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More VMware Departures With Two Executives Joining Redpoint Ventures As Entrepreneurs In Residence

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Alex Williams

24 May 2013 | 8:32 am

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following the Pivotal spinout of several of the two companies’ product groups. Both executives joining Redpoint had important roles at VMware. Javier Soltero was responsible for driving advanced development and strategy for application level cloud services. Soltero joined VMware after the acquisition of SpringSource in 2009. Three months prior, SpringSource, a Java framework, had acquired Hyperic,…
Windows Blue Will Be Free Update

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Chris Poindexter

15 May 2013 | 2:48 am

Windows Blue, otherwise known as Windows 8.1, will be a free update for people who have already purchased Windows 8, according to an announcement made by Microsoft at a tech conference in Boston. There’s still no official release date for Windows 8.1, jokingly called “The Apology” by some in the tech industry, but analysts expect Microsoft to have it fully deployed for the 2013 holiday season. To have Blue loaded on PC makers newest models, it would need an official release date sometime this summer. Microsoft and PC makers have struggled with a general decline in PC sales and sluggish…
Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion

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Saroj Kar

24 May 2013 | 8:51 am

Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features are handled by a new layer of software. SDN technology is still in its infancy. But it’s already created some billion-dollar success stories, capturing the imagination of Silicon Valley’s savviest investors and inventors. More than two years after the establishment of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), with big names…
Cloud providers working with big data

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4 Apr 2013 | 11:40 am

The confluence of cloud computing with smart devices has created new opportunities for cloud providers to add value by harnessing and analyzing big data.
What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst

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Florence de Borja

20 May 2013 | 12:53 pm

Big Data is in. There is a huge demand not only for Big Data Scientists but for Big Data Analysts as well. While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst on the other hand performs data analysis on a particular system only. In short, a big data analyst is some sort of an assistant to the big data scientist. Because a big data analyst’s job description is almost similar to that of a big data scientist but on a smaller scale, the skills required are also the same as that of a big data scientist. He must be able…

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Rackspace Weekly Digest: May 24

Leezia Dhalla

24 May 2013 | 11:09 am

We’re inching closer to the summer months, but the heat isn’t slowing us down here at the Rack. This week we’ve continued our fight against patent trolls; we’ve created a new email guide to help you make smarter business decisions; and we’ve rolled out several exciting new API and Cloud Panel features in Cloud Files. Check out this week’s digest for all of that and more. Cloud Files Update: New API-Only And Control Panel Features Rackspace Cloud Files users now has finer control over how to manage objects and containers with several exciting new API and Control Panel features that…
Webinar Recap: C-Suite Disruption: Reinventing The Executive Ranks In A Cloud World

Leezia Dhalla

23 May 2013 | 10:00 am

The business value of cloud computing – or “cloudonomics” – is taking the world by storm. The changes in the IT landscape are forcing C-level executives to evaluate even the most basic businesses practices that they’ve held sacred. There’s no question that technology is key to accelerating market growth in the cloud industry. If you want to increase consumer spend and game-changing innovation, you’ll need to adopt different thought processes that will help technology drive your business to its greatest potential. One of those strategies is by forging new and collaborative…
Straight Up Startup…Featuring Phil Vickman, Marketing Director Of Promet Source

John McKenna

23 May 2013 | 8:30 am

Phil Vickman is the Marketing Director of Promet Source, which helps startups deploy, maintain and support high-value web and mobile applications through the use of open source technology tools. Promet differentiates itself by providing a superior customer experience throughout all facets of the development process, including design, software engineering, project management and quality assurance. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His professional career spans as District Manager with ASAP Software and a Partner Development Manager at Sun Microsystems. He founded a…
How The New Patent Abuse Reduction Act Levels The Playing Field

Alan Schoenbaum

23 May 2013 | 6:50 am

The patent abuse fight is picking up momentum, and we have new ammunition. Yesterday, the senior Senator from Texas, John Cornyn, introduced the Patent Abuse Reduction Act of 2013 (the “PAR Act”). My home state U.S. Senator has just taken a huge step to solve the patent troll epidemic. This bill is a breath of fresh air in the battle against patent trolls and their brazen abuse of the patent system. The PAR Act is designed to “deter patent litigation abusers without prejudicing the rights of responsible intellectual property holders,” Cornyn said in a statement. We encourage you to…
Why I Joined Rackspace Part II – The Products And The Strategy

Alan Perkins

22 May 2013 | 12:45 pm

Alan Perkins recently joined Rackspace as Director of Product and Technology, Asia Pacific. In this two-part series, he discusses why he joined Rackspace. In Part I, he highlighted the company and its values. As someone who has taken an enterprise to the cloud globally, I understand just how much of an impact the cloud can have on a business. I have been a vocal supporter in the belief that the cloud can open all sorts of possibilities. It’s not just about cost mitigation and scalability. Businesses looking to learn more about what cloud computing can offer are faced with a plethora of…

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Daily Mobile Computing Feed – May 25, 2013

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25 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net. Does Intel Need to Cannibalize Itself to Survive? Motley Fool As the world continues to embrace the mobile computing revolution, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) remains entrenched in the PC world. In the coming years, Intel hopes it can gain a foothold in the smartphone and tablet space with the help of its technologically … (more) Kaspersky says firms lose track of BYOD data TechRadar UK This comes despite a growing acceptance of the trend towards ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) in the workplace. Figures…
Daily Big Data Feed – May 25, 2013

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25 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net. Data Scientist jobs London Competitive plus benefits | Guardian Jobs Apply for Data Scientist in London on Guardian Jobs. Full Time position working for GUARDIAN NEWS & MEDIA DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT. (more) Big Data: Practical Solutions [Video] Datamation Big Data has the potential to give businesses significant competitive advantage. Yet properly using this emerging technology is far from easy. Harnessing Big Data involves a tricky bit of enterprise alchemy: turning information into knowledge. Or … (more) Big Data App…
Daily Cloud Feed – May 25, 2013

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25 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net. SolidFire | OpenStack To build an OpenStackpowered cloud infrastructure there is only once choice for block storage SolidFire No other vendor can combine the comprehensive … (more) Dell adds Hyper-V option to OpenStack | Datacenter Dynamics Dell announced it will enable Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V as a viable hypervisor choice for the OpenStack cloud platform. The option gives customers … (more) 5 Trends Shaping the Legal Industry Business 2 Community More firms are investing in legal technologies such as case…
Daily Log News Feed – May 25, 2013

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25 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net. Does Splunk support multithreading searches Splunk Community If I launch a search in search head, can I make it possible to let each distributed search job in every indexer run on muilti cpu cores? (more) Creating Print Jobs Report In ArcSight | Protect 724 4 days ago … Does anybody know what the correct device event field mappings are used to get a Print Jobs Report in Arcsight? I used to have the following query set up: … (more) Log Management: The Benefits of Cloud Logging Tools For another…
Daily Identity News Feed – May 25, 2013

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25 May 2013 | 6:00 pm

Daily identity-related news feed from @trustpath, TrustPath. stolen credentials – HackSurfer stolen credentials as seen in Manufacturing. 05.24.2013. Related Tags. avvad Malik; APTs; Lancope; malware; distributed denial-of-service; unknown; social … (more)

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The Bloomberg Scandal and SaaS. Don’t Let It Be You. Trust is Lost in a Heartbeat.

Jason M. Lemkin

24 May 2013 | 8:12 am

We have a no politics rule here at SaaStr. I’m not going to talk about the IRS stuff, or SAC Capital, let alone other headline topics from the right, left or center. But one scandal did really get my eye from a SaaS perspective. It’s the absolute disaster of what Bloomberg did with its customers’ confidential data. And it could be you. I won’t reproduce the whole story, you can read more here. But in a nutshell, the Bloomberg terminals on every trader’s desk — for which they pay thousands of dollars a month in many cases — generate a lot of…
Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way

Chirag Mehta

22 May 2013 | 1:49 pm

If you have been following this blog you would know that I mainly blog about enterprise software, cloud, and big data with a few occasional posts on design and design thinking. That’s what I am most passionate about. Having spent my entire career building enterprise software I have realized that success and competitive differentiation in market place boil down to an organization’s unique ability to get three things right where management plays a key role: 1) people who can continuously learn and adapt to change 2) processes that are nimble and evolve as the company evolves 3)…
Is Microsoft doomed? I’ll let you know when Windows 10 comes out.

Chris Yeh

22 May 2013 | 5:53 am

A lot of folks believe that the Microsoft empire is doomed, and that the rise of touchscreen computing and mobile devices will lead it its inevitable downfall. This may very well be true; it certainly is true that to date, Microsoft’s attempts to enter the touch and mobile markets have been poorly received. Yet much of the time, the smart folks have it wrong. In the 1980s, Apple’s Macintosh product introduced the graphical user interface (GUI). It was light years ahead of Microsoft’s DOS, and Apple’s brilliant founder, Steve Jobs, openly sneered at Microsoft’s…
Cloud on merit, not by dictat

Paul Miller

22 May 2013 | 12:36 am

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 this mandate-driven ‘solution.’ Technological advances and shifting business requirements affect Government just as much as they do the enterprise. Fragmentation and siloisation can be used to explain sprawling data centre estates, which officials now work hard to consolidate. Shifting requirements,…
Connect to Work

Jacob Morgan

21 May 2013 | 8:39 am

Last week I wrote about one of the key themes that I believe are going to make up the future work, I encourage you to read that post titled: The Future of Work is About Customized Work. There are several of these themes that I’m going to be exploring in the near future and the next one is “Connect to Work.” The traditional view of working sees an employee waking up around 6:30 am, having their morning breakfast and then commuting anywhere from 30 mins to over 1.5 hours to get to work. The employee gets to their office around 8 or 9 am and usually leaves around 6 pm. This is…

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Obama Signs Open Data Executive Order: U.S. Government Data To Be Made Freely Available

9 May 2013 | 10:27 am

Interesting news out of The White House this this morning announcing an Open Data Executive Order signed by President Obama. Along with the order is an accompanying Open Data Policy released by the Office of and Budget and Office of Science and Technology The order states that “going forward, newly generated government data shall be made [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]
The Art Of Reinvention: SAP Puts Its Weight Behind A Better, Faster And Stronger Cloud Computing Strategy

9 May 2013 | 4:07 am

When many think of , the first thing that comes to mind is an extremely large, profitable, yet expensive, software company. And, for the most part, they would be right. But a growing group of up-starts are attempting to disrupt ’s business model by offering faster, cheaper and more flexible options. Recently has taken notice [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]
New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable

8 May 2013 | 7:51 pm

In a bill passed earlier today, the Government of New Zealand announced that software in the country will no longer be patentable. New Zealand’s largest IT representative body, the Institute of IT Professionals, expressed relief and said the decision removed a major barrier to software-led innovation. The policy was passed in a Supplementary Order Paper, which [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]
Dell Acquistion Of Cloud Pioneer Enstratius Highlights The Growing Importance Of Cloud APIs

6 May 2013 | 7:46 am

(Update: The original title of this post incorrectly named the firm “Entratius”, Enstratius is the correct name) It’s been a busy morning, first came the news that Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC Special Investments and Insight Venture Partners will acquire all outstanding BMC common stock for $46.25 per share in cash, or approximately $6.9 [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]
New App Allows Anyone To Create Musical Scores By Humming Or Singing, No Instruments Required

6 May 2013 | 6:47 am

What happens when a fiddle playing professor at the Swedish Royal Academy of Music and expert in music cognition and a bass playing computer engineer get together? In Sweden, the answer is a ground-breaking new music App. Every now and again I stumble upon a new App that impresses me, I admit that lately this [...] [Visit my site for the complete story.]

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Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

13 May 2013 | 1:23 pm

In a networked world, it's inevitable that sourcing and spend management must move to the cloud to take advantage of real-time connection across a rapidly changing supply chain.
Big data ascends the learning curve

10 Apr 2013 | 1:45 pm

Analysis of Twitter postings throughout 2012 shows that interest in big data is booming but the emphasis for now is on learning more about the topic
Cloud providers working with big data

4 Apr 2013 | 11:40 am

The confluence of cloud computing with smart devices has created new opportunities for cloud providers to add value by harnessing and analyzing big data.
Digital innovation at Tech City Croydon

22 Mar 2013 | 8:20 am

Digital entrepreneurship is thriving and doesn't have to be restricted to a few chosen tech hubs. Even in downbeat Croydon, something exciting is stirring.
People first: Cloud HRM and talent management

19 Mar 2013 | 5:08 pm

60 years on from the first computerized payroll systems, today's cloud applications for managing the workforce aim to be as good with people as they are with numbers.

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More VMware Departures With Two Executives Joining Redpoint Ventures As Entrepreneurs In Residence

Alex Williams

24 May 2013 | 8:32 am

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following the Pivotal spinout of several of the two companies’ product groups. Both executives joining Redpoint had important roles at VMware. Javier Soltero was responsible for driving advanced development and strategy for application level cloud services. Soltero joined VMware after the acquisition of SpringSource in 2009. Three months prior, SpringSource, a Java framework, had acquired Hyperic,…
Salesforce.com Meets First Quarter Earnings Expectations With Revenues Of $842M

Alex Williams

23 May 2013 | 1:31 pm

Salesforce.com met analyst expectations for its first quarter with non-GAAP earnings per share of 10 cents. Total first quarter revenues were $893 million, an increase of 28 percent on a year-over-year basis. Subscription and support revenues were $842 million, an increase of 29% on a year-over-year basis. Professional services and other revenues were $50 million, an increase of 25%. It had operating cash flow of $283 Million, up 33%. Salesforce also raised its 2014 fiscal year revenues to an estimaged $3.835 to $3.875 billion. Salesforce.com is on a bit of a roll. Gartner nmed it the number…
Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague

Alex Williams

22 May 2013 | 11:12 am

Runscope launched at the Glue conference today with $1.1 million in seed funding from True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz for its tools that monitor API traffic and address the problems with broken APIs. Also participating were Lerer Ventures, and a group of prominent angel investors. The Runscope tools come as software is scaling everywhere. And with software comes APIs, which are just a natural way to connect services. When web services ruled back in the IT glory age, software integrations were complex and expensive. Today REST-based APIs make it easy to connect apps. The problem is in…
Skyhigh Networks Raises $20M For Service That Discovers, Analyzes And Controls Apps Employees Use

Alex Williams

22 May 2013 | 9:27 am

Skyhigh Networks discovers,manages and analyzes data from all the apps that people use at work. Today the company raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor Greylock Partners. Skyhigh discovers, analyzes and controls the cloud services that a customer’s employee uses. It sees the cloud services customers use and all the associated security issues associated with it. It analyzes the services to find the abnormalities and ways the company can save costs on subscriptions. It also adds an element of control by enforcing IT…
Scale Out Provider Cloudscaling Raises $10M With Investment From Juniper And Seagate, Networking Takes Center Stage

Alex Williams

22 May 2013 | 8:18 am

Cloudscaling has raised $10 million from Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks, and Seagate Technologies in a deal that shows how software defined networking has become a focal issue for companies building out their own clouds. Cloudscaling delivers an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system for enterprises, SaaS providers and cloud service providers. The company foreshadowed a deal with Juniper when it announced the company would provide Cloudscaling with its virtualized networking controller. That deal was precipitated by Juniper’s acquisition of Contrail Systems. The startup…

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Amazon Redshift and Designing for Security

Werner Vogels

22 May 2013 | 8:30 am

It’s been a few months since I last wrote about Amazon Redshift and I thought I’d update you on some of the things we are hearing from customers. Since we launched, we’ve been adding over a hundred customers a week and are well over a thousand today. That’s pretty stunning. As far as I know, it’s unprecedented for this space. We’ve enabled our customers to save tens of millions of dollars in up front capital expenses by using Amazon Redshift. It’s clear that Amazon Redshift’s message of price, performance and simplicity has resonated with our customers. That’s no surprise…
DynamoDB Keeps Getting Better (and cheaper!)

Werner Vogels

15 May 2013 | 6:30 pm

We love getting feedback so we can deliver the improvements and new features that really matter to our customers. You can see from the pace at which we roll out new functionality that teams across AWS take this very seriously. One of the teams that’s iterating quickly is DynamoDB. They recently launched Local Secondary Indexes and today they are releasing several new features that will help customers build faster, cheaper, and more flexible applications: Parallel Scans – To be able to increase the throughput of table scans, the team has introduce new functionality that allows you to scan…
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems

Werner Vogels

10 May 2013 | 9:30 am

I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading. During the nineties much operating systems research focussed on microkernels, which resulted in a large collection of prototype systems: Mach 3.0, L3/L4, Plan 9, Xenokernel, Minix and others. Not many of those made into production, the version of Mach that rolled into Mac OS X through the XNU integration was an earlier, monolithic version. I believe commercially QNX has been the most successful microkernel. There was a wealth of interesting, fundamental research triggered…
Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB

Werner Vogels

17 Apr 2013 | 10:30 am

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that we have expanded the query capabilities of DynamoDB. We call the newest capability Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your table’s primary key, even at tremendous scale, LSI will now give you the ability to perform fast queries against other attributes (or columns) in your table. This gives you the ability to perform richer queries while still meeting the low-latency demands of responsive, scalable applications. Our customers have been asking us to expand the query capabilities of…
Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Join Processing in Relational Databases

Werner Vogels

12 Apr 2013 | 4:00 am

Joins are one of the fundamental relational database query operations. It is very hard to implement the join operation efficiently as there any many unknowns in the execution of the operation. In the early days much relation database research was done in understanding the complexity of performing joins, what exactly impacted their performance and which approach performed better under which conditions. In 1992 Priti Mishra and Margaret Eich conducted a survey on what was achieved until then in Join Processing and described in details the algorithms, the implementation complexity and the…

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Join Me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit

22 May 2013 | 9:17 am

Please join me at the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit in Orlando, Florida, June 18-20, 2013, where my session topic will be "Cloud Service Integration: Increasing Business Value and IT Operational Excellence". Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2013 will help I&O leaders apply authoritative thinking, leading-edge strategies and tactical best practices to their enterprise I&O planning and initiatives. This informative session will explore how Cloud computing can deliver substantial benefits and operational technology…
Five Years of Cloud Musings!!

14 May 2013 | 10:03 am

http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hello-world-april-18-2008.html "Sunday, April 18, 2008 Hello World ! - April 18, 2008 I've been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now. Initially I didn't see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere would matter to the world. The importance of this view, however, waned as I became more and more absorbed by the power of Web 2.0. As my participation in these technologies (Facebook, LinkedIn, RSS, wikis, etc.) increased, I began to understand the uniqueness of my personal interactions. This made the idea of doing a…
Global Interoperability Consortium's Cloud Computing Project Detailed at NATO Conference

30 Apr 2013 | 12:12 pm

PRESS RELEASEApril 30, 2013, 2:30 p.m. ET Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium reports the proliferation of geospatial information will pose problems for disaster responders and describes a project designed to move critical data more efficiently using an open cloud-based infrastructure WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world's next big disaster, Eric…
IBM Debate Series - What’s Next in IT?

25 Apr 2013 | 3:30 am

Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series, a new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics Sponsored by IBM, The Debate Series is an ongoing series of social video debates, held on Spreecast.com (a browser based social video site much like Google hangouts). The first What’s Next in IT debate will be a stimulating discussion on just when and why infrastructure really matters when it comes to building and managing clouds. My good friend David Linthicum will be moderating this first verbal battle.
Lisbon Bound: NATO Network Enabled Capability Conference 2013

21 Apr 2013 | 9:58 am

This week I will have the honor of attending the 2013 NNEC Conference at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The NNEC conference is an annual event which has been sponsored by HQ Supreme Allied Command Transformation (HQ SACT) since 2004. The conference is a major driver to promote NNEC within NATO, thenations, industry and other stakeholders in the civilian and military environment. This annual conference draws international attention as seen during the 2012 event held in Vienna, Austria with registration from more than 35 countries and 415 attendees. During…

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At FiRe Thinking about Tomorrow’s Hybrid Cloud Panel

gregness

22 May 2013 | 9:05 am

As I listen to the spectacular panels on big data and the revolution in data visualization tools at Future In Review it occurs to me that perhaps IT has become a kind of impediment to where business and science needs to go. The very systems that have evolved to bring us to where we are […]
VMware: Hybrid Cloud Leader?

gregness

6 May 2013 | 3:12 pm

As Amazon (AMZN) continues with its amazing public cloud momentum, Palo Alto-based VMware (VMW) has stepped up its efforts to educate the industry about an even more powerful and disruptive form of cloud computing, called hybrid cloud. According to VMware, hybrid cloud promises to be an upcoming disruption in how applications and services are delivered […]
Recent Hot Topics in Hybrid Cloud, including Disaster Recovery

gregness

1 May 2013 | 2:04 pm

I wrote a blog for Cloud Ecosystem last month that talks about the disruption potential of hybrid clouds for disaster recovery. You can read it here: Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery. Within a few days CloudVelocity CTO Anand Iyengar weighed in shortly after with: The Hybrid Cloud is Ideal for Disaster Recovery. A highlight […]
Putting the Public Cloud into Perspective

gregness

25 Apr 2013 | 1:16 pm

The Amazonian ecosystem of mostly small and medium enterprises has grown into an estimated $4B market over recent years as public cloud has captured the imagination of developers and smaller IT shops. Since 2009 the 3rd party data center and hosting market has grown from about $11B to close to $22B, according to one respected […]
Hybrid Cloud- The Ultimate Silo Buster

gregness

25 Apr 2013 | 10:39 am

After completing Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery the broader implications of the seamless integration of IaaS with the data center became obvious: the hardware-bound silos of IT will be significantly eroded by the increasing agility, protection AND control delivered by the hybrid cloud. There will still be enterprise hardware spend and the required “specialized […]

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What Clouds Will Form Around Data's Gravity?

Ken Oestreich

20 May 2013 | 8:12 am

The concept of Data Gravity posits that as data accumulates (whether it be stored, analyzed, used) it tends to attract even more similar data. And as the data amasses there is less likelihood that it will be moved/migrated elsewhere. If you're not already familiar with the concept definitely check out Dave McCrory's excellent blogs, analyses and presentations on datagravity.orgI believe this data aggregation concept can also apply to attracting computing too. As I've mentioned in It will be a data-centric (cloudy) world, there are examples today where special-purpose compute clouds are…
A Tour of Switch's SuperNAP

Ken Oestreich

13 May 2013 | 7:26 am

I have to admit that I was prepared to be underwhelmed when I toured the Switch SuperNap in Las Vegas. After all, how impressive can a co-location facility be? Just slab, cooling, ping, pipe and power. Right?With thanks to Mark Thiele (EVP Data Center Technologies) and Jason Mendenhal (EVP Cloud), I was able to spend some quality time in-and-around the facility (even inside one of the AC units) and got an education that mega data centers are much more than a structure to house servers.First - let me give you some amazing first-impressions: Switch's SuperNAP is all about…
What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Ken Oestreich

25 Mar 2013 | 11:31 am

Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? C'mon - aren't all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? Doesn't IaaS and its elastic capacity + automation solve for all app scaling and configuration issues? You'd think so if you listened to all of the accolades paid to the public cloud these days. But as I dug into the complexities of maintaining sophisticated app landscapes, just dropping them onto a public IaaS cloud only helps to a point.Why? Because a complex landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by unique network…
A Tale of Two Cloud Strategies

Ken Oestreich

18 Mar 2013 | 7:42 am

These are the best of times. These are the the worst of times. These are the times of the "cloud era" where two technology leaders are struggling to dominate the IT infrastructure, private cloud, and public cloud markets.Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets:VMware's recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud (assessment courtesy of James Staten)Amazon Web Service's recent (re) announcement of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functionality as it ventures into…
Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field

Ken Oestreich

6 Feb 2013 | 1:59 pm

Driving around silicon valley on routes 101 and 280 ("The 101" and "The 280" if you're from California) you can't help but notice this isn't like the rest of America. You'll see dozens of Priuses. Frequently you'll even see Teslas and Fiskers. And there's that white all-electric 325i I see buzzing around. But what really drives-home the fact that this is northern CA are the Vanity plates.Herein I will only post plates that I personally see. To wit:Webmaster1 - yes, I believe you were #1... because this car may have been around since Tim Berners-Lee invented the web.Ethernet - This guy…

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Boundary Leads Way in Cloud Ops Management - Technorati

24 May 2013 | 5:05 pm

TechnoratiBoundary Leads Way in Cloud Ops ManagementTechnoratiSan Francisco-based Boundary is the first cloud-based IT operations management system and the company is leading the way in an evolving field. This past week, Boundary CEO Gary Read discussed his company's cloud-based innovation with San
SAP revamps management to focus on cloud computing - Reuters

24 May 2013 | 8:42 am

Economic TimesSAP revamps management to focus on cloud computingReutersFRANKFURT (Reuters) - German business software maker SAP said it was revamping its management to sharpen its focus on cloud computing as demand for the service which saves clients money grows. SAP and rivals such as IBM and Oracle are dashing SAP refocuses on cloud computingihotdesk - IT NewsSAP Cloud Chief Dalgaard Leaving as Part of OverhaulBloombergall 15 news articles »
Joyent Matches Amazon Cloud Infrastructure Prices - InformationWeek

24 May 2013 | 6:23 am

Joyent Matches Amazon Cloud Infrastructure PricesInformationWeekThe latest open source movement aims to be the platform of choice for hybrid clouds -- and the anti-VMware. Also in the new, all-digital OpenStack Steps Up issue of Network Computing: With all the noise around the "what" and "how" of software-defined and more »
Google Cuts Prices On New Datastore Service - InformationWeek

24 May 2013 | 6:06 am

Google Cuts Prices On New Datastore ServiceInformationWeekGoogle Cloud Datastore is unstructured data storage similar to Amazon Web Service's Simple Storage Service or S3. By quickly reducing its price, Google is encouraging greater use of Google Cloud Datastore for object storage purposes. Customers may and more »
Dell's downsized cloud ambitions might actually work out - InfoWorld

24 May 2013 | 3:07 am

Dell's downsized cloud ambitions might actually work outInfoWorldAccording to my friend Brandon Butler at Network World, "Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing an EMC and more »

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Internet use up 16% in Saudi

25 May 2013 | 7:56 pm

… they discussed the use of cloud computing to improve the performance of …
Al-Attiyah highlights key role of internal audit

25 May 2013 | 4:34 pm

… to audit planning, cyber threats, cloud computing and risks associated with it …
CITRIX SYNERGY ’13: IT needs to be empowered, says Sallam

25 May 2013 | 3:45 pm

… BYOD and A play towards Cloud computing Sallam also suggested that businesses …
Doing Online Business In The Cloud

25 May 2013 | 2:36 pm

… company isn't utilizing cloud computing technology, you risk falling behind … want cloud computing solutions to provide them with better service. With cloud computing, you … other providers. The shift to cloud computing continues to grow, and business …
Dell, HP Upgrade Thin Client for Better Security, Communications

25 May 2013 | 1:53 pm

… center. As businesses increasingly adopt cloud computing models, thin clients become attractive … is aimed at virtualized and cloud computing workloads. In addition, Dell unveiled …

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nfina Technologies to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

25 May 2013 | 12:00 pm

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, manufactures, and markets highly reliable cloud server products, designed to solve the most demanding data center requirements in mission-critical cloud applications. Nfina’s staff has decades of experience in computer design, network equipment design, manufacturing, data center design and financial…
The Real Value of Cloud Computing

25 May 2013 | 10:00 am

“Cloud has everything to do with what has happened with Big Data,” explained Jason Deck, Director of Strategic Alliances at Logicworks, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Big Data doesn’t exist in its easily accessible way without cloud. From reduced startup costs, to cheap storage, to fast processing, to adequate security, to the easy incorporation of third-party analytics tools, cloud made Big Data accessible to customers of all sizes, with all different budgets.” Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn't about saving money, it is about…
Cloud Expo New York: Migration to the Cloud for Data Intensive Jobs

25 May 2013 | 9:00 am

In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dave Eichorn, Global Data Center Practice Head at Zensar, will share a case study describing how a utility services company handled the migration of its Microsoft platform to the cloud. Challenged with the time-consuming task of opening operations out of temporary offices, this company struggled with the need to simultaneously access data that was accumulated from a vast amount of data-intensive jobs. Zensar migrated the company’s application of force.com to the cloud, eliminating the need for front-end infrastructure and allowing access…
Wowrack to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

25 May 2013 | 7:00 am

SYS-CON Events announced today that Wowrack 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. Wowrack’s core expertise lies in high-availability Private and Public Cloud IaaS Hosting Solutions. Wowrack provides a true Hybrid service – where business release all IT management and hardware provisioning – taking the data center and server system administrative headaches off our customer’s shoulders. From headquarters in Seattle, WA, Wowrack services seven data centers globally for nearly…
Cloud Expo New York: Is Your Organization 'Cloud-Ready'?

25 May 2013 | 6:15 am

Organizations across the world are increasingly starting to see the benefits of moving more and more services to the cloud. The focus on the cost-saving potential of cloud is rapidly shifting to completely transforming the business with cloud. As organizations are investing enormous sums on technology they are starting to realize that in order to maximize the return on investment and accelerate the business transformation process the first area of focus should be people. By ensuring the organization is 'cloud-ready' the organizational adoption will be much faster and much better. A workforce…

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Star Apps: GigaOM's Om Malik - CNET (blog)

24 May 2013 | 12:22 pm

Star Apps: GigaOM's Om MalikCNET (blog)Offering news and opinion on startups, social media, cloud computing, mobile gadgets, and of course, software, Malik's CNET Blog 100-recognized Web magazine has since spawned numerous conferences such as GigaOM Structure (cloud computing and
Cloud Computing: Organizations Typically Use Two or More Cloud Vendors - Formtek Blog (blog)

23 May 2013 | 8:06 am

Cloud Computing: Organizations Typically Use Two or More Cloud VendorsFormtek Blog (blog)Joe Masters Emison, author of the InformationWeek report, writes that “Organizations that adopt the cloud generally aren't going back to on-premises deployments. In other words, the cloud isn't all hype; it does deliver. Startups, non-IT business units
Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud Services - Wall Street Journal (blog)

23 May 2013 | 4:26 am

Microsoft Steps Up Japan Cloud ServicesWall Street Journal (blog)Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, is enlarging capacity for its Windows Azure cloud computing services for Japanese businesses, betting on growing corporate IT spending in the country. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images: Microsoft
Why Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Is the Best Investment in Cloud Computing - Insider Monkey (blog)

22 May 2013 | 1:54 pm

Insider Monkey (blog)Why Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Is the Best Investment in Cloud ComputingInsider Monkey (blog)The Redmond, WA headquartered Microsoft is in the midst of a powerful software transition to cloud computing. The company's Windows Azure and Office 365 platforms both have exceeded a $1 billion annual run rate, greater than any other software and more »
MSFT Expands Cloud Services in Australia - Analyst Blog - NASDAQ

21 May 2013 | 12:12 pm

Yahoo! NewsMSFT Expands Cloud Services in Australia - Analyst BlogNASDAQWindows Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of managed datacenters. Windows Azure core offerings include Media Services, Mobile Services, Cloud Microsoft to build Australian cloud computing centersYahoo! NewsMicrosoft to Expand Cloud Computing Operations in Australia; Toby Bowers ExecutiveBiz (blog)Australia gets two Windows Azure datacentresDelimiterall 73 news articles »

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140+ v2013.05.15

Kent Langley

13 May 2013 | 5:23 pm

The field of Deep Learning has something that just rings true. http://bit.ly/139i756 very exciting field.Deep Learning is a truly exciting area in the field of computer science and mathematics. I was initially brought into this way of thinking when I ran into a number of Jeff Hawkin's lectures on YouTube then purchased and read the book "On Intelligence" by Hawkins. Since I've been learning and exploring various iterations of the concept of deep learning as embodied in projects like Google Now, IBM, and many others. I think the possibilities are nearly…
What is to Show for Five Years of Cloud Computing?

Kent Langley

17 Feb 2013 | 7:47 pm

Just a few short years ago launching a virtual machine in the cloud was a simple and basic. With a couple of API calls and maybe a button click or two you were up and running in a just a few minutes. The choices were limited but it was nice. You could even get a little storage to go along with the instance. Just before that we were leasing, renting and co-locating dedicated physical hardware in data centers and it took weeks to order, provision, deploy, and set up the gear. Fast forward to today and we are now full-on in a cloud computing revolution redefining how technology is deployed.
QSNB Meetup v1.3 - Feb 26!

Kent Langley

30 Jan 2013 | 7:59 am

The Quantified Self North Bay Meetup Group http://bit.ly/11fe6vb will be meeting on Februay 26th, 2013 for it's 3rd scheduled meetup. If you are interested in what Quantified Self is up to this could be an intersting meeting to attend. So, if you find yourself in/near San Rafael, CA after work on 26 Feb 2013 come an join some curious folks that are all interested in what we can learn from ourselves and each other with smart tracking and analysis of the data we generate. QS is a large and growing community so if you aren't near here on the 26th be sure and check out the upcomming meetings…
It's 2013! Things Break, Services Falter. Move Forward.

Kent Langley

2 Jan 2013 | 1:31 pm

It's a New Year, I have the cloud, but I still have many of the same old Single Points of Failure. It's known that a single point of failure (SPOF) is a risk. It's an Achilees heel so to speak. That goes for people, companies, planets, AMI's, AZ's, Regions, Countries, or beers in the fridge. Whatever processes you have to do your general day to day work should be able to deal with known SPOF's and be flexible enough to assimilate and adjust to newly found failure modes. But, and this is important, there is a substantial cost associated with eliminating certain SPOF's.
Moving at the Speed of Cloud

Kent Langley

23 Oct 2012 | 8:47 am

The majority of my work in the last three years or so has been all about receiving, getting, pushing, pulling, and generally wrangling streams of data (mostly social data) for the purposes of analytics, comparison, or saving across a broad range of products and services for startups (one of my own) and fortune 500 companies. It's been keeping me busy. All of this for the ultimate reason of helping businesses make better and more well informed decisions about products, services, and more. During this time I and my colleagues have developed the relationships, partnerships, technology stacks,…

GoGrid Blog
SDN activity grows, stirs IT network innovation

Dr. GoGrid

24 May 2013 | 7:00 am

The software defined networking (SDN) market is in an interesting place, as technology evangelists have varying perspectives of the strategy, though the majority are positive.Continue reading «SDN activity grows, stirs IT network innovation»The post SDN activity grows, stirs IT network innovation appeared first on GoGrid Blog. Related posts: Public sector makes cloud infrastructure moves Decision-makers need new approach to IT, Gartner says James Gosling to Speak on Innovation at GoGrid Cloud Meetup on 5/22
Access your servers with GoGrid’s new Console service

Rupert Tagnipes

23 May 2013 | 7:44 am

At GoGrid we are always looking for ways to improve our product and add value for our customers. We have recently released some new services built on our new Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture that customers are already adopting: the Dynamic Load Balancer and Firewall Service. We have recently released a Console access feature on our management console for all our customers. The new console service allows customers to directly access their cloud servers through the management console without using a third party client. Customers have been asking for this feature as it allows for…
James Gosling to Speak on Innovation at GoGrid Cloud Meetup on 5/22

Michael Sheehan

16 May 2013 | 9:33 am

GoGrid, BEAR Data Solutions, NetApp, and ScaleArc have an exciting cloud meetup planned for next week (Wednesday, May 22, 2013) in San Francisco. In addition to intelligent conversation, free food and drink, and demos from a variety of companies whose products make cloud computing even better, we also have a fantastic featured speaker – James Gosling. (Register for the GoGrid Cloud Meetup here.) Known affectionately as the “Father of Java,” one of the most popular and widely used programming languages in the world, James Gosling is currently the Chief Software Architect at Liquid…
Cloud Migration: Whatever You Do, Have a Plan

James Strayer

7 May 2013 | 7:30 am

Every company adopting public cloud computing as part of its IT service delivery strategy is faced with the decision of which applications to migrate to the cloud and how. Some common cloud migration options we discuss with customers include: Migrating to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider Rebuilding an existing application in the cloud Migrating an existing application “as is” to the cloud Determining the right option depends on your business objectives and the application itself. Each option has benefits and drawbacks, but a business will often decide on an approach without…
Cloud risk assessments critical to keeping resources safe

Dr. GoGrid

3 May 2013 | 7:56 am

As businesses around the world continue to pursue mobile, social and cloud computing technologies in an effort to improve operations and stay competitive, more organizations are falling victim to sophisticated digital threats that are being reengineered with next-generation infrastructure environments in mind.Continue reading «Cloud risk assessments critical to keeping resources safe»The post Cloud risk assessments critical to keeping resources safe appeared first on GoGrid Blog. Related posts: Public sector makes cloud infrastructure moves Cloud Worries Dissolving with Service…

Data Center Knowledge
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 25

Rich Miller

25 May 2013 | 5:15 am

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers – Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. Should Data Centers Be Regulated as Utilities? Industry Experts Weigh In – Is the data center industry a candidate for…
Juniper Delivers Big Data Analytics Solution

John Rath

24 May 2013 | 11:50 am

Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the big data analytics sector: Juniper Network Analytics Suite. Juniper Networks (JNPR) unveiled the Junos Network Analytics suite, a family of next generation big data analytics and network intelligence solutions that now includes the BizReflex and NetReflex products. Developed with help from big data analytics company Guavus, the new products give service providers a tool to optimize their routing network assets, increase revenue opportunities and attract and retain customers. BizReflex extracts and analyzes information from…
Data Direct Networks Powers a 100-Petabyte Cloud

John Rath

24 May 2013 | 11:30 am

DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced that University College London (UCL) has selected DDN to provide up to 3,000 researchers with a safe and resilient storage solution, that is expected to scale up to 100 Petabytes. The first phase of the UCL project for enabling researchers to share, reuse and preserve project-based research data will use DDN object storage technology to store up to 600TB of research data. UCL sought to remove the burden of storing and preserving research data from individual researchers and in doing so, lower the barriers of sharing and exploiting vital findings in order…
Microsoft Will Back Xbox One With 300,000 Servers

Rich Miller

24 May 2013 | 9:02 am

Serious Server Density: Packed racks of servers in an IT-PAC at the Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington (Photo: Microsoft Corp.) With this week’s unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming system, Microsoft is more talkative than usual about the infrastructure supporting its Xbox platform. The reason? Microsoft says the new console will be able to tap cloud resources to enhance the game experience. What will that mean for the infrastructure supporting the Xbox platform? Servers. Lots of servers. “When we launched Xbox Live in 2002, it was powered by 500 servers,”…
Fortress Buys arvato to Boost Modular Capabilities

Jason Verge

24 May 2013 | 7:45 am

Fortress International Group consults on data center design, which is rapidly evolving, particularly in regards to modular architecture. This is part of the impetus behind the data center consulting and engineering specialist’s acquisition of the data center integration services business from arvato digital services for $1.5 million. This acquisition expands Fortress’ capabilities so it can perform a full range of services both to the rack, and inside the rack. The acquisition is expected to generate over $10 million of annualized revenue and be accretive to Fortress…

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Ramping Up for the 3rd OpenStack Israel - the Biggest One Yet

Nati Shalom

19 May 2013 | 4:13 am

OpenStack is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the history and is quickly becoming the de-facto standard for Open Cloud Data Center. The project is gaining maturity quickly with major companies such as PayPal, eBay, BestBuy, Intel, Samsung, Bloomberg and HubSpot using it in production, with major vendors such as HP, Rackspace, IBM, Redhat, Ubuntu and GigaSpaces behind the technology. On May 27th, we will open the doors for OpenStack Israel for what will our biggest OpenStack Israel yet with over 350 attendees. We welcome top industry leaders to Israel to discuss the latest…
Using the Cloudify Player as an Open Source Framework for Building Your Own Cloud Application Marketplace on OpenStack

Nati Shalom

13 May 2013 | 7:44 am

In the previous post, I outlined the main lessons learned from the Amazon Cloud Marketplace and suggested an alternative approach for building an open marketplace. In this post I'll refer to a specific implementation of that alternative approach through a new Cloudify Service called the Cloudify Player. Introduction to the Cloudify Player Cloudify Player is a new patent-based service that makes the experience of trying and deploying even the most complex, multi-tier big data applications as simple as playing a video on YouTube. The new service currently supports OpenStack-based clouds and is…
Amazon Marketplace - Not a Fair Play, Thoughts on an Open Marketplace Alternative with OpenStack

Nati Shalom

13 May 2013 | 7:25 am

The Promise of a Cloud Application Marketplace The cloud has clearly emerged as the new world. Today, we find ourselves in an era of land-grabbing in which everyone wants the bigger piece of this new world. Amazon has the advantage of being the first to grab. Others would like to follow in Amazon’s footsteps, but are met with the challenge of not being able to out-pace Amazon. For those of us who aren’t Amazon, forming a coalition of some sort could be a good strategy. One way of forming a coalition is through a marketplace, a system that enables faster growth through ecosystem partners.
Real-Time Big Data with Storm, Cassandra, and XAP

Nati Shalom

7 Apr 2013 | 6:01 am

Real-time Big Data is becoming more and more common in Big Data systems. One of the most common frameworks used for running real-time Big Data system is Twitter Storm backed by a NoSQL database, as shown in the diagram below: In this architecture, Storm is used for processing data as it comes in and the NoSQL data store is used as the output for that processing as well as for reference data storage. Challenges This architecture presents a couple of challenges: Performance - Storm runs in-memory, and is therefore set to process large volumes of data at in-memory speed. However, a typical storm…
Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack - My Take

Nati Shalom

29 Mar 2013 | 1:19 am

Ruven Cohen published an article on Forbes pointing to Paypal's plan to move a large part of its servers from VMware to OpenStack. This is aligned also with what seems to be a general trend where enterprisesuse OpenStack to reduce their VMware cost. They often start with a hybrid approach in which they move the less mission critical apps to OpenStack and keep the rest for VMware. I assume that this is only a transitional stage until we will see almost all the workload moving to OpenStack as soon as the organization will feel confident with the technology. Paypal is not the only one who's…

Amazon Web Services Blog
Demo: SAP HANA One on AWS

AWS Evangelist

24 May 2013 | 5:57 am

My counterpart in Germany, AWS Evangelist Steffen Krause, has put together the blog post below to show you how to launch and exercise SAP HANA One on AWS. Steffen is also responsible for the German language AWSAktuell blog. -- Jeff; An interesting software product that created a lot of buzz lately is SAP HANA. It is a database based on in-memory technology. The data to be analyzed are put into memory in compressed form, which allows for very fast analytics. But SAP HANA is sold by SAP as an appliance, a combination of hard- and software. So to use it, there is a big initial investment.
Amazon RDS - Read Replica Monitoring Enhancements

AWS Evangelist

23 May 2013 | 2:38 pm

Amazon RDS for MySQL has long had the ability to create Read Replicas. You can do this with a couple of clicks in the AWS Management Console. Each read replica runs as a slave to the master database instance. Under certain circumstances, replication can stop. This can happen if you cause a replication error by running DML queries on the replica that conflict with the updates made on the master and also under other circumstances. To help you detect and respond to this situation, Amazon RDS now monitors the replication status of your Read Replicas and sets the Replication State field to Error…
AWS achieves FedRAMP Compliance

AWS Evangelist

21 May 2013 | 3:50 am

AWS has achieved FedRAMP compliance – now federal agencies can save significant time, costs and resources in their evaluation of AWS! After demonstrating adherence to hundreds of controls by providing thousands of artifacts as part of a security assessment, AWS has been certified by a FedRAMP-accredited third-party assessor (3PAO) and has achieved agency ATOs (Authority to Operate) demonstrating that AWS complies with the stringent FedRAMP requirements. Numerous U.S. government agencies, systems integrators and other companies that provide products and services to the U.S. government are…
AWS Week in Review - May 13, 2013

AWS Evangelist

20 May 2013 | 8:26 am

Let's take a quick look at what happened in AWS-land last week: Monday, May 13 The AWS Security Blog covered an important compliance announcement: The availability of a SOC-3 Report that includes both New Services and a New Region. Tuesday, May 14 We published a guide to Choosing the Right EC2 Instance Type for your Application. We announced that the AWS Management Console in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports the Simple Workflow Service. We announced an update to AWS OpsWorks that includes support for Elastic Load Balancing, a new Monitoring View, and additional instance types. Wednesday,…
New Features for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder

AWS Evangelist

17 May 2013 | 3:09 am

We released the Amazon Elastic Transcoder with an initial set of features and a promise to iterate quickly based on customer feedback. You've supplied us with plenty of feedback (primarily via the Elastic Transcoder Forum) and have a set of powerful enhancements ready as a result. Here's what's new: Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Support. Amazon Elastic Transcoder can create HLS-compliant pre-segmented files and playlists for delivery to compatible players on iOS and Android devices, set-top boxes and web browsers. You can use our new system-defined HLS presets to transcode an…

CohesiveFT Blog
Image management - closing the install gap

Chris Swan

23 May 2013 | 7:30 am

I introduced the concept of an 'install gap' in this illustration that I used in 'Image management - an introduction': The broad point is that to do useful work a VM (or cloud instance) needs to be running an application or offering services that are used as part of an application. An operating system on its own (or even an operating system with some middleware installed) isn't all that useful. Installing by hand After launching a virtual machine it's fairly typical (at least in the first instance) for the user to install stuff by hand. This might be done with a package manager (e.g. yum on…
Cloud Networking Webinar Wrap Up

Margaret Walker

22 May 2013 | 9:00 am

From best practices to life in the cloud We've just wrapped our most recent webinar series on cloud networking. Senior cloud solution architect, +Sam Mitchell hosted the 30 minute webinars through May. Sam focused on setting up the cloud networking concepts, highlighted the basic technologies for enterprise customers, and real-life case studies. For the final webinar, Sam was feeling poorly (and coughing, which makes for a challenging webinar) so CEO +Patrick Kerpan stepped in for Part 3. If you missed the live events, catch up here. We've got slides and recordings hosted…
A hybrid strategy

Chris Swan

20 May 2013 | 8:00 am

It seems that the debate on Twitter over hybrid cloud rumbles on. I might have hoped that this was the end of it: But then a few days ago we're back to the usual: I felt obliged to reply: This brings me back to a point I made during a panel session at ODCA Forecast last year. There's a difference between a hybrid cloud and a hybrid strategy: A hybrid cloud is a public and private cloud munged together so that they (ostensibly) work as some sort of unified thing. It's a bit of a mythical beast as most private clouds work very differently to public clouds, so there's usually a massive impedance…
Google Compute Engine - first impressions

Chris Swan

17 May 2013 | 3:50 am

One of the announcements that seemed to get lost in the noise at this week's IO conference was that Google Compute Engine (GCE) is now available for everyone. I took it for a quick test drive yesterday, and here are some of my thoughts about what I found. Web interface The web UI is less bad than most of the other public clouds I've tried of late, but it's nowhere near as good as AWS. I see a number of places where I think 'that works fine now whilst I'm just playing, but I'm not going to like that when I'm using this in anger and I've got LOTS of stuff to manage'. One thing I like…
Image management - an introduction

Chris Swan

15 May 2013 | 9:00 am

One of the key elements of any cloud is an image library, which gives users the choice of what software they get when they start a virtual machine[1]. With a popular cloud like Amazon's EC2 there are thousands of images (in their case called Amazon Machine Images [AMIs]) to choose from: Most image libraries start out with bare operating systems, but it's possible to add additional functionality such as middleware or complete applications (often referred to as 'virtual appliances'): Amazon these days has a shop front for images ranging from bare operating systems to complete virtual appliances…

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Finding the Right Price

mdunham

22 May 2013 | 9:45 am

Of all the problems that face entrepreneurs, finding the right price is probably the most difficult. The right price is a balance between maximizing income over time and the range of prices that buyers will pay. The problem is very complex and the methods employed to solve it are often little more than throwing a dart at a bunch of numbers on the wall. Very few startups know on the day they start charging for their service, application or product, if they have really maximized their possible income. Is there a method for determining prices that Lean Startups might adapt to their agile-based…
Your Competition Isn’t Your Biggest Enemy

mdunham

15 May 2013 | 1:21 pm

Competition is one of the things entrepreneurs fear the most. The belief that a competitor can appear suddenly and wipe out your chances of being successful, even before you go to production, stalks the heart of every startup CEO and product manager. The belief has spawned mountains of non-disclosure agreements, maintained the idea that stealth startups are the way to go, and contributed steady sales of heavy drapes to block stunning views of the Bay in San Francisco and to keep prying eyes out. There is little to no empirical evidence that any of the schemes that have been hatched to keep an…
Myths and Misses

mdunham

9 May 2013 | 10:32 am

There are a lot of myths about what it takes to bring a product or a new venture to market. I read and hear them repeated again and again, which only makes them stronger – even when rationally we know they aren’t true. That’s why I was happy to read the experience of a non-technical leader of support for a product I use. In Customer Service as Art, Rob La Gatta, Community Advocate for the Modern Tribe Events Calendar plugin gives his experience over the last two years – playing the balancing act of supporting customers and providing insight to the development team.
What’s It All About?

mdunham

23 Apr 2013 | 2:33 pm

Old school Silicon Valley startup to do list: Think of cool idea using some keywords that are current and hot Use a dot com name generator to get a unique domain name that is pronounceable Find a technical co-founder (if you are technical, find a business co-founder) who will sign on for a promise Print business cards Make up PowerPoint presentation using several cool slide effects and pictures. It must be shorter than five minutes. Have a ten minute version in the bag just in case. Call your friend who has a friend that can get you a meeting with a VC Sign contract PUT MONEY IN BANK! Get a…
When Simple Questions Aren’t…

mdunham

22 Apr 2013 | 1:29 pm

One of the core concepts of the Lean Startup movement is getting out of the office and interviewing prospective customers. Granted, there are lots of good (important) ways to engage with customers and learn their interests other than face-to-face, but with the proper skills and a little shoe leather, you can find out a lot more in direct interviews. In the end, it is all about building solutions to real problems, solutions that customers will want enough to buy. Unfortunately, most startup founders don’t have experience in developing useful interviews and don’t have the personal…

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How To Leverage Horizontal and Vertical Scaling with Cloud

Diana Nolting

22 May 2013 | 1:44 pm

What to Expect When You’re In the Cloud: First year tips, tricks and tutorials is a series of posts appearing weekly that will highlights the unique experiences, questions and successes individuals have their first year in the cloud. Posts are based on clients and non-clients alike. To submit your question, or story, tweet @Bluelock. Continuing our series highlighting first year lessons learned and questions answered, today’s question focuses on vertical and horizontal scaling. “How can users leverage horizontal and vertical scaling with the cloud?” Scalability is…
Cloud News Report: Top 3 in Cloud – Week Ending May 22nd

Diana Nolting

22 May 2013 | 8:59 am

The Cloud News Report is a weekly list of our top three favorite cloud computing articles from the past week. To Understand Just How Much The Cloud Will Change The World, Look At Toyota This article isn’t from this week, but it’s popped up again recently as a prime cloud use case. In this Business Insider article Julie Bort highlights how cloud has completely changed the world in which Toyota IT operates. Toyota uses cloud for website and apps and attests to the cloud helping to free up staff to work on more meaningful projects. The cloud is working its way into cars,…
Understand Multi-tenant, Cloud-based Recovery-as-a-Service in 60 Seconds or Less

Diana Nolting

21 May 2013 | 8:52 am

If you’re just beginning to learn about cloud-based RaaS, you likely have a lot of questions. You could spend days, weeks or even longer researching the technological advances behind each solution, the services included and the capabilities available for your workloads.   But, you have to start somewhere, and we want to help point you in the right direction. Here is the simplest explanation of cloud-based RaaS in 60 seconds or less: Cloud makes DR easy and affordable. Recovery-as-a-Service is a software-enabled recovery solution that is easy to install, has no agents and…
Myth Busting Disaster Recovery: Fact vs. Fiction

Diana Nolting

16 May 2013 | 11:23 am

How much do you know cloud-based disaster recovery? Recovery-as-a-Service, commonly referred to as RaaS, enables organizations to recover critical IT resources with increased efficiencies and complete effectiveness when an adverse situation strikes. Cloud-based RaaS is nothing like traditional disaster recovery (DR) solutions of the past. Cloud-based RaaS users are able to install one piece of software (not an agent) which includes a control VM as well as an appliance on all participating VMware hosts. This increases self-service, testing and reliability of complete…
Failover to the Cloud with Disaster Recovery [Video]

Jon Corwin

16 May 2013 | 5:45 am

How do you failover to the cloud? Bluelock has partnered with the replication software provider, Zerto for its leading RaaS solution. To demonstrate how their disaster recovery technology takes the pain out of replication and recovery in the cloud, watch the "Disaster Recovery with VMware's vCloud Director" video below. Bluelock’s RaaS solution leverages Zerto’s replication software to integrate seemlessly with VMware’s vCloud Director. Their complete vCloud 5.1 integration includes native support for components such as vApps, storage profiles, org networks,…

Data Center Dialog
Framehawk is a Gartner 'Cool Vendor'

Jay Fry

12 May 2013 | 2:00 pm

The enterprise client computing landscape includes a “cool” new player now: us. Gartner has named Framehawk a Cool Vendor for Client Computing 2013. The write-up highlights four core things for an enterprise’s client computing initiatives: productivity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and user flexibility. Says Gartner, “the current technologies available to IT organizations can fall
What if the killer app for enterprise mobility and tablets is actually access to multiple apps?

Jay Fry

13 Mar 2013 | 9:47 pm

For every new technology, the holy grail is always to find the “killer app.” That phrase existed long before “app” referred to a little beveled square on your iPad. The killer app for the PC was arguably two: word processing and spreadsheets. (Anyone remember WordStar or Visicalc?) For the Internet, it was email, later enabled by a notable app of its own: the web browser. So, what’s the
What you need to know about using tablets as clients for enterprise applications

Jay Fry

4 Mar 2013 | 10:01 pm

The flurry of new mobile devices continues. Consumers (who look a lot like your employees) love them. And they naturally want to use them in their (er, your) enterprise IT environment. And that’s where the problems start. It seems like it would be simple to introduce tablets and other mobile devices into the enterprise. But here’s the worst-kept secret in IT today: it’s not. And this is a
Want to avoid data leakage from mobile enterprise apps? Use the cloud

Jay Fry

27 Jan 2013 | 9:23 pm

You know the conventional wisdom: if you’re using mobile devices, the best way to secure enterprise application data is some combination of locked-down devices and strong data security measures. However, both IT and users know the truth that comes with these approaches: they ratchet up hidden costs while killing user experience and productivity, all in the name of avoiding data leakage. So
Making mobile user experience ‘tablet-y’ for enterprise applications

Jay Fry

25 Jan 2013 | 2:54 pm

We’ve been checking off the various dos & don’t for bringing enterprise applications to iPads and other mobile devices. There are a lot of them. So many that our CTO Stephen Vilke did an entire webcast about the topic (summarized in this white paper). Last week I brought up mobile security. The issue that goes hand-in-hand with that is user experience (UX). In fact, mobile user experience

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The Cloudy Future Of Professional Software

Chris Poindexter

24 May 2013 | 10:39 am

Holger Winnemoeller, senior research scientist, Adobe, demonstrates “Painting with Bob” during Adobe MAX – Photo courtesy of Adobe/David Zentz Photography Those who depend on professional software for video editing, engineering and imaging have good cause to be concerned about the future. The tech market has been undergoing a dramatic but largely unheralded change that is just now beginning to cause some consternation among professionals who depend on big software applications to make a living. The symptoms of the change have been apparent for some time, but the first real alarm…
Five Top Rated Weather Apps

Chris Poindexter

22 May 2013 | 12:18 pm

The weather has turned from something to that can ruin your picnic to something that can buff your house away. As global warming dumps more and more energy into our atmosphere it’s changing our weather from something that used to spoil the family picnic to something that relocate your home on surprisingly short notice. While you may not be able to do anything about the severity of storms, tornadoes and hurricanes but at least you can get a heads up about threatening weather wherever you happen to be. So while pictures of the devastation in Oklahoma play out on television, maybe this is a…
Investors React To Yahoo’s Purchase Of Tumblr

Chris Poindexter

19 May 2013 | 11:02 pm

Investors were positive if lukewarm on Yahoo’s plans to purchase Tumblr. Yahoo’s share price was up 1.22 percent early Monday to $26.85 in early trading. On her Tumblr blog Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer tried to calm investor concern about the impending merger by vowing, “We promise not to screw it up.” David Karp will remain CEO at Tumblr, though there’s no word yet on how long he’ll be obligated to stay on after the merger is complete. With 300 million unique users every month and 105 million blogs, Tumblr has nearly 120,000 new registrations every day. As one of the fastest growing…
Google Introduces New Services And Features At I/O Conference

Chris Poindexter

16 May 2013 | 4:20 am

Google announced a flurry of new services and updates to existing services at their I/O Conference in San Francisco. There were a steady stream of new products and enhancements to established services, so much so at times it was like trying to get a drink of water out of a fire hose. For developers Google announced three new APIs, all of which will supply big improvements in battery usage. The fused location provider will supposedly use only 1 percent of the battery power used by older APIs. Along with that will be the Geofencing API, which tracks user location changes and activity…
Windows Blue Will Be Free Update

Chris Poindexter

15 May 2013 | 2:48 am

Windows Blue, otherwise known as Windows 8.1, will be a free update for people who have already purchased Windows 8, according to an announcement made by Microsoft at a tech conference in Boston. There’s still no official release date for Windows 8.1, jokingly called “The Apology” by some in the tech industry, but analysts expect Microsoft to have it fully deployed for the 2013 holiday season. To have Blue loaded on PC makers newest models, it would need an official release date sometime this summer. Microsoft and PC makers have struggled with a general decline in PC sales and sluggish…

Cisco Blog » Data Center and Cloud
UCS SmartPlays: Exceptional Offers on Cisco Servers

Jim McHugh

24 May 2013 | 3:40 pm

Cisco UCS has been delivering significant value for IT departments worldwide for 4 years, and customers have made B-series the fastest-growing x86 blade servers in the industry . What is not as [...]
‘Tis the Season for Events, Trade Shows & Cisco UCS Servers

Thomas Cloyd

23 May 2013 | 3:23 pm

‘Tis the Season – for Events and Trade Shows Make sure to visit the Cisco booth and talk to the [...]
Cisco Domain Ten: Domain 9: Security and Compliance

Stephen Speirs

23 May 2013 | 11:48 am

Security and Compliance is the next domain in our Cisco Domain TenSM model that I will cover, following on from my previous post on [...]
4000 Seat Mixed Use Case Desktop Virtualization Study Provides Road Map to Lightening Fast End User Experience

Mike Brennan

23 May 2013 | 11:02 am

Awesome end-user experience is what Desktop Virtualization is all about! Hello Everyone! Back again to talk to you about our [...]
Cisco Ramps Up Microsoft Momentum at TechEd North America, June 3-6

Gary Kinghorn

23 May 2013 | 4:00 am

Cisco is making a big splash with our virtual networking portfolio at Microsoft TechEd North America 2013 , running June 3-6 in New Orleans, Microsoft’s [...]

Perspectives on Cloud Computing & Training from Learning Tree International
Cloud Skills in Demand

Kevin

16 May 2013 | 2:02 pm

According to a recent analysis by CyberCoders cloud computing talents will be the second most sought after IT skill in 2013. Interestingly the analysis specifically calls out AWS and Azure. That these two are included is not a surprise to those of us that have followed the evolution of cloud computing over the past few years. Conspicuously absent from the list, however, is Google but let’s not go there right now. In the early days it seemed that Amazon and Microsoft took fundamentally different approaches to where they would operate in the cloud marketplace. Amazon was primarily an…
Data Analytics in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure SQL Reporting

Kevin

30 Apr 2013 | 1:15 pm

First, let me say I have been looking forward to using this service for some time. As a long time user of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) I was eager to use this technology in some of my cloud computing projects. I was disappointed a few months ago, however, when I started down the path but then discovered that the minimum cost I could achieve would be in the order of around $600 per month. I could not in good conscience recommend that to my client. At the current cost of $0.16 per hour I think it is still a little expensive but may be preferable to building an on-premises solution. In…
Ch … Ch … Changes in the Cloud!

Kevin

19 Mar 2013 | 11:33 am

Wow! You take a few months break from teaching cloud computing and when you come back to it things are not the same. Most notably, there are several significant new features in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Let’s first take a look at Azure. The Management Portal has completely changed. It now has a clean new look that gives clear access to all of the Azure services. Notice all the additional services that are now available beyond the basic cloud services, database, storage and service bus. Figure 1. Azure Management Portal It is nice to see that Microsoft have addressed the…
Back to the Real World

Kevin

10 Oct 2012 | 4:31 pm

I have not made a post in some time. My excuse is that I have returned, for a period, to the “real world”. I am taking a break from teaching for Learning Tree to pursue a very interesting consulting opportunity that has come my way. I am now working with a streaming media application providing synchronous video broadcasts coupled with real-time social interaction via Facebook and Twitter. This application is being powered by resources provisioned through Amazon Web Services. The application itself is written primarily in C#. There is also a liberal dose of JavaScript in the form…
Cloud Computing in Canada

Kevin

21 Aug 2012 | 4:08 pm

As I return from my vacation and prepare for my upcoming class in Ottawa I have been thinking about the current state of affairs regarding cloud computing in Canada. I love cloud computing and I love Canada. It is only natural that these two things should find their way into a blog post! Firstly, none of the major cloud providers have yet seen fit to physically host a data center in the Great White North. Why that is I don’t know. Perhaps it is just too gosh danged cold. Secondly, some organizations in Canada have a concern that their data not be hosted in the U.S. So where does that…

Cloud Business Review
Strategies Handled to Maximize the Benefits of Cloud Computing Hosting for Your Business

Aira

22 May 2013 | 11:17 pm

Any doubts that cloud computing hosting has the ability to provide a superior services for businesses have faded rapidly. The benefits are numerous, especially in the area of scalability and cost of ownership. However, there a few issues that companies will need to overcome if they want to maximize the benefits of cloud computing hosting. The biggest issue is management. In order for a cloud computing strategy to pay off, it needs to be managed effectively. The other part of … Click here to read more
Head In The Clouds? Good, Take Your Website With You

Aira

22 May 2013 | 12:27 am

The Growth of the Internet Approximately twenty years have passed since the birth of what we now understand to be the internet. Once limited in scope and usability, it used to be simply something for the more technology savvy amongst us to shop online, check the sports results, read the news through a dedicated ISP such as CompuServe or America On Line (AOL) and not much else. AOL had a comprehensive chat room and instant messaging service that made it … Click here to read more
Preparing Your Business To Switch To Cloud Storage

Ivan Widjaya

19 May 2013 | 6:49 pm

Cloud storage can be great for your business because it allows you to scale up whenever you need it and the network interface is often very flexible. At the same time, there are many things that you need to think about and prepare before your files can be moved to the cloud network. You need to think about security and pruning your current files to ensure that you save money. You must also think about finding the right provider for … Click here to read more
Are They the Right Cloud Hosting Provider for Me?

Aira

15 May 2013 | 1:29 am

Cloud hosting provides a lower-cost solution for small business IT needs, bringing you powerful software that you might not be able to afford otherwise. But finding the right provider can be a confusing and frustrating prospect. Here’s what you need to know: Benefits of Cloud Hosting Cloud hosting lets you access your data from just about anywhere there’s an internet connection. This flexibility can save you a lot of time and hassle, especially if you or your employees spend a … Click here to read more
Hybrid Cloud Managed Services: Helping CIOs Sleep Better at Night

Aira

13 May 2013 | 11:56 pm

From reducing maintenance requirements to adding redundancy and security to business infrastructure, hybrid cloud managed services are an ideal way for businesses to utilize the benefits of cloud computing while minimizing risk. Recently at TechTarget, John Keagy of GoGrid predicted that hybrid cloud services would become the standard way to manage and maintain cloud services for many businesses. As offerings continue to mature, adoption of IaaS and IT managed services are likely to increase, and the benefits of infrastructure-as-a-service … Click here to read more

CloudTimes
Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion

Saroj Kar

24 May 2013 | 8:51 am

Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features are handled by a new layer of software. SDN technology is still in its infancy. But it’s already created some billion-dollar success stories, capturing the imagination of Silicon Valley’s savviest investors and inventors. More than two years after the establishment of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), with big names…
Email is Still the Marketer’s Most Direct Line to Consumers

Xath Cruz

22 May 2013 | 1:22 pm

Email is constantly the subject of criticism, doubt and ridicule since social networking sites started redefining “personal communication”. Five years ago, predictions and expert opinion started cropping up about the impending demise of email. Lo and behold, email is still alive and very much kicking. The 20 Marketing Trends & Predictions for 2013 Project states that email will most likely stick around for longer than what many might have anticipated. Here are some reasons for its success: Email is still the most intimate communication system in the cloud Through the talk about…
Touch Screens And Tablets Keep PC Market Alive

Florence de Borja

22 May 2013 | 8:11 am

In a report by NPD DisplaySearch, the organization believes that the mobile PC market will grow more by more than 100% for the next 5 years. In 2012, there were about 368 million units sold and it is expected to grow by as much as 395 million in 2017. Tablet PCs are believed to replace the regular notebook and touch screens are to be embedded to a lot of laptops. Today, all manufacturers manufacture at least one touch screen model. Tablet shipments are expected to grow 67% this year and will amount to at least 256 million units while notebook shipments will be down by as much as 20 million by…
SDN Market Rises as Companies Join Forces for Innovative Products

Saroj Kar

21 May 2013 | 8:57 am

The future of cloud computing and its IT provider is closely linked to requirements such as mobile computing, social networking and video communications. The interplay of these factors sees numerous opportunities for market players to distinguish themselves through innovation. That almost sounds like squaring the circle, but maybe it just needs a comprehensive strategy to link software platforms and network infrastructure closely. With software-defined networking (SDN), the manufacturer will therefore create for its customers a programmable network that allows simplification of management…
What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst

Florence de Borja

20 May 2013 | 12:53 pm

Big Data is in. There is a huge demand not only for Big Data Scientists but for Big Data Analysts as well. While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst on the other hand performs data analysis on a particular system only. In short, a big data analyst is some sort of an assistant to the big data scientist. Because a big data analyst’s job description is almost similar to that of a big data scientist but on a smaller scale, the skills required are also the same as that of a big data scientist. He must be able…

The Riverbed Blog
Infographic: What is the impact of network hyperconvergence?

Dormain Drewitz

24 May 2013 | 5:12 am

Let's face it: with the ongoing move towards cloud computing, data centers are getting bigger and more powerful... as well as fewer and farther between. Add in mobility and virtualized desktops and there is a lot more traffic hitting the network. In fact, the network is just *assumed* to support all of these trends, but it's up to enterprise IT organizations to actually make it work. Here are some startling facts and predictions about just how fast and widely the demands on enterprise networks are changing: Get the details: Gartner report: Plan Now for the Hyperconverged Enterprise…
Cascade Pilot & Shark 101: What new users need to know

Grant N

23 May 2013 | 3:00 am

If you haven't already, you can download free trials of both Cascade Shark Virtual Edition for continuous packet capture and monitoring vSwitch traffic, and Cascade Pilot for packet analysis. And, of course, you will read the documentation first, right? EVERYBODY reads the instructions first. Come on, all the cool kids read it. I know, I know, I know. You're just so excited to get these babies in action that you can't hit the "next" button fast enough. To the noobs, I recommend the Getting Started videos that you see when you first start Cascade Pilot. Sure,…
Dr. Dobb's Jolt Award Winner - AppInternals Xpert

Liz Padula

22 May 2013 | 2:11 pm

Time is a terrible thing to waste, regardless how little. Just ask a photo-finishing Olympic sprinter the value of a hundredth of a second. It’s the same for business. For the leading online retailer, a 100-millisecond increase in web page load time leads to a 1% drop in sales. At the world’s largest search engine, a 500-millisecond delay leads to a 20% drop in traffic. And a financial services broker can lose $4M per millisecond if the trading platform is 5 milliseconds behind the competition. Similarly, IT downtime and slow applications reduce the total productive output of your…
Are my videos being watched?

Nick Amato

22 May 2013 | 5:00 am

One morning last week I came into work and wondered: how much of our technical videos are being watched? At Riverbed we make a lot of short videos to help customers deploy and configure things (and not necessarily our own stuff, either, many times we'll help configure applications like Exchange). The first place I checked was the data available from our video platforms, namely Wistia and (to some extent) YouTube. Analytic information is readily available on YouTube, and hats off to the Wistia folks for having an awesome REST API for pulling statistics. Of course this may not…
How WAN optimization, application delivery controllers and performance management solutions help deliver excellent user experience

Justyna Bak

21 May 2013 | 12:42 am

We are obsessed with productivity: 74% of mobile consumers in the U.S. use productivity enhancing applications. One in five users checks his or her phone every 10 minutes for updates and to access, among many things, cloud-based productivity apps, such as Gmail and Google Drive or Dropbox. But for many, their productivity is undermined by a poor user experience. Today, we take for granted fast and ubiquitous access to applications and data from any device and any location. During a recent trip to upscale retailer Nordstrom, I wasn’t surprised at all when a store employee pulled out an iPad…

Business Cloud News
Is G-Cloud a sign of things to come for IT and the cloud?

Business Cloud News

24 May 2013 | 8:54 am

As governments begin radically transforming the ways in which they procure cloud-based ICT services, it’s worth taking a closer look at what the UK government has done to deploy these technologies and services to its departments and agencies. Their approach raises serious questions about how cloud services may be procured in the future – for governments and enterprises big and small. The CloudStore is the first of its kind and may serve as a model for cloud procurement outside government It’s worth mentioning that the UK government is not the first or only collection of public sector…
Forum brings Ethernet up to date for cloud era

Business Cloud News

24 May 2013 | 4:41 am

As Ethernet technology turns 40 years old, a group of cloud vendors, users and carriers launched a cross-industry alliance, the CloudEthernet Forum, to target further development of the technology so that it can meet the evolving needs of cloud service providers and users. CloudEthernet forum launches to improve the capability of Ethernet for cloud The Forum’s membership so far consists of cloud, data centre, wide-area network (WAN) service providers and carriers. Founding members include Alcatel-Lucent; Avaya, Equinix, HP, Juniper, PCCW Global, Spirent, Tata Communications and Verizon. The…
Deluxe Digital uses cloud to transform film distribution to cinemas

Business Cloud News

24 May 2013 | 1:45 am

Deluxe Digital Cinema, a London-based technology and services provider for the film industry and for digital cinema services & distribution has partnered with HP Enterprise Services to deploy the latter’s cloud-based solution in an attempt to simplify and improve the way feature film and trailer content is distributed to its cinemas across Europe. HP and Deluxe plan to nearly triple the number of participating cinemas over the next 5 years The seven-year agreement will see Deluxe Digital use the HP Business Exchange Services content distribution system in conjunction with a virtual…
Chunghwa Telecom and Asustek deliver cloud to Palau

Business Cloud News

24 May 2013 | 1:29 am

Popular notebook manufacturer Asustek Computer this week signed a memorandum of understanding with Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan with a view to delivering cloud-based health care to Palau, an island country in the western pacific ocean. Chunghwa and Asustek plan to bring the cloud to new regions in the Asia-Pacific region The cloud services unit of Taiwan-based Asus aims to build a cloud-based health care platform in Palau in cooperation with Chunghwa Telecom. The new platform, a state of the art electronic patient recording (EPR) system, will help health…
Citrix unveils a slew of BYOD-focused applications

Business Cloud News

23 May 2013 | 7:31 am

As competition for market share continues to heat up in the mobile enterprise space, Citrix has unveiled a range of new cloud solutions and updates to existing software offerings that when combined will beef up their proposition to enterprises practicing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) as a standard policy. Yesterday’s announcement, made during this week’s Citrix Synergy 2013 conference in Anaheim, California, includes a new combined mobile enterprise suite / Mobile Device Management (MDM) / Mobile App Management (MAM) package, an update to the XenMobile platform the company built on…

BitNami Blog
Experimental 2.0.0 support in JRuby 1.7.4. BitNami JRuby Stack updated.

BitNami Team

22 May 2013 | 3:05 pm

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami JRubyStack which now includes JRuby 1.7.4. We have also updated other major components of the Stack, including Tomcat 7 and Java 7, Rails 3, bundler and other useful gems. As with all BitNami Stacks, you can get the latest JRuby Stack for free as a native installer or virtual appliance. The cloud images for both the Windows Azure and the Amazon cloud will be available as well. While the primary goal of 1.7 point releases is to fill out any missing compatibility issues with Ruby 1.9.3, JRuby 1.7.5 already includes experimental Ruby 2.0…
Share Your Thoughts on the Future of the Cloud - Survey Closes this Week!

Erica Brescia

21 May 2013 | 5:56 pm

We have partnered with North Bridge, GigaOM Research and over 60 other companies to conduct the 3rd annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. We believe in the future of the Cloud, but there’s more to be learned and that’s why we continue to participate in this survey, which covers the following: Where is the Cloud is making impact across the software eco-system (from computing and development to SaaS)? IT competitiveness and the critical issues around balancing IT and Business Needs. Drivers and inhibitors…
Roundcube now available in BitNami

Beltrán

20 May 2013 | 8:30 am

Roundcube was the latest winner of the BitNami bi-weekly packaging contest and we are happy to announce that it is already available as part of the BitNami library. You can now download free, ready to run native installers for Windows, OS X and Linux, virtual machines and Azure and Amazon EC2 images for Roundcube. For those of you not familiar with this popular app, Roundcube is a modern webmail solution for managing your emails, similar to GMail, that you can host on your own servers. Some of its features include MIME support, address book, folder…
Security fix for Ruby 1.9 applications

Beltrán

16 May 2013 | 2:29 pm

A new Ruby version was released recently to address a security issue. There is a vulnerability in DL and Fiddle in Ruby where tainted strings can be used by system calls regardless of the $SAFE level set in Ruby. We want to let BitNami users know that most popular Rails-based application installers, virtual machines and cloud images have been already updated and released to include a fixed Ruby version. We continue working on upgrading all of them for all platforms. Ruby stack, Redmine, GitLab, Discourse, Tracks and Spree with Ruby version 1.9.3-p429 have been already released. We…
Django in the Mac App Store with BitNami

BitNami Team

15 May 2013 | 12:10 am

The Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. BitNami Stacks provide a great way to deploy web applications and development frameworks. Django is a popular Python-based web development framework. What do you get when you combine these three items? ... Exactly! We are happy to announce that the latest version of BitNami Django Stack is now available in the Mac OS X App Store. BitNami Django Stack provides a complete, self-contained Django development environment and greatly simplifies getting started with the development and deployment of Django applications. It…

Zoho Blogs
Countdown to Zoholics

Raju Vegesna

24 May 2013 | 2:58 pm

We are just a few days away from Zoholics and we are looking forward to inviting you to the event. We have around 50 sessions lined up for you along with keynotes from Sridhar Vembu, Ray Wang and Chris Silva. If you haven’t installed the Zoholics mobile app, I recommend doing so. It is available on iPhone, iPad and Android. Presentations for the sessions will be available through our iPhone and iPad apps. For those of you attending the CRM Training Track, we will be providing CRM training material to complement the sessions.…
gUnify and Zoho CRM – Automatically Log VOIP Phone Calls from Google Apps to CRM

Gopal

24 May 2013 | 7:30 am

This is a guest post by Harprit Bhui, coFounder of gUnify, a cloud-based Unified Communication System connecting Zoho, Google Apps, and Broadsoft Hosted VOIP. gUnify is specifically designed and built from the ground up for businesses running Google Apps. It is compatible with hosted PBX systems running on Broadsoft and Zoho CRM. gUnify seamlessly integrates Google Apps, phone systems, and Zoho CRM to enable automatic call tracking and logging directly from Gmail. As an organization, communication is the key to your success.…
5 Ways to Recruit the Best and Brightest Graduates from the Class of 2013

Austin Ries

22 May 2013 | 10:18 am

Over the past month, tens of thousands of college students across the United States earned their associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degrees. And after the graduation celebrations die down, these students will each begin pursuing a profession in a number of different career fields. So what does this mean for you as a small business owner? How can you capitalize on these young, energized and passionate young adults? A number of graduates will begin working for large companies because these businesses can offer enticing salary, benefits and security packages, as…
Simplify Getting Paid With Braintree

Reshma Roy

21 May 2013 | 9:10 am

We have been on an integration spree since the beginning of this year. After the first two successful integration with Stripe and 2Checkout, Braintree is the latest payment gateway to be integrated to Zoho Invoice and Zoho Books. If you haven’t begun accepting online payments from your customers, now is a good time to get started. Not only is creating a merchant account in Braintree is quick and painless, but also configuring it to Zoho Invoice and Zoho Books is easy.…
Customer Spotlight: Migrating from Salesforce to Z-CRM Saves Young Company Huge Money

Arun

17 May 2013 | 9:59 am

“It all started with Jim Cramer.” For those of you unfamiliar with Jim Cramer, he is a popular American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and host of CNBC’s Mad Money. As Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. (ICT) founder and CEO Bob Joseph tells the story, “Years ago, I was watching Mad Money and he was pushing Sales Force’s CRM solution. I knew we were at the point in our company growth where we needed a good CRM solution and one that could accommodate our growth. So, from Cramer’s recommendation we began our customer relationship management with Sales…

meshIP® Blog
How HR Can Manage The Risk Of Cloud Computing

Brian

10 May 2013 | 9:21 am

This is a post from the meshIP Blog -Cloud technology is the future for the business-world. According to KPMG, it’s now used by most organisations. However, with this new technology come new risks for company information security, and it is important for HR teams to ensure that they update company IT policies to adequately protect business interests. What’s different about cloud computing? Cloud [...]- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Issues Industry experts and cloud service providers are hopeful about the... Cloud…
Five Questions Boards Of Directors Need To Ask About Cloud Governance

Brian

5 May 2013 | 10:03 am

This is a post from the meshIP Blog -The many benefits of cloud computing include helping enterprises become more efficient, agile, innovative and flexible, but achieving those benefits depends on a number of factors, including the involvement of the board of directors. ISACA, a nonprofit, independent association of more than 100,000 governance, risk, security and assurance professionals worldwide, has issued new guidance outlining [...]- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Is Data Governance in Cloud Computing Still a Mirage? While Cloud Computing has captured the…
Embrace The Cloud, Enjoy More Revenue

Brian

26 Apr 2013 | 9:37 am

This is a post from the meshIP Blog -SMBs that embrace Cloud computing and business websites are much more likely to enjoy rising revenue than others, according to accounting software provider, MYOB. The company’s March 2013 MYOB Business Monitor study, which was conducted by research firm Colmar Brunton and surveyed more than 1000 SMBs, found that the businesses that adopted Cloud technologies were [...]- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Sales Tax Revenue Vanishing Into Cloud State sales tax systems created to generate revenue from face-to-face... Doctors Slow…
Cloud Computing Not Just About IT

Brian

17 Apr 2013 | 7:44 pm

This is a post from the meshIP Blog -The word ‘cloud’ has been literally hanging over executives’ heads for the past two years — in the form of massive banners hanging from the ceilings of almost every hub airport they travel through. To date, the focus of cloud has been on the delivery of IT-related capabilities from IT-related providers, largely for things that [...]- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Top Tips for Cloud Computing in 2011 Luxoft has predicted that cloud computing, whether used in a... White House Issues Federal Cloud Strategy The Federal Cloud…
What Is Service Virtualization?

Brian

4 Apr 2013 | 3:45 pm

This is a post from the meshIP Blog -Today, most large enterprises, no matter what industry they serve, are software developers. The reason? The various ways through which employees and customers can, and want, to engage with businesses has grown exponentially; time, platform and frequency are no longer considerable barriers to achieving what you want to achieve. Applications that are used by either [...]- We offer Cloud Computing services - Brian Related posts: Datacenter Virtualization vs. The Cloud I got a press release this morning from VMware that... Virtualisation Market Booms As Cloud…

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Viva Las Dreamforce - Episode #137 of CloudFocus Weekly

Jason Atwood

24 May 2013 | 5:03 am

Direct Download (Time: 45:30 - 21.6 MB) CloudFocus RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes CloudFocus App Pick of the Week Google Hangouts for iOS by Google from Justin Cloudingo by Symphonic Source from Jason Follow Us twitter.com/ArkusInc facebook.com/ArkusInc
Permission Sets for Summer 13

Jason Atwood

13 May 2013 | 9:57 am

It should come as no surprise to anyone that we here at Arkus are a big fan of Permission Sets. Not only did some of us have something to do with their birth at Salesforce but we built a free tool to manage their assignment in mass called The Permissioner. Now that I have that shameless plug out of the way, let’s get into some new Permission Sets in the Summer 13 release that are worth a second look. Record Types While it was mentioned in the blog post by @JustEdelstein last week, it can do no harm to mention such a great feature again. New in the Summer 13 is the ability to use Permission…
Abandonment Issues - Episode #136 of CloudFocus Weekly

Jason Atwood

10 May 2013 | 2:35 pm

Direct Download (Time: 44:44 - 21.5 MB) CloudFocus RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes CloudFocus App Pick of the Week CrowdGuide by TrainTheCrowd from Justin Instacast for Mac by Vemedio from Jason Follow Us twitter.com/ArkusInc facebook.com/ArkusInc
Salesforce Summer 13 Release Notes Rapid Reaction

Justin Edelstein

8 May 2013 | 5:02 am

It’s that time of the year once again where we Salesforce geeks get to dig in and read some release notes. This time around for Summer 13 we got delighted with 264 pages worth of Salesforce goodness. Here are a few of my favorite features as well as a few that are extremely impactful in the ecosystem that is Force.com. Chatter Communities I can’t think of a more impactful feature going GA since Chatter itself. Chatter Communities are taking over so get used to it. Gone are the Customer and Partner portals and in come Chatter Communities. They are front ended by Sites.com website…
Salesforce Summer 13 - Episode #135 of CloudFocus Weekly

Jason Atwood

2 May 2013 | 9:20 am

Direct Download (Time: 51:30 - 24.4 MB) CloudFocus RSS Feed Subscribe via iTunes CloudFocus App Pick of the Week RunPee by RunPee from Justin PayPal Here by from Jason Follow Us twitter.com/ArkusInc facebook.com/ArkusInc

Cloud Storm Chasers
Cloud Computing Satisfaction is Way Up. Or Is It?

Guest Contributor

22 May 2013 | 9:00 am

By Mike Elgan Mike Elgan is a Silicon Valley-based writer who specializes in technology and innovation. His work appears most frequently in Computerworld, Datamation, Cult of Mac, Cult of Android, Houzz, PC World, InfoWorld, MacWorld, CIO Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle. CA Technologies commissioned a surprising new study from Luth Research and Vanson Bourne of...
For Cloud Success, Stop Worrying About the Wrong Problems

Patrick Ancipink

21 May 2013 | 12:15 pm

There are some real issues that can tangle you up in the cloud. But they may not be the obvious ones . Your organization could be hit hard if you get caught up on cloud myths rather than relevant challenges and opportunities. Let's start with security and privacy. Though they garner a lot of headlines they are not the quite the obstacle they were built up to be, especially in Europe. Compare...
Customer Q&A with Tata Communications

Christine Needles

20 May 2013 | 6:05 am

From time to time we have a great opportunity to hear from our customers and partners from around the world here on this blog by way of brief Q&As. This week, as several of my CA Technologies colleagues prepare for the Citrix Synergy event taking place in Anaheim, CA, we had a chance to connect with Srinivasan CR, VP of Global Product Management, Data Centre Services at Tata Communications,...
This Week in Cloud, May 16, 2013: The rogue cloud crackdown, IT departments are the new CSPs, Cloud failure points

Derek Stevens

17 May 2013 | 12:50 pm

Cloud News A survey by PMG reveals that companies are starting to crackdown on employees' use of rogue cloud services, according to this Forbes article. Compliance and security concerns are leading the drive to tougher restrictions on services like DropBox, Skype, and social media sites. A new survey by InformationWeek reveals that 40% of companies are now using cloud services and 51% of...
Cloud Computing: Regulatory Complexity Requires Systems Thinking

George Watt

14 May 2013 | 6:27 am

In a recent article Peter Wayner cautions that "No one knows which laws apply" in reference to the fact that a customer may be in one jurisdiction and the cloud instance they receive may be in another. He is correct in his assertion that this can cause regulatory complexity. In fact it could be far more complex than stated in his article. The customer may be in one jurisdiction, the...

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5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration

13 May 2013 | 11:58 pm

The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds while striving to achieve interoperability values within their systems. This article aims to answer some of the questions that arise when managing cloud workloads. Q1: What is a cloud workload and cloud workload management? A cloud…
Newvem's April Webinar

2 Apr 2013 | 1:13 am

Dear IAmOnDemand reader, I would like to personally invite you to join an interesting webinar that will take place this Wednesday, April 3rd. As part of my job at Newvem, I have assembled a power-house panel of some of the top thought-leaders in cloud computing to discuss the importance of a healthy cloud, focusing on cost efficiency, risk tolerance, and resource optimization. Moderated by my great cloud colleague Patrick Pushor, CTO and founder of CloudChronicle.com, panelists include - This live webinar will discuss best practices for maintaining high availability on Amazon…
ClickSoftware – Great Cloud Adoption Case Study: Part 2, The Bussines

28 Feb 2013 | 8:35 am

This is the story of a veteran software development company and their adoption of the cloud. This research is presented in two parts. The first part is based on an interview with Mr. Igal Korach, Director of Cloud Services at ClickSoftware. It describes the company’s cloud adoption from the perspective of deployment and operations including processes and tools. The second part of this research below, is based on a conversation with Mr. Udi Keidar, VP of Cloud Services at ClickSoftware. In this post, I will present some interesting business views of a company that, for years, has been…
The Cloud in HP’s Cloud (Part 2): HP Discover, the Enterprise and AWS Cloud

9 Jan 2013 | 2:55 am

Last month I attended HP Discover (disclosure: my participation was funded by Ivy World). The IT war already started however HP stands still not taking initiatives and real risks as true leaders should take. At the three-day conference I learned why some companies don’t last and why this IT giant is at a great risk of losing in this new era IT battle. This is a story of a lasting company that might have already lost. > > > HP’s Washes the Cloud I attended the “HP Converged Cloud” session led by Biri Singh, SVP and GM for HP Cloud Services.. Biri opened his presentation…
My 5 Enterprise Cloud Predictions for 2013

29 Dec 2012 | 9:22 am

I believe that this is the year when the enterprise will find its way to the cloud. The mega Internet sites and applications are the new era enterprises. These will become the role models for the traditional enterprise. IT needs remain the same with regards to scale, security, SLA, etc. However, the traditional enterprise CIO has already set the goal for next year: 100% efficiency. The traditional CIO understands that in order to achieve that goal, IT will need to start and do cloud, make sure that IT resources are utilized right, and that his teams move fast. 1. Enterprise will move to the…

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Content Marketing, Meet Content Selling

Peter Mollins

22 May 2013 | 1:40 pm

The Use of Content to Advance the Sales Process Earlier this week we published a byline called "Content Marketing, Meet Content Selling". The piece looked at an interesting trend: increasingly sales teams are relying on content as a powerful tool to advance the sales process. And they are learning the lessons gained from Content Marketing. Content Marketing is an approach that helps generate awareness and interest through thoughtful, fun, and engaging content. But sales teams need to similarly deliver great content. After all, buyers are increasingly disconnected from the sales team…
Sales Enablement is About Marketing Enablement Too

Peter Mollins

21 May 2013 | 7:50 am

Sales Enablement and Marketing Content's Role Matt Heinz, who I had the pleasure of almost literally bumping into at the Sirius Decisions Summit a few weeks back, always has great ideas and content on his site. This week’s post really caught my eye. He looks into the idea of sales enablement. The nub of his discussion is that increasingly the line between sales and marketing is blurring. We see that in the rise of inbound marketing and inside sales teams in the B2B set. That blurring means that marketing and sales should increasingly look to a shared responsibility for revenue. When looked…
Sales and Marketing Friction Points [Infographic]

Peter Mollins

14 May 2013 | 6:06 pm

A Look At Possible Software-as-a-Service Solutions Sales and marketing have to work together effectively. Your revenue depends on it. But as we’ve seen from our recent survey of sales and marketing professionals, at many companies there’s a lot of friction between the two teams. In fact, one data point showed that 50% of sales teams are not satisfied with their Marketing relationship. So, what’s the source of the challenge? A few weeks back Daniel Chalef looked at the common friction points that exist between the two teams. The article summarized five key marketing automation and sales…
Closing the Loop with KnowledgeTree for Salesforce and KnowledgeTree for Mobile

Rob Call

12 May 2013 | 8:20 pm

A Closer Look At Our Latest Sales Enablement Solutions Last month we released KnowledgeTree for Salesforce, the first release of many geared toward empowering enterprise sales organizations to curate and surface just the right content at just the right time. This month, we're excited to share with you some improvements we've made to KnowledgeTree for Salesforce and introduce our brand new KnowledgeTree for Mobile application for iOS. Both help close the loop between marketing teams curating content for the field, and sales teams taking advantage of content in the field. Let's find out how.
New Sales Enablement for Mobile Teams

Daniel Wideman

6 May 2013 | 9:21 am

Introducing KnowledgeTree for Mobile In the sea of software acronyms one is forced to navigate in the blogosphere, "MVP" (which stands for Minimum Viable Product) frequently floats to the top. "Ship an MVP" is a mantra reflexively recited by product guys from lean startups to Google, and for good reason. Getting "just enough" solution into the hands of real customers quickly is sound business practice. Why? Because in today's hyper-competitive enterprise software world, it's critical to validate (or explode) your assumptions about product/market fit ASAP. Whether you're founder-bootstrapped…

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Whitepaper: Creating a Raspberry Pi-Based Beowulf Cluster

Rich Brueckner

25 May 2013 | 7:51 am

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. But could this ARM-based device be used to teach supercomputing as well? Joshua Kiepert, a doctoral student at Boise State’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department, published a white paper entitled: Creating a Raspberry Pi-Based Beowulf Cluster. Although an inexpensive bill of materials looks great on paper, cheaper parts come with their own set ofdownsides. Perhaps the biggest downside…
Slidecast: Univa Partners with Europe’s science + computing to Bolster Digital Manufacturing

Rich Brueckner

24 May 2013 | 2:07 pm

In this slidecast, Gary Tyreman from Univa describes the company’s new partnership with Europe’s science + computing. Our customers operate technical computing environments where infrastructure software like Univa Grid Engine is a key component. This partnership allows us to support our customers on all levels, giving them more options to use their compute clusters in the most efficient manner,” says Gerd-Lothar Leonhart, CEO of s+c. “Additionally, the possibility to integrate Univa Grid Engine with Hadoop systems opens up new opportunities to optimize the usage of Big…
Podcast: Pete Beckman on the Rise of the Super Smart Supercomputer

Rich Brueckner

24 May 2013 | 9:22 am

In this podcast from WBEZ in Chicago, Pete Beckman from Argonne explains how math and supercomputers are accelerating scientific discovery and helping us predict the future. From discovering the secret inner workings of the universe to developing cars that can drive themselves, technology and science are fueling a new breed of massive, smart supercomputers that will improve our world. Related posts:Pete Beckman to Direct New Exascale Technology and Computing InstituteInterview: Pete Beckman on Why the US Needs an Ambitious Exascale PlanInterview: GPU-Accelerated Life Sciences at Beckman…
Breaking Amdahl’s Law with the DEEP Project

Rich Brueckner

24 May 2013 | 8:32 am

Over at the ISC Blog, Thomas Lippert from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre writes that the DEEP project is about to demonstrate that the pitfalls of Amdahl’s law can be avoided in specific situations. The applications adapted to DEEP are selected in order to investigate and demonstrate the usefulness of the combination of hardware, system software and the programming model to leave ground and leap beyond the limits of Amdahl’s law of parallel computing. We are eager to show our first results at the ISC’13 in Leipzig. For more information on this experiment, Lippert invites you to join…
New Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors to have Xeon CPUs On Board

Ralph

24 May 2013 | 8:02 am

Over at Tom’s Hardware, Niels Broekhuijsen writes that new information has surfaced regarding Intel’s upcoming Xeon Phi coprocessors. Intel’s product database has been updated, and it now shows five new Xeon Phi co-processors. These five are followups of the original Xeon 5110P, SE10P, and SE10X models. Two lighter Xeon Phi 3100 parts have shown up: a mid-end part, the 5120D, and two premium 7100 series parts. The main differences between the current Xeon Phi co-processors and the previous ones are the Xeon CPUs that are aboard, as well as the cooling blocks. Any model with…

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Notre-Dame de Paris suicide a political act – Marine Le Pen

Elma Sanders

22 May 2013 | 12:57 am

She later added that "it is in life and hope that France will renew and save itself".
Aleksandar Vucic: Kosovo Serbs ‘should accept deal’

Katrin Loeks

17 May 2013 | 10:58 am

"I'm not saying that the agreement is good, but at this stage we could not get anything better," he said at the meeting, quoted by AFP news agency.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford faces drug video allegations

Elma Sanders

17 May 2013 | 7:41 am

The mayor's lawyer, Dennis Morris told the Toronto Star that in any video, it was impossible to tell what a person was doing.
Working gun made with 3D printer

Katrin Loeks

6 May 2013 | 11:30 pm

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.
Witherspoon ‘deeply embarrassed’ after arrest

Elma Sanders

23 Apr 2013 | 9:03 am

"Do you know my name?" Witherspoon is quoted as saying in a state trooper's report. She also said: "You're about to find out who I am" and "You're about to be on national news," according to the report.

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Data Center Jobs in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio

Thu Pham

24 May 2013 | 7:55 am

We’re hiring for numerous positions in our Mid-Michigan and Southeast Michigan locations, as well as seeking candidates in Indiana and Ohio! Find out more about them: Infrastructure Manager (Mid-Michigan) The Infrastructure Manager is responsible for the budget, people, processes, and systems for our data centers, network, cloud, and storage systems. Account Executive (Southeast Michigan) Grow the customer base for one of the fastest growing, most highly regarded high tech companies in Southeast Michigan. As an Account Executive, you will be responsible for acquiring new customers and…
Update from Online Tech: Major Data Center Initiatives & Investments

Mike Klein

23 May 2013 | 8:22 am

Summer is just around the corner in Michigan and when we look outside, it feels like everything is growing right before our eyes. I want to take a few minutes to give you an update on what’s been happening at Online Tech, as it feels like a lot of things are growing quickly with the company as well. Data Center Updates If you’ve been to our Mid-Michigan data center in the last 6 months, you may have noticed our new Network Operations Center (NOC) that we built out late last year. The NOC houses some of our engineers with systems displays on the wall for us to monitor the systems in…
2013 MTL: Managing Innovation in Client Relations & Private Clouds

Courtney Noonan

22 May 2013 | 12:16 pm

Michigan data center operator Online Tech will be exhibiting a range of secure hosting solutions for mission critical applications, including cloud hosting, colocation, managed servers, compliant hosting and disaster recovery, at the Midwest Technology Leaders 2013 symposium for IT executives and CIOs held in Detroit, Michigan. Online Tech’s Director of Operations, Jason Yaeger, participated in a rapid fire Q&A session this morning at the Midwest Technology Leaders conference in Plymouth, Michigan. Matt Roush introduced Online Tech as being a long time home of innovation in the state of…
2013 Midwest Technology Leaders Keynote: Competencies of the New CIO

Courtney Noonan

22 May 2013 | 10:52 am

Michigan data center operator Online Tech is exhibiting a range of secure hosting solutions for mission critical applications, including cloud hosting, colocation, managed servers, compliant hosting and disaster recovery, at the Midwest Technology Leaders 2013 symposium for IT executives and CIOs held in Detroit, Michigan. Here’s a liveblog of one of the featured keynotes: Keynote: Competencies of the New CIO Speaker: Larry Bonfante- CIO, United States Tennis Association (USTA) CIOs today must be more than a provider of technology and services. They must be able to engage with the…
PCI Compliant Hosting at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibit (IRCE)

Stephanie Vogel

22 May 2013 | 6:46 am

Two weeks from today marks the start of the 9th annual Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibit (IRCE) in Chicago. We’ll be there at booth #108, among the 200 speakers and 9,500 executives related to e-retail. Topics range from creating a global presence using e-commerce, to e-marketing tips to boost traction on search, to focusing on B2B sales and marketing. Social commerce, e-commerce technologies, and online payment processes will also be hot button topics throughout the exhibit. Here’s just a few of the 220 speakers that will be presenting at the IRCE: Mindy Grossman Mindy Grossman…

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Reimagine Hiring – Aqui-Hiring, Lift-Outs and Purple Squirrels

Jason Dent

16 May 2013 | 10:23 am

by Michael George (@ReimagineHR) I’ll bet many of you reading this have a vision of companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple and Twitter – just to name a few – as talent magnets. Organizations, unlike yours, that don’t have to fight very hard to attract their industry’s top talent. With brands so synonymous with innovation and “cool,” the best and brightest naturally flock there, right? Well, maybe to some degree, but even those organization are in a war for talent so intense they are doing some interesting things in hiring that you are probably not (but may want to…
Cloud Metrics Launches on AppExchange

Appirio

15 May 2013 | 9:00 am

by Naoki Tsukamoto (@nikes63) Source: www.ebbinteractive.com We are excited to announce that after being run hundreds of times, Appirio Cloud Metrics is now available on Salesforce.com’s AppExchange! Since its debut at Dreamforce 2012, Appirio’s Cloud Metrics has already made a great impact on companies ranging from lean start-ups to global multi-nationals with multiple orgs. Cloud Metrics is a FREE one time snapshot report of key metrics from your Salesforce org that helps you easily identify areas such as Configuration, Code, Administration, and User Adoption that may need…
4 Steps to Accurate Sales Forecasts

Jason Dent

14 May 2013 | 9:51 am

By Tom Saracene Salesforce has become one of the fastest growing enterprise technology companies based largely on the strength of their core CRM solution. Companies are replacing their legacy CRM systems in droves for many reasons including improving sales effectiveness and better servicing customers. But, one of the biggest reasons for replacing legacy systems with Salesforce is to drive better CRM adoption and therefore get better visibility into the pipeline. Accurately forecasting not just pipeline and bookings, but revenue and profit, is increasingly important in today’s volatile…
Jeff Epstein on Board at Appirio

Appirio

9 May 2013 | 6:00 am

By Chris Barbin Today, Appirio announced that Jeff Epstein has joined our Board of Directors as Chair of our Audit Committee. Jeff’s financial leadership, industry contacts, and deep expertise in technology will be a tremendous asset to Appirio as we continue to grow. Jeff is a natural fit for our Board of Directors - his personality is complementary to our already energetic group - and he boasts one of the most dynamic backgrounds of the group. From priceline.com, Kaiser Permanente and Shutterstock, Jeff has lent his financial expertise and leadership to the boards of some of the world’s…
Reimagine Employee Referrals

Jason Dent

2 May 2013 | 7:00 am

Source: recruiter.com By Michael George (@ReimagineHR) In our last “Reimagine HR” post we discussed ways to reimagine your talent sourcing effort so that recruiters not only understand your organization’s current talent supply and future demand, but are also actively using cloud, mobile and social technologies in ways to uncover hidden sources of top talent and/or networks of job candidate referrers. This week, we are going to dig a little deeper into some emerging science around the value of sourcing talent through employee referrals. That’s right, science. It has long been accepted…

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OpenNebula at LinuxTag Berlin 2013

Carlos Martín

24 May 2013 | 3:25 am

Last Wednesday we participated in the 2013 edition of LinuxTag in Berlin, Germany. It was a great opportunity to chat about OpenNebula, cloud, and free software. If you missed our presentation, you can get the slides here: LinuxTag 2013 from opennebula See you next year!
Partial List of Keynote Speakers for OpenNebula Conference 2013

Tino Vazquez

20 May 2013 | 5:37 am

We are proud to announce the first, partial list of Keynote Speakers for OpenNebula Conference 2013. The list includes world’s leading corporate and research institutions. Steven Timm, FermiLab, will speak about Enabling Scientific Workflows on FermiCloud using OpenNebula Zhihong Zhang, China Mobile, will speak about OpenNebula at China Mobile Daniel Concepción, Produban – Santander Group, will speak about Discovering the Bumpy Road to the Cloud Stay tuned because more Keynote Speakers will be announced soon!. There is also available a limited number of speaking opportunities. Please…
Start Your New OpenNebula User Group!

Javier Fontan

14 May 2013 | 9:31 am

The OpenNebula Project is happy to announce the support for the creation and operation of OpenNebula User Groups. An OpenNebula User Group is a gathering of our users in a local area to share best practices, discuss technical questions, network, and learn from each other. If you are a passionate OpenNebula user and are interested in starting your own OpenNebula User Group, join our Community Discuss mailing list and let us know about your plans. There is more information in the new User Groups section of our site. We look forward to your User Group proposal!
Closing OpenNebula 4.0 Cycle, Planning for 4.2

Tino Vazquez

10 May 2013 | 2:39 am

Having released OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle, now is the time to close the release cycle with a public webinar showing the new features included in the latest stable release. You are all invited to join the webinar this Tuesday 14th at 17:00 CEST, to learn what has kept us so busy in the last months. This will also mark the milestone of the opening cycle for the next release, OpenNebula 4.2. This cycle will start with an IRC meeting this Thursday 16th at 17:00 CEST to discuss the requests for new features and for extending existing features. This valuable input will be used to create the short-term…
OpenNebula Newsletter – May 2013

Tino Vazquez

9 May 2013 | 10:05 am

Here’s our monthly newsletter, a bit delayed due to the release effort (sorry folks!), with the main news from the last month, including what you can expect in the coming months. Technology OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle has been released this month, with the new Sunstone aspect and the new awesome features: Sunstone Views functionality, a whole new set of operations for VMs like system and disk snapshotting, capacity resizing, programmable VM actions, IPv6, new drivers also, like Ceph; as well as improvements for VMware, KVM and Xen. The Sandboxes have been updated to 4.0, so if you want to try out…

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Has The Cloud Stepped Out Of Infancy? (And How You Can Benefit From Its Growth)

sourya

24 May 2013 | 9:18 am

Has The Cloud Stepped Out of Infancy? (And How You Can Benefit From Its Growth) “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955), possibly the smartest man in the last century. When we speak of cloud computing, we often speak of its relative infancy. We cite the lack of standards, the lack of understanding, the limited adoption as symptoms of cloud computing’s newness in the technological…
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Staff Relocation

David

24 May 2013 | 5:09 am

The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Staff Relocation By David Fletcher Our comic collection has simply taken the light side of cloud computing to a whole new level. So after a long day’s work in the cloud, you can stop by our comic library for that much deserved moment of fun before you call it a day. Review the full library For the reuse of our CloudTweaks comic images for print, web or related, please contact us regarding. The post The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Staff Relocation appeared first on CloudTweaks.
Cloud College: Room Still Smells Like Grapes

Chris Kenealy

24 May 2013 | 4:35 am

Cloud College: Room Stills Smells Like Grapes In light of recent college graduates leaving the fake world of percentages labeled on their work letting you know just how hard you tried, compared to, “Do it again or your fired.” I am thinking stress levels maybe a bit high. I certainly remember after I graduated I would sleep under my bed with all text books because the bed was not a futon. I also bought a thousand scratch and sniff good job stickers too, and I put them on everything I did. My room still smells like grapes. Of course I ran out of these stickers and I was forced to become an…
Cloud Infographic: Raise Your Cloud IQ

cloudtweaks

24 May 2013 | 3:43 am

Cloud Infographic: Raise Your Cloud IQ What Is? Data Center A purpose-built facility for housing ICT resources, e.g. computing servers and telecommunications equipment. Very large enterprises (e.g. Facebook, Google) operate their own facilities. Others are “carrier neutral” and make up the points of presence for telecoms firms to build their networks and that make up the Internet’s backbone. Some are used expressly to provide colocation services to business customers. Datacentres are also the “homes” of cloud services… Virtualization In a technology environment, a concept…
UAE’s Cloud Computing As Security On An Upward March According To Latest Analysis

John

24 May 2013 | 2:02 am

UAE’s Cloud Computing as Security on an Upward March according to Latest Analysis Despite ranking as one of the telltale recipients of spam, en masse, on the planet, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has faced all odds and championed the cloud like no other country in the Gulf. A reputable research agency, on tech matters, has provided the latest details on this progress, to the effect that cloud computing security is taking a life of its own in the UAE. Reports show that the nation’s gross returns on the security wing, alone, inside the cloud industry was about $8.7M in 2012, and…

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Adobe’s Out of Box Thinking and Into the Cloud

Rob OShaughnessy

21 May 2013 | 5:07 am

By Rob O’Shaughnessy, Software Licensing Specialist I attended Adobe’s MAX conference in rainy, LA, California last week and I felt bad, as a local, that a lot of travelers had to witness our once a quarter rainfall, however with all the forest fires ranging around SoCal it was an unexpected relief. Adobe put some fires out on their own by providing some great insight as to what they are doing to the software community. It was the first time that partners and Adobe sales team members were invited to this mostly technical event. The room was divided between the cool…
The Buzz Around Software Defined Networking

Nick Phelps

16 May 2013 | 5:56 am

By Nick Phelps, Consulting Architect, LogicsOne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51KAxPOrt4 One of the emerging trends in our industry that is stirring up some buzz right now is software defined networking. In this short video I answer the following questions about SDN: What is Software Defined Networking or SDN? Who has this technology deployed and how are they using it? What does SDN mean to the small to mid-market? When will the mid-market realize the benefits from SDN based offerings? When will we hear more? When should we expect the next update? What are your…
EMC World 2013 Recap

Randy Weis

14 May 2013 | 4:54 am

By Randy Weis, Consulting Architect, LogicsOne The EMC World Conference held last week in Las Vegas demonstrated how EMC has a strong leadership position in the Virtualization, Storage and Software Defined Datacenter markets. Seriously, this is not the Kool-Aid talking. Before anyone jumps in to point out how all the competitors are better at this or that, or how being a partner or customer of EMC has its challenges, I’d like to refer you to a previous blog I wrote about EMC: “EMC Leads the Storage Market for a Reason.” I won’t recap everything, but that blog talks about…
Huh? What’s the Network Have to Do with It?

Nate Schnable

10 May 2013 | 8:03 am

By Nate Schnable, Sr. Solutions Architect Having been in this field for 17 years it still amazes me that people always tend to forget about the network. Everything a user accesses on their device that isn’t installed or stored locally, depends on the network more than any other element of the environment. It’s responsible for the quick and reliable transport of data. That means the user experience while working with remote files and applications, almost completely depends on the network. However, this isn’t always obvious to everyone. Therefore, they will rarely ask for…
Key Benefits of vCenter Operations Management Suite

Chris Chesley

8 May 2013 | 5:55 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAuxPuB9Qw In this video, I talk about the benefits of using vCenter Operations Management Suite. If you’ve used the suite, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on it.

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Before You Build Your First ZenPack, Read This Post [Part 2]

Robyn Weisman

14 May 2013 | 11:14 am

As I mentioned in Part 1 of my series on ZenPacks, you can find hundreds of ZenPacks on the Zenoss Wiki Page. But you may need a ZenPack to monitor a service that hasn’t been publicly posted (if you happen to make one for Google TV, please be sure to let Dave Winter know). Lucky for you, the larger Zenoss community has developed standards and best practices to follow. But having the tools to create ZenPacks doesn’t justify building your own ZenPack, similar to how having the ability to write applications doesn’t necessarily merit doing so. So what steps do you need to take before…
Zenoss vs. Zenoss: The Definitive Duel Between Our Free & Paid Versions

Jennifer Darrouzet

8 May 2013 | 2:55 pm

Does this sound familiar? “I just gave a demo of Zenoss Core to my supervisor and he liked what he saw. He asked about the costs/merits of the commercial product versus the community version…I’d like to be able to give him a good ball park figure as well as what it gets us versus the free version.” We get inquiries like this day-in and day-out: “What’s the difference between Zenoss Core and Zenoss Enterprise / Service Dynamics(SD)?” “Do you have any comparison of Zenoss Core to Zenoss (table of features, screenshoots …)” “Is there a Zenoss Core vs Zenoss Dynamics…
Why ZaaS Will Change Your Life [Webinar Recap]

Robyn Weisman

1 May 2013 | 10:18 pm

Last Friday Kent Erickson, Deepak Kanwar, and David Winter of Zenoss hosted a webinar with the unassuming title Optimize IT Operations for Data Center Efficiency, which for the most part felt like a review session of the major topics discussed on this blog over the past few months. For the first two-thirds of the webcast, Kent et al. discussed the problems caused by the proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, the resistance within IT shops in breaking down IT silos, and the inability of many organizations to maintain even 99.0% uptime for its mission-critical applications. If…
DevOps Days Austin 2013 Recap – Not Another Flash in the Pan

Chet Luther

1 May 2013 | 9:30 pm

The DevOpsDays conference came to Zenoss’ and my home new hometown of Austin, TX over the last two days. Zenoss was one of the sponsors for the event, and I was fortunate enough to attend. Going back through the blog, you can see that we’re no strangers to talking about DevOps. There are many reasons for this. As a software company focused on systems management, we epitomize DevOps at least in the literal semantic sense. More realistically, as we’ve built Zenoss to be the best system for monitoring a wide variety of resources from routers to firewalls to load balancers to storage to…
3 Things You Wanted to Know About ZenPacks (But Were Afraid to Ask) [Part 1]

Robyn Weisman

25 Apr 2013 | 3:28 pm

I must make a confession. I’ve written posts for the Zenoss blog for about two years, but up until recently, I didn’t really understand what ZenPacks were. I knew they had something to do with open source and something to do with customization, but if you had asked me anything beyond that, I would have been forced to plead ignorance. Well, not anymore. It finally dawned on me that if I didn’t understand the concept of the ZenPack, plenty of business people probably didn’t either. And when you don’t understand something, you tend to discount its value. The possibility that IT…

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VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating Applications

Videos

25 May 2013 | 6:55 pm

VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Creating Applications vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an application using the vCenter Operations Manager custom U...
VirtuaDesk™ – Revolutionizing Desktop and Application Virtualization

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25 May 2013 | 2:53 pm

VirtuaDesk™ - Revolutionizing Desktop and Application Virtualization Social, mobile, big data and cloud are converging; these technologies are ...
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application Owner

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25 May 2013 | 9:55 am

VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Application Owner vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for an application owne...
VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Executive User

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25 May 2013 | 9:54 am

VMware vC Ops Tech Tip: Building a Dashboard for an Executive User vC Ops Tech Tip: Overview of how to create an dashboard for an executive user (CEO...
Citrix Synergy Geek Speak Tonight! – Desktop virtualization deployments

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25 May 2013 | 4:55 am

Citrix Synergy Geek Speak Tonight! - Desktop virtualization deployments If you follow a few simple principles, desktop virtualization projects are pr...

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Rent A Server

Pravin Ganore

25 May 2013 | 1:06 am

The essence of the server rental service is that, the user is provided with virtual dedicated server hosting. If an organization is having control to the operating system of dedicated hosting, it is almost the same as when using the physical hosting or a dedicated server. When you Rent a Server, it also provides, for example, getting your own IP-address, root-directory access, handling ports, making the routing tables. In this case, server rental is cheaper. Leased virtual server can be used to create your own versions of system libraries. Using Vds server, you can add or, alternatively,…
Updated Data On The Growth Of The Internet In India

Pravin Ganore

24 May 2013 | 1:35 am

The internet is one of the fastest growing media in today’s India and the world, everyone knows. But even living in this digital age, many business owners are still close to this online world and do not want to believe that having a digital presence today, it is absolutely necessary. Therefore, we have compiled some data on the current growth of the Internet in India, to help you convince that customer basis with more resistant to digital. A survey showed how technology in India is becoming more democratic. The latest survey showed that Indians with low-income are also connected to the…
Difference Between Virtualization And Cloud Computing

Pravin Ganore

10 May 2013 | 2:01 am

The distinction between Virtualization and Cloud Computing is crucial and necessary for business. For many companies and professionals both are the same. Although Cloud computing uses virtualization, virtualization and cloud computing are not the same thing. They treat IT challenges in various sizes and operated at different scopes with different levels of impact on a business. Some quick comparisons between virtualization and cloud computing solutions: Virtualization is technical, Cloud Computing is business Virtualization is for technical IT, Cloud Computing is for all Virtualization is not…
Disaster Recovery – Your Contact Center Is Ready?

Pravin Ganore

1 May 2013 | 11:17 pm

With scenes of earthquakes, floods and tsunamis in different regions of the world, still fresh in our memory, companies are more aware than ever that are planning and doing preparation, especially with regard to critical business systems, such as contact centers, are fundamental. Legislative initiatives, now require that companies analyze how they can support their contact center in a disaster situation. There are several factors that companies should consider when planning a full program of disaster recovery. We must consider all possibilities, but especially, to recognize that the term…
Being an Entrepreneur

Piyush Somani

28 Apr 2013 | 9:30 pm

First thing you should know before you continue reading; there’s no such Rocket science or some Theorem or Algebraic Formula to become an Entrepreneur. Each and every Entrepreneur we know is different from the other. There are similarities between Entrepreneurs and we will walk through those in continuation with this article. Before we discuss about those similarities, please take a pause for few seconds and list out your favorite top 10 Entrepreneurs….. Most of us look at Steve Jobs(Apple), Bill Gates(Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook), Larry Page and Sergey Brin(Google), Jeff…

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Backblaze on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Lee

16 May 2013 | 10:48 am

I don’t spend a lot of time watching talk shows, you know to busy posting photos on Google+, Facebook and Twitter who has time to watch TV. In case you missed this like I did Backblaze was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. You can watch the clip above. They gave away a whole bunch of iPad Mini’s and a free year of Backblaze to the audience. Looks like the crowd made off with a pretty good collection of free stuff on that episode. I suspect none of them will take the iPad Mini and blend it in the Blendtec blender. If you case you are wondering what that would be like here is one of…
Backblaze Wins Best Cloud Storage & Back Up Solution

Lee

15 May 2013 | 11:39 pm

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) awarded Backblaze the 2013 award for Best Cloud Storage and Back Up Solution. While that is no surprise to me, since they are the number one rated cloud backup solution here. It looks like this might have been a new category this year. Looking back at past years there is no mention of cloud backup or storage. A great honor for Backblaze to win and it is a nice trophy as mentioned in the Backblaze blog post. Want to know more about Backblaze? Read our complete Backblaze review for more information. Start Backing up with Backblaze Click…
Copy Offers 15GB Free Storage

Lee

15 May 2013 | 10:44 pm

Google recently announced that they are offering 15GB of combined free space across Drive, Google+ photos, and Gmail that can be used as they wish. Copy, the recently launched cloud storage service from Barracuda Networks, has decided to copy Google and also offer users 15GB of free storage. The offer is good for all existing and new users that sign up so everyone can take advantage of the extra free space. Of course if they decided to copy MEGA and offer 50GB of free space that would be great! The other bit of news from Copy is their new Fair Storage plan. This is a great idea that would be…
Top 3 Reasons Customers Choose TAPNET’s LiveDrive for Cloud Storage

Lee

13 May 2013 | 10:57 am

It has been suggested that John and now myself have been unfair to Livedrive resellers in our assessment of their services. The opportunity to explain what makes a Livedrive reseller better than purchasing straight from Livedrive had been offered to other resellers but guests posts were never sent in. Recently however TAPNET purchased some advertising space here and I thought this would be a great opportunity to have a Livedrive reseller tell us why they choose to reseller Livedrive. This guest post is written by TAPNET. Back in 1997, TAPNET started as a software…
7 Ways to Backup Your Google Account

Lee

10 May 2013 | 2:02 pm

If you have made the switch to using cloud based services like Google Apps for your business or even just for personal use you probably don’t worry about backing up your data as often as you would if it was sitting on your desktop. It can be easy to think that Google will keep your data safe, but if your account is hacked, Google disables your account or if Google does lose your data, what will you do. If you are using a number of Google cloud services like Gmail, Drive etc for your personal use or Google Apps for your business, then finding a service that can help backup all of those…

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This Week in Cloud, May 16, 2013: The rogue cloud crackdown, IT departments are the new CSPs, Cloud failure points. And more…

Cloud Commons

16 May 2013 | 5:58 am

CA World 2013! The Smart Enterprise team spent time at CA World 2013 capturing key stories, major announcements, and interviews with thought leaders on the show floor. View the coverage on Smart Enterprise. Cloud News A survey by PMG reveals that companies are starting to crackdown on employees’ use of rogue cloud services, according to this Forbes article. Compliance and security concerns are leading the drive to tougher restrictions on services like DropBox, Skype, and social media sites. A new survey by InformationWeek reveals that 40% of companies are now using cloud services and 51% of…
This Week in Cloud, May 9, 2013: U.K. issues cloud-first policy, Dell acquires Enstratius, OpenStack’s growing pains. And more…

Cloud Commons

9 May 2013 | 11:28 am

CA World 2013! The Smart Enterprise team spent time at CA World 2013 capturing key stories, major announcements, and interviews with thought leaders on the show floor. View the coverage on Smart Enterprise. Cloud News The U.K. government announced that it plans to formally adopt a cloud-first policy, according to this InformationWeek article. As part of the cloud-first policy, government agencies will be required to evaluate cloud solutions to meet their IT needs before considering other options. Dell announced that it is purchasing Enstratius, a cloud computing startup that provides tools…
This Week in Cloud, April 18, 2013: AWS Certification Program, CloudStore 300% sales increase, 25% of companies in cloud. And more…

Cloud Commons

2 May 2013 | 7:50 am

CA World 2013! The Smart Enterprise team just returned from CA World 2013 where they were writing blogs, live tweeting, and shooting interviews and booth walkthroughs. You can view the coverage on Smart Enterprise. Cloud News Amazon announced a new certification program that’s intended to show a person’s ability to write specifications, build, run and manage an AWS implementation, according to this GigaOM article. The certification program is targeted toward solutions architects, SysOps administrators, and developers. In March, the U.K. Government’s CloudStore increased sales by 300%…
This Week in Cloud, April 26, 2013: AWS S3 reaches 2 trillion objects, CA Technologies acquires Layer 7 & Nolio, CSA cloud guidelines for SMBs. And more…

Cloud Commons

26 Apr 2013 | 12:18 pm

CA World 2013! The Smart Enterprise team just returned from CA World 2013 where they were writing blogs, live tweeting, and shooting interviews and booth walkthroughs. You can view the coverage on Smart Enterprise. Cloud News Amazon announced this week that there are currently two trillion objects now stored in S3, according to this CloudTech article. Jeff Barr, AWS chief evangelist, stated that it took six years for AWS to reach one trillion objects in S3 and one year to double that number. The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced a new membership level and working groups to educate SMBs…
This Week in Cloud, April 18, 2013: Cloud-based security market to reach $4.2B by 2016, Cloud TCO analysis. And more…

Cloud Commons

18 Apr 2013 | 7:03 am

CloudViews Unplugged! In the latest episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss the hard truths of cloud computing, cloud tax laws, robots leveraging the cloud to complete complex tasks and more. Cloud News Gartner predicts that the cloud-based security market will grow to $4.2 billion by 2016, according to this ZDNet article. The growth will be driven by businesses looking to reduce IT security related expenses by moving security products from on-premise to the cloud. A new study reveals that small and medium businesses in Australia that have moved…

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Cloud and App Developers’ Cooperation

Olga

20 May 2013 | 8:31 am

In the previous post I considered a question about how important is the integration of a Cloud Service with different applications. The question was researched from the position of a Cloud user, but if you think widely, there are various sides. From the one side the Cloud user gets the integration with required software and is happy to choose a particular Cloud Service (I gave the example of Box). That is a call for Cloud Service developers to move in the direction of creating APIs that facilitate the integration with their Cloud. But the word ‘integration’ implies the cooperation…
Versatile Box

Olga

13 May 2013 | 3:36 am

Probably most of you have already heard of Box – a powerful cloud service for Enterprise and Business users. If you try to surf through the Box.com, you’ll find lots of information on enterprise use cases: about how this or that ‘Popular company’ uses Box service for collaboration, as well as recommendations on how to integrate Box into your own industry or business. With no doubt, it’s impressive! But what if you want to start using Box for personal needs? Many people are more likely to try something new, if it is clear and easy to understand (if you look at the…
Different Cloud Storages Promotions

Nataly

11 Oct 2012 | 3:48 am

Cloud providers working very hard in order to invent and improve the ways to promote their new features to customers. And I think Dropbox is one of those new really great things on marketing! Today I would like to tell you a bit about how to get more free space in Dropbox. Well, for many of you it might not be a real news because it’s been on the market for a couple of months already. However, I personally have found out about this information just recently. They give you 500 MB of free Dropbox space for every 500 MB you upload via Camera Upload (it is only up to a total of 3 GB). I…
Conversation as an important feature for cloud service

Nataly

22 Aug 2012 | 2:36 am

Today there is a variety of different cloud services and all of them offer almost identical set of functions. So there is simple question “Which one to choose? ”. As for me, one of the most interesting and desired features, which has recently started to be offered by developers is a conversation or chat. It is deffinitely much easier, more productive and quicker to discuss a specific topic or project within the folder, to which collaborators are invited to work on the project. This feature greatly speeds up the work, making it more efficient. Some of the cloud industry leaders, such as…
Welcome Google Drive!

Nataly

11 Jul 2012 | 3:27 am

Google Drive – Google’s long-awaited cloud storage service is finally released this year. Similar to other cloud services, the first few gigabytes are free. Google offers users 5 GB of storage for free, but subscription costs kick in when users upgrade to 25 GB for $2.49/month. Other plans include 100 GB for $4.99 per month, a full TB for $49.99 per month or up to 16 TB for $799.99. Upgrading to a paid plain also expands a Gmail account user’s inbox to 25 GB. In comparison with, for example, Dropbox, which offers only 2 GB of free storage, the low cost and generous amounts…

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Why global ICT spending will reach $3.7 trillion in 2013

24 May 2013 | 1:30 am

Economic uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government sequester, European debt crisis and weakening GDP in China has resulted in volatile spending patterns across most segments of the market. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), as a result of the current economic climate, business technology spending was slightly below expectations in the second half of 2012 and first quarter of 2013. IDC now projects worldwide IT spending growth of 4.9 percent this year in constant currency, down from the previous forecast of 5.5 percent growth -- and representing a…
It's not you, it's me: How IT can stop the mobility-cloud break up

24 May 2013 | 12:25 am

Enterprises see a lot of promise in mobile devices. Their users should be more productive now that they can craft presentations on the go. Their employees should have more opportunities to collaborate now that they can share documents anytime via their smartphones. Right? Well, not really. For too many businesses, the promise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has been swallowed up by mobile workflow challenges and insecure, consumer-grade cloud sharing solutions. It would be easy to predict the break-up of mobility and the cloud, but this is a relationship worth saving. Doing so,…
Latest cloud computing report shows benefits exceed expectations

24 May 2013 | 12:25 am

A report from CA Technologies, entitled ‘Cloud Succeeds. Now What?’ has revealed that, for many companies polled, their cloud solutions have been more successful than they were expecting. The train of thought here, of course, has to wonder what those expectations were, especially in a week where service level agreements (SLAs) are at the forefront following 100% SLA provider Mimecast’s outage. Yet for companies experienced with cloud, the report notes that more sophisticated systems are being demanded, such as end-to-end automation, more flexible service-level management and…
7 causes of security paralysis and cloud-based cures

23 May 2013 | 7:45 am

Over and over again we are pummeled with statistics on how risk is growing in disproportion to security readiness. -91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source. -90% of all cyber crime costs are those caused by web attacks, malicious code and malicious insiders. -40% reported rogue cloud issues (shadow IT) experienced the exposure of confidential information as a result -34% share passwords with their co-workers for applications like FedEx, Twitter, Staples, LinkedIn. These are real stats from studies by like Gartner, Forrester, Ponemon, Kaspersky,…
Global spend on cloud-based integration platforms to touch $3.7bn by 2018

23 May 2013 | 1:15 am

Saurabh Sharma, Senior Analyst, IT SolutionsOvum’s Integration Middleware Global Market Forecast Model estimates that the spend on cloud-based integration platforms will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31% between 2012 and 2018, reaching $3.7bn by the end of 2018. Over the same period, spending on cloud-based integration platforms in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions will grow at CAGRs of 27% and 44% respectively. The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) cloud-based integration platforms market is expected to grow from $274m in 2013 to $905m by the end of 2018. The…

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Open Sourced: IRC Customer Support Modules for madcow

tarag

23 May 2013 | 4:43 pm

Last month, we had a hackathon here at ActiveState. I spent some time creating a collection of modules for Chris Jones' madcow IRC bot that would be useful to our dev and support team members. You see, we've got this IRC channel on freenode: #stackato A lot of our customers and folks just kicking Stackato's tires, pop into this channel to ask questions. I'd hear my co-workers ask each other who specific nicks belonged to. This sparked the idea for these modules that improve the customer support experience in the channel. Staff Module This module alllows users to be marked as…
DevOps: Who We Are and Where We Are Going

danr

21 May 2013 | 12:25 pm

Everything old is new again, including perennial quesions about the human condition. Here at ActiveState, we got to talking the other day about a recent DevOps paper by Dave Zwieback, The Human Side of Postmortems, published by O'Reilly in 2013. This paper discusses human performance under stress, citing a much earlier study by Yerkes and Dodson which examines the effects of stress on cognitive ability in mice. Although the study was published over a hundred years ago, largely forgotten for the first half of the century, and largely misrepresented through the second, its…
Private PaaS Makes Application Portability Easy for DevOps

isabelleg

16 May 2013 | 1:42 pm

For most IT staff, once cloud infrastructure is implemented, flexibility becomes challenging. What happens if project requirements, features or budget changes, and the cloud model doesn't fit as well as originally planned? Luckily, there is a solution. Private Platform as a Service (PaaS) empowers IT and DevOps to take control and shift applications from one cloud environment to another. This week, ActiveState's developer evangelist John Wetherill and cloud engineer Ho Ming Li gave insights on how private PaaS enables development on various cloud infrastructures in a webinar,…
A Small Simple App

philw

15 May 2013 | 12:39 pm

A Small Simple App This is a fictional story, based in reality. It sounds as if the idea I have will work. Feedback has been good, and I did not get slammed on Hacker News. There's a nice flow of people signing up on the landing page, so I think I should be able to get a few people kicking the tires as soon as I have something live. It should only take me the best part of this weekend to get a simple version of my app up and start iterating, so let's get cracking... Write some code. Database schema. Add controller. Add view. jQuery. Backbone.js? Get some servers. Linode? AWS?
From DevOps to Private PaaS: Bridging the Divide

isabelleg

10 May 2013 | 10:38 am

Interviewed by Cloudcast's Aaron Delp, Bart Copeland and John Wetherill engaged in a lively discussion on how developers are adopting DevOps models and how polyglot PaaS technologies are deployed in the enterprise. "We understand open source, developers, and the enterprise," said Bart Copeland who presented ActiveState and Stackato. "The intersection of those three things is how we built the company." Asked about the big trends impacting developers in the enterprise environment, developer evangelist John Wetherill talked about big data, and "the ability for…

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A New Realism Emerges as Enterprises Move to Cloud

24 May 2013 | 3:45 pm

More companies are beginning to realize that moving to the cloud will require a multi-year plan and many changes to existing business processes.
AlephCloud Raises Millions for Secure Cloud Content

24 May 2013 | 9:40 am

What is the right model for protecting data in the cloud?
Dell Quits Public Cloud Race, Enlists Partners

21 May 2013 | 1:09 pm

Dell stops sales of its public cloud IaaS offerings. Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag will pick up the slack.
VMware Bridges the Gap Between IT and the Cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service

21 May 2013 | 11:44 am

VMware jumps into the public cloud market with new dedicated and virtual private cloud capabilities.
Nebula Cosmos, OpenStack and Cloud Security [VIDEO]

17 May 2013 | 1:27 pm

Former CTO of NASA explains what makes a Nebula OpenStack cloud and discusses the intersection of AWS and security.

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Now accepting payments by PayPal

Elastichosts

7 May 2013 | 8:18 am

We’re pleased to let you know that we’re now accepting payments by PayPal. Simply log in to your Account, go to Subscriptions or Billing, follow the instructions, under ‘Make your payment’ select ‘Pay with new PayPal’ or ‘Pay with PayPal one-off payment’. Pay with American Express in USD or EUR via PayPal You can ...read moreThe post Now accepting payments by PayPal appeared first on .
New Features Spring 2013

Elastichosts

25 Apr 2013 | 3:58 am

We’re thrilled to tell you about our exciting new features we’ve launched for Elastichosts’ Cloud Server users this Spring: New features: In-browser VNC for new servers. Go to ‘Control Panel’, ensure your server is on and click ‘Show screen’, voila! Works best in Chrome and Firefox web browsers. ‘Submit ticket’ function now available from ‘Support’ ...read moreThe post New Features Spring 2013 appeared first on .
12 Months Hosting for the price of 10!

Elastichosts

23 Apr 2013 | 8:21 am

You can benefit from 12 months of Cloud Server Hosting for the price of 10*, that’s a saving of over 16%. This is a great value offer and is ideal if you’re looking to save on costs, financial administration and want to stay hassle-free for the next 12 months. This is a flexible offer: you ...read moreThe post 12 Months Hosting for the price of 10! appeared first on .
No time for server management? Try Managed Cloud Servers

Elastichosts

26 Mar 2013 | 8:51 am

Do you want to run servers in the cloud, but don’t have the time or aren’t sure how to do so? Then why not take a look at our Managed Cloud Servers, offered in partnership with Cloudways. Benefits of Managed Cloud Servers: Custom Setup – Data migration from shared or dedicated hosting and other ...read moreThe post No time for server management? Try Managed Cloud Servers appeared first on .
New Tutorials – How to Set up a VPN on Elastichosts

Elastichosts

4 Mar 2013 | 3:51 am

We’ve put together new tutorials that explain how to set up a Linux or Windows VPN server on your Elastichosts virtual machine, and connect securely through this VPN server from your local office workstations. Check them out: Creating your Server: Linux L2TP/IPsec VPN server >> Windows L2TP/IPsec VPN server >> Connecting to your VPN: ...read moreThe post New Tutorials – How to Set up a VPN on Elastichosts appeared first on .

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Backups as a Cloud Service - an Alternative View

28 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

In most databases, very small percentage of data changes between SQL Server backups. We tolerate this because it keeps things simple, and we have grown used to cheap storage and fast networks. To exploit the value of Cloud services, should we be rethinking this in favour of backup strategies that optimise resilience and minimise downtime?
Uploading Data to Windows Azure SQL Database

28 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

One way of getting the advantages of the Cloud without having to migrate the entire database is to just maintain a copy of the data that needs to be accessible to internet-based users in Windows Azure SQL Database. There are various ways of keeping the two in sync, and Feodor describes a solution based in using SSIS
Data Science Laboratory System - Programming and Scripting Languages

15 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

Although every computer language is suitable for data, some languages lend themselves especially well for working with certain types or sources of data, or processing the data in certain ways, and so are of particular use to the data scientist.
Azure SQL Database Maintenance

21 Mar 2013 | 5:00 pm

It is increasingly likely that DBAs are now given responsibility for maintaining Azure SQL databases as well as conventional SQL Server databases. What is likely to be required by way of maintenence? What are the differences?
Planning for Failure in Cloud Applications

19 Mar 2013 | 5:00 pm

Any IT application will suffer a failure at some point. A well-designed application can accomodate failure by reacting in such a way as to minimise the effect: to fail gracefully. Good Cloud software design should plan around mitigating the consequences of failure of any part of the system

The Cloud Strategy Blog
Oldest Companies on Earth

David

12 May 2013 | 6:41 am

Would it sound strange to you if we compared life expectancy of humans Vs companies? Because if we did, you’d be surprised how immaturely companies die – and I’m talking about the Fortune 500 category here. With life expectancy of 45 years on average (this is how long humans lived for in the 16th century), the biggest and brightest American companies proudly grow huge and die early. And while growing, most of them ignore the fact that there are over 5 thousand companies out there today who survived at least two centuries. Some even a thousand years or more. Learning from these…
How to turn an unfulfilled wish into 1 million downloads – The travelling intrapreneur

David

1 May 2013 | 1:46 am

During my recent startup tour in Athens, Greece, I bumped into Dimitris and Manos, a duo of serial entrepreneurs. In this post, I’m hunting the secret of what it takes to reach 1 million downloads for a mobile app. Do you think Greece is slow motion? Keep reading … Straight to the point: what does it take to reach 1 million downloads for a mobile app? – I asked Manos. Well, you must know first that I love playing Blackjack. I was looking for a live multi-player Blackjack app and guess … I couldn’t find any in the Android store. It was clearly a (market) gap…
The “we ended up doing it ourselves” mentality. Render.st & The Travelling Intrapreneur

David

18 Mar 2013 | 7:08 am

I’ve met this startup of 3 entrepreneurs while on my startup tour in Bucharest. I heard that they built a service that “renders good looking streets and buildings” !? – I have to see this! Well, my wife – the other founder – has been working a lot with 3D models – says Sorin on the left. She’s been always bugging me to buy stronger computers because she didn’t have the patience to wait for hours or a day for a complex model to render. With the kids having a nap for an hour or two, time gets precious, you know. I wanted to help her and went searching for the big rendering…
The travelling intrapreneur: Solitaire being a lonely game is not fair. They changed the status quo. Solitaire Arena by Mavenhut

David

11 Mar 2013 | 9:55 am

While on my latest startup tour in Bucharest, I’ve met the Mavenhut folks who famously got a hundred thousand users within 3 months by launching a social solitaire (?) game. I couldn’t wait to see them in person. Zoli Herczeg, my partner in hunting and crime in Romania drove me to their hiding place. Their office is in a special area in Bucharest, surrounded by tall post-communist block houses. Their modern office building sticks out like a time machine that’s been teleported there by accident. 10 gals and girls standing at the door, smoking – I shook hands friendly with each one of…
Napkin Series: Hardware as a Single Point of Failure? Not really …

David

7 Feb 2013 | 11:50 am

Looking at the root cause of several cloud outages, it’s neither power outage, nor hardware crash. Not even natural disaster. We made hardware, disks, network, cooling, power, even data centers redundant and we arrived at the next challenge: the software. The software that runs in these super-redundant units has became the single point of failure. With the same software running in multiple locations, one little bug can stop everything at the same time, despite the redundant hardware. Windows Azure and other cloud services do a great job in rolling out software updates at multiple…

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Link Your Information: Use MS Outlook and MS OneNote as a Team

TechBlogger

5 May 2013 | 10:54 pm

OneNote makes a perfect team with the other components of the Microsoft Office system. For example, you can create a diagram of your current quarter’s results in Excel and copy this page to the meeting preparation page in OneNote where, during the past few weeks, you have been gathering ideas that you want to discuss with your colleagues. Or somebody sends you a Word document containing a report summary that you insert as a picture. You use a text marker to highlight specific sections and comment with handwritten keywords (see the “How to add documents as pictures” procedure earlier in…
Understanding the Cloud Approach to Services

TechBlogger

25 Mar 2013 | 4:14 am

Today, there is a wide spectrum of services available in the cloud, including messaging solutions, collaborative solutions, identity management solutions, storage solutions, customer relationship management, and many more. Major vendors have also released cloud services based on their widely used on-premises software products. For example, Microsoft has released Office 365, which provides an online version of SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, and Lync Server. Microsoft also provides the Windows Azure platform, which makes the Windows Server operating system and other features available as…
Collaborating with DropBox

TechBlogger

22 Mar 2013 | 4:27 am

So exactly what is dropbox???...........Well Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox will also automatically save to all your computers, phones, and even the Dropbox website. This means that you can start working on your computer at school or the office, and finish on your home computer. Never email yourself a file again! A Dropbox Free accounts come with 2GB of space (deleted files and revisions won’t count against your limit). You can always check your usage by visiting your account settings…
MS Office: Using Layout and Design to Organize Your Content

TechBlogger

8 Feb 2013 | 4:43 am

Design elements should help your content stand out. Good design and layout organizes and emphasizes your content. So, how do you make choices about what design and layout elements will effectively organize your important points? Following are a few suggestions to help you get started. · Choose one or two complementary colors to use in heading text and to highlight key pieces of information, such as shading table cells or bordering a paragraph. Adding small details—for example, using one of your highlight colors for bullets or numbering…
Top 10 benefits of server virtualization - Blade Server guide

TechBlogger

7 Jan 2013 | 11:59 pm

The use of blade servers in enterprise data centers continues to climb. Market analysts peg the growth of x86 blade servers at twice that of the overall server category. Blades have become an essential component of data-center trends such as network convergence, server virtualization and cloud computing over the past few years. The high density, scalability, easy configuration, and lower energy costs offered by blades help to drive business innovation and eliminate server sprawl. What’s more, enterprises that deploy blades are enjoying significant…

The State of Security
VM.3: What to Look for When Purchasing a Vulnerability Management Solution

Andrew Storms

23 May 2013 | 9:05 pm

How Good is Your Vulnerability Management Shopping List? Buyers always identify multiple factors when they evaluate technical solutions, and they try to choose the features that are most important to their business to navigate the sea of possible solutions. It’s important to define the most important qualities for your unique business when you’re considering the… Read More
Study: Security Pros Unable to Effectively Communicate with Executives

Shelley Boose

23 May 2013 | 9:00 pm

Tripwire has announced the results of a survey of 131 information security professionals that revealed key differences between the way executive and non-executive IT professionals communicate with senior leadership. The online survey was conducted this year between January and March by Hanover Research. Key survey findings include: Only 38% of non-executive respondents use business-oriented language… Read More
Security Slice: The SEC and Connecting Security to the Business

Eva Hanscom

23 May 2013 | 9:00 am

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is currently reviewing whether public companies should divulge more information on cyber-attacks and risks that impact their networks to their investors. Will the SEC guidelines help companies connect security to their businesses? Listen to Episode 77 of our Security Slice podcast and hear Tim Erlin and Dwayne Melançon discuss… Read More
Infosec Gurus on Positioning Security as a Business Enabler

Anthony M Freed

22 May 2013 | 9:05 pm

Infosec gurus Dwayne Melancon, Brian Honan, Nigel Stanley, Neira Jones, Sarb Sembhi, Simon Heron, and Amar Singh offer insight on how to better connect security to the business in order to allow your efforts to be seen as being an important enabler for the organization’s primary objectives. Special thanks to @twistandshoutUK for video production. … Read More
BSidesLV Preview: The Object Monitor for Enhanced Network Security (OMENS)

Anthony M Freed

22 May 2013 | 9:00 pm

Security BSides Las Vegas – which this year will be held at the Tuscany Suites & Casino on July 31st & August 1st – is just around the corner, so we decided to run a short series highlighting some of the fantastic presentations that are slated for the event. First up is a session by… Read More

Open Source Enterprise Social Platform | eXo Blog and News
Video Chat in eXo Platform 4 with Weemo

Benjamin Paillereau

22 May 2013 | 8:00 pm

eXo Platform 4 comes equipped with a complete set of features right out of the box. Still, you may miss engaging with your co-workers directly using video and screen sharing. Of course, you could use third-party solutions like Webex or GoToMeeting, but wouldn’t it be great to have all these features available directly inside your [...]
eXo All Around the Web: How to Follow Us

Julien Brulland

22 May 2013 | 6:00 am

We are big fans of social networks and of sharing websites here at eXo. This is because 1) social networking and knowledge sharing are strongly incorporated into our DNA as Enterprise Social Platform providers, and 2) because of our open-source community with whom we love to share news, how-to articles, and all the cool stuff [...]
How we customized Eclipse Infocenter for the new eXo documentation website

maydt

17 May 2013 | 1:35 am

Eclipse offers plugin developers the ability to add help documentation for their plugins locally or online. Opening that help will give you a nice window with searchable help, something like this: with different areas: Banner Searching area Table of content toolbar Items tree View tabs Content toolbar Content area Breadcrumbs Item tree displays list of [...]
eXo Platform 4 Highlights: Files Management

Benjamin Paillereau

9 May 2013 | 5:00 am

Platform 4 is finally there. We prepared a few articles so you can discover what’s in the best version we ever released. Today’s one is about Files and Documents Management, one of oldest and core features of our platform. Simple Design Of course, as part of the great effort made on eXo Platform 4 in [...]
eXo Platform 4 Highlights: Designs and User Experience

Benjamin Paillereau

7 May 2013 | 4:46 am

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6 cool things about the new Google Play Music app

JR Raphael

21 May 2013 | 8:52 am

The new Google Play Music app packs in plenty of fresh functionality and design. From the big stuff to the smaller details, here are six cool things worth checking out.
Google's new weapon in the Android upgrade battle

JR Raphael

20 May 2013 | 10:57 am

Google's got a bold new plan for the Android platform -- and if you own an Android device new or old, you'd better believe it'll affect you.
Google cloud attacks Amazon and Azure at I/O

Richi Jennings

16 May 2013 | 3:16 am

Urs Hölzle gets excited. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announces new cloud stuff. The huge ad broker wants to compete better with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS/EC2. Among the highlights: New pricing, shared instances, replicated NoSQL, and PHP. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers sort out the details.
Google I/O 2013: 11 important things you might have missed

JR Raphael

15 May 2013 | 4:53 pm

This year's Google I/O conference has been a bit unusual -- but it certainly hasn't been quiet. Here are 11 important things that have happened so far.
Google I/O 2013: Live blog and streaming video

JR Raphael

15 May 2013 | 3:00 am

Google's I/O 2013 developers' conference kicks off this morning -- and we've got you covered. Click inside for live play-by-play commentary and streaming video from San Francisco's Moscone Center.

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Customized Solutions on Microsoft Lync Platform

Saru Sawaikar

22 May 2013 | 8:18 am

Investment in a real-time collaborative solution has been doing the rounds lately. Organizations are seen investing in a business-driven enterprise collaboration approach that revolves around a well-defined unified communication strategy with mobile, social and cloud as the core tenets. A mature Unified Communication (UC) function integrated into organizations business processes, in other words ‘customized/tailored’, yields greater benefits for an organisation. It leads to a fast-track route to accomplish their business goals. Harbinger has extensive experience in building customized…
Enterprise Mobility: Trends for 2013

Sushant Saraswat

7 May 2013 | 7:33 am

In today’s enterprise, the consumerization of IT has led to many interesting developments in Enterprise Mobility space. Based on my reading of various industry reports by market analysts, I anticipate that year 2013 will witness these key trends in the world of enterprise mobility. 1- It’s a Multi-Device World People today are using more than one device computer, tablet, phone, etc and they use it in complimentary fashion. Conventional Desktops and laptops are being mainly used to produce information; tablets to consume and smart phones to communicate that information. In this scenario,…
Beyond e-Learning, Towards Real Learning

Anjanikumar Shukla

9 Apr 2013 | 1:47 am

The e-learning ecosystem for last one decade is predominantly revolving around ‘tracking’, ‘monitoring’, ‘supervision’ and the goal of ‘actual learning’ is left behind. Most of the standards followed by the eLearning platforms and content providers quintessentially ensure whether the course has been completed by the learner or not, or how the learner has fared in the assessments. They are less focused on whether the learning has happened or not. The focus has always been to improve the learning content and less has been the focus on understanding the learning patterns of the…
Determining Big Data Strategy: Analyzing Use Cases and Data Pattern

Prachi Kulkarni

27 Mar 2013 | 3:26 am

As mentioned in the earlier blog, First Steps towards Big Data, analyzing and understanding the use cases and data is one of the founding steps in overall big data strategy. This blog will look at various ways we can perform such analysis. Even before we start, there is a pitfall that we should make sure we are avoiding. - In determining the strategy, it is highly essential to remember that the Big Data analysis is only an efficient supporting tool for the overall company strategy. While it may validate conclusions and answer multiple questions — and in rare cases, dramatically affect…
First Steps Towards Big Data

Prachi Kulkarni

19 Feb 2013 | 10:17 pm

Data crunching and analysis has always been the prowess of big organizational giants like Google and Facebook. However, the fact remains that even a small – mid scale organization has a lot of data at its disposal, as well as can benefit from the humongous amount of information available out there. So far these organizations tended to get bogged down by large data sizes and even larger costs related to big data and reached the erroneous conclusion that big data is not their specific cup of tea. Now however, we all know that the big data trend is here to stay. There are both open source and…

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Top 5 Cloud Computing Myths of 2013 [Rackspace Cloud Inforgraphic]

Jeff Cloud

9 May 2013 | 12:30 am

Cloud Computing is the current big technology in the internet. There are lots of companies, from small to huge enterprises, who are taking advantage of the power of the Cloud. Since the day that Cloud Computing was born, there are many myths that revolved with this technology as it grows. Today, let us take a look at Rackspace Cloud’s top 5 Cloud Computing Myths this 2013. The Top Five Cloud Computing Myths of 2013 According to this infographic, the top 5 Cloud Computing myths are: I’m not worried about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Cloud is a Cure-All Cloud Providers’ Data…
Space Monkey – A P2P-Based Cloud Storage Solution

Jeff Cloud

30 Apr 2013 | 10:30 am

Space Monkey was recently introduced by co-founders Alen Peacock and Clint Gorgon-Carroll. This Technology is a new way how you can access cloud storage. Space Monkey is generally an encrypted P2P cloud storage network for your desktop. But it’s not the same with your typical cloud storage solution like Dropbox or Google Drive. Space Monkey is a device that makes it easier for you to gain access to the cloud while you are at your home. In contrast to a conventional P2P storage or network sharing, files uploaded to the cloud storage network using Space Monkey are duplicated into various…
Top 3 Reasons Why Cloud Computing is Good for Business

Jeff Cloud

5 Apr 2013 | 8:52 am

Cloud Computing has become a trend, and it is one of the fastest growing technology to date. Its popularity started to boom not long ago. And according to analyst and surveys, it will continue to grow in the years to come. Many may not be aware, but everyday of our lives we are already using Cloud technology. Simply sharing the photo taken from your smartphone and sharing it to the world you are already using the power of Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing has opened new doors specially for the business sector. Many businesses are still skeptical in using Cloud technology for their business.
Top 9 Cloud Computing Threats This 2013

Jeff Cloud

13 Mar 2013 | 12:17 pm

Cloud Computing, even though the technology is fairly new, is gaining exponential demand from the market. Investors, big companies and enterprises are investing and putting their data on the cloud. And most of them are running their operations using the Cloud’s technology. But the number one issue or problem when it comes to Cloud computing is security. Just like Apple co-founder Steve Wonziak said, we can’t fully trust the Cloud. According to Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a nonprofit organization that promotes research into best practices for securing cloud computing, there are…
Cloud Server vs Dedicated Server: Which Is For You?

Jeff Cloud

13 Mar 2013 | 10:46 am

Before, there were only Shared hosting, VPS and Dedicated Servers. But since the boom of Cloud Computing, many have seen the potential that Cloud Computing has to offer. One of these is the ability to provide a cost effective solution to its users, who are looking for a powerful, scalable and stable hosting at the same time being cost-efficient/effective. This is in the form of a Cloud Servers. If you are choosing for a server for you or your company’s sites or projects, which patch should you choose? Should you get a Dedicated Server, like most people do before, or get a Cloud Server…

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Share instantly from Google Drive folders on Mac and PC

Ella Harris

14 May 2013 | 5:14 pm

Share instantly from Google Drive folders on Mac and PC (via http://www.besttechie.com)Google announced yesterday on its Google Drive Google+ page (yes, that’s a lot of Google in one sentence) that it’ll be rolling out a new “Share” feature in Drive over the next few days. Here’s the gist of how the feature works. If you’re in the local Google Drive folder on your Mac or…
Insync : Gmail Sync Tool hits beta 2

Ella Harris

26 Dec 2012 | 5:58 pm

I previously blogged about the easy way how to manage gmail attachments, now Insync for Gmail hits beta 2. As we all know, Insync for gmail is Google mail sync tool which will help you manage and sync Google mail attachments and store it in one place. It gets your email attachments in the inbox and immediately syncs them to GDrive and Dropbox with the used of labels.Anyway, this Insync for Gmail beta 2 is a Chrome extension that adds an "Insync" link next to your google mail attachments and allows you to sync the said attachment to your Google drive or Dropbox folder.Check Insync…
Insync : Google Drive Linux Client hits Beta 10

Ella Harris

29 Oct 2012 | 8:29 pm

After the Beta 9 that they release early this October, Now Insync hits Beta 10 for their Google Drive Linux Client. This new beta has an initial Gnome support, better handling of unstable internet connection, etc.Below are some of the changes you can experience: Initial Gnome3.6 support better handling of unstable internet connection. Cinnamon switched to smaller "symbolic" icons for system tray applet (supports all themes) KDE and Ubuntu (AppIndicator) now using drop-shadowed system tray icons (supports light and dark themes) Fixed sharing a folder from Nautilus context menu,…
Insync: Unofficial Google Drive Linux client hits Beta 9

Ella Harris

11 Oct 2012 | 7:20 am

Last month, I wrote about “Insync : The Google Drive Linux App that’s adds support for KDE and others”. Now, Insync which is the unofficial Google gdrive Linux app released their beta 9 last October 9, 2012. Announcement was made on their forum and their blog as well. Anyway, this Insync Linux latest version fixed the MS office formats and glibc error for debian users. Below are the new things you can expect on the Beta 9:fixed symlinks not live syncing (before you had to restart Insync for changes to be detected)Nautilus context menu will not show outside of the Insync folder.Applets…
Minus: Free 50 GB Online File Storage and File Sharing Service

Ella Harris

18 Sep 2012 | 10:21 pm

Minus which is one of the numerous online file storage and file sharing service out there. It lets you share easily your image, files and documents by dragging the file you want to transfer on their homepage. You have an option of public or private file sharing. Plus, for every successful referral, it gives you an additional 1GB storage which can earn up to 50GB.Check out the video below to know more about Minus:

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Does Your Computer Have a Virus?

toma

19 May 2013 | 2:44 pm

How Can You Tell When Your Computer Has A Virus? For typical computer users, there are three common signs that indicate a potential computer virus. These signs are generally easy to detect, but often many users ignore the signs until it is too late. Computer Start-up is Slower Than Normal Most users can tell [...]
ITS Tech Scoop: Ryan, Project Manager

Intelligent Technical Solutions

17 May 2013 | 5:31 am

As a special tribute to our ITS family, we present the ITS Tech Scoop snip-it to share a little more about our wonderful team. Ryan Deneau, Project Manager/Virtual Virtuoso is our Tech of the Month for May. Ryan is an essential part of the ITS team. You’ve probably worked with him on new projects or [...]
Disaster Recovery in Las Vegas

toma

14 May 2013 | 11:37 am

It is a normal Tuesday night, work is going well and your computers seem to be functioning well. You haven’t really even thought about them for a while, and then a power surge hits them or the computer dies. There were all sorts of files that need to be recovered. This could be months worth [...]
The Benefits of Hiring a Managed IT Firm in Las Vegas

toma

23 Apr 2013 | 6:33 pm

Reducing Downtime with Managed IT Services Keeping business operations running smoothly is paramount to the success of any organization, large or small. Customers look to the reliability of web sites and software platforms to determine how trustworthy and reputable a business is in other areas. Fair or not, web presence is the most visible part [...]
IT Solutions in Las Vegas – Where to Start

toma

18 Apr 2013 | 10:21 am

The Best Solutions Come from Knowing the Best Options Good business involves a devoted effort to constantly maximizing benefits while minimizing costs. Technology is a key component of this equation, affecting nearly every part of your business process from employee support and productivity to manufacturing and inventory handling to product delivery and customer service. The [...]

Cloud Computing Path
5 Best Cloud Storage Providers for your Cloud Needs Part 1

Pravin Anchan

24 May 2013 | 10:59 pm

The growth of cloud computing has led to a rise in the number of cloud hosting providers. It would be difficult to pick the best cloud hosting providers given the array of services each provides. Ultimately, it comes down to what suits you best. The best cloud hosting providers focus on security and reliability in [...]
UK Universities to Get Speedy with Azure Cloud Computing

Pravin Anchan

24 May 2013 | 4:34 am

Microsoft and Janet, UK’s research and education network, signed a partnership deal that will result in secure and faster connection for universities throughout Britain through doubling of network capacity. This will facilitate compute intensive activities such as research in genetics and particle physics. In an interview to ZDNet, Dan Perry, Director of product and marketing [...]
Microsoft Launches Standalone SkyDrive PRO for Windows

Pravin Anchan

24 May 2013 | 1:33 am

Microsoft announced the availability of SkyDrive Pro for Windows as a standalone application. Previously bundled with Office 2013, Office 365 Pro Plus and Office 365 Small Business Premium, the standalone version will permit users to sync SharePoint 2013, SharePoint SkyDrive Pro and Team Site document libraries with PCs. You need not have any version of [...]
Things to Consider Before Go In For Cheapest Cloud Computing

Pravin Anchan

23 May 2013 | 9:28 pm

The term Cloud Computing is interpreted as on-demand computing resources available over the internet on a pay-as-you-go model. Cloud computing covers software as a service, infrastructure as a service and platform as a service with other narrow categories also available on this platform. The advantage of cloud computing is pay for use, which is ideal [...]
Windows Azure Start its Cloud Service in China From June

Pravin Anchan

23 May 2013 | 9:21 am

Back in November 2012 21Vianet and Microsoft got together to introduce Azure platform as a service and infrastructure as a service products to China. Microsoft tied up with 21Vianet, a China based company that claims to be the largest data center service provider in that country. A joint communique announced that the services will go live as [...]

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Can CRM Help With Compliance?

Justin Stoltzfus

21 May 2013 | 10:52 am

As many small to midsized businesses flock toward new state-of-the-art Customer Relationship Management solutions and other related tech tools and vendor products, many are seeing the biggest single benefit of these resources as the way that CRM supports sales and helps to provide better connections with customers. It’s true that this is the main aim of this kind of software, but adopting CRM tools also comes with some other “side benefits” for many clients.One less talked-about aspect of using a CRM platform within an enterprise is that these kinds of tools can also help with a lot of…
Small Businesses and Online Security

admin

16 May 2013 | 10:28 am

by Megan TotkaMany of us take for granted that the information we enter online is safe. Small businesses use lots of different services to make their business successful and keep it running smoothly. Some applications, sites, and programs like Microsoft Office, Google applications, Facebook, Twitter, and other email services are naming just a few.With your information spread so far and wide, it’s really important to keep a close watch on the sites that you use frequently. It’s particularly critical to keep the information belonging to your customers safe. While small businesses may not…
Preparing For Small Business Week

Justin Stoltzfus

13 May 2013 | 11:14 am

For centuries, individual workers had their holiday on May 1. Now, small business leaders have their own annual celebration of what they do just a few weeks later in the year; chambers of commerce in cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco have designated May 13-17 as Small Business Week, hosting conferences and events aimed at acknowledging the role that small businesses play in the American economy, and providing opportunities for networking, skill sharing and more.In today’s business world, it makes sense to have a greater emphasis on small business. Recent reports show that the…
Startup Ecosystem (Infographics)

admin

10 May 2013 | 12:13 pm

In the last 5 years, the startup ecosystem in the United States has flourished more quickly than perhaps any other country in the world. If you’ve been thinking about beginning your journey through Startup Land, there’s never been a better time.CoFoundersLab is a matchmaking platform for the aspiring entrepreneurs to find their fellow co-founders and meet each other through in-person events across the U.S. It unites co-founders based on geographic location, complementary skill sets, compatible personalities, goals and values. Till date it has made 25000 matchmaking!Shahab Kaviani, the CEO…
SaaS Trends for 2013

Justin Stoltzfus

6 May 2013 | 6:41 am

Software as a Service or SaaS is a technology that is attracting many business customers looking for new paradigms in order to source software functionality in new ways. Web delivered or cloud hosted SaaS options can allow for more scalability, leaner IT budgets, more efficient business processes, and a “buy what you need” approach to specialized IT architectures. Here are some of the big changes that experts are predicting for the coming year in SaaS markets.U.S. and “Emerging Markets” CustomersIn general, many with an eye on the industry are expecting growth of SaaS usage in newer…

Cloud Services Community
Webinar Replay and Slides are Ready for download: Selling Cloud Services: An Agent Puts his Head in the Clouds

jmeyer

10 May 2013 | 9:28 am

Thanks to all who registered, attended and asked insightful questions of our speaker, Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO Inc. It was a very informative presentation and we hope you learned how to take your business to the next level. A special thank you to Peter for his insights. The webinar replay and slide deck are now ready for your viewing in the community. Please ensure you are registered and logged in to the community. The Cloud Services Community is complimentary to agents and partners interested in building and growing their cloud services business. Watch the…
RIP the Old World & Why Cloud Causes Inevitable Change

Ian Moyse

16 Apr 2013 | 10:13 am

“We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change”. dr. henry cloud & dr. john townsend The need for change and acceptance of the fact that your status quo for business may be no. Longer has never been truer. I have been speaking on the effect of the cloud (internet based service and supply) for the past 8 years and in the past two have provided much comment on the visible effects we had and are seeing. Before commenting on why IT supply chains…
April 25th Webinar - “Selling Cloud Services – An Agent Puts His Head in the Clouds”

jmeyer

15 Apr 2013 | 2:47 pm

The Cloud Services Community is excited to welcome speaker Peter Radizeski to our webcast presenter alumni! Peter will be presenting on April 25th in the “Selling Cloud Services – An Agent Puts His Head in the Clouds” webinar (you can register for it now http://bit.ly/11ZieTB) His webinar will answer many questions including – • Where do I start when thinking about selling cloud services? • Is there criteria for…
Cloud computing is expected to enjoy an adoption rate and growth of between 30 to 40 percent every year for the next five years.

Ian Moyse

11 Apr 2013 | 12:25 pm

Cloud computing is expected to enjoy an adoption rate and growth of between 30 to 40 percent per year, every year for the next five years and its promise of substantial benefits will drive this adoption. . A 2012 customer study from Rise indicating that 94% of IT departments expect to expand their use of cloud in the next 12 months. The whole cloud evolution has stirred up a large discussion in all spheres of the channel, unfortunately usually focused on the concerns rather than the opportunity – these ranging from where does distribution fit through to how do I transfer an up-front…
Webinar Recap - The Truth about Reselling Cloud

jmeyer

4 Apr 2013 | 2:56 pm

In case you missed the amazing Webinar: The Truth about Reselling Cloud we made sure to record it for you! You can view the replay in our Resource Library. We’d like to take a moment to thank our three presenters - Ian Moyse, of Workbooks.com, Ian Kilpatrick of Wick Hill and David McLeman of Ancoris for taking the time to join us this week and share their experiences with our community. The lively discussion covered how to properly motivate and compensate your sales team while transitioning into the cloud, creating a strong renewal structure that looks at the long term wins,…

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Small Businesses Make Way for the Cloud

Lisa Finholm

16 May 2013 | 2:59 pm

With all the hype directed towards the cloud it leaves businesses questioning the benefits and searching for answers. Is it just another buzzword? What do all these articles on the Internet really mean in terms of ROI? If it’s the wave of the future, how do I make smart investments for my business? As a refresher, we’ve given a few cloud 101 tutorials to understand how it works in The Cloud Is Here to Stay – Why Your Company Won’t Want It to Go Away. For small businesses, this means access to the same perks as large companies at a fraction of the cost. For those looking…
Happy Customers Begins with Your Own Leadership

Lisa Finholm

9 May 2013 | 2:49 pm

From our recent Customer Service 101 – 5 Tips to Exceed Your Customers’ Expectation to The 360 of Customer Service, we’ve narrowed down some easy ways to enrich your customer’s experience. By the end of all your customer interactions, your goal is for the customer to hang up…happy. Aside from singing your praises (as we hope they do!), how do you know if a customer is really happy? What happens after they hang up? What is the “start to finish” customer experience and what does it ideally entail? As a business leader, you set the stage for your employees. If you are getting your…
The 360° of Customer Service

Theresa Larkin

1 May 2013 | 12:45 pm

Customer experience starts from the very beginning- and no we’re not talking about the beginning of the interaction with the customer. To provide an all-around exceptional customer experience it is critical to start with your employees. Any employee that engages with prospects, customers and even the delivery man should have service at the front of their mind. You never know who your customer might be or who the delivery man might know. Politeness and friendliness should be at the root of your business mentality. As a result, your non-customers as well as your current customers will be…
Customer Service 101- 5 Tips to Exceed Your Customers’ Expectation

Theresa Larkin

16 Apr 2013 | 2:00 pm

The basics are the basics for a reason – they’re essential! Since everyone can use a reminder from time to time we thought we’d go back to the basics and emphasize the simple things you can do to enhance you customer experience. Providing exceptional customer service can go a long way- with a few easy steps you can gain returning customers and attract new ones. By fully listening with patience and enthusiasm (amongst other things), you’ll be more likely to exceed your customer’s expectations, making it a positive experience for all parties. 1. Understand Your Role:…
Moving from Legacy PBX Telephony to the Cloud

Steve Haslam

5 Apr 2013 | 3:13 pm

Will Traditional PBX Phone Systems Become a Thing of the Past? Recently, I attended the Enterprise Connect convention in Orlando. You should have heard the murmur from the crowd (presumably from legacy PBX company representatives) when one notable speaker said there would never be any reason to go back to PBX now that their company has moved telephony to the cloud. To continue investing tens of thousands of dollars in handsets and PBX systems themselves, given the low cost and feature-rich functionality of cloud telephony, it does not make operational or financial sense. This sentiment…

Dice News » Cloud Computing
Dropbox Plans Developer Conference to Push API

Mark Feffer

16 May 2013 | 6:50 am

By Jennifer Goforth Gregory Most likely, you’ve uploaded one of the more than 1 billion files shared through Dropbox each day. Despite those kinds of numbers, Dropbox isn’t content to just be the most used files sharing program around. It wants IT professionals to use Dropbox in a different way – to build applications on top of its data layer platform. As part of the development of the Dropbox API, the company is holding its first developer conference to educate IT professionals on integrating the platform, and showcase current third-party applications that use it. The conference is…
Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment

nick kolakowski

15 May 2013 | 7:33 am

Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment (via slashdot) When the Google I/O 2013 conference kicks off May 15, the crowds of developers and Google-philes swarming San Francisco’s Moscone Center will find themselves involved in a massive Big Data experiment, courtesy of the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. “Since we love open source hardware… The post Google I/O Will Double as Big Data Experiment appeared first on Dice News.
Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You

nick kolakowski

8 May 2013 | 6:59 am

Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You (via slashdot) Adobe plans on focusing the bulk of its software-development efforts on its Creative Cloud offering, with no plans to further update its “boxed” Creative Suite products. The move isn’t surprising, considering the tech industry’s general movement toward the cloud over the past few years; nonetheless… The post Adobe’s Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You appeared first on Dice News.
Why the Future Belongs to Big Data

Don Willmott

4 May 2013 | 9:00 am

When it comes to buzzwords, Big Data is currently at the top of the technology heap. You may have your own definition, but Michael Minelli, Michele Chambers and Ambiga Dhiraj, the authors of Big Data, Big Analytics, describe it this way: Big Data goes beyond the traditional limits of data along three dimensions: volume, variety and velocity. The combination of these three dimensions makes the data more complex to ingest, process and visualize. It’s the wide variety of available data that really piques their interest and leads them to insights that will be useful for C-level executives as…
Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing?

nick kolakowski

17 Apr 2013 | 7:09 am

Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing? (via slashdot) These days, when something in the world goes very wrong, it seems as if everybody learns about it first on Twitter and Facebook. In the minutes after homemade bombs turned the finish line of the Boston Marathon into a crime scene, terms such as #BostonMarathon shot to the top of Twitter’s Trends… The post Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing? appeared first on Dice News.

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DevOps & Big Data: Interview with John Sumser

Kyle Claypool

24 May 2013 | 3:08 pm

John Sumser is a big data professional. He’s also an HR professional. His extensive background in various jobs and industries has made him an excellent fit for his company, HR Examiner. John is also a great fit to give some [...]
Cloud Computing and DevOps Blogs To Follow – Episode 2

Kyle Claypool

17 May 2013 | 12:38 pm

DevOps blogs are everywhere! Welcome to our second installment of DevOps Blogs You Should Be Reading (here’s part one of the best DevOps blogs). Every few weeks we’ll share some of our personal favorite DevOps blogs with you. These blogs are based [...]
The History of Computer and Cloud Storage

Kyle Claypool

3 May 2013 | 12:29 pm

The huge improvements in hard drive cost efficiencies have helped the tech world grow exponentially. A movie like Avatar, that contained a petabyte of data, would have been impossible to complete in the recent past. Steam, Netflix, and Google are just [...]
DevOps & Cloud Computing: Interview with Ian Moyse

Kyle Claypool

2 May 2013 | 9:20 am

Cloud computing experts are often extremely conversational, and can’t wait to tell you about how the cloud is going to help YOU. Ian Moyse, a renowned cloud expert caught our eye a few months ago for his involvement in many [...]
Scrum – Developers VS. Rugby Players

Kyle Claypool

24 Apr 2013 | 2:42 pm

Like many words in the English language, “Scrum” has a few wildly diverse definitions. Let’s take a look at the differences (and maybe even a few surprising similarities) between the scrums of both developers and rugby players! What is Scrum [...]

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