Inside the Briefcase
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe small and midsize business (SMB) cloud market accounted for an impressive $18.9 billion in the United States and is forecast to grow 19 percent through 2015, according to hosting and cloud services enablement specialist Parallels’ SMB Cloud Insights report. Read More >>>
with Elizabeth Edwards and John Crupi, JackBeIn this interview, Elizabeth Edwards and John Crupi from JackBe offer expert advice for organizations looking to reduce analytic processing times and deliver meaningful data from throughout the enterprise in a manner that is both user-friendly and easy to understand. Read More >>>
with Tapan Patel, SASIn this interview, Tapan Patel from SAS offers expert advice for organizations looking to effectively manage their structured and unstructured data to maximize business value and see positive results. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingAfter disaster strikes, regardless of its origin, IT administrators spend countless hours following complex steps, complete with reboots, to get their enterprises back up and running. In terms of dollars and cents, only a few hours of downtime can cost companies millions. Read More >>>
By Michael Zuckerman, Knoa SoftwareGiven the criticality to the operation of the business, training and efficiency should be at the utmost importance to the company. The ability to precisely measure capabilities and performance of the user during and after training should be available to convey how the applications are being used. Read More >>>
By Dawn AltmanBig changes are in store for big data in 2013, as companies increasingly adopt newer methods of data management and storage. Three technologies remain poised to change data management: solid state drives, Ethernet-based storage protocols and data virtualization. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe cloud took a prominent role in a recent Gartner survey of the world’s top IT executives, and it’s imperative business leaders seek solutions, including hybrid cloud services from companies such as Rackspace, to cope with essentially flat IT budgets and increase IT’s potential in 2013. Read More >>>
By Jake Robinson, BluelockAs an Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, Bluelock sees a lot of migration of applications. Migration is occurring from physical servers to cloud, from private cloud to public cloud and back to private cloud from public cloud. Read More >>>
With Sandy Steier, 1010DataIn this interview, Sandy Steier from 1010Data offers expert advice for businesses looking to quickly and efficiently analyze large amounts of data in a user friendly manner. Read More >>>
By Eran Kinsbruner, Perfecto MobileToday’s mobile market is extremely dynamic, complex and fragmented. This year alone, a large number of devices will be introduced, including open source operating systems that will inevitably further complicate the environment. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe cloud continues to be the catalyst for fueling innovation, cutting costs and significantly cutting down on the time it takes a critical product or service to reach customers and the workplace, according to several recent reports. Read More >>>
By Simon Jelly, Symantec Information Management GroupIn this interview, Simon Jelly from Symantec Information Management Group outlines the primary benefits of an integrated data protection platform, and offers pointers for businesses trying to juggle the increased speed, volume, and variety of data that Big Data brings to the table. Read More >>>
By Troy Fulton, Tangoe, Inc.Your employees want to use their own mobile devices and you are OK with that, but how do you ensure your company’s data is secure? When an employee has access to enterprise data, there is no way to know who else will too…Read More >>>
With Robert Eve, Composite SoftwareIn this interview, Robert Eve from Composite Software offers expert advice for organizations looking to effectively integrate and analyze data to increase overall business value. Read More >>>
With Bill Franks, TeradataIn this interview, Bill Franks from Teradata offers expert advice for companies looking to utilize data in new and creative ways and maximize business value. Read More >>>
By Cliff Schertz, Tiempo DevelopmentMost IT organizations are talking about Agile, but few are truly putting it into practice. Why is this? Old habits die hard, and getting the entire IT organization on board with a new methodology for development can be a tough undertaking. Read More >>>
By Robert Jennings, Capsule Tech, Inc. While the benefits for clinicians and patients may be readily apparent, MDI solutions deliver significant advantages for healthcare IT, Biomeds and even administrators, who typically never approach the bedside. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingThe 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) featured just about everything you ever wanted to know about mobile technology, cloud computing, Ultra HDTVs and the current and future state of nearly everything that requires a power source. Read More >>>
By Kurt Hagerman and Todd Gleason, FireHostIn the not-so-distant past, evaluating cloud infrastructure options was a simple task. There wasn’t a lot of variety in the cloud, so the choice came down to cloud vs. dedicated, and in pretty much every category but price, dedicated won. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingCloud-related skills represent the majority of growth opportunities in IT employment worldwide and demand for cloud-related positions is expected to grow by 26 percent annually through 2015. Yet lack of training prevents many cloud job positions from being filled. Read More >>>
with Terence Ngai, HP EnterpriseIn the below interview, Terence Ngai with HP Cloud Solutions offers expert advice for organizations looking to safely and efficiently transition to the Cloud. Read More >>>
By Dan Tully, Conduit SystemsWhether natural or man-made, disaster can wreak havoc on your business at any time. The up-front and hidden costs of downtime can be devastating. So much so, that according to the National Archives and Record Administration, 98 percent of companies that lost data 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year and 50 percent of those companies filed for bankruptcy immediately. Read More >>>
with Robin Schumacher, DataStaxIn this interview, Robin Schumacher from DataStax offers expert advice as to how companies can overcome their biggest data management challenges, and capitalize on the ever growing Big Data and Cloud Computing evolution. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingMany organizations in the early stages of their cloud computing forays are reporting it’s so far, so good. Their CIOs seem to agree. No major flaws have emerged in recent cloud engagements, and CIOs are giving their full support to the cloud, according to a recent study from Navint Partners, which finds large companies experiencing mainly positive results from cloud-computing efforts. Read More >>>
Bernard Wehbe StatSlice SystemsBecause the purpose of a data warehouse that feeds your BI platform is reporting, analysis and data integration, security is usually NOT a focus when systems are designed. Data security gotchas are not always readily identifiable in an analytics project. Read More >>>
By: Dawn AltnamA CIO that pulls double duty in other positions like CTO and COO is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly common in small and medium-sized companies. While the main job of a CIO is to oversee all technology innovations for a business and look after the IT department, double duty CIOs may also have to focus on certain smaller technological issues or even oversee the general day-to-day operations of that company. Read More >>>
By Patrick Burke, Rackspace HostingOne of the biggest challenges organizations face in terms of logistics and IT is planning for the unknown. Countless Websites have felt the full brunt of what happens when, for whatever reason, traffic begins to bounce off the charts and the system is ill-prepared to absorb the workload. Read More >>>
with Ed Brill, IBM Social BusinessIn this interview, Ed Brill from IBM Social Business emphasizes the benefits of cloud collaboration and outlines ways in which businesses can overcome security and integration challenges associated with the cloud. Read More >>>
with Augie Gonzalez, DataCore Software Corp.In this interview, Augie Gonzalez from DataCore Software discusses the challenges that arise when moving third party applications over to a virtualized environment, and offers expert advice as to how businesses can function more efficiently within private, public, and hybrid cloud. Read More >>>
by Jamie Thomas, IBM TivoliIt’s estimated that 90 percent of companies today view cloud as critical to their business strategies. As these companies adopt enterprise and hybrid clouds they tend to adopt a broad range of specialized tools to help them address new management challenges that come along with cloud. Read More>>>
