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As the management of Big Data begins to increasingly move from the theory into actual practice, IT organizations are discovering that moving all that data around is no simple task. While the cost of ... More >
There’s no shortage of cloud service providers these days, but new tests from Nasuni, a provider of storage systems that are integrated with multiple back-end cloud storage services , finds that not... More >
As IT infrastructure continues to evolve, it is pretty clear that the line between servers and storage systems is continuing to blur. Arguably, the process started with the advent of network-attached... More >
One of the more challenging aspects of modern enterprise applications is that, by definition, they are almost all very modular. That can be a good thing in terms of reusing functionality in ways that... More >
There’s a lot of interest these days on building what are known as systems of engagement, which are intended to make it easier to create deeper levels of affinity between customers, employees and bus... More >
For a long time now the definition of adding value in IT was coming up with ways to bridge the gaps between customer relationship management (CRM), marketing and supply chain applications. After all,... More >
For more time than anyone cares to admit, there has been a debate over getting people to give up their spreadsheets in favor of more robust business intelligence applications. Given the relative ad... More >
Cisco today is expanding the reach of its TelePresence unified communications platform beyond the PC while simultaneously taking the quality of the overall experience up a few notches. At the Ente... More >
One of the more frustrating aspects of unified communications is that, on the whole, it’s still not very unified. Theoretically, the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was supposed to herald a new e... More >
Application virtualization has been a term that has been bandied about primarily as a method for streaming applications to the desktop from a virtual server. But the folks at a startup company called... More >
While the hero CEO who makes all the decisions — ala the late Steve Jobs — is the exception rather than the rule, companies that have a truly collaborative approach to decision making are just as rar... More >
Fundamental change is coming to the way analytics applications are processed. In terms of processing, analytics applications have been making due with compute engines that were largely designed to pr... More >
Most businesses are little more than collections of fiefdoms presided over by one C-level executive or another. The fiefdoms these executives preside over are usually tied to some central function, s... More >
There’s been a lot discussion as of late of the need to modernize legacy applications in the enterprise. Most of the applications are pretty dated and cost more to run on existing hardware infrastru... More >
While the sheer volume of mobile computing applications needing to be deployed and managed in the years ahead is poised to explode, it’s not at all clear to what degree those applications will run na... More >
One of the major challenges with anything to do with Big Data is that it usually requires somebody with a lot of deep data expertise to set up anything resembling a useful application. While the co... More >
Mobile and cloud computing both share one common fatal flaw: They are both dependent on the quality of the network services being provided for success. Unfortunately, the quality of both enterprise n... More >
Recognizing that the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon has created a number of security challenges, Cisco today rolled out enhancements to the Cisco Identity Services Engines (ISE) platform m... More >
Thanks to the rise of cloud computing services and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon, there’s a lot more nuance these days involving the securing of mobile computing devices . While many o... More >
There’s no doubt that data storage has come a long way in recent years. With the rise of virtualization, each storage array is now serving more applications than ever. Then came the virtualization of... More >
Just about everybody agrees that the so-called “DevOps” process is fundamentally broken; it’s just that nobody is quite sure what to do about it. Arguably, there never was much of a formal DevOps pro... More >
There’s a lot of legitimate concern these days about the ability of IT to process, store and manage huge volumes of Big Data . But if Jeff Jonas, chief scientist for the IBM Entity Analytic group, i... More >
While there has been a lot of progress in the development of cloud storage standards, most notably in the form of a reference architecture for the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard cr... More >
One of the first major business intelligence (BI) applications for the SAP in-memory High Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA) made its official debut this week at the SAP Insider Financials con... More >
While there’s been an explosion in the amount of digital signage being displayed almost everywhere these days, it still suffers from the same problems that have affected more traditional forms of sig... More >
One of the great ironies of IT these days is that after years of denigrating the value of the mainframe, one of the most sought-after skills in IT today is mainframe expertise. In many ways, IT organ... More >
For all the benefits that PCs have brought to the business, managing them is still a fairly labor-intensive process. But if the promise of a new alliance between Hewlett-Packard and LANDesk bears fru... More >
While the fact that technologies such as Hadoop have given IT organizations the ability to more easily access large amounts of data, the fact of the matter is that the infrastructure needed to proc... More >
With a lot of IT organizations in the health care space staring at some rapidly approaching deadlines related to the meaningful use of electronic health care records (EHR), interest in cloud computin... More >
By now, most IT organizations have figured out that portability is a little problematic when it comes to cloud computing. That’s because not only are various standards for virtual machines, such as t... More >
Hewlett-Packard is about to begin shipping its new ProLiant Gen 8 servers based on the new ProActive Insight architecture that the company developed around the new Intel Xeon E5-2600 family of proc... More >
The trouble with applications, whether they are running on premise or in the cloud, is that the more there are of them, the harder it becomes to correlate any useful information. To solve this... More >
While interest in platform as a service (PaaS) continues to rise, more than a few IT organizations are flummoxed by the whole process of getting to PaaS . If you’re a commercial developer, yo... More >
It’s been three years since Cisco, accompanied by a great deal of skepticism, entered the server market. Flash forward to today and the company claims to have over 11,000 customers. And with a run ra... More >
It used to be that corporate applications were developed from scratch by a small team of developers that would deploy those applications on servers that resided within the four walls of the enterpris... More >
Given all the different types of storage scenarios that need to be managed, it’s little wonder that IT organizations are feeling a little pressure in terms of absorbing the total cost of managing sto... More >
The next era of cloud computing is going to be defined by the speed at which IT services can be provisioned and delivered. The challenge is going to be finding a way to make that happen without havin... More >
One of the reasons that storage is difficult to manage is that Windows servers don’t scale all that well. As a result, IT organizations wind up investing a lot of money in network attached storage (N... More >
Like most things in life cloud computing is a double-edged sword. It can either eliminate internal IT or be used by IT to drive business innovation. Speaking at the IBM Pulse 2012 conference today,... More >
As business conditions continue to rapidly change, a lot of organizations are beginning to discover that their supply chains are too rigid to keep pace. Not too long ago, conventional wisdom said to ... More >
For the longest time, there has been a divide between IT and the rest of the business, which has led to some narrow distinctions to describe the same basic thing. Case in point is the difference betw... More >
For some time now, mobile device management stood on its own as a separate IT systems management category. But as the number of mobile computing devices that need to be managed continue to proliferat... More >
The debate between the merits of spreadsheets and business intelligence tools now stretches back at least two decades. But with the release this week of a personal edition of IBM Cognos BI software t... More >
Most baseball fans are familiar with one of the more successful applications of the principles of analytics and business intelligence (BI). Back in 2002 the Oakland A’s were faced with a relatively s... More >
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