...Sep. 24, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,270 |
 Technology companies need to target the enterprise to get big benefits for themselves as well as this customer segment. While there are a number of obstacles, proper messaging will help overcome these hurdles.Sep. 21, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,330 |
 Being 'green' has never meant so much to businesses, no matter what their industry. On one hand there are benefits to be reaped from the practicalities of going green - reducing overheads, waste, and other respective day-to-day savings. On the other hand is the notion of corporate soci...Sep. 19, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,603 |
 With a growing amount of software applications using the Software-as-a-Service model, experts claim that software piracy will eventually be eliminated.
Others, however, are claiming that users will just find ways to circumvent everything so that they won’t pay for software use.
The...Sep. 14, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,134 |
 There has been a push for Shared services adoption across organizations for a while since such services reduce duplication and can result in cost savings. However there have been challenges to proposing and implementing shared services. Cloud is enhancing the pace to shared services mi...Sep. 14, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,030 |
 There is great excitement about the cloud; however, it is important to conduct a full assessment as part of the Cloud Transition. It is very important to decide which applications will be moving to the cloud based on factors such as alignment with business requirements, cost savings, l...Sep. 14, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,819 |
 A Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host can now store virtual machine configuration files, VHDs, and snapshots in file shares over the SMB 3.0 protocol. This can be used for both stand-alone file servers and clustered file servers that use Hyper-V together with shared file storage for the c...Sep. 13, 2012 03:03 PM EDT Reads: 2,870 |
 In the recent release of '2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,' research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future . "Big Data" related technologies form a significant portion of the list, in particular the ...Sep. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,179 |
 Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, based in Tel Aviv, both satisfied current requirements and built a better long-term enterprise architecture, illustrating the multiplier effect of value and capabilities from IT transformation efforts.
One of the things that’s interesting to me is...Sep. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,507 |
 The book is very complete and in-depth, with nearly 275 pages of well researched analysis on data virtualization’s history, present and future. It is targeted at a wide range of readers including BI and information management specialists, data architects, database administrators, appli...Sep. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,102 |
 As cloud computing technologies and offerings mature and evolve in its services to customers, one common consumer use will be that of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.
My earlier articles have touched on the various models, risks, security and forensics at several levels. There ...Sep. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,657 |
 The Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency recently released their strategic plan for the next 5 years. DISA is a Combat Support Agency that “provides, operates, and assures command and control, information sharing capabilities, and a globally... Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,367 |
 The core realization behind Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA) is that everything is potentially part of the Cloud. There’s nothing in the NIST definition of Cloud Computing that requires Cloud resources to live in data centers, after all. We don’t mean to say that mobile devices are in...Sep. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,051 |
 Thinking cloud is thinking application-centric. Organizations utilize public cloud offerings because they want to focus on their revenue-generating applications rather than managing infrastructure. And from there we already can draw the significance of Application Performance Managemen...Sep. 7, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,086 |
 Change management is important for any Technology initiative and since many Cloud services focus on rapid deployments, this area is sometimes forgotten. The move to Cloud has not only technology implications but also business implications. Business processes and operations can be encap...Sep. 6, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,760 |
 Scale-out networking using fast, fat and flat network topologies deliver the best ROI when building private or public cloud computing networks. A key ingredient of such high performance and highly efficient network designs is the Ethernet switch system that connects server, virtual mac...Sep. 5, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,772 |
 “Because it simply works” is the most frequent answer to the question “Why would you recommend OpenNebula to a colleague?” that OpenNebula makes to its users in a short survey that tells them how they are doing. Other frequent answers are “Because it is easy to install, maintain and up...Sep. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,417 |
 Where will the cloud computing model of service-based virtualized computing resources for data storage and processing grow next? This is arguably the biggest question facing technology analysts today – and if we knew the answer we could all probably sleep a little more soundly.
Before...Sep. 4, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,547 |
 Some consider cloud computing to be a cure-all for virtually any type of IT infrastructure. And while the cloud certainly delivers on many of its promises, it will never truly provide all that it's capable of unless it's optimized for integration with other applications and evolution f...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,260 |
 Too often, Information Technology leadership lives in its own world, far removed from business decision-making. This can result in IT being an easy target for blame. If everything goes well, IT is a high-spend cost center. If things go poorly, then IT isn't doing its job. Non-strategic...Sep. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,155 |
 NYSE Euronext's innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders.
We'll learn about how this innovative cloud and groundbreaking business model targets the needs of Wall Street IT leaders, how the business of the financial services industr...Aug. 31, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,358 |
 Andrew R. Jassy, the head of Amazon Web Services, believes that Amazon’s cloud services can be as big, if not bigger, than its retail business, according to this New York Times article. The article reported that Amazon currently has over 600 AWS related job openings posted on their web...Aug. 31, 2012 02:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,198 |
 Global legal services leader Foley & Lardner LLP has adopted virtual desktops and bring-your-own-device to enhance end-user productivity across their far-flung operations.Aug. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,391 |
 There’s lots of talk today about the “cloud” today. But what exactly is it? Some may argue that the cloud is just marketing hype – a buzzword for a broad range of solutions being billed the latest, greatest trend that everyone is trying to exploit. Others – who oftentimes have a vested...Aug. 28, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,632 |
 Security, over the years, has evolved from an absolute concept of a binary decision: is it secure or is it not? As we move forward, I believe very strongly that what we’re evolving into is, as we’ve heard people talk about, risk management.
Risk management starts to include things tha...Aug. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,078 |
 Some Cloud leaders have declared victory by leveraging the Cloud for infrastructure or software services and using the utility based, on demand capabilities. However, leaders can explore and realize higher levels of reuse and sharing by identifying specific processes that can be transi...Aug. 27, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,122 |
 Undoubtedly one of the key reasons for so many innovations happening in the information technology space is consumerization. While some feel that consumerization has reached the tipping point, consumers (and businesses as well) are still looking for newer avenues to do things more intu...Aug. 27, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,015 |
 Eucalyptus is an open source Infrastructure as a Service cloud offering. What is unique about Eucalyptus is that it is compatible with Amazon AWS APIs.
Eucalyptus leverages operating system virtualization, such as KVM or XEN, to achieve isolation between applications and stacks. Oper...Aug. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,024 |
 Cloud facilitates a new generation of technology and related impacts that have never been seen before. With utility computing and on demand capabilities, many organizations want to jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible. As the Chief Executive, there are some tough decisions to be m...Aug. 24, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,808 |
 Has cloud computing matured yet? This is of course the $64,000 question and if we knew the answer to this poser we would all be a lot clearer on the general ‘state of the virtualized multi-tenant nation’ than perhaps we are today.
What we see happening at the coalface of average compa...Aug. 24, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,795 |
 Hybrid computing typically is combining private and public clouds. We feel that many of our customers still have a traditional environment, and that traditional environment will not go away anytime soon. However, they're actually looking at combining that traditional environment, the d...Aug. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,518 |
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