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Don and I have four children, all of whom have had the fortune to take piano lessons (I'm not sure if the youngest would agree he's fortunate at this point in his life but at five, he's not really able to answer the question with any degree of wisdom, anyway. Come to think of it, not s...
It was Bill Gates who said that security should be based on "policy, not topology". It's a phrase which always stuck with me. Rather than basing security on where something is, you use a policy
May 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter By Greg Schulz May 2013 News letter Welcome to the May 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. This edition has announcement analysis of EMC ViPR, Software D...
In this interview recorded last week at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I ask SAP Hana Guru Puneet Suppal about the connection between enterprise mobility, M2M or IoT, real-time business and SAP Hana.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu.be/-uqIRD7wRgs *********************************...
According to a ComputerWorld article citing a recent Gartner survey, about half the world’s companies will stop providing computing devices to employees and embrace some form of BYOD by 2017. They also noted that about 40% will offer a choice between employee owned or company issued w...
Service virtualization undeniably benefits the development process, but it can be both a blessing and a curse for developers. Minimizing the burden that "shift left" can place on developers is key to achieving maximum acceleration of delivery cycles. Service Virtualization's Shift Lef...
To continue our last discussion of Team Collaboration in the Cloud, this article discuss the check-out, check-in and file locking. With the Gladinet Cloud client, team users get a drive letter on the desktop, representing the files and folders
Hortonworks Alliance and Support for HCatalog Power Advanced Analytics on Hadoop DataRedwood City, Calif 21 May, 2013 - Organisations are encountering significant challenges running advanced analytics on big data stored in Apache Hadoop. To address this need, Actian today announced gen...
London, 21 May 2013 - Submissions for the Telecoms.com LTE Awards have reached record numbers again this year as the organisers of LTE World Summit, which provides the backdrop for the awards, today announced those companies on the shortlist. This comes as the industry evolves and LTE ...
Last week at SAP's Sapphire Now 2013 in Orlando, Florida, SAP announced they would begin reselling mobile secure app solutions from Mocana.  In this press release they describe the role of Mocana in their mobile security portfolio.  In this short interview with Mocana's ...
Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly Also read Field Mobility News Weekly Also read Kevin Benedict’s What’s New in HTML5 ...
Cloud services brokerage experiences hyper-growth, continues to foster intimate, open-door culture Atlanta, GA — May 21, 2013 — Cloud Sherpas, one of the world’s leading cloud services brokerages, was recently named as the fourth fastest growing company in Atlanta by the Atlanta Busine...
Online collaboration has evolved during the last decade, delivering even greater value -- thanks to a new generation of business technology applications. Forbes Insights released "Collaborating in the Cloud," a Cisco-sponsored study examining the ways business leaders increasingly look...
The #CloudFirst trend is spreading, with Government Minister Francis Maude finally committing the UK to the approach earlier this month. But I remain concerned that there’s too much stick and not nearly enough carrot… and that cloud adoption more generally is ill-served by ...
Easynet is first to market as it launches new bonded fibre access product London, 21 May 2013 - Easynet scores an industry-first today with the release of EtherStream V, which bonds 'fibre to the cabinet' (FTTC) to give businesses bandwidth of up to 160Mbps. Download speeds of up to 32...
On-demand, enterprise class virtual machines and storage solutions enable Home Office to tailor storage and computing requirements resulting in significant cost savings London - May 21st 2013 - Skyscape Cloud Services, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud serv...
But underneath this overall trend there are several segments of the infrastructure that are experiencing strong secular growth, in part by disrupting existing technology business models. These segments include: 1. Public Cloud Computing 2. Flas
Tuesday 21 May, 2013 REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2013 — A new vision for the future comes to life today as Microsoft Corp. unveils Xbox One , the all-in-one gaming and entertainment system created for today and the next generation. At Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., the c...
In this short video recorded in Orlando, Florida last week at SAP's SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, I interview SAP's Brent Cohler on SAP's mobile marketing solution called SAP Precision Marketing and learn about customer use cases and value propositions.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu...
The Field Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to field mobility that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia New...
ATLANTA - May 20, 2013 - Movius Interactive Corporation is taking the next step in its global strategy to launch its CAFÉ cloud solution to service providers around the world. The company is targeting Europe, Asia and the US as key regions to offer CAFÉ as a service, with US ...
Industry survey examines trends in Cloud, co-location, and provisioning of storage & server capacity, highlights growing need for Unified Computing Platforms Lichfield, 20 May 2013 - An in-depth survey conducted by NextiraOne, Europe's leading expert in communications services, in ...
Nous sommes habitués à parler de génération X, génération Y, en faisant référence à l’âge des personnes. La génération Y, des « digitaux natifs » correspond aux personnes nées au début des années 80. La génération C, génération « connectée...
Agrantec, the British agri-food supply chain management service company, today announced the launch of a new version of "Farmango", the cloud based management system for beef farmers. Farmango can be used on smartphones, tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad ™, and personal comp...
London, 20 May 2013 - In what has been a record number of nominations for this year's 6th annual International Datacentres Awards, (www.datacentreawards.com) the Judges Panel has announced the shortlist for each category. The Shortlisted companies and individuals [in alphabetical order...
Windsor, CO, May 20, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Today, RealOrganized, Inc. announced another upgrade to their flagship RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software product. This upgrade includes a new Valet Importer, which can load data from almost any data source into RealtyJuggler with just a single ...
Part II: How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do with VMware? By Greg Schulz How many IOPS can a HDD, HHDD or SSD do? This is the second post of a two-part series looking at storage performance, specifically in the context of drive or device (...
Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read Fiel...
We all talk about cloud differently, but is there a way we should be speaking about this tech? Cloud computing is now a widely reported, if not accepted, IT movement that, depending on who you talk to, has changed or is changing the way businesses utilize infrastructure.
Now-a-days every single CIO, CTO, or business executive that I speak to is captivated by these three new technologies: Big Data, API management and IoTs (Internet of Things). Every single organizational executive that I speak with confirms that they either … Read more &...
PALO ALTO, Calif, 17 May, 2013 - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that Airbus, a world leading aircraft manufacturer, has chosen the TIBCO Spotfire® Analytics platform to support its A350 XWB program."We are very proud to be selected by Airbus and to help the wor...
New York, NY, May 17, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Digital media company, CPX Interactive, announced today it had been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North ...
Did you make this week's Who's Who? It’s another Friday, and for that we are grateful. This week’s cloud publishings including an emphasis on the ongoing battle for feature dominance between the largest cloud service providers, how and why cloud is continuing to change the way bus...
May 17—Kodak's Document Imaging business announces a powerful new document management solution for users of APPLE MACINTOSH Computers that makes it easy to organise, manage, and share digital files and scanned documents. The KODAK SCANMATE i940 Scanner for MACINTOSH Computers fea...
In this short interview recorded this week in Orlando, FL at SAPPHIRE NOW 2013, SAP's Mark Crofton talks about mobile solutions, mobile banking and trends in Latin America.  Enjoy! Video Link: http://youtu.be/C_Hejd5622U *****************************************************...
Is on-demand disaster recovery the killer app?
By: Dan Kurschner, Marketing Manager, CiscoI had the pleasure of attending the first day of the annual IEEE CQR International Workshop.CQR stands for Communications Quality and Reliability.  This workshop is held annually with the purpose of bringing together industry and academic...
By Bob GourleyWe previously provided information on the DI2E Pluggest and Mashup event being coordinated by some forward thinking, mission-focused government thought leaders and friends at the Association for Enterprise Technology (AFEI).  The event will be held Monday 20 May at George...
Google has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google’s strategy to unite its cloud services, allowing users to either upload their ebooks via i...
In so many situations today I find business people are much more savvy with IT than they used to be only 10 years ago. And while this is a fantastic advance, the result is they are MUCH more likely to dictate the solution right from the outset. I