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 One of the truisms in information technology is that everything old is new again – well, except maybe for punched cards. We went from big corporate data centers to regional/division corporate data centers back to big corporate data centers and now to even bigger cloud data centers. We ...Dec. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,450 |
 The advantages of virtualization are obvious for almost everyone. One of the first influential articles on the subject was my article [1] which was of interest to more than 48,000 readers. Below you will find useful and quick methodology on how to install and use Fedora 17 under the Wi...Dec. 7, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 4,871 |
 For a company like Lafarge, the dispatching of trucks and materials is mission critical. So when the performance of IT applications supporting this function suffers, it’s bad for business.
Based in Paris, France, Lafarge is a provider of building materials, with more than $15 billion...Nov. 30, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 1,925 |
 Legacy storage architectures do not perform very efficiently in virtual computing environments. The very random, very write-intensive I/O patterns generated by virtual hosts drive storage costs up as enterprises either add spindles or look to newer storage technologies like solid state...Nov. 26, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,400 |
 Big Data is everywhere. Predictive analytics and real time in-memory computing isn’t everywhere.
This truth (if we can accept it to be so) represents something of an imbalance.
As a subset of data mining, predictive analytics driven by in-memory computing efficiencies now has an opp...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,372 |
 Cloud computing has dramatically altered how IT infrastructure is delivered and managed, as well as how IT functionality is consumed. However, security and privacy concerns continue to be major inhibitors for risk-conscious organizations to adoption of cloud computing – whether infrast...Nov. 19, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,750 |
 Enterprise IT has experienced a rapid evolution over the past few years. Cloud has revolutionized storage and brought with it a host of new and emerging information security challenges. Consumer adoption of mobile technology has forced enterprise networks to operate in a multi-platform...Nov. 19, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,162 |
 Those familiar with deploying virtual machines (VMs) know that in order to ensure performance, VMs must be tied to physical platforms. As the demand for data-intensive virtualized and cloud solutions continues to increase, more powerful server platforms will be required to deliver this...Nov. 18, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,151 |
 Cloud Computing provides the technology foundation to capitalize on Big Data for corporate success. The flexible infrastructure offered through Cloud Computing--combined with increased storage and processing power of new technologies in the Cloud—provide the rich, agile compute platfo...Oct. 15, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 5,326 |
 How does the approach to performance / load testing extranet mobile applications change from testing other RIAs? In some ways, not much. Yes, the user activity for every mobile application will be unique, but the same goes for every web application. Different technology stacks, differe...Oct. 12, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,224 |
 It used to be so easy. The company needed more IT infrastructure, so you bought more components, built more technology, and scrambled to keep it all well oiled. Then along came the cloud and the world shifted under your feet – or perhaps more accurately, over your head. Suddenly they w...Oct. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,813 |
 In the past few weeks I visited several Cloud and Big Data conferences that provided me with a lot of insight. Some people only consider the technology side of Big Data technologies like Hadoop or Cassandra. The real driver however is a different one. Business analysts have discovered ...Sep. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,947 |
 Business Process Management solutions enable business people to quickly and easily capture their business goals as models that can be instantly turned into intelligent, automated processes. No or minimal software development, and no wait for IT resources.
The Business Process Manageme...Sep. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,673 |
 I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, services and integration mechanisms. With the proliferation of smart phone and tablets, mobile devices are accessing new an...Sep. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,097 |
 For those of you keeping score, late last year American Airlines’ parent AMR declared bankruptcy. The Chapter 11 filing of the once largest airline in the world brought to a conclusion the era of disintegration for the legacy commercial airline market. You can argue about the princip...Sep. 9, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,331 |
 Many years ago I prepared my first PowerPoint slide deck and used it as visuals in front of a small audience. Over the last twenty years I made tons of presentations on IT related subjects. In this blog I’d like to share with you a dozen rules I use while preparing my slide decks or sp...Sep. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,318 |
 Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an in...Sep. 3, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,835 |
 NIST defines cloud computing as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management...Sep. 2, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,340 |
 Windows 8 recently hit RTM and became generally available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers in the last couple of weeks. If you run Windows 8 Enterprise, one new feature you gain is the ability to use Hyper-V. I personally was excited to try out this new feature since I ha... Aug. 28, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,605 |
 Are you suffering from double vision in your IT? As odd as it sounds, this is a common occurrence. Line-of-business (LOB) stakeholders often use a different set of criteria to measure IT than IT uses to measure itself. This can lead to a kind of “double vision”that can hurt IT prospect...Aug. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,741 |
 We have entered the “Age of Big Data” according to a recent New York Times article. This comes as no surprise to most organizations already struggling with the onslaught of data coming from an increasing number of sources and at an increasing rate. The 2011 IDC Digital Universe Study r...Aug. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,840 |
 Virtualization is the process creating a virtual version of a resource such as an operating system, network resource or storage device. Virtualization of an OS involves hosting an OS on another OS using a virtualizer such as Oracle VirtualBox. Various Linux distributions such as openSU...Aug. 12, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,758 |
 With the growing trends in mobilization and virtualization, the implementation of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies is increasingly popular among businesses around the globe. In a time when the majority of employees own a smartphone, laptop, or tablet, it makes sense that they shou...Aug. 11, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,385 |
 IT networks have reached a juncture where they must transition from static, host-centric, vLAN centric infrastructures, to modern, efficient programmable network fabrics that allow enterprises to leverage capacity on demand. They must also have the ability to move virtual machine (VM) ...Aug. 8, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,192 |
 Managing software application performance is complex and increasingly challenging. Surprisingly, even today, massive IT resources remain chained to ensuring applications and infrastructures are up and running smoothly, rather than proactively leveraging strategic technologies to solve ...Jul. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,848 |
 Network Virtualization represents the most significant innovation in networking since the inventions of Ethernet and the multi-protocol router, two technologies pioneered to level the playing field for device connectivity. Network Virtualization is an emerging technology that will ... Jul. 26, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,096 |
 As every technology literate reader will know, there is little to learn about the cloud computing service-based model of IT delivery from 14th century Sardinian legal codes and laws.
At least, that’s what I thought until I spent a break on the island this weekend and read about the “C...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,045 |
 While consumers and enterprises hail “the cloud” for its ability to provide flexible, low-cost and easily accessible computing power, traditional hardware and software providers tend to see the innovation somewhat differently. For these companies the cloud is a disruption of the highes...Jul. 21, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,709 |
 As you may have heard by now, Stephen Covey – the author of “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” passed away this week. He published this book for the first time in 1989, just as I was entering the workforce and had a strong influence on how I analyzed about my own effectiveness. ...Jul. 20, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,918 |
 In January I attended the 10th annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to speaking and running the Ubuntu booth, I had an opportunity to talk to other sysadmins about everything from selection of distribution to the latest in configuration management tools and virtualization...Jul. 20, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,588 |
 Open source has proven to be a good option for building, managing, and delivering scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds. Typically, most open source cloud platforms support multiple virtualization technologies, giving enterprises a r...Jul. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,467 |
 The next phase of consolidated IT has hit the scene and it’s called edge virtual server infrastructure, aka edge-VSI. It’s a lot like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) but meant to help IT centralize and consolidate servers and storage from edge locations to the data center, yet pro...Jul. 6, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,468 |
 Before embarking on using open source cloud technology for your web property, a basic understanding of cloud, as it’s used in the industry, is essential. While there might be exceptions, here are the definitions.
A software application delivered on the web instead of installing standa...Jul. 6, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,400 |
 Modern support services then need to be able to empower the workers and IT personnel alike to maintain peak control of systems, and to keep the applications, data and processes performing reliably at lowest cost.Jun. 27, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,596 |
 Studies suggest that businesses are adopting cloud much faster than IT, which is fair considering the fact that tightly coupled on-premise applications and outdated platforms from the previous decade made businesses realize only 30% of their budgets as business capabilities and the res...Jun. 22, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,630 |
 Guns are dangerous - as well as useful weapons. Online customer support tools - such as Chat can also be useful... or dangerous. Here's one example of what NOT to do.
This same principal needs to be applied to Online Customer Service tools. Customer Service is one of the most impor...Jun. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,931 |
 In today’s economy everyone is trying to do more with less. Economic indicators tell us that manufacturing is beginning to pick up, but we’ve heard that before. Business analysts are predicting an upturn in overall business in the coming months. Unemployment rates are lower than they’v...May. 29, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,834 |
 Assuming you haven’t spent the last couple of years living under a rock, you’re bound to have been bombarded with all sorts of propaganda about “The Cloud.” “The Cloud,” according to the marketing types, is the greatest thing since the invention of bread, surely able to solve all of ou...May. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,918 |
 Like it or not, some enterprises have already entered a post-PC world -- where their business communication network must accommodate new user-driven choices. These include traditional applications, mobile apps, social apps and operating systems; various server architectures; and an arr...May. 18, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,753 |
 Yes, data virtualization is definitely about agility. We covered this from different angles in my previous article. Agility in this context is about accelerating the time-to-delivery of new critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is also about an architecture t...May. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,055 |
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