Let's discuss how cloud computing can be used to deliver enterprise-grade IT services. This is clearly a place where cloud computing and virtualization technology converges with operations services such as system administration, software...
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Let's discuss how cloud computing can be used to deliver enterprise-grade IT services. This is clearly a place where cloud computing and virtualization technology converges with operations services such as system administration, software deployment, Software-as-a-Service delivery, and more.
NetApp and Microsoft re-stated its commitment to deliver products and technical integration of technology solutions presents 'cloud computing' or cloud computing, virtualization, and storage management and data offerings. "With this collaboration solutions, customer claims management can improve data center efficiency, reduce costs and improve business agility. NetApp and Microsoft alliance has helped thousands of enterprise customers around the world to be more efficient in running their... Read Full Story
Sustaining cloud services requires a highly scalable network that provides end-to-end automation of service delivery. Cloud computing promises to evolve IT service delivery, but, unfortunately, it's shrouded in hype. Today's IT execs need to cut through the confusion and determine if cloud computing services deliver on the promise of increased business value and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The bottom line? Read the report to find out. Written by: Forrester Consulting Request Free! Read Full Story
Pegasystems has announced that they have released new offerings on their Cloud based SmartPaaS platform – Instance Manager™ and Instant Edition™.
The according to the write up in their press release :
SmartPaaS Instance Manager automates the entire life cycle of requesting, approving, creating and tracking development and test environments for Pegasystems’ SmartBPM solutions. Customers, partners and BPM Centers of Excellence (COE’s) can use this application to provision — in about... Read Full Story
Having gone through a couple of decades worth of technology conferences, a familiar cycle occurs. For the first couple years, technology-related conferences are attended by engineers and operations people. Only after the technology has passed a couple of feasibility gates and begun to hit the business cycle do sales and marketing people take over. Cloud is now officially past the engineering phase, well into the sales phase – and the business community is scrambling to understand the... Read Full Story
The Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara has come to an end, leaving a fair share of opinion, skepticism, and robust discussion for the period of incubation leading up to the next conference. Many companies have adopted “ Cloud-something or other ” as their new name, and are aggressively bringing their products to market. We observed exhibitors displaying cloud network management software, cloud email and SMS messaging, cloud security – basically cloud everything.
According... Read Full Story
The SMS message was desperate. AJ sent the plea “If I have to see one more picture of a cloud in a PPT I might lose it…” After two days of presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo, where companies tried to bring the audience up to an Intro to Clouds 101 level, some attendees were grasping for new ideas, new information, new reasons why companies should release their IT models currently based on strict FUD-Factor (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) compliance, to the new generation... Read Full Story
Since announcing automatic allocation and scaling of cloud resources in January, ENKI has been selling and providing customers with the ability to have their applications monitored by our monitoring system, and automatically have additional resources added and removed from their virtual private data centers to conform to varying loads and to save them money. I wanted to share an update on this with you and show you some pictures!
Customers who can benefit from this must have an... Read Full Story
Announcements have certainly accelerated lately with respect to integrated infrastructure technology. Multiple vendors who provide infrastructure hardware for compute, storage and network are either partnering with each other or pursuing a “go alone” strategy. Few will disagree that more tightly integrated solutions will benefit IT customers.
However an IT solution has always had the expectation and requirement to be integrated. That is why the IT industry has developed over the years... Read Full Story
Announcements have certainly accelerated lately with respect to integrated infrastructure technology. Multiple vendors who provide infrastructure hardware for compute, storage and network are either partnering with each other or pursuing a "go alone" strategy. Few will disagree that more tightly integrated solutions will benefit IT customers.
However an IT solution has always had the expectation and requirement to be integrated. That is why the IT industry has developed over the years... Read Full Story
Tonight as I watched the election returns on CNN, I wasn't
sure what was more amazing: Obama's historic victory, or CNN's technology. CNN was able to display up-to-the minute
results of each state's elections simply at the touch of their news anchor onto
the screen of an election-reporting system.
The anchor could touch a state, then touch a metric, such as various
demographics, and instantly cut the election results up by age, exit poll
answers, or racial composition. It blew
me... Read Full Story
