Yes, I am aware that the concept of being aware is not new. The question has become how aware is your organization when it comes to operating your IT infrastructure? Do you need to check seven different management tools (or more) when it comes to debugging an issue? Do you know what devices are delivering ...
When it comes to operating dynamic IT environments, choosing the right cloud storage service that best fits your business model can be a bit cloudy. With so many types of cloud storage models, how is one to decide which is the best model that will meet your business objectives? Because different business needs require different ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are eight great articles from the week of May 23rd that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! Cloud Multi-tenancy Includes Network Bandwidth "When designing solutions ...
In an “Everything-as-a-Service” world, there is a growing expectation that users should be able to request IT services and at the drop of a hat, have them ready for use. In a world that used to dependent on measured and predictable requests for business growth, the service-based evolution can be quite painful. To complicate the ...
There is no doubt that OpenStack is a red-hot open source project that has garnered the attention of industry titans such as Intel and Cisco. Furthermore, OpenStack found additional stability when Anso Labs, the “brains behind Nebula” and key contributors to OpenStack, was purchased by Rackspace in early 2011. Thankfully, Rackspace has been cognizant of ...
Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on Cloud Computing, service orientated infrastructure, DevOps, and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are seven great articles from the week of May 16th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy! The widening chasm For enterprises weighing the case ...
Dover-Ohio-based Arkovi offers cloud-based social media archiving solutions. Arkovi’s services let organizations of all sizes monitor Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and RSS feeds to track and document employee activity on these sites, as well monitor mentions and comments about company brands and competitor actions. Its code, which integrates at the service level to social network APIs, ...
What is CloudFoundry? It is an open Platform as a Service (PaaS) framework for running Spring for Java applications, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby apps, Node.js apps and apps for other JVM frameworks including Grails. The goal of CloudFoundry is to help abstract the underlying infrastructure and middleware so application developers can rapidly build and deploy new applications. ...
With the expiration of the Department of Justice’s nine-year-old antitrust oversight agreement of Microsoft, things are sure looking bright at Redmond these days. The “legacy” application vendor who has survived multiple proclamations of the “death of the OS” from both Novell and VMware is quietly gaining positive momentum. Fresh off their announcement of the acquisition ...
ReadWriteWeb published a fantastic research study and infographic on Friday from ABB on the current power usage of global datacenters and the opportunities for improvement. Here's a few of the interesting stats identified in the infographic: 1 Datacenter consumes the equivalent of 25,000 U.S. houses in electricity 5.75 million servers are installed annually 10% of installed servers are un-utilized Cooling equipment makes up 30% of total ...
