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 We described in a previous post our experience about the different types of cloud models, and our view about how the main open-source Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs) are targeting their needs. Our aim was to demonstrate that we will see an open-source cloud space with several offerin...Mar. 16, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,477 |
 "We're actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps," noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A. "But," he continued, "we see true PaaS as it's been popularized in the market - you may think of it as "Silicon Va...Oct. 18, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,884 |
 Many firms still dismiss the importance of social networking and some of them even ban employees from using these services while in the workplace. They think that “social” starts and ends with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other networks that might be best described as informal, consu...Oct. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,006 |
 In this acute age of class warfare, elitism, and social media tools, somewhere in the middle of all of it, the retail and financial services industries are spawning the latest “Must-have” digital bling: mobile wallets. (or digital wallets)
Will credit cards become a thing of the past...Sep. 17, 2012 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,395 |
 In the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless – natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware fail...Aug. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,387 |
 The combination of Wi-Fi and DAS (Distributed Antennae Systems) communications technology is becoming a new intelligent amenity in many sports stadiums for enhancing the fan experience by having apps like Stadium VIP and others providing new services available at your fingertips throug...Jul. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,253 |
 Yes, data virtualization is definitely about agility. We covered this from different angles in my previous article. Agility in this context is about accelerating the time-to-delivery of new critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is also about an architecture t...May. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,056 |
 The Apple App Store has reached 25 billion downloads, and many of us have bought and enjoy some of them. Really, the apps for iPad, iPhone and Android astonish us many times. The bad part comes when we go back to our desktop computer to use the enterprise software and feel as if we tra...Apr. 12, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,541 |
 To gauge the potential business benefits -- and threats -- from cloud, we also need to examine the confluence of these developments and how together they change businesses and business ecosystems.
It's impossible to factor the implications of cloud computing without examining the cont...Mar. 31, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,401 |
 Over the history of computing, we can trace a pattern of continuous decomposition, from a single system into disparate components. Early on, these individual parts made it easier to design, program and maintain systems, and meet the fast-growing demand for more power and more capacity....Aug. 26, 2011 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,146 |
 As I had mentioned earlier, there is a paucity of free sample questions for the TOGAF 9 foundation or the part 1 test. I had created one set earlier and there are two other set available for free.
Here is another set of 40 questions.
Entire business group or corporation comprising of...Apr. 2, 2011 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,435 |
 This helpful role is because of the key relationship between this type of portal community web site and the principles and practices of 'Open Government'. Not only in terms of open source software but also in terms of utilizing Open Innovation principles to transform how government pro...Mar. 4, 2011 01:18 PM EST Reads: 4,777 |
 We made a small flurry of announcements last week, all of which were related to cloud computing. I think it is worthwhile to put some context around Ubuntu and the cloud and explain a little more about where we are with this critical strategic strand for our beloved OS.
First of all, ...Mar. 3, 2011 10:15 AM EST Reads: 6,297 |
 True, the computer system Watson, created by IBM, beat all human competition in the US reality quiz show "Jeopardy!" But does it make Watson intelligent – is it an important step towards Singularity? Is it a significant step in the field of AI? Or, is the win meaningless and does not i...Mar. 2, 2011 10:49 AM EST Reads: 4,483 |
 Open Government best practices can be utilized to transform national innovation programs.
Canada is scoring a 'D for Innovation', and falling behind other nations in their innovation capacities.
They also have perceived issues around the bite of their Open Government watchdogs, and w...Jan. 16, 2011 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,500 |
 If there were ever two concepts that are representative of where we are today in technology, they would have to be Government 2.0 and Community. Unfortunately, they are also two of the most overused and over-hyped phrases in our technology vocabulary.
Government 2.0 is a general term...Dec. 15, 2010 10:30 AM EST Reads: 6,582 |
 The open source movement is growing rapidly and having a major impact on the way businesses model their IT strategies. One of the business areas where open source is beginning to have a real impact is in the area of cloud computing. Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that...Dec. 6, 2010 08:15 AM EST Reads: 6,477 |
 A report by Black Duck Software, provider of products and services for aiding software development through managed use of open source, says that open source projects are helping in the adoption of cloud computing. According to the press release, cloud computing frameworks and platforms...Aug. 25, 2010 04:26 PM EDT Reads: 3,381 |
 Open source software is perfectly positioned to facilitate the massive overhaul that will be necessary to open up government data to the public. As consumers, this technology is already changing the way in which we go about our day-to-day lives. It powers maps on our phones and provide...Aug. 9, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,923 |
 As many of you know, a new open-source cloud platform, OpenStack, was recently announced. Here at OpenNebula, we think this is a very exciting development in the cloud community, and we're glad to see so many major players coalescing around an open-source solution. However, we have als...Jul. 23, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 6,863 |
 You wouldn't typically combine the words 'Government' and 'Innovation' in the same sentence, but actually it's the ideal way to highlight some of the most essential and exciting points about Cloud computing.
Although the technology can lower operational costs by moving processes 'int...Jul. 20, 2010 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,235 |
 GroundWork Open Source (GWOS) and private cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems have paired up to provide monitoring and management of applications running in Eucalyptus private cloud environments. Through GWOS's open source network and infrastructure product called Groundwork Monito...Apr. 8, 2010 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,881 |
 Most commonly, the term “virtualization” refers to the creation of virtual instances of an operating system or virtual machines (VMs) on physical server hardware, known as server virtualization. However, the development of server virtualization has led to the creation of other virtual ...Mar. 17, 2010 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,196 |
 The zebra in this analogy is the private cloud, where corporate IT departments feel safe controlling everything internally, and not risking exposure to the perceived tigers "out there" in the public cloud arena. But Tejada stated that in the end, large-scale IT initiatives always conce...Nov. 4, 2009 12:45 PM EST Reads: 11,161 |
 As friend John Scott points out on his blog, Dave Wennergren, DoD CIO, has just signed out a very well coordinated, well staffed and well thought out clarification of guidance regarding Open Source Software (OSS). A copy is attached.
Some key points:
- Open Source Software meets t...Oct. 28, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,001 |
 By the way, if Ellen Degeneres wants to respond in a reasonable and constructive way to the lawsuits over her use of song snippets to dance to, she could always start using Creative Commons-licensed music, with a nice plug for the open-hearted musicians making our lives more tuney.Sep. 23, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,286 |
 For anyone interested, VMware has launched their Vcloud API specification. They describe their new "open" vCloud API as an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources from the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds. Th...Sep. 8, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,491 |
 Many of the concepts first proposed and extolled during the Internet hype curve in the mid-1990s are now bearing fruit. Perhaps we should think of cloud computing as less than a separate hype curve, and more as the realization of the original Internet value curve , now some 15 years in...Sep. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,755 |
 Open ERP has released its new service offer - Odoo, the Ondemand ERP solution with minimal costs involved for end user. Its a SaaS (Software As A Service) offer from Open ERP, which provides access to end user without any investments or any infrastructural costs.
Aug. 24, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,387 |
 This is the clear path for open source and Java developers to the cloud. Microsoft will have its hands full just keeping the .NET developers and operators on the farm, so to speak. SpringSource made headlines last week when VMware scooped up the Java infrastructure and management firm ...Aug. 22, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,840 |
 Virtualization adoption in the desktop and datacenter space has been rampant over the past few years given the popular benefits that the technology has to offer. Classical virtualization benefits are numerous and result in savings on many levels. The ability to host multiple server env...Oct. 24, 2008 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,331 |
 Recently, I have had the opportunity to work with a number of clients on their strategy to leverage the advantages that open source can achieve across their IT organizations. I found the major motivator and attention getter for open source adoption is the promise to cut costs; but incr...Oct. 15, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,600 Replies: 1 |
 In today's competitive world, the most important presence for a corporation is their website. It not only acts as a face for the company but also as an interface enabling its clients, users, and prospects to communicate with the company. As websites are accessible to users via thin cli...Jul. 25, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,266 |
 Why is the 'collaborative source' development approach uniquely suited and required to drive innovation in the mobile-communications software stack? What are the early fruits of its impact? Out of the principles of open source and the particular market and legal constraints of the tele...Jun. 13, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,639 |
 Appliances. The very word is emblematic of stability and strength. Think of the appliances in your kitchen. Unless you're particularly unlucky, 99.9% of the time your refrigerator, stove and dishwasher just work. You don't have to give it a second thought. When we talk about software a...Jun. 6, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,559 |
 Last summer, a group of technical experts from various open source companies came together under the banner of the Open Solutions Alliance, rolled out an enterprise-class application, and demonstrated the power of collaboration with the launch of the Common Customer View project, an in...May. 1, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,699 |
 Enterprise networks are growing increasingly complex. Over the past five years, the increased focus on unified security, network optimization, and application acceleration has resulted in an explosion of new technologies, specialty devices, and vendors. The proliferation of high-speed ...Feb. 26, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 13,570 |
 The introduction of Linux into the data center has brought with it the promise of a new level of cost-efficiency and flexibility for enterprise data center environments. IT professionals prefer Linux for their data centers because it's highly customizable and can be adapted to address ...Jan. 17, 2008 09:00 AM EST Reads: 11,720 |
 Linux tends to take center stage when it comes to support and other services for enterprise open source users. However, there are literally thousands of other solid open source packages available that perform a wide variety of functions. Unfortunately, there's a real lack of informatio...May. 3, 2007 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 31,477 Replies: 2 |
 This article presents a simple and inexpensive methodology for predicting the performance of a client/server application over a wide area network. A network emulator, placed between the client and server, is used to vary key network properties, such as latency, bandwidth and packet los...Nov. 10, 2006 11:00 AM EST Reads: 26,678 |
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