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 In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2. After you review these new capabilities, I’m sure you’ll see why the R2 release is a MAJOR RELEASE – so MUCH MORE than “just another” Service Pack release!
This month, we’ll be releasing ...Jun. 19, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 763 |
 The notion that PaaS exists solely "in the cloud" as a discrete environment of developer services is hampering the maturation of enterprise PaaS.
The three most common answers to "give me an example of PaaS" are: Force.com, Azure, Google. I didn't even need to do an unscientific Inter...Jun. 19, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,186 |
 Interview with CEO Brad Bostic - hc1.com is committed to improving the quality of healthcare while reducing costs. We believe a critical ingredient to averting the current healthcare crisis faced by the US can only occur by improving the way healthcare professionals across the continu...Jun. 19, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 870 |
 Recently, there have been an increasing number of cloud-based static code quality analysis tools, or should I say services. A few that I’ve been watching include:
Code Climate consolidates the results from a suite of Ruby static analysis tools into a real-time report, giving teams the...Jun. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,424 |
 Ex·ten·si·ble (in programming): Said of a system (e.g., program, file format, programming language, protocol, etc.) designed to easily allow the addition of new features at a later date. (from Dictionary.com)
Whenever I attend a F5 customer or partner gathering, I always ask of thos...Jun. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,094 |
 Hyper-V Replica is our included asynchronous site-to-site VM replication capability for Windows Server 2012 and our free Hyper-V Server 2012 bare-metal enterprise-grade hypervisor. Using Hyper-V Replica, you can quickly implement a cost-effective disaster recovery plan for your busine...May. 25, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,094 |
 “The last time I checked, people do not change their social security numbers very often...”
While in constant debate over data encryption and ease of access, I encountered a train of thought that made my jaw drop. A tradeshow attendee suggested encrypting everything, but just use a we...May. 22, 2013 11:20 AM EDT Reads: 1,265 |
 Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
Through observation, Fred notices that even...May. 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,725 |
 When you’re dealing with something as critical as your business infrastructure, you want to be sure that you’ll get what you signed up for. If a company promises something, and you promise your colleagues something based on it, you want it to happen. That’s where the service level agre...May. 14, 2013 01:21 PM EDT Reads: 1,142 |
 Windows Azure Virtual Networks offers the power to open up several cross-premises use case scenarios, including Active Directory Disaster Recovery, SQL Database Replication, Windows Server 2012 DFS-R File Replication, Accelerated Cloud File Services with BranchCache, Hybrid Web Applica...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,137 |
 As the infrastructure cloud market (IaaS and PaaS) continues to grow rapidly, we are seeing quite a few customers who are delivering an application – whether it is a mission-critical or SaaS application – and basing their solution on VMware.
VMware Security Cloud Encryption cloud keyb...May. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,894 |
 My fellow Technical Evangelists and I have authored a content series that steps through building your very own Private Cloud by leveraging Windows Server 2012, our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ( IaaS ) and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
Week-by-...May. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,544 |
 I’ve assembled all of the relevant content from the Windows Server 2012 “Early Experts” Challenge program into an accelerated Certification Study Guide for IT Professionals targeting Exam 70-417, Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA Windows Server 2012.
In this article, I’ll provide a sum...May. 10, 2013 03:37 PM EDT Reads: 1,614 |
 This morning Cognizant, the company where I work as an analyst, reported their earnings. In the earnings call Cognizant CEO Francisco D'Souza stated, "This year we expect to deliver about $500 million in SMAC (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) related services." That is a significant...May. 10, 2013 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,960 |
 Part 1 – of a two part series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
As a product manager at Netuitive, I’m often put...May. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,799 |
 I teach a lot of SMAC strategies workshops (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) around the world. Conducting these involves a lot of travel. I have been pondering these last few days just how much my travel experience has changed over the past decade.
I could continue. I research ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 992 |
 Master Data Management (MDM) is a very important data governance aspect in enterprises whereby MDM enables the development of a "Single Version of Truth." MDM establishes Single Version of Truth by providing common descriptions for enterprise-wide entities.
Need for MDM in Big Data Pr...May. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,884 |
 If you have been thinking how to choose your public cloud vendor you are not the only one. There are hundreds of offerings that you can choose from and comparing those can be a cumbersome exercise. Hence most of the people just run to the vendor (or technology) they are either most fam...May. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,567 |
 As discussed in our prior installment, while there is no “one-size fits all” path to cloud infrastructure adoption, a roadmap can ease and simplify the transition to cloud while minimizing IT disruption. More importantly, a phased approach (as shown in the figure below) enables organiz...May. 2, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,840 |
 Big Data. There are few conversations in the IT community which do not start, address, or end on the topic. Some conversations are visionary in nature, some critical, and many considering the challenges we’ll need to overcome in the process of understanding how to deal with Big Data.
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 Lori and I were discussing the entire topic of agility the other day, she looking at it from the SDN prospective, and I from the evolutionary perspective for development. While I know there has been a metric ton of writing about the topic, since I’ve used agile development, and find it...Apr. 24, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,433 |
 Over the last week, the cloud world seems to have received some significant announcements from Microsoft and Amazon. Also, HP Cloud has introduced a new messaging service. Plus, Appcelerator has announced the release of Titanium 3.1 and Node.ACS GA.
Here’s a quick sum up of Cloud happ...Apr. 22, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,327 |
 Cloud solutions are evolving rapidly with users eager to easily leverage the underlying infrastructure. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one option that help developers meet their needs.
Typical cloud computing conferences feature a large contingent of pay-to-pay sponsors who are look...Apr. 21, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,630 |
 Every two days we create a quantity of information equal to the volume of information created between the dawn of civilization all the way to 2003. WOW.
But even the largest data warehouse can't match the biggest data in our world. That data is happening right there inside you. It's c...Apr. 19, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,555 |
 Today, April 16th 2013, the Windows Azure team has announced that Windows Azure Infrasructure Services ( Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks ) has been released for General Availability ( GA ) for production workloads! Over 200,000 customers are actively using Windows Azure as their ...Apr. 16, 2013 04:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,521 |
 DNS, like any public service, is vulnerable. Not in the sense that it has vulnerabilities but vulnerable in the sense that it must, by its nature and purpose, be publicly available. It can't hide behind access control lists or other traditional security mechanisms because the whole poi...Apr. 15, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,507 |
 Driving tacks in carpentry is just that – putting small nails in to hold something (normally carpet) in place. It is a task that is easily accomplished by the most novice of carpenters, and heck, even a non-carpenter like myself can get it right most of the time. A repeated process of ...Apr. 12, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,208 |
 Windows Azure Active Directory ( WAAD ), a cloud-friendly REST-based implementation of Active Directory for identity management of cloud applications, is now generally available for production cloud apps as a FREE service. WAAD provides consistent centralized identity management for M...Apr. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,618 |
 Private cloud may be the right choice for you, though it is not without its potential pitfalls.
There are many reasons to trust the private cloud – from reliability, to security and compliance, to predictability, private cloud can often be the best choice for a business.
But just bec...Apr. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,764 |
 Yes, I'm about to say something that's on the order of heresy in the church of virtualization. But it has to be said and I'm willing to say it because, well, as General Patton said, "If everyone is thinking the same... someone isn't thinking."
The original NFV white paper cited in t...Apr. 11, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,286 |
 According to recently conducted research, organizations using ERP software solutions were receiving less than 50 percent of the benefits promised to them prior to implementation. Yet, the main reason for failure in most of these situations was attributed to poor software selection. Her...Apr. 5, 2013 01:16 PM EDT Reads: 1,106 |
 Last week I watched a presentation recorded at GigaOm Structure: Data conference featuring Gus Hunt, CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In his presentation, he identified SMAC (social, mobile, big data analytics, and cloud) as the culprit for the massive increase in availab...Apr. 4, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,378 |
 Many things are intended to work together, but require specific knowledge to get the outcome you desire. Automobiles and trailers, for example, require a trailer hitch, and not just any trailer hitch, but one with a ball the correct size to work with the trailer, and wire connectors th...Apr. 4, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,601 |
 Due to the unprecedented volume, variety, and velocity of Big Data, it is neither trivial nor straightforward to find a clear path to jumpstart the Big Data journey. This space is overwhelmingly crowded with so many immature options and evolving solutions. To some extent it is somewhat...Apr. 4, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,373 |
 If you're immersed in the world of service providers (sometimes called carriers, telecoms, or carrier service providers) then you've probably heard the term "traffic steering."
Traffic steering is the ability to control and direct data and voice traffic to the best suitable cell layer a...Apr. 3, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,397 |
 2012 proved to be the year that’s been predicted for almost half a decade now: enterprises are turning in droves to cloud computing solutions. With the rapid growth and acceptance of robust open source solutions like Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and others, the cloud is starting t...Mar. 29, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,508 |
 by Joseph Rickert When talking with data scientists and analysts — who are working with large scale data analytics platforms such as Hadoop — about the best way to do some sophisticated modeling task it is not uncommon for someone to say, "We have all of the data. Why not just use it a...Mar. 29, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,422 |
 PrivateFew days ago I noticed a question on a LinkedIn group that made me thinking how important is the notion of private clouds. First, let's briefly look at what is the difference between public, private and community clouds as well as hybrid clouds. Once again those are very well de...Mar. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,817 |
We’re now entering a world where cloud-managed big data is not just a topic of conversation in tech circles but a necessity for companies and service providers alike. Shifting data needs drive technological innovation. The truth is that as data gets bigger, older technology isn’t abl...Mar. 27, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,283 |
 For years now server virtualization has been a core technology for larger companies. It’s provided the opportunity for businesses to reduce operating as well as capital costs, and offered them great flexibility and scalability. In more recent times, server virtualization has made its w...Mar. 26, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,557 |
