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 Imagine there was a technology that could solve some of the top issues for IT managers of large companies: managing a large fleet of users’ devices, with all the associated maintenance tasks, and maintaining the security and integrity of devices by preventing malicious software install...May. 25, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 997 |
 Complexity is the new reality of web and mobile applications with almost no new release going out without the addition of services and applications spread across many different companies. But the reality of this new interrelationship is still the same: If a third-party Internet outage ...May. 25, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 827 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that nfina Technologies, a provider of highly reliable cloud server products, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
nfina Technologies develops...May. 25, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,362 |
 In my recent article, "Five Steps to Improve E-Commerce Performance for Increased Sales: Introduction” I discussed problems encountered by our client TescaraHats (name changed for commercial reasons), a European market leader in manufacturing customized hats. The company quickly realiz...May. 25, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 819 |
 By the end of 2013, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use by consumers from around the world. Around 2015, Gartner predicts that more tablets will be sold than PCs worldwide and in 2017 1.75 tablets will be sold for every PC. The growth of smartphones is not only in the Western world....May. 25, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 772 |
 If the leadership in your organization is mature and has a good track record – rest assured that a risk-mitigated decision to dabble in the public cloud is a vote of confidence in your direction.
It's little more than innate human nature to strive to control the environment around us....May. 25, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 864 |
 With Cloud Expo New York | 12th Cloud Expo [June 10-13, 2013] hurtling towards us, let's take a look at the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference coming up June 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York ...May. 25, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,451 |
 The new open source cloud orchestration platform called OpenStack is the promise of flexible network virtualization, and network overlays are looking closer than ever. The vision of this platform is to enable the on-demand creation of many distinct networks on top of one underlying phy...May. 25, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,109 |
 Splunk, the software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, the Hadoop Big Data distribution start-up, have allied so organizations can get operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop.
Their pact means that data can be moved between Splunk Ente...May. 25, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 722 |
 At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make th...May. 25, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,025 |
 The rise of cloud computing has exposed hard drive-based storage as the new data center bottleneck. Combating this, data center managers have deployed SSDs to gain the performance needed to provide real-time access to data. However, due to budget constraints, many have turned to consum...May. 25, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,828 |
 The technology infrastructure of today’s business landscape has undergone dramatic shifts in recent years. The consumerization of IT, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, and of course the cloud have revolutionized the way corporations manage data, complete transactions and commu...May. 25, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,214 |
 “Big Data analytics will shape the form of nearly every process going forward in time, from the color of the latest fashions, what the candidates say in one town versus another to the chemical composition of the latest super drug,” noted Steve Knodl, Director of Product Management at N...May. 25, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,841 |
 One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at...May. 25, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,533 |
 In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Intel's Chris Black will review the background of Apache Hadoop, its application, and methods to accelerate data system clusters with Intel SSD technology. The session will overview the genius of Hadoop and pro...May. 25, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,230 |
 We must bring together the worlds of SOA, BPM, Cloud, REST, and HOA. The secret to getting all these architectural trends to work well together centers on how we deal with state information. We must first separate application state from resource state, and then subsequently take the co...May. 24, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,413 |
 The saying “if it doesn’t exist on the Internet, it doesn’t exist”[1] is ringing truer every day. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine most businesses without an e-commerce platform, let alone without a web presence at all. Since e-commerce is becoming the new standard, e-commerce performan...May. 24, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,247 |
 On May 22, Ethernet – Robert Metcalfe’s ingenious invention –celebrated its 40th anniversary. As the global tech community celebrates this milestone for one of the world’s most transformative technologies, we take a look at its evolution from a printer-to-printer communication system a...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 711 |
 Ariba Vice President Chris Haydon explains the company's latest news and offers insights into how Ariba will be broadening its services procurement management value, mobile push, and AribaPay rollout.
We have some really exciting innovation coming in the near-term to Ariba in a couple...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 785 |
 It turns out cloud computing could be the most useful sales associate on the floor, and you won't have to worry about it stealing sales leads, ala “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
With the help of cloud computing, some brick-and-mortar stores are combating showrooming, a trend where consumers l...May. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,096 |
 Knowing what Big Data is, is one; knowing what a Big Data strategy is two; knowing how to implement that Big Data strategy is even more difficult. At least, that is how a lot of organizations perceive it. It must be said, in large process-directed organizations, what most of the large ...May. 24, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 632 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that BUMI (Backup My Info!), the premium provider of managed online backup and recovery solutions for small to mid-sized businesses, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center i...May. 22, 2013 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 896 |
| A PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain (but not all) traffic to not make it throug... May. 22, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 761 |
 Big Data and the cloud each contributed a start-up to the stock market last Friday.
Tableau Software, a profitable chart-making BI data visualization firm, IPO’d on the Big Board in New York sporting the highly desirable ticker symbol DATA and selling at the open for $31 a share. It ...May. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,134 |
 NetApp, which is under pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management to shape up and return value, said Tuesday that it’s going to can 900 people to spiff up its financials, 400 less that the 1,300 that Piper Jaffray estimated last week. May. 22, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 714 |
 Looking to hang with the cool kids, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, swearing “not to screw it up,” is buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, a big chunk of her $5.4 billion pocketbook since it’s “substantially all” in cash.
The New York-based acquisition will remain a separate business with...May. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 889 |
 In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers....May. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,303 |
 Compuware Corporation has announced the convergence of dynaTrace PurePath® Technology and the Gomez Performance Network, creating a powerful User Experience Management (UEM) solution. Compuware now offers a APMaaS solution that provides a complete UEM offering, including real-user, syn...May. 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDT Reads: 906 |
 New breakthroughs in cloud-based data management empower databases with the necessary elasticity they need to be truly responsive to the ebbs and tides of supply and demand.
Cloud computing allows all capital assets – computing power, memory and storage for example – to be exchanged a...May. 20, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,602 |
 Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos - starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I’m always amazed at how nicely and cleanly they snap toge...May. 20, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,990 |
 “Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long,” noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Ge...May. 20, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,243 |
 Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new sys...May. 20, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,142 |
 A recent study by analyst firm IDC reports that in 2012, 1.7 million cloud computing-related roles across the globe could not be filled due to the lack of training, certification and experience in the applicant pool. As the global demand for cloud and big data expertise increases, empl...May. 20, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,795 |
 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: 2,038 |
 Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, o...May. 19, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,787 |
 Planning scalable environments isn't terribly difficult, but it does require a change of perspective. During this session we'll broaden our views to think on an Internet Scale by dissecting a video publishing application built with The SoftLayer Platform, Message Queuing, Object Storag...May. 19, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,579 |
 Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A...May. 18, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,988 |
 Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
Through observation, Fred notices that even...May. 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,395 |
 With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intr...May. 18, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,756 |
 Yesterday at SAPPHIRE 2013 the SAP mobility team announced a new SAP Afaria in the Cloud edition that will be available for approximately $1.12 per month per device (read press release). Some vendors charge by user, rather than by device, but SAP says they want to know exactly how man...May. 17, 2013 03:51 PM EDT Reads: 263 |
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