http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/index.jspa?view=blog Latest Blog Posts in ITBE en Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:37:21 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-03T20:37:21Z en http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/micro-servers-maximum-benefits/?cs=49695 What began as an oddity is poised to become a major factor in data center infrastructure. If the projections are correct, micro servers will be in great demand going forward as enterprises seek to streamline footprints and cut energy costs. According to processors server_vendors dell seamicro amd processor_vendors micro_servers hp enterprise_servers intel Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:37:21 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/micro-servers-maximum-benefits/?cs=49695 2012-02-03T20:37:21Z 19 hours, 12 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/micro-servers-maximum-benefits http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=49695 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-android-community-responds-to-security-challenges/?cs=49693 Android seems to be constantly in the process of discovering and defining itself. That’s part and parcel of both of the specifics of how open source works and, more generally, that a massive deployment of an operating system based on that approach to mobile_device_security mobile_device_security android google linux_kernel open_source_software_development apple linux_distributions application_security Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:12:09 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/the-android-community-responds-to-security-challenges/?cs=49693 2012-02-03T18:12:09Z 21 hours, 57 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/the-android-community-responds-to-security-challenges http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=49693 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/exploring-hadoops-real-time-potential/?cs=49692 One of the more promising applications of Hadoop and other Big Data solutions is the ability to deliver information in real time. It’s not mentioned often, which is unfortunate, because it’s really a game-changer for some organizations, with data_management it_market_analysts big_data ibm informatica business_intelligence hadoop data_integration Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:31 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/exploring-hadoops-real-time-potential/?cs=49692 2012-02-03T17:39:31Z 22 hours, 10 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/exploring-hadoops-real-time-potential http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=49692 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/old-versions-of-wordpress-compromised/?cs=49691 A new attack against old versions of WordPress is a reminder of the importance of always performing updates when prompted. We saw how using old versions of IE, IE6 in particular, led to all kinds of exploits and attacks, so you would think the lesson application_security cyber_crime risk_management security_policy vulnerabilities_and_patches smbs data_security malware business_culture network_security security_breaches security_vendors Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:08:49 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/old-versions-of-wordpress-compromised/?cs=49691 2012-02-03T17:08:49Z 22 hours, 41 minutes ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/comment/old-versions-of-wordpress-compromised http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/feeds/comments?blogPost=49691 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/tracking-super-bowl-sentiment-in-real-time/?cs=49689 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 claim the Lombardi Trophy and the rings that go with it. analytics super_bowl sentiment_analysis new_england_patriots big_data tom_brady ibm new_york_giants eli_manning hadoop data_analysis social_networks annenberg_innovation_labs marketing Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:28 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/tracking-super-bowl-sentiment-in-real-time/?cs=49689 2012-02-03T16:23:28Z 23 hours, 47 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/tracking-super-bowl-sentiment-in-real-time http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=49689 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/modeling-standard-connects-dots-between-architecture-and-business/?cs=49690 The Open Group recently released an update to the enterprise architecture modeling standard, ArchiMate 2.0 . What's new about it is that it aligns with TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM), a shift that makes the modeling language easier to use data_integration data_modeling_and_visualization archimate standards_bodies enterprise_architecture Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:11 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/modeling-standard-connects-dots-between-architecture-and-business/?cs=49690 2012-02-03T16:09:11Z 23 hours, 42 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/comment/modeling-standard-connects-dots-between-architecture-and-business http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49690 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/survey-links-building-business-relationships-bigger-bucks/?cs=49687 My colleague Ann All last fall quoted executive recruiter Tim Cook from a silicon.com piece saying that IT has become "less about running infrastructure and data systems well, and more about IT procurement, vendor management, business-process change compensation staff_recruiting_and_retention executive_suite Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:27:13 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/survey-links-building-business-relationships-bigger-bucks/?cs=49687 2012-02-03T15:27:13Z 1 day, 1 hour ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/comment/survey-links-building-business-relationships-bigger-bucks http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/feeds/comments?blogPost=49687 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/making-hadoop-an-integral-part-of-the-enterprise/?cs=49686 Why the Hoopla over Hadoop?  Hadoop in nine easy to understand facts. 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 hadoop hadoop_distributed_file_system storage data_management analytics emc isilon nas file_system hdfs greenplum_hd Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:19:55 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/making-hadoop-an-integral-part-of-the-enterprise/?cs=49686 2012-02-03T12:19:55Z 1 day, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/making-hadoop-an-integral-part-of-the-enterprise http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=49686 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for/?cs=49685 10 Interview Questions Job Seekers Must Ask The most important questions of an interview might be those that you, the applicant, ask. If you’re not unemployed or underemployed, you may well be one of the millions of people who’ve managed to keep your staff_recruiting_and_retention Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:43:53 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for/?cs=49685 2012-02-03T01:43:53Z 1 day, 14 hours ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/10-hot-button-job-interview-question-areas-to-get-ready-for http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49685 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/voice-over-lte-set-to-roll-in-2012/?cs=49683 All of the hubbub about Long Term Evolution (LTE) during the past couple of years has been about data. Voice, to date, has not been part of the 4G LTE experience.   That is about to change. The vendor and service provider industries are on the ims 4g qualcomm verizon wireless_networking Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:06:50 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/voice-over-lte-set-to-roll-in-2012/?cs=49683 2012-02-02T22:06:50Z 1 day, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/voice-over-lte-set-to-roll-in-2012 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=49683 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/itdownloads/take-me-to-your-trustworthy-leader-six-characteristics/?cs=49684 Seven Points CIOs Must Know About the Board of Directors Seven areas that CIOs must understand and act upon in order to effectively work with the board. As a matter of balance, I want to flip the business ethics coin, "going positive" instead of business_culture business_ethics book_excerpts business_processes governance business_structure Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:58:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/itdownloads/take-me-to-your-trustworthy-leader-six-characteristics/?cs=49684 2012-02-02T21:58:47Z 1 day, 17 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/itdownloads/comment/take-me-to-your-trustworthy-leader-six-characteristics http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/itdownloads/feeds/comments?blogPost=49684 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/putting-big-data-on-pause/?cs=49682 The Business Impact of Big Data Many business executives want more information than ever, even though they're already drowning in it. Daniel W. Rasmus is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be excited about Big Data. The intelligent systems data_modeling_and_visualization data_management big_data Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:34:35 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/putting-big-data-on-pause/?cs=49682 2012-02-02T21:34:35Z 1 day, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/putting-big-data-on-pause http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=49682 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/have-cyber-threats-passed-terrorism-as-top-threat-against-the-us/?cs=49681 Top 10 Cyber Security Threats of 2011 and Beyond The next decade portends new threats that surpass those of years past in both intensity and impact. Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that cyber threats against the country are malware network_security cyber_crime cyber_crime data_security government_agencies cyber_terrorism Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:09:55 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/have-cyber-threats-passed-terrorism-as-top-threat-against-the-us/?cs=49681 2012-02-02T19:09:55Z 1 day, 20 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/comment/have-cyber-threats-passed-terrorism-as-top-threat-against-the-us http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/feeds/comments?blogPost=49681 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/zen-and-the-art-of-it-infrastructure/?cs=49678 Ten Key Actions to Reduce IT Infrastructure and Operations Costs Reduce costs by as much as 25 percent with these tips from Gartner. Like any complicated ecosystem of machines, the art of managing a well-run IT environment comes down to maintaining mellanox_technologies cisco_systems networking pmc-sierra cost_containment cloud_computing Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:37 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/zen-and-the-art-of-it-infrastructure/?cs=49678 2012-02-02T17:37:37Z 2 days, 1 hour ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/zen-and-the-art-of-it-infrastructure http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=49678 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it/?cs=49679     Tom Powledge is vice president of product delivery, SMB and .Cloud for Symantec . For most folks, if they want an apple, they go to the supermarket or local fruit stand and buy one. They don’t think about the time, money and resources required to symantec cloud_computing Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:57:17 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it/?cs=49679 2012-02-02T16:57:17Z 1 day, 23 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/cloud-reduce-network-complexity-by-stepping-back-from-it http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49679 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/time-to-rethink-it-systems-management/?cs=49680 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 increasing by a factor of 10 or more . There are, of solarwinds it_process_management virtualization it_management_automation cost_containment Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:43:12 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/time-to-rethink-it-systems-management/?cs=49680 2012-02-02T16:43:12Z 1 day, 23 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/comment/time-to-rethink-it-systems-management http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/feeds/comments?blogPost=49680 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/ipo-filing-provides-peek-at-facebook-culture/?cs=49677 I've written a lot about how companies try to build a culture where engineers want to work. We've had glimpses before of the Facebook culture, though the social network's IPO filing lays that out in more detail.   It mentions its "hackathons," business_culture facebook staff_recruiting_and_retention Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:09:50 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/ipo-filing-provides-peek-at-facebook-culture/?cs=49677 2012-02-02T13:09:50Z 2 days, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/comment/ipo-filing-provides-peek-at-facebook-culture http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/hall/feeds/comments?blogPost=49677 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy/?cs=49676 We all have our jargon pet peeves. Mine is “solution,” the word vendors use incessantly when they really just mean “product.” This perfectly wholesome word has been usurped and so bastardized by sales wonks that a lot of us consider it toxic. In fact, business_communications business_culture Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:58:31 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy/?cs=49676 2012-02-02T04:58:31Z 2 days, 11 hours ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/comment/you-re-not-the-only-one-who-wants-to-choke-the-jargon-guy http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/tennant/feeds/comments?blogPost=49676 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/views-differ-on-the-dangers-of-android-fragmentation/?cs=49674 Top 20 Android Apps in the U.S. The top Android apps ranked by usage. The opinions on Android fragmentation are, well, fragmented.   The basic idea is that the open source platform will be specialized to such an extent that versions will be android google apple smartphones open_source_software_development Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:03:10 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/views-differ-on-the-dangers-of-android-fragmentation/?cs=49674 2012-02-01T21:03:10Z 2 days, 18 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/comment/views-differ-on-the-dangers-of-android-fragmentation http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/weinschenk/feeds/comments?blogPost=49674 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/paas-and-the-private-cloud/?cs=49675 Private Versus Public Cloud Computing   A plethora of applications are being considered for the cloud, but it may take at least another year before cloud computing goes mainstream in the enterprise. The public cloud argument in the ongoing debate .net apprenda paas microsoft cloud_computing virtualization public_cloud private_cloud vmware Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:57:19 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/paas-and-the-private-cloud/?cs=49675 2012-02-01T20:57:19Z 2 days, 18 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/comment/paas-and-the-private-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/feeds/comments?blogPost=49675