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Which Is Better: Private Or Public Cloud?

March 14, 2017 No Comments

When companies look at putting up a cloud infrastructure, one of the first questions that comes up is whether they should use a private or a public cloud. 10 years ago, the answer was more often a yes for private clouds than it is today. Somewhere along the technology growth path, publicly traded computing facilities like Amazon got so good at security that it made sense for most companies in most situations to go out and implement a public cloud.

Inside the Play Business: The Influence of JavaScript in Android Applications

March 14, 2017 No Comments

The mobile gaming industry is one of the most creative, dynamic and revolutionary creations of the 21st Century. From stakeholders, software developers, coders to consumers, many parties have played an active role in the development of this thriving industry. Games like Angry Birds, Transformers and Clash of Clans have taken the industry by storm. Currently, millions of consumers worldwide spend time and money playing their favourite games on their tablets and smartphones.

eBook: Making Sense of Stream Processing

March 13, 2017 No Comments

Tweet The Philosophy Behind Apache Kafka and Scalable Stream Data Platforms How can event streams help make your application more scalable, reliable, and maintainable? In this ebook, O’Reilly author Martin Kleppmann shows you how stream processing can make your data processing systems more flexible and less complex. Structuring data as a stream of events isn’t […]

NRAM: The Next Generation of Memory Technology

March 13, 2017 No Comments

The tech industry is notorious for its unquenchable thirst for upgrade. With new models and generations of the same product being released often several times per year, this is an easy trend to detect. This idea is to increase or optimize speed, capacity, durability or versatility. “Innovate or die.” That’s the mantra. In keeping with this trend, Massachusetts-based tech company Nantero Inc. is cooking up a new and innovative computer memory component that is expected to make major waves: NRAM.

Microservices in the Apache Kafka™ Ecosystem

March 13, 2017 No Comments

This paper provides a brief overview of how microservices can be built in the Apache Kafka ecosystem.

Confluent Enterprise Reference Architecture

March 13, 2017 No Comments

This white paper provides reference for data architects and system administrators who are planning to deploy Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform in production.

Is Your Data Delivering? How to Get the Most from Your Information Management

March 13, 2017 No Comments

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is accelerating this data deluge, making us expound even more about how it engenders new opportunities for companies to drive operational efficiencies by finding new insights in their information.

Using Predictive Analytics to Avoid Hospital Layoffs

March 10, 2017 No Comments

It seems as if news about another hospital laying off workers — or worse, closing — hits the news every day; at last count, 21 hospitals stopped treating patients in 2016. Hospitals and healthcare systems across the country, including some of the largest, laid off thousands of employees. In November 2016 alone, 13 providers eliminated more than 1,000 jobs.

IT Briefcase Interview: Why Increasing Demand for Always-on Connectivity is Driving Advances in Network Resiliency

March 9, 2017 No Comments

with Gary Marks, OpengearIn this interview, Opengear CEO Gary Marks offers analysis into why network resilience has become such a challenge for today’s enterprises, as well as how businesses are improving the management of their remotely-located network sites. Read More >>>

I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration

March 8, 2017 No Comments

Why a book about logs? That’s easy: the humble log is an abstraction that lies at the heart of many systems, from NoSQL databases to cryptocurrencies. Even though most engineers don’t think much about them, this short book shows you why logs are worthy of your attention.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing

March 7, 2017 No Comments

Read this Magic Quadrant for EFSS report by Gartner to see how the EFSS vendors, including Box shown as a leader in the Magic Quadrant, are increasingly addressing digital workplace enablement to improve modern user productivity and cloud-based content collaboration for the creation of a digital workplace.

Are you thinking about an IoT Operations Center yet? You should be.

March 7, 2017 No Comments

IoT has emerged as one of the most disruptive technologies that has the potential to change the way people live, work and communicate. This has undoubtedly attracted the attention of a number of organizations that are looking to create new business models that revolutionize everything from creation to consumption.

A Decade of Technology-Driven Transformation

March 7, 2017 No Comments

In any organization—especially one that has grown large and successful—it’s easy to make the next year’s strategy simply an incremental improvement on the previous year’s. Too few companies make the effort required to position themselves for the future. But it’s critically important, particularly in this era of digital disruption.

The Taming of the Skew – Predictive Analytics and Healthcare Data

March 1, 2017 No Comments

An analogous challenge exists when using predictive analytics with healthcare data. Healthcare data can often seem quite stubborn, like Katherina. One of the main features of healthcare data that needs to be “tamed” is the “skew” of the data. In this article, we describe two types of skewness: the statistical skew, which impacts data analysis, and the operational skew, which impacts operational processes.

How Business Intelligence Has Evolved Over the Last Few Decades

February 28, 2017 No Comments

It’s unprecedented the way business intelligence (BI) has evolved over the course of several decades. In your parents’ and grandparents’ generation, data was limited to sales numbers and a few other broad metrics. Today, that has all changed due to the breakout of new key performance indicators made possible through advancements in BI.

How To Turn Your Smartphone Into The Ultimate Portable Storage Device

February 27, 2017 No Comments

Do you remember those little USB memory sticks you would carry around with you? At one point in time, there was no denying they were the ultimate portable storage solution. Suddenly they were rendered useless thanks to the smartphone and it’s only improved over the last few years. Unfortunately, I don’t think the majority of people are using their smartphone to its maximum potential when it comes to data storage. It could easily be fixed if they followed a few tips, so let’s take a quick look at the main ones you should use.

Appliances Retain Leading Role in Backup Market

February 27, 2017 No Comments

Despite the benefits of cloud backup, relatively few organizations are using the cloud as their primary data storage tier. One of the consequences is that on-premise backup appliances remain a popular solution for many organizations, particularly small and mid-sized enterprises that lack the resources to implement big-company business continuity strategies.

What Makes an “Ideal” Data Centre?

February 24, 2017 No Comments

Data centres come in all shapes and sizes, their designs driven by a multitude of factors. These can be highly disparate, from the purpose it is used for; to the physical environmental it is located in; the materials it’s constructed of; or even who it is designed – global colocation companies, cloud computing specialists, telecom service operators etc.

7 Reasons Manufacturers Should Have Moved to the Cloud Yesterday

February 24, 2017 No Comments

Sometimes, it’s hard to see the forest because of the trees. You’ve likely heard that truism before as it applies to many situations, including business application and manufacturing processes. This also is true for Cloud deployment. Because cloud technology is right in front of us, it can be difficult to see the total impact of this disruptive technology on the entire industry.

Software Confessions from Fannie Mae, Liberty Mutual, and Capital One

February 22, 2017 No Comments

True Story. Over the past few years, Fannie Mae transformed the way in which they delivered software. Deploys increased from 1,200/month to 15,000/month. At the same time, productivity increased by 28% while reducing costs by 30%. But, how did they do it?

Top Five Ways Marketing Teams Benefit from Box

February 21, 2017 No Comments

To create a success, marketing teams have to move fast! Moving the business forward means completing the next project, campaign or launch flawlessly. But keeping every stakeholder aligned and informed has never been easy. Read this article to discover top five ways marketing teams benefit from using Box.

Forrester: The Total Economic Impact Of Box’s Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration Platform

February 21, 2017 No Comments

What’s the true cost of collaboration? A better question might be: What’s the cost of NOT collaborating? Read this report to learn about the cost, success factors and return on investment of using Box’s cloud-based content collaboration solution. See how effective content collaboration translates into a competitive business advantage.

Forrester TAP: Meet Changing Business Needs With Modern ECM Platforms

February 21, 2017 No Comments

This informative Forrester Consulting study explores the hypothesis that modern businesses require enterprise content management (ECM) platforms that can offer faster deployment capabilities and operational flexibility in order to meet their shifting business objectives.

Security Considerations for Intelligent WAN (IWAN)

February 20, 2017 No Comments

Lower cost Internet connections have become more reliable and cost less than dedicated links. Cisco® Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution gives you a way to take advantage of cheaper bandwidth at branch locations, without compromising application performance, availability, or security.

Intelligent WAN Deployment Guide

February 20, 2017 No Comments

This guide focuses on how to deploy Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN).

Solution Overview: Cisco Enterprise Network Functions Virtualization

February 20, 2017 No Comments

Tweet To succeed in today’s digital marketplace, you need to work faster, cheaper, and smarter than your competition. There is a a lot of pressure of your network to deliver the applications and services you need to do it all. As the demands facing each of your branches grow, you have to keep adding services […]

Big Data Is Improving Our View On Environmental Issues

February 20, 2017 No Comments

Over the past few years, conservationists and others have been turning to big data in order to understand environmental degradation from a global or regional perspective. Such data comes in many forms: social media posts, satellite images and global databases. Using big data can help researchers study such environmental problems as ocean acidification, deforestation or climate change.

Control Application Downtime with Application Dependency Maps

February 17, 2017 No Comments

Application downtime is an enterprise’s worst nightmare. On top of that, it’s fairly common. According to a survey conducted by Dun & Bradstreet, 59 percent of Fortune 500 companies experience a minimum of 1.6 hours of downtime per week. Each time a business application fails, the IT admins have a herculean task ahead of them. They must figure out the root cause of the problem, rectify it and get the business running — all within a short span of time.

Featured Tech Article: Preemptive Transformation at Western Union

February 16, 2017 No Comments

Western Union has always been on the forefront of technological innovation. The company launched in 1851 with the invention of the telegraph. Now, 165 years later, we are digitally transforming ourselves and devising new and easier ways for our customers to move money around the world.

How personal computers evolved and took over the world

February 16, 2017 No Comments

Standing as an acronym for “personal computer”, PCs have come a long way since their early days when owning one was considered to be little more than a curiosity. In fact, the Simon digital computer, widely considered to be the first precursor to the modern PC era is barely 67 years old as of today, less than the duration of an average human’s lifespan.

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