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It’s pretty easy to pick holes in the current legacy storage products, especially when it comes to integration within both public and private cloud deployments. However it’s worth discussing exactly what is required when implementing cloud frameworks, as the way in which storage is de...
Your application is running slow. You need to find out what’s going on. If you’ve used SQL Profiler on a local database you might be familiar with how you can capture a trace of database activity and use it to figure out where your resources are going. The visibility makes it MUCH easi...
I have been having a great debate with one of my colleagues about the changing role of the IT operations (aka “I&O”) function in the context of PaaS. Nobody debates that I&O is responsible and accountable for infrastructure operations. Application developers (with or without the bless...
The following are a collection of ongoing industry trends and perspectives polls pertaining to server, storage, IO, networking, cloud, virtualization, data protection (backup, archive, BC and DR) among other related themes and topics. In addition to those listed below, check out the c...
A product that Steve Jobs would never agree during his time as CEO, a smaller iPad, also called iPad Mini is on the tide of the hot rumor. It is said that this 7.85-inch iPad Mini will be released this fall.
Many organizations are now allowing employees to use their personally-owned devices for work purposes with the goal of achieving improved employee satisfaction and productivity. However, this comes at an IT price and can pose several challenges with ensuring security. We live and work...
As an Alcatel-Lucent Global Enterprise Partner and a Platinum Sponsor, NextiraOne will have strong presence at this week's Düsseldorf eventDüsseldorf, 21 May 2012 - NextiraOne, Europe's leading expert in communications services, will have a strong presence at the Alcatel-Luce...
If you attempt to get meetings just to ‘get in front of’ a prospect (assuming that your solution will rule the day); if you present to whichever prospects will agree to see you; if you pitch when the buyer doesn’t have all of their ducks in a row, you're not only wasting your breath, b...
La société obtient l'Award "European Partner of the Year" de Liaison Technologies pour les résultats obtenus en 2011.POISSY, France - 21 mai 2012 - RedSol annonce la signature d'un contrat de partenariat exclusif avec Liaison Technologies, leader mondial de la transforma...
STERCI meets demand for increased network capacity with Interoute's data centres London, 21 May 2012 - STERCI, a leading financial messaging solutions company, has accelerated the efficiency and business agility of its growing customer base, by outsourcing its portfolio of global trans...
74% of European businesses have refreshed their network in last 3 years Yet 41% of companies still take a month or more to action network changesGUILDFORD, England, 21 May, 2012 - European businesses are inadequately prepared to support day-to-day business functions despite continuous ...
Industry leading Enterprise Product Management solution pivotal to Alcatel Lucent BSS portfolioDublin, Ireland & London, UK - May 21, 2012: Today, at TM Forum Management World, Tribold, the world's leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically develo...
SolutionsPath™ practice enables EMEA partners and IT vendors to reach specialised, high-growth marketsBrussels, Belgium, 21st May 2012 - Avnet Technology Solutions, a global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), is expanding its Solut...
Did Facebook have a successful IPO last Friday?  Absolutely.  Facebook raised over $16 Billion dollars of public money to use to expand its business.  Early investors who chose to cash out received an exceptional return on their investment.  And that’s really what successful IPO&...
In this short video I discuss the concept of mobilized objects. You can mobilize much more than just a workforce, and it is important to recognize how mobilizing many different objects can benefit your enterprise.
Spring (May) 2012 StorageIO news letter By Greg Schulz Spring (May) 2012 News letter Welcome to the Spring (May) 2012 edition of the Server and StorageIO Group (StorageIO) news letter. This follows the Fall (December) 2011 edition. You can get access to this news letter...
Verizon Wireless plans to make its data-hungry customers pay a lot more, either in service fees or smartphone prices, as it tries to cut costs and boost revenue from data services. The No. 1 U.S. mobile provider said it will eliminate unlimited data plans for all customers who upgrade ...
Apple has long had a program called “AppleSeed” that seeds upcoming versions of Apple software (both iOS and OS X related) to customers. These seeds typically come to this select group of customers even before they are provided to Apple’s paid and registered developers. Today, the comp...
Do you work in a bullpen-style open office? You are certainly not alone, both literally and figuratively. Lately it seems everyone is moving towards this kind of seating arrangement, but the lack of privacy doesn’t necessarily balance the potential productivity. … Continue ...
Red Herring America’s is a conference starting on Monday 21 May (here is the agenda). This is an invitation only event. But if you are not going there should be plenty of information flowing out of the conference, it is widely attended by IT thought leaders and will be covered by Red H...
Welcome to the Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia.  Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016. Also read ...
Leonard Grace | BROADBAND CONVERGENT - Technology News | Broadband - Mobile - Cable - Wireless - TelecomThis sounds extreme, but Comcast continues to push the boundaries in separation of its broadband service with its cable service. It is walking a thin line between being a broadband p...
If you need a dirt-cheap desktop PC and don’t mind Android, $74 will get you one that fits in your pocket.To use this little guy, you’ll need a monitor or HDTV that accepts HDMI input, plus an HDMI cable. You’ll also need a wireless USB keyboard and mouse combo, which would plug into t...
T-mobile announced  that it will sell what it calls Mobile Broadband Service Passes, which start at $15 per week (300MB) and run the gamut from a 1.5GB data bucket ($25 per month) all the way up to a full 5GB for $50 monthly fee. Notably, you can pay up-front for these passes without h...
Yesterday Disk Utility told me to restart my Mac from a boot disk and run the disk repair function (= Disk Utility). Fine. Except I was unable to boot from any of my three Mac boot disks (including the original) whether they were in my laptop’s SuperDrive (= Apple’s plain old DVD drive...
The Department of Defense Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer has a long running history of seeking out the best ideas for improving DoD oversight and management of department financial management systems, operations and controls. The office has a mandate to transform the way...
A major part of #productmanager ’s daily life involves a lot of communication, decision making and feature #prioritization among many. With multiple product lines and time pressure, the feature prioritization decisions could become very subjective. Here are the 5 questions every ...
Ok, what’s with the new Chuck E Cheese coupons?  I know prices go up, but the coupons are really becoming worthless.  Buy 100 tokens get a free cheese pizza?  Who...
Many were surprised at the fact Facebook shares closed up only $.23 above the IPO price of $38.  There are several reasons: 1.   When it is possible for retail investors to get shares of an IPO it is an indication that either the “smart” money did not like the de...
Detroit, MI, 18 May 2012 – Soave Enterprises once again recognizes the growth and initiative of their industrial services company MPS Group. Unlike the sporting world, the industrial services industry just doesn’t have the vocabulary to describe the one-two-three punch of signing...
Brambleton, VA,  18 May 2012 – Soave Enterprises and Brambleton are supporting the 2012 Ringing in Hope Walk, Run, and Fun on Memorial Day.  Held at the Brambleton Town Center in Louden County, VA, the run is a memorial event to honor the country’s troops. “This is a great opportunity ...
Are large storage arrays dead at the hands of SSD? Short answer NO not yet. There is still a place for traditional storage arrays or appliances particular those with extensive features, functionality and reliability availability serviceability (RAS). In other words, there is still a p...
The recent enterprise acceptance of lightweight REST-based protocols for exposing data and application assets as APIs has been due, in large part, to the simplicity of the resulting interfaces. This simplicity means there is little barrier to entry for developers wishing to consume the...
On Wednesday, May 16, I had the pleasure of attending the Atlantic Council’s  ”Lessons from Our Cyber Past: The First Cyber Cops” discussion moderated by Jason Healey, the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative and featuring Steven R. Chabinsky, Assistant Deputy Director of ...
Game Theory is the mathematical study of how agents in a system make choices for their actions, in light of the fact that other agents are also making competitive choices of their actions. As the name suggests, the "system" is often some kind of game and the "agents" are players, but g...
Comcast Corp., the country’s largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit. That limit, however, is very high, starting at 300 gigabytes for basic Internet plans. Only 1 percent of U.S. Internet users use t...
Exadel’s David Schoenbach published a very interesting article on how APIs are exposing value and changing the nature of the Internet. In 2012, the client-server par­a­digm, which has dom­i­nated ap­pli­ca­tion ar­chi­tec­ture — and the modern Web architecture which is its most m...
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice are considering China Mobile’s license for providing international information service in the United States ...
Join us for an online event to MEET Windows Azure! Big things are brewing with Windows Azure at Microsoft. Want to learn more about what's coming? Microsoft is pleased to announce a new online event we're calling MEET Windows Azure. Hear from Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott...