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 All the buzz surrounding OpenStack over the past few months may beg the question of whether Openstack can repeat for Cloud what Linux has done for server operating systems over the past several years. With an enthusiastic following and a compelling, if not industry-leading set of funct...May. 16, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
Please forgive the IT Dog for channeling a little AC/DC today. I needed some way to get ‘highway’ and ‘data’ in the same sentence and you’ll see in a minute why ‘Highway to Hell’ is appropriate here. I was reading a blog on the Neve... May. 14, 2012 05:59 PM EDT Reads: 138 |
 Of late patents around mobile technologies have been in the news. Four high profile news items are (1) Oracle suing Google for Java patent violation, (2) Apple and Samsung fighting each other in different parts of the world, Microsoft, Apple, Rim and others jointly buying Nortel patent...May. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,321 |
Hurricane Labs Beacon Podcast Episode Number: .025 – New Studio Edition Hosts: Matt Yonchak (@mattyonchak), Patrick Sayler (@psayler), Ian Gillespie,...Read More May. 11, 2012 02:49 PM EDT Reads: 524 |
 Responsive WordPress themes are the current craze in the open source world. But are they a true requirement or just a bunch of hype thrown out to sell more premium themes to unsuspecting buyers? Do WordPress users really need to consider upgrading their existing themes to one that is...May. 11, 2012 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 964 |
London, United Kingdom, May 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SMEStorage today announced that the SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server is now available to be used with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). SMEStorage has delivered its Cloud File Server product to be used by customers who have pr... May. 11, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 584 |
In a blow to SAS's efforts to litigate competitor and low-cost SAS clone WPS out of existence, the European Union High Court has ruled that programming languages can't be copyrighted. SAS Institute (Cary, NC) had claimed that the WPS software — which allows users to process SAS data fi... May. 10, 2012 06:32 PM EDT Reads: 452 |
 ACIS are a specialist in the Microsoft FAST Search engine, and offer technical and consulting expertise that enables it to be used for the best practices described in our white paper – Microsoft Cloud 2.0 – FAST Social Computing.
Their SPM module enables FAST to be used in a ‘Hybrid...May. 10, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 650 |
Last time we mentioned two fundamental principles while monitoring any object: 1. The monitor should collect as much important information as possible that will allow to accurately evaluate the health state of an object. 2. The monitor should have little to no effect on the activity of... May. 10, 2012 10:03 AM EDT Reads: 447 |
 In our previous article, SQL Server 2008 Overview, we looked over the different features that the Microsoft SQL Server provides. In this article we will focus on the new and advanced features of the latest SQL Server release – SQL Server 2012. They include, but are not limited to, the ...May. 10, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 919 |
 Shadow IT is a good thing for IT organizations…and here’s why… It is important to first understand what Shadow IT is and why it happens. Shadow IT is commonly referred to when non-IT organizations delve into the delivery of technology solutions…without IT’s involvement. It happen...May. 10, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 735 |
 It has been more than two years since the European Commission published in January 2010 its pioneering report about the Future of Cloud Computing. A group of experts was established with the aim to evaluate the state-of-the-art and develop future research directions in cloud computing....May. 9, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,138 |
London, United Kingdom, May 09, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Vehera LTD, trading as SMEStorage, today announced that it has integrated the BaseCamp® project management cloud solution into its hosted SaaS or hybrid Cloud File Server platform.
SMEStorage already works with over 35 informatio... May. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 488 |
COSTA MESA, Calif, May 8, 2012 - Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the introduction of a family of new OneConnect® Network Xceleration™ solutions for the High Performance Networking (HPN) market. Emulex is bringing its new family of OneConnect (OC)e12000 10Gb Eth... May. 8, 2012 09:27 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
8 May 2012, Reading, UK - Adax (www.adax.com), an industry leader in high-performance packet-processing, security and network infrastructure, today announced that its Application Ready Platform has been chosen by Torres Networks (www.torresnetworks.com), an innovative Policy Control, N... May. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 361 |
The IGEL Universal MultiDisplay solution increases productivity by allowing workers to use three to eight monitors in parallel at the workstationReading, UK, May 8th, 2012 - IGEL Technology today launched its new IGEL Universal MultiDisplay software solution to allow specialist workers... May. 8, 2012 06:33 AM EDT Reads: 478 |
Ph.D candidate in sociology Ethan Fosse just switched from Stata to doing 100% of his analysis with R. His reasons? If you want to do Bayesian analysis or graph modeled coefficients (or work with complex data structures more generally), then R is much easier than Stata due to the objec... May. 7, 2012 12:53 PM EDT Reads: 324 |
 In my last column, I discussed how Always-On can now be seen for what it is: a potential biological addiction. In a world where we are never far away from an electronic, online screen, we increasingly feel an inner urge to check our emails, social media pages and IM in every circumsta...May. 7, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 707 |
The Analysis Intelligence site provides open source analysis and information on a variety of topics based on the the temporal analytic technology and intelligence analysis tools of Recorded Future. Shortly after the release of 175 pages of documents from the Combatting Terrorism Cente... May. 6, 2012 10:05 PM EDT Reads: 350 |
 In the mid-1990s, a Statistics professor at UNC reported an IT problem: he couldn't send email more than 500 miles away. He'd had geostatisticians plot the sites where emails could be sent successfully and where they bounced, and found they described a circle a radius slightly over 500...May. 6, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 581 |
The open-source RHadoop project makes it easier to extract data from Hadoop for analysis with R, and to run R within the nodes of the Hadoop cluster -- essentially, to transform Hadoop into a massively-parallel statistical computing cluster based on R. In yesterday's webinar (the repla... May. 3, 2012 06:14 PM EDT Reads: 304 |
Whenever a new technology appears, there is a short period of time where every body with an idea about branding want’s to “coin a phrase” or be the “first” to use a term. As much fun as I am sure all that may be, the problem is that when the technology le... May. 3, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 658 |
Berlin, Germany, May 03, 2012 --(PR.com)-- win.rar GmbH and RARLAB are proud to present to the public the first Beta version of WinRAR 4.20. Users will realize that the compression speed is up to three times higher than in previous versions and the improvements are valid for RAR and Z... May. 3, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 487 |
London, UK — May 3rd, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will ... May. 3, 2012 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 386 |
London, UK May 3, 2012: ElasticHosts, the cloud hosting provider, today announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to... May. 3, 2012 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 655 |
 I just spent 3 days in Bangalore for a board meeting. Staying in south Bangalore around JP Nagar and Jayanagar area feels like the old Bangalore of yesteryears – greenery all around, spring flowers, no high rise apartment buildings, and … Continue reading →May. 3, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,092 |
There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who eithe... May. 2, 2012 10:58 AM EDT Reads: 575 |
 If you were happily running your IT system but needed some additional performance, chances are you turned to some kind of SSD caching solution to improve performance at a lower cost point than adding more servers or storage. You went on what I am calling a “cache diet” (no, not the “cr...May. 2, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 676 |
 OpenStack is an open-source cloud framework for building on-demand Infrastructure as a Service.
This tutorial in essence distills from this two-page set of instructions for setting up devstack on a single server primarily for use by developers.
I used a DELL 1950 with 8 GB of RAM, in...May. 2, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,839 |
 Every technologist I know has been working to learn more about Hadoop. I bet you are already somewhat familiar with some of the neat use-cases of this technological framework. But let me ask, wouldn’t you like to be able to express what Hadoop is in a clear, succinct way? May. 2, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,022 |
It’s 1998. I’m just starting my job at Rational Software, supporting ClearCase. During my training and through my first few months handling customer issues, I developed a deep understanding of the complexities of SCM and the heavy-handed centralized control that ClearCase provided its ... May. 1, 2012 10:19 AM EDT Reads: 305 |
 It’s unlikely there’s anyone in IT today that doesn’t understand the role of load balancing to scale. Whether cloud or not, load balancing is the key mechanism through which load is distributed to ensure horizontal scale of applications. It’s also unlikely there’s anyone in IT that doe...May. 1, 2012 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,156 |
Information Age recently published a feature article devoted to the R language, "Putting the R in analytics". Says author Pete Swabey: Already popular in universities, there are signs that R is finding increasing adoption in the enterprise. This promises to lower the barriers of entry ... Apr. 30, 2012 07:08 PM EDT Reads: 359 |
I'm hosting solo this week and our guests are Ben Kepes from Diversity Limited and Reza Malekzadeh from Nimbula. Ben chats about the infrastructure and tech industry in New Zealand and how that ties to the opportunity in emerging markets while Reza tackles a discussion of the open sour... Apr. 30, 2012 09:24 AM EDT Reads: 492 |
 NAB kept me totally away from all the interesting online discussions last week. It’s too late to respond to @JoinToigo’s tweet (we’d call this Figs after Easter in Dutch), but I thought I’d share my thoughts in a bit more than 140 characters.
The short answer is no … but a better answ...Apr. 27, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,192 |
 In our last article we discussed best practices when using asynchronous calls. In this article we’ll look at guidelines for Locking and Synchronization. Locking and synchronization provide a mechanism to grant exclusive access to data or code in order to avoid concurrent execution. Det...Apr. 25, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 506 |
 We have worked with many APIs here at Layer 7. And over time we’ve seen it all, ranging from the good to the bad. We even see the downright ugly. Now a good API is a beautiful thing; it encourages innovation, abstracts appropriately, and is designed with enough forethought that nobody ...Apr. 25, 2012 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,127 |
Vancouver, Canada, April 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Hosting Controller Inc. (www.hostingcontroller.com) today announced that its cloud hosting automation solution has been validated by Microsoft for Exchange 2010 SP2 and it has also attained Silver ISV and Software Development competencies... Apr. 25, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 637 |
New Ultra Safe key security and management solution to support elliptic curve cryptographyLOUDWATER, UK (April 24, 2012) - Ultra Electronics AEP Networks, the provider of trusted security, has announced the launch of Ultra Safe Keyper Plus, the first FIPS 140-3 level 4 ready hardware s... Apr. 24, 2012 06:01 AM EDT Reads: 473 |
Bothell, WA, April 24, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Datalight announced today that it has released Reliance Nitro 2.7, the first full-featured file system for Android. The new Android file system combines strong read and write performance with fast mount time, rock-solid reliability, a comprehen... Apr. 24, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 303 |
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