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 In 2012, much of the industry was focused on what’s going inside the data center to enable cloud computing. As we move into 2013 and beyond, enterprise IT will need to consider the network that connects the data centers – particularly how these inter-data center networks need to change...Dec. 24, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,163 |
 “This is our first chance to bring our traditional, reliable backup and disaster recovery to the cloud. Everyone needs DR and that is becoming more and more apparent,” noted Laura Shafer, Director of Product Marketing at StorageCraft, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Confer...Dec. 23, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,963 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that ERP.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–...Dec. 22, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,164 |
 Software developers and service providers need a period of usability testing before launch to find out how the product stands up in the hands of end users. An experienced QA team will ferret out bugs and identify major issues, but they won’t use your software like a customer will. The ...Dec. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,878 |
 Europe’s antitrust czar Joaquin Almunia disclosed Thursday that the European Commission is about to charge Samsung with antitrust violations over its use of standards-essential patents (SEPs) in its litigation with Apple.
He told a press conference in Brussels that the agency would h...Dec. 21, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 5,514 |
 “We are a SaaS tool that helps engineers, developers, IT operators, etc., manage and monitor the performance of the production, web, mobile, and cloud applications,” noted Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Ch...Dec. 20, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 5,668 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that the 1st International Software Defined Networking Conference will take place June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City. Software Defined Networking Conference is co-located with 12th Cloud Expo and 3rd Big Data Expo.
According to a rec...Dec. 20, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 5,345 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software...Dec. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 5,810 |
 Google is going to sell Motorola’s set-top box business to the Arris Group, a cable equipment maker.
The cash-and-stock deal is valued at about $2.35 billion, which should repay Google part of the $12.5 billion it spent on MMI supposedly for its IP.
Google has been shopping the bus...Dec. 20, 2012 09:22 AM EST Reads: 2,559 |
 Teambox, a four-year-old cloud computing company headquartered in Barcelona with offices in the US, thinks it can redefine collaboration and business communications by teaming up with Box.
Its lightweight collaboration widgetry will now come with 15GB of free Box file storage per use...Dec. 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,089 |
 Introducing a new security paradigm that leverages the cooperative functionality of various security tools. However, the key is still monitoring the results in real time; and the best case scenario (most efficient/effective means) for most companies to achieve this is via the cloud.
T...Dec. 20, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,953 |
 Samsung said Tuesday that it will drop its attempts to get Apple products banned anywhere in Europe using its standards-essential patents (SEPs).
It’s not dropping its infringement suits, but will limit its SEP claims to monetary damages. It will still seek injunctions for Apple’s al...Dec. 19, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,066 |
 Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, presented today at the Open Source Conference 2012 the three ways the European Union (EU) is supporting Open ICT systems, namely open-source, open-procurement, and open-data. Mrs. Kroes outlines the huge benefits of open-source an...Dec. 19, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,751 |
 Another year has gone by. Merry X-mas and Happy New Year everyone. It is time to update my book recommendation blog.
This year's list will have a few new book topics added to list. I have ventured in iOS, Java, Android and Windows Store development, so along with all the usual Microso...Dec. 19, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,578 |
 What changes in the cloud computing and big data landscape should we be expecting in 2013? In this article we offer a round-up of industry experts' opinions as they were asked by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan to preview the year ahead.Dec. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,435 |
 The Weather Channel weathered its own storm of sorts when it experienced its highest traffic ever over the course of Hurricane Sandy.
The media company typically supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a month. During Sandy, that figure jumped to 450 million, nearly double its ...Dec. 17, 2012 03:21 PM EST Reads: 3,149 |
 SYS-CON Media has launched SDN Journal on Ulitzer.com featuring over 300 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to networking in which control is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a ...Dec. 17, 2012 10:31 AM EST Reads: 2,961 |
 The RESTful world distinguishes between resource state and application state, which is the state information the client maintains. And since hypermedia are the engine of application state, it makes sense that application state is more important to REST than resource state. After all, R...Dec. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,151 |
 Intel is going to try going after the data center with a brand new Atom System-on-a-Chip (SoC) that can be built into relatively cheap, high-density microservers for cloud providers.
It really rather not – it really wants to sell its high-end chips – but it has no choice. It has fore...Dec. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,296 |
 “We provide a cloud-based subscription commerce platform that covers every single aspect of a recurring revenue model end to end,” explained Tom Dibble, President and CEO of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th Internatio...Dec. 17, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 6,275 |
 What with PC demand eroding, AMD is following Intel in cutting back on chips.
It’s going to have to pay Globalfoundries, its manufacturer since it sold it its plants, $320 million not to make too many processors.
AMD has also started using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...Dec. 17, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,730 |
 Embarcadero Technologies has just released a new 64-bit C++Builder solution – a linear descendent of Borland’s C++ Builder created more than 15 years ago.
It’s supposed to offer a faster way to create high-performance native Windows 8 and Mac OS X PC and laptop applications as well a...Dec. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,031 |
 “We are in the center of everything that’s happening on the Internet today. We develop a lot of the capabilities that help address a lot of the challenges that companies may face when leveraging the cloud,” stated Gary Ballabio, Product Line Director for Akamai, in this SYS-CON.tv inte...Dec. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,444 |
 “We are taking all the storage that people usually had in the enterprise and we’re moving it over to look a lot more like what Google, Amazon, and Facebook do, much more like a cloud model,” explained Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference C...Dec. 17, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,898 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that The Wall Street Technology Association has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
The Wall Street Technology Associatio...Dec. 16, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,103 |
 The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component mechanics of many firms’ IT stacks.
Key among these technologies i...Dec. 15, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,048 |
 “We’ve been at this business for 13 years now, and the types of clients we have been serving want high quality, always-available infrastructure that really outperforms anything else that’s out there” explained Peter Berg, VP of Sales and Marketing at ServerCentral, in this SYS-CON.tv i...Dec. 15, 2012 10:45 AM EST Reads: 2,855 |
 “Green Button is a multi-cloud management environment. It makes it very simple for users to access the power of the cloud,” explained Scott Houston, CEO of Green Button, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, he...Dec. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,882 |
 In 2013 business will continue on the path of big data, bigger opportunities, and evolving their recipe of how to innovate in an environment of emerging risks. This is article one in a series about the future of cloud technology and the business of Big Data - and how to harness the ris...Dec. 14, 2012 03:30 AM EST Reads: 4,938 |
 Many organizations say they rely on real-time processing of big data to fuel their business, and many of them say they are thinking about taking their big data to the cloud.
It's no surprise that most enterprises are now taking big data more seriously. But what might raise an eyebrow ...Dec. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,503 |
 “PGi is the leading industry expert in virtual meetings. We have an entire suite of services to deliver audio, web, and desktop video collaboration,” explained Tom Maurath, Vice President, Strategic Business Development at PGi, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Ch...Dec. 13, 2012 01:00 PM EST Reads: 2,547 |
 We’ve tracked a trend for the past several years: customers aren’t moving to standardize on a single brand or type of server, operating system, or even x86 hypervisor. But, in our in fifth annual x86 Data Center Survey (2011-‘12 edition), we were somewhat surprised to find that custome...Dec. 13, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,711 |
 Most of us can probably still reference fellow employees (and quite a few managers) who passed the Internet off as nothing more than a passing fad as recently as the turn of the millennium.
The “modern” business procedures of 1999 were already pretty slick and refined and fax machines...Dec. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,470 |
 Google is close to signing a consent decree with the US Federal Trade Commission after the agency claimed Google broke the antirust laws by blocking access to key mobile technologies covered by patents owned by its Motorola Mobility subsidiary, Bloomberg says. It quotes “three people f...Dec. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,406 |
 CloudVelocity emerged from stealth mode Wednesday with a new name, a $5 million A round from the Mayfield Fund, and a hybrid cloud automation platform meant to entice the enterprise to push its multi-tier application into the scary public cloud as a seamless extension of its private da...Dec. 13, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,727 |
 John McAfee, the odd founder of the antivirus house Intel now owns, may get out of jail in Guatemala after foiling the cops in Belize where he was wanted for questioning in the murder of his neighbor on Ambergris Caye, an island off Belize’s Caribbean coast.
McAfee claimed the neighb...Dec. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,313 |
 Declare local variables in the beginning (on the top) of the function, before the first executable line. This will:
Make it easier to detect all the variables used in the function and to follow them
Keep as little stuff as possible in executable code fragments, where programmers sho...Dec. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,453 |
 Now we have predictive analytics, even real-time predictive analytics, and fancy algorithms, which is a lot less colorful and maybe less accurate. One way or another it’s still a matter of faith.
Anyway, Birst, the agile business analytics folk, has come out with a new version of Bir...Dec. 12, 2012 04:05 PM EST Reads: 2,493 |
 AIG International Group is among IT leaders who are improving performance of their services to deliver better experiences and payoffs for businesses and end-users alike.
Many organizations are now focusing more on the user experience and the business benefits and less on pure technolo...Dec. 12, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 2,041 |
 This is the book for anyone looking to get started with Visual Studio 2012 Professional. Over the years Visual Studio has become a sizable integrated development environment. The Ultimate version combined with Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a beast. This book only covers the Professio...Dec. 12, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,473 |
