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Selling modern software

— Some conversational threads are converging today: 1. In a discussion this morning, I talked through two sales models in the “e2.0″ space — one, wherein non-IT people sign up for accounts, and the vendor then approaches IT about signing up for a comprehensive license; one wherein, the vendor uses more traditional ...

Sep 07 12:45:03 pm PDT / CloudAve »

Zuora Goes to Europe

— Zuora, the subscription billing start-up, finds things going swimmingly enough that it’s opening its first European office in London planning to staff it with 10 people this year. It’s also hired Drew Harman out of Ariba, where he was VP, product management, and VP, corporate strategy, as chief marketing officer an...

Sep 07 08:33:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

AWS Price Reductions Relentless

— Last week, amidst the din of VMWorld and people up in arms that OpenStack is implementing Rackspace’s APIs, Amazon’s Web Services Blog announced a significant price reduction on High-Memory Double Extra Large and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances. This reduction is indicative of Amazon’s eff...

Sep 07 07:27:52 am PDT / Cloudscaling»

What is the definition of adult digital literacy?

— Since my presentation at #bitnorth (embedded below), the notion of digital literacy – in particular for adults – has really stuck with me. If we give people access to broadband, and they learn how to effectively use the new digital tools, how can we be sure they become digitally lit...

Sep 05 05:29:45 pm PDT / EMC Feeds »

Vidyo Bets On The iPad And iPhone For The Future Of Video Conferencing

— Vidyo, a company that specializes in high-quality video conferencing technology for the enterprise, is betting big on bringing video conferencing to mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones. Similar to Skype, Vidyo offers a technology that allows people to connect with each other over the web via video confere...

Sep 03 06:05:42 pm PDT / TechCrunchIT»

Fantasy Football Secret Weapon: IBM Predictive Analytics

— IBM's predictive analytics has proven to be not only a way for enterprises to make better business decisions, but to give fantasy football players a leg up in their leagues. - If you are one of the 21 million people who will sign up for fantasy football this year, IBM's predictive analytics could be the secret we...

Sep 02 03:21:27 pm PDT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMworld 2010

— Plenty of IT events during the last two years have been "ghost towns," in the words of at least one respected IT analyst, Charles King, and he's right. However, this year's seventh annual VMworld conference and expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center belied that image. More than 17,000 people roamed the show f...

Sep 02 01:38:56 pm PDT / Virtualization - RSS Feed»

A Most Interesting Cloud Meetup

— Relax after VMWorld and come share Dos Equis with the OpenStackers. We’ll be discussing cloud, cloud, cloud and maybe dodgeball Thursday evening. 5PM-8PM Sept. 2nd @ Tres Agaves Restaurant 130 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 (Just a few blocks from Moscone) Come out and meet people working on OpenStack. ...

Sep 01 11:40:37 am PDT / Cloudscaling»

The Challenges Of VMworld

— VMworld kicked off yesterday, and despite the crowd, everything seems to be under control. The media/analyst area is no exception. It is under strict control (i.e. too much), making it very difficult for industry people like myself to get information to you about what is going on at the event. VMworld organizers will l...

Aug 31 08:26:29 am PDT / Network Computing»

Securing The Foundations Of The Private Cloud

— Lots of activity at VMworld this week, plus the predictable flurry of vendor announcements. Most people would agree that virtualization is *the* key enabling technology for most cloud models. Make virutalization (e.g. VMware and associated infrastructure) provably secure and compliant...

Aug 31 05:06:00 am PDT / EMC Feeds »

Chef meets the iPad with OpenStack

— Mike Mayo is the mobile apps developer for the Rackspace Cloud and OpenStack. Since OpenStack was announced, we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the developer community. Hundreds of people have made over a thousand contributions and we couldn’t be more excited. Today I’d like to share one of the more unconventio...

Aug 30 07:39:02 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

How does a new datacenter benefit the community?

— IT people know what a datacenter is and just what it takes to keep one up and running. But what do the local communities (and their politicians) competing for these new datacenters think they are...

Aug 30 06:29:08 am PDT / data center Resources | ZDNet »

New frontiers in social networking

— The big news this week is the launch of a National Science Foundation-funded study aimed at "developing the NeuroPhone system, the first Brain-Mobile phone Interface (BMI) that enables neural signals from consumer-level wireless electroencephalography (EEG) headsets worn by people as they go about their everyday lives ...

Aug 30 12:31:52 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Leaders in the Cloud: OpenStack

— “People don’t realize that lock-in actually occurs at the architectural level, not at the API- or hypervisor-level” Randy Bias discusses the impact of OpenStack on the cloud computing ecosystem with sandhill.com’s Kamesh Pemmaraju. Kamesh outlines the current state of cloud adoption, OpenStack ...

Aug 25 11:42:20 am PDT / Cloudscaling»

Physical Education in a Virtual World

— I will admit that "Cloud Computing" terminology is becoming confused. People are mixing together the concepts of commodity hardware datacenters, the benefits of virtualization and massively parallel systems into a blender and calling it a "cloud." The truth is that these three concepts are very...

Aug 12 05:48:51 am PDT / BlueLock»

Data Centre GreenTech – Sydney

— It's good to be involved in a surprisingly fresh movement around data centre efficiency. The overall attitude is constructive and people are trying out new ideas. Reminds me of why I didn't take the job on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico back in 1996.

Aug 12 05:27:14 am PDT / Technology is Dead»

For Dell's Streak, price and design could be crucial, analysts say

— Even if early adopters forgive Dell for release snafus, the Streak's price seems high to some for a phone, and people will compare it with Apple's iPad tablet.

Aug 11 03:00:00 am PDT / Computerworld Dell News»

Interview with Tim Mangan about his new book about App-V

— Blogger , speaker, consultant, and friend of the site Tim Mangan just released a book (today!) about App-V. Tim's been in this space a long time (and is one of five people who have spoken at all eight BriForums), but this is his first book. I interviewed...(read more)

Jul 18 09:00:00 pm PDT / Brian Madden»

Auditors Just Don’t Understand Security

— Part of my new role as the Information Security Program Owner at NI is taking care of our regulatory compliance concerns which means I spend quite a bit of time dealing with auditors. Now auditors are nice people and I want to preface what I'll say next by saying that I think auditors do perform [...]

Jul 02 09:17:07 am PDT / Web Admin Blog»

Structure 2010: Where Is Cloud Computing Headed?

— The final panel of GigaOM's Structure 2010 brought together five people who run a diverse groups of clouds -- from Yahoo's self-contained infrastructure that runs all its sites to The Planet, which offers cloud services for small businesses.

Jun 24 06:04:49 pm PDT / GigaOM � Cloud Computing»

IT Disintermediation and The Cloud

— On a fairly regular basis I get into a discussion with people that starts something like this: Hey [...]

May 18 04:37:28 pm PDT / CloudBzz»

Sydney vs. Melbourne, a Tale of 2 Cities in the South Pacific

— At first, it’s subtle commentary from people on both sides. Nonchalant jabs to the groin, “I detest Melbourne”, “I’d never live in Sydney”. While I really don’t care, it’s amazing when you see both cities are brilliant in comparison to let’s say, MOST port cities in the rest of the world.

Feb 20 02:26:33 am PST / Technology is Dead»

MindMapping for People Networks

— ...one of the questions I tabled to all the top business developers I could meet was 'what do you use to manage your business contacts and networks'? The responses varied from whiteboards, to weekly planners, to moleskins, to prodigious use of www.linkedin.com, all with their strengths and limits for keeping track of ...

Feb 14 10:46:38 pm PST / Technology is Dead»

Rightsizing Servers to Achieve Cost and Power Savings in the Datacenter

— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft I speak about server rightsizing from time to time at technology conferences, and am surprised that the basic concepts are new to some people in the industry. A lot of people don’t realize the huge performan...

Dec 15 07:07:00 am PST / ms datacenters»

Variety & Darwinism In Solutions Is Innovation, In Standards It’s A War?

— I find it quite interesting that in the last few months or so, as Cloud has emerged as a full-fledged business opportunity, we’ve seen the rise of many new companies, strategies and technologies. For the most part, hype aside, people praise this as innovation and describe it as a natural evolutionary process. Str...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

Incomplete Thought: The DevOps Disconnect

— DevOps — what it means and how it applies — is a fascinating topic that inspires all sorts of interesting reactions from people, polarized by their interpretation of what this term really means. At CloudCamp Denver, adjacent to Gluecon, Aaron Pederson of OpsCode gave a lightning talk titled: ”Operat...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Rational Survivability»

When Are FCoE Standards “Done?”

— If you think about it, there really hasn’t been any other technology that has raised the concerns about standards in the way that FCoE has. Suddenly, people are concerned about standards and how complete they are and don’t want to make a move until the standards are “done.” You’d th...

Dec 31 04:00:00 pm PST / Data Center Networks»

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28 item(s) containing the term "people"

Selling modern software

Zuora Goes to Europe

AWS Price Reductions Relentless

Sponsored Post: deviantART, Okta, CloudSigma, ManageEngine, Site24x7

What is the definition of adult digital literacy?

Vidyo Bets On The iPad And iPhone For The Future Of Video Conferencing

Fantasy Football Secret Weapon: IBM Predictive Analytics

Virtualization Draws Record Crowd to VMworld 2010

A Most Interesting Cloud Meetup

The Challenges Of VMworld

Securing The Foundations Of The Private Cloud

Chef meets the iPad with OpenStack

How does a new datacenter benefit the community?

New frontiers in social networking

Leaders in the Cloud: OpenStack

Physical Education in a Virtual World

Data Centre GreenTech – Sydney

For Dell's Streak, price and design could be crucial, analysts say

Interview with Tim Mangan about his new book about App-V

Auditors Just Don’t Understand Security

Structure 2010: Where Is Cloud Computing Headed?

IT Disintermediation and The Cloud

Sydney vs. Melbourne, a Tale of 2 Cities in the South Pacific

MindMapping for People Networks

Rightsizing Servers to Achieve Cost and Power Savings in the Datacenter

Variety & Darwinism In Solutions Is Innovation, In Standards It’s A War?

Incomplete Thought: The DevOps Disconnect

When Are FCoE Standards “Done?”

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