Inside the BriefcaseBased on what was said by many of the panelists and insiders at GigaOm’s Structure conference last week, it’s generally agreed upon that cloud computing is just in its nascent stages
Featured BlogsIn my book, Information-Driven Business, I introduce a four layer model for information. You can also read more about this model in the MIKE2.0 article: Four Layers of Information.
Featured BlogsWhen you think “Social BI”, you may have the urge to think of “tweets”, “likes” and other online social activities being monitored and mined. However, Social BI is much more than analyzing your customer’s social data. It’s about making the business knowledge you uncover easily available to others. It’s about tapping into people who share your interests in getting answers to similar questions or solving similar problems.
Featured BlogsThat’s the way Teresa Lunt, VP and director of the computing science lab at PARC, describes the Internet that will be emerging within the next couple of years — driven by content and data that is completely independent of underlying systems or network points. As related by Janko Roettgers in GigaOm, Lunt demonstrated Content-Centric Networking at a recent conference, in which data is seamlessly distributed across the network, with little need for cloud or other solutions to piece it all together.
Featured BlogsTweet For those of you who’ve followed along on my virtualization posts, you’ve noticed that I’m a fan of certain types of virtual desktop infrastructure implementations. This was not always the case. In fact, if you Google my name and VDI, you’ll find that for most of the past three years, I’ve come out strongly […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Cloud computing is the next big thing in the computing world. But there’s a small little economic problem that needs solving. The idea that we can all put everything into the cloud and then access it from anywhere is quite delightful. Hard drive failures become someone else’s problem for a start. But a part […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet It was just the other day the suggestion was made that Linux is best-suited for bachelors. That assertion set off quite a little storm of controversy, as alert readers may recall, both here on these virtual pages and elsewhere throughout the blogosphere. The latest match to be tossed onto this tinderbox of a topic? […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsThe message from Gartner analysts was “go private cloud” last week at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit 2011 conference. However, the same analysts emphasized that building a private cloud is more than just adding virtual machines to physical servers, which is already happening with dizzying speed in the enterprise.
Featured BlogsWorking with clients it is clear that the interest in analytics has never been greater than it is today. Yet there is still confusion about what analytics means. We have web analytics to analyze logs and clickstream data to optimize websites; data mining and predictive analytics to analyze structured data to segment customers and to determine how likely something is to be true in the future; text analytics to analyze unstructured data and social media. All these approaches are useful if they are applied the right way and increasingly only if they are integrated.
Featured BlogsThe industry’s first cloud-based solution for master data management (MDM) has arrived, signaling the emergence of a new architectural model for MDM that can offer rapid time to deployment without substantial capital expenditures.
Featured BlogsFor midmarket CIOs, analytics tops the agenda, according to a recent IBM study. Of 3,000 CIOs from 622 organizations worldwide interviewed, 83 percent identified analytics as their top-priority investment area.
Featured BlogsTweet ‘Tis the season to fix your virtual environment and there’s no better way to start that process than with a “to do” list. And, you know you need one. So, here’s your list for those dog days of summer, when you want to heat things up even more. You won’t solve all ten of […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsFederal CIO Vivek Kundra has been all about IT reform for the federal government, and he placed big bets that cloud computing is the way to go. He pushed for open government, cloud computing, data center consolidation, rigorous project management, and better customer service.
For many years now, commentators have been giving up on Java or Java Enterprise Edition for dead as a legacy technology or platform. There have been plenty of articles written about its imminent demise. But it’s still around, and by all indications, going strong.
The mid-market has long been an underserved segment by the Business Communications industry. These businesses typically have more sophisticated needs than those in the small-business space but lack the resources and IT infrastructure to support true enterprise-grade solutions.
Last week, as part of a roll-out of a broader suite of smart building technologies, I got to enjoy a dose of high culture and high technology, catching Big Blue’s announcement of novel collaboration with New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tweet Blog by Katherine Noyes Say “Linux” these days, and most people automatically think, “Ubuntu.” Such is the level of mainstream awareness and success Canonical’s distribution has achieved, even as such goals have proven more elusive for other distributions. Of course, it can’t be denied that the fact that mainstream users think *anything* when they […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsWhere’s the business value in SOA? That’s a question that constantly gets asked, and the Open Group says it has a way to answer it — through its TOGAF certification program. That’s the gist of a new guide, “Using TOGAF to Define and Govern Service-Oriented Architectures,” now available for free download.
Tweet Blog by Paul Greenberg Like any technology company – any company for that matter – salesforce.com has an agenda that they are pursuing and they drive their agenda by making business decisions along the way that are designed to benefit their company, their shareholders and their other stakeholders – a broad and fuzzy term […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Gene Marks A few weeks ago Microsoft bought Skype for over $8 billion. And a lot of people are trying to figure out what they intend to do with this new technology. Marketer Jeff Valentine is hoping that they use Skype’s Voice over IP technology to put them ahead in gaming. Gigaom’s […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet Blog by Katherine Noyes You just never know on any given day what’s waiting for you in the Linux blogosphere. Some days, it’s fresh, awesome news of FOSS’ growing mainstream acceptance. Other days, well, it’s not. Take last Thursday. Linux Girl was scouting around the blogosphere, as per usual, listening in on thread after […]
Blogs, Featured BlogsTweet I’d like to coin a new industry term: “cloud coupling”. This noun (and also a verb) describes the conjoining of two or more (generally large) data sets across various applications, cloud services and social media streams. So, “cloud coupling“, say it with us now ☺ This term was thrown up after reading up on […]
I thought CIO magazine’s Bernard Golden did a great job of highlighting the threats and opportunities for cloud computing for both the rank-and-file workers in enterprises, as well as IT executives: “CIOs and senior IT managers are not immune from the employment risks that cloud computing poses to lower-level infrastructure and operations workers. Failing to rethink the delivery of IT services — and the new organizational structures that will be needed to deliver them–poses a threat to their job security.”
Tweet IBM executives said this week that the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business intelligence software, to secure private and IBM-hosted hybrid clouds as customers migrate to these new computing setups. Steve Robinson, general manager for IBM security solutions, told Network World during this […]
Fewer vendors, less licence revenue but more users. That’s the unique situation in the business intelligence (BI) market right now. Very few niche players remain to be gobbled up by the giants, but current licence revenues are dropping on average as BI becomes more democratised and moves onto more desktops.
Tweet Blog by Dan Kusnetzky Large data centers are finding managing the environment to accommodate an ever-increasing demand for network bandwidth very difficult. Network routing and virtualization equipment often don’t offer enough speed to be effective. So, the usual approach is to install racks of these little guys and spread the network traffic over several […]
Tweet Blog by Jason Perlow I noted in my original 2009 article where Apple disclosed their plans for their 500,000 square foot North Carolina datacenter – which we now know is going to be the central hub of iCloud — that without virtualization in Mac OS X, they wouldn’t be able to pull off sufficient […]
Tweet Blog post by Ken Hess Do you ever have the situation where you have a sluggish virtual machine (VM) and in trying to find the bottleneck, you raise the number of vCPUs? Did it work? If your VM experiences a slowdown, then the problem is the extra vCPU(s). It’s counterintuitive to see this occur […]
Tweet Blog by Dan Kusnetzky The good folks from Dell reached out to me recently to let me know about the newest happenings in their desktop virtualization efforts including new thin client devices and a new version of their Dell Virtual Labs 2.0. In the end, Dell is offering its own hardware devices and virtualization […]
Tweet Things are never dull here in the Linux blogosphere, but there’s no doubt they would be a whole lot less entertaining without Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL). How else, after all, would we get the opportunity to ride on a thrilling emotional roller coaster such as the one Oracle’s had us on since it acquired Sun? […]
