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February 3, 2012
Tracking Super Bowl Sentiment in Real Time
There’s obviously a lot riding on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots this Sunday night. But what’s at stake goes well beyond who gets to cla... More >
Making Hadoop an Integral Part of the Enterprise
While there’s obviously a lot of interest in the Hadoop data management framework as an alternative approach to storing massive amounts of data, more than a few enterprises have found the fact that... More >
February 2, 2012
Zen and the Art of IT Infrastructure
Like any complicated ecosystem of machines, the art of managing a well-run IT environment comes down to maintaining balance between all the elements of the environment. Unfortunately, thanks to the r... More >
Time to Rethink IT Systems Management
Managing IT on a daily basis has never been more challenging. With the advent of virtualization, the number of virtual and physical servers that IT managers are being asked to regularly manage is in... More >
February 1, 2012
Project Management Meets CRM in the Cloud
More often than anyone cares to admit, salespeople are selling a services capability that doesn’t exist — at least not yet. This is usually because the customer has asked for something unique or the ... More >
Eliminating Server Consolidation Performance Issues
The history of computing could easily be defined by the shifting of bottlenecks between processors, storage and the network. Thanks to the rise in server consolidation made possible by virtualization... More >
January 31, 2012
Not All Mobile Devices Are Wireless-Network Equal
As the management of the overall IT environment gets a little more complex thanks to the rise of mobile computing and the "consumerization" of IT , the management of wireless networks is getting a l... More >
Log Management Meets Analytics in the Cloud
Just about everybody agrees that there’s a lot of potentially valuable data tucked away in various system logs. The challenge has been finding a way to cost effectively sort through all that informat... More >
January 30, 2012
Taking Speadsheets to the Cloud
There is little doubt that large amounts of data will soon be moving into the cloud for the purpose of advanced analytics — mostly because acquiring all the IT infrastructure needed to support all th... More >
Lowering the Cost of Intrusion Detection and Prevention
One of the issues that a lot of organizations have with IT security is that it’s costly to implement and difficult to manage. While there has been a lot of progress on both of those fronts lately, it... More >
Storage Administrators: The New Rock Stars of IT
The people who manage storage are definitely between a rock and a hard place these days. Thanks in equal measures to virtualization, social media, multimedia and Big Data, IBM says the volume of st... More >
January 27, 2012
Pixar Animates Cloud Computing
One of the more interesting attributes of cloud computing is the ability to invoke compute-intensive resources as a service. Rather than having to acquire and deploy IT infrastructure to handle peak ... More >
January 26, 2012
The Rise of the Social Business Process
Corporate America obviously still has a lot to learn about social networking. But while much of that learning process is focused on communications and collaboration across groups of people, the most ... More >
Taking Windows Desktops to the Cloud
Because of the way most people were first introduced to Windows, the assumption has always been that Windows needs to run locally on a PC. With the advent of cloud computing, however, that assumption... More >
January 25, 2012
The 'Consumerization' of Task Management in the Cloud
Just about everybody who has a full-time job these days will tell you that they are having a hard time keeping up with everything that needs to be done. And, ironically, the challenge that many users... More >
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