69 item(s) containing the term "systems"
Cisco, Westcon settle contract-pricing dispute with U.S.
— Cisco Systems and distributor Westcon Group North America have agreed to pay the U.S. government $48 million to settle charges that they misrepresented prices in contracts with the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies.Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Gets Self-Service from Jamcracker
— Jamcracker and Eucalyptus Systems say they have integrated their cloud management and cloud creation platforms so users can self-provision and automate the procuring of resources and building scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds on the Eucalyptus platform. Jamcracker’s Platform Enterp...VMware’s Systems Management Strategy – VMworld Update
— While VMware has articulated the need for a management strategy and has provided some building blocks for its management stack, there are currently and will be for the near term future significant gaps in the VMware management offerings even when the domain of the problem is constrained to the management of the VMware ...IDC Reports More Double-Digit Growth in Disk Storage Market
— The total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 billion in revenues, representing 20.7 percent growth from 2009's second quarter. - Worldwide sales of disk-based storage arrays, which leveled off only briefly during the last two years of a difficult macroeconomy, climbed a healthy 21 percent in the second quart...Citrix XenDesktop, XenServer And XenApp Achieve Common Criteria Standards
— Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced that Citrix XenServer and Citrix XenDesktop have been certified to meet Common Criteria EAL 2. With XenApp, which was previously certified, Citrix now has the only end-to-end virtualization solution certified to meet the strict security requirements of many Global 1000 corporations ...Is Windows still relevant in the virtualization era?
— Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz's argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.Apptio Launches Solution to Optimize Private Cloud Computing Investments
— Apptio, a provider of on-demand Technology Business Management (TBM) solutions, on Wednesday announced new capabilities that track the cost, quality and utilization of private cloud infrastructures. The new Private Cloud Business Management solution integrates with VMware and other IT systems to provide "charge by mete...Paper: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems
— Can you have your ACID cake and eat your distributed database too? Yes explains Daniel Abadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, in an epic post, The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL, coauthored with Alexander Thomson, on their paper The Case for D...Dealing With VMware's I/O Challenges
— One of the key themes at VMworld this week is dealing with the I/O challenges that a physical host loaded up with a dozen or more virtual machines places on the storage and the storage infrastructure. This is caused by consolidating hundreds of I/O friendly stand alone systems into a few dozen hosts. While virtualizati...VeriFone Acquires WAY Systems For Up To $9 Million (They Raised Over $50 Million)
— Electronic payment solutions provider VeriFone Systems this morning announced it has acquired the assets of WAY Systems, a provider of mobile POS solutions and gateway services for mobile merchants. The purchase price consisted of an upfront payment of $6 million and an earn-out payable in one year of up to an addi...Will CRM Sytems and Listening Tools Become One and the Same?
— Call me crazy (as many of you have), but I don’t see the separation of “listening tools” and “CRM systems” lasting too much longer. We have actually seen a few acquisitions over the past few months such as Jive acquiring Filtrbox, Lithium acquiring Scout Labs, Meltwater acquiring Buzzgai...The Impossibility of CAP and Cloud
— It comes down to this: the on-demand provisioning and elastic scalability systems that make up “cloud” are addressing NP-Complete problems for which there is no known exact solutions. At the heart of what cloud computing provides – in addition to compute-on-demand – is the concept of elastic scalabil...More IT managers plan to spend less, survey finds
— A survey by research firm TheInfoPro indicates that IT managers plan to curb spending on data storage systems this year and next, preferring to do more with what they already have.Private Network Interfaces: The Forgotten Security Hole
— This post was written and contributed by Major Hayden, Linux Systems Engineer for the Rackspace Cloud. He’s also known as “Racker Hacker.” Regardless of the type of hosting you’re using – dedicated or cloud – it’s important to take network interface security seriously. Most often, threats from...HP agrees to pay $55M to settle fraud charges
— HP will pay the U.S. government $55 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the U.S. General Service Administration and other agencies by paying kickbacks to systems integrators in exchange for recommendations that agencies purchase HP products, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.FalconStor Demos New Accelerator, Data Protection for VMware View
— In the VMware Lab at VMworld, FalconStor also will be demonstrating the FalconStor Network Storage Server replication package for VMware. - SAN FRANCISCO Open standards storage maker FalconStor, which provides the array software for a number of major systems makers, Aug. 30 demonstrated a new storage area network ...China policy could force foreign security firms out
— China is stepping up efforts to keep the security systems that protect its critical infrastructure in the hands of local firms, and that could be bad news for companies based outside the country.Getting the most out of your CRM
— This post written and contributed by, Bill Harrison, President of Epicom, a Rackspace Cloud customer. Epicom builds and supports high-performance web-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems and through our partnership with the Rackspace Cloud, we also host CRM systems for a wide variety of industries. A...Windows, Linux servers grow at Unix's expense
— Demand is mainly being driven by x86 systems, says IDCDemand for Windows and Linux servers is increasing at a rapid pace, at the expense of Unix servers and other non-x86 machines, according to IDC.Ptak/Noel- Simplifying Data Center Operations
— Improving operational efficiency in a virtual environment requires a sophisticated understanding of physical and virtual elements, and an architecture that simplifies the underlying storage layer and data management processes. This white paper looks at how using systems that integrate multiple storage functions and aut...Without Oracle support, OpenSolaris group breaks up
— An end has come to a major part of Sun Microsystems' attempt to transform Solaris from a proprietary version of Unix to an open-source operating system built by others, too.Salesforce earning show there are real clouds out there as well
— While many of us would like to just forget about cloud computing since every single vendor — be it in Networking, Hardware, Systems, Marketing, or just about anything — is talking about cloud as if they really dig it, all they are attempting to do is to rebrand their stuff in the hope to sell [...]Cap Gemini expands LATAM with Sonda acquisition, a BPO firm
— Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Sonda Procwork, the Brazilian unit of Chilean IT systems integrator Sonda , today announced that Capgemini Brazil has acquired Sonda Procwork’s facility in Gaspar, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and will...Beijing Goodwill and IBM Team to Improve Detection of Cardiovascular Diseases
— Beijing Goodwill Information and Technology Co., Ltd., a leading provider of electronic cardiogram systems in China, and IBM announced the launch of the country's first all-in-one electronic cardiogram management system in China. This system supports smarter healthcare by helping hospitals to analyze patient...IBM to Deliver New POWER7 Systems to Manage Data-Intensive Applications
— IBM today announced new POWER7® systems designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging applications, including a high-end system that offers markedly better energy efficiency than competitive systems from HP and Oracle. E-mail this page Save t...Questions Surround Dell's Storage Strategy
— Is Dell on the road to becoming a true technology partner for enterprises looking to expand virtual and cloud environments? Or is it simply amassing an amalgam of random systems hoping that, eventually, something will stick? Those questions are back onNimbula Rains On Narrow, Proprietary Cloud Formats
— In addition to Mark Shuttlesworth, CEO of Cannonical; Simon Crosby, CTO of the cloud division at Citrix Systems; and Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, lets add another distinguished South African to the annals of virtualization and cloud computing: Chris Pinkham, founder and CEO of Nimbula.HP details tablet plans, confirms Windows 7 and WebOS versions
— HP definitely plans to be in the tablet business, but questions remain about whether it will create different hardware for each of the tablet operating systems it's expected to use.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...Cisco posts 79 percent jump in quarterly profit
— On a day the markets plunged on worries about a stalling economic recovery, Cisco Systems' CEO John Chambers reported that the state of the tech world is just fine.PT Badak NGL Selects IBM to Support Business Growth
— JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that PT Badak NGL, Indonesia's leading energy producer, is using IBM Power Systems™ to run the company's ERP systems, helping them improve performance, increase utilization and lower operating costs. ...Cloud Computing Is No Y2K Bonanza for IT Consulting Industry
— Consulting, systems integration and outsourcing vendors must prepare themselves for life in the cloud, too, says Forrester Research. For traditional IT service providers, cloud is bad news in the short term, but is it really good news in the long term?HP takes charge to settle DOJ kickbacks case
— Hewlett-Packard has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that HP paid kickbacks to systems integrators in order to help it secure government contracts, the company said on Monday.Data deduplication: Reducing storage bloat
— Data storage needs continue to grow unabated, straining backup and disaster recovery systems while requiring more online spindles, using more power, and generating more heat. No one expects a respite from this explosion in data growth. That leaves IT professionals to search for technology solutions that can at lea...Unisys to host mainframe test and development in cloud
— ClearPath mainframes get on demand capacity expansionUnisys plans to offer a hosted test and development environment later this year for users of its ClearPath mainframe systems, a precursor to offering hosted production environments in the future, the company said this week. The initial offering is geared toward busin...IBM mainframe to support Windows as well as Linux
— zEnterprise to combine Power and x86 chipsIBM's zEnterprise system has an expansive yet still limited role. This "system of systems," as the company calls it, is still operating in a mainframe-centric universe, although a larger one. Its centerpiece is a new mainframe, the zEnterprise 196 , but the focus in this releas...Cisco may call home TelePresence 'UMI'
— Cisco Systems may be planning to give its consumer TelePresence system the friendly sounding name 'UMI,' according to a trademark application made last year.Cisco, nonprofit launch community network projects in northern Ohio
— OneCommunity, a nonprofit broadband service provider in Cleveland, has joined with Cisco Systems to implement pilot programs to boost the region's quality of life using a network-based, shared-services delivery platform.Will the Cius challenge the iPad's potential in health care or beyond?
— Cisco Systems' reputation as an enterprise vendor could give it an edge, but Apple's popular devices have been out for a while and could be in demand with health care providers.Cisco, MobileAccess offer in-building cellular boost over copper cable
— Cisco Systems and MobileAccess today announced a system designed to improve in-building cellular signals that uses copper cable integrated into corporate LANs and works alongside Cisco Wi-Fi networks.Cisco access point gear could lead to Wi-Fi breach
— Users of a popular Cisco Systems wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies.San Jose approves development agreement with Cisco Systems to add office space
— The San Jose City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve a development agreement between Cisco Systems and the city to that would allow the giant tech company to build up to 2.5 million square feet of additional office and industrial space on its main campus in North San Jose.Cisco turns SMB storage into multipurpose platform
— Cisco Systems is turning its small-business storage platforms into multipurpose devices with several features that might make easy additions to an IT architecture on a budget.Cisco launches line of desktop storage devices
— Cisco Systems announced its first line of network-attached storage devices for small businesses that need secure, easily configurable storage for both file and block-level data.State of Public Sector Cloud Computing
— Federal and state governments are prodigious information technology users. Federal Chief Information Security Office Vivek Kundra reports that the United States government is spending $76B annually on 10,000 different systems. In a recently released report, State of Public Sector Cloud Computing, Vivek Kundra su...Dell Invests In iSCSI Servers; Will Anyone Else?
— Michael Dell, CEO of Dell, told the Citrix Systems Synergy user group last week that virtualization "will sweep through all IT -- servers, storage and networking." As it does so, he touched on how iSCSI will helping establish efficient virtualized servers. That's a Dell specialty and perhaps Dell's contribution to the ...What cloud computing can learn from 'flash crash'
— Last week's "flash crash" may long be remembered as one of the first significant economic events caused by competing computer algorithms, in the form of high-frequency trading systems. ...VMware: Media overplaying our role in EMC-Cisco partnership
— The significance of VMware's role in a three-way partnership with Cisco Systems and EMC has been overblown by the media, a senior VMware executive said, reaffirming the company's intention to remain neutral amidst competition between top hardware makers.Patterson on Cloud Computing
— Dave Patterson did a keynote at Cloud Futures 2010. I wasn’t able to attend but I’ve heard it was a great talk so I asked Dave to send the slides my way. He presented Cloud Computing and the Reliable Adaptive Systems Lab. The Berkeley RAD Lab principal investigators include: Armando...Palm deal could redefine HP's tablet OS strategy
— Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Palm could redefine the PC maker's mobile OS strategy, potentially impacting the company's reliance on Microsoft operating systems.when architects worship the model and methodology
— In the last 4 years of IT architecture, I’ve seen a movement to promote modeling and taxonomy discipline into the profession. This has promoted consistency where more and more IT architects can model systems with less confusion...(read more)Cisco tops latest Greenpeace rankings, Panasonic last
— Cisco Systems earned the top spot on the new Greenpeace "Cool IT" leadership list, while some of Japan's biggest electronics vendors -- Toshiba, Sharp, Sony and Panasonic -- finished last.Update: Cisco announces CleanAir for Wi-Fi interference on new access points
— Cisco Systems announced a new series of high-end wireless LAN access points with so-called CleanAir technology that is designed to give network administrators the ability to monitor Wi-Fi interference from a variety of devices.High Scale Network Research
— High scale network research is hard. Running a workload over a couple of hundred servers says little of how it will run over thousands or tens of thousands servers. But, having 10’s of thousands of nodes dedicated to a test cluster is unaffordable. For systems research the answer is easy: use Amazon EC2. It’...Eucalyptus, GroundWork As Allies: Cloud Stack Coming?
— An important alignment occurs April 7 that will probably win little fanfare. Eucalyptus Systems, the supplier of open source APIs that are Amazon EC2 compatible, has teamed up with GroundWork, a supplier of data center systems management. GroundWork wants to gaze into the private cloud, which in the future, may often b...BMC's CTO: It Will Still Be A Heterogeneous World
— I had the chance recently to talk to Kia Bahnia, CTO of BMC Software, the systems management vendor. He reminded me how virtualization is first and foremost about running applications, not saving capital expenses or reducing the server footprint in the data center. Think "applications." When it comes to cloud computing...AWS Import/Export launches support for Legacy Storage Systems
— Today Amazon Web Services takes another big step in making it easier to migrate legacy storage systems to the cloud through AWS Import/Export support for ingesting Punch Cards. AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage media for transport. Punch cards are pa...Simplifying On-call Through Alert Aggregation
— One of the coolest things about working on the Web Systems Team at National Instruments is that the company has invested in a wide variety of tools to assist us with our jobs. Since we are responsible for the availability of ni.com, we have the standard URL and content monitors (Sitescope and Nagios). We also [...]Cisco quits WiMax radio business
— Cisco Systems will stop developing and making WiMax base stations to concentrate on the IP (Internet Protocol) networks that sit behind them.Non-Profit Agency Uses Third Party For VM Backup
— Customers of a dominant enterprise software supplier often shop around for specialists within their environments who do something a little better than their regular supplier. Marc Hutzell, senior systems administrator at the non-profit German Marshall Fund, is an example in virtualization software.Citrix Uses newScale RequestCenter to Improve Efficiency for End-User IT Operations
— Virtualization Leader Partners with newScale and Anton Systems for IT Service Catalog SolutionCisco develops VPN client for PCs, smartphones
— Cisco Systems will soon release a VPN client for smartphones and PCs aimed at enterprise administrators who want to provide secure access to their networks and ward off malicious software.Cisco-HP split may not be too painful for customers
— Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard probably won't force their mutual customers to take sides after the end of their partnership, though the vendors are deadly serious about competing against one another, analysts said on Friday.Cisco drops HP as certified reseller, service partner
— In a move that reflects its greater competition with systems vendors, Cisco systems will not renew a certified reseller and service contract with HP this spring.Keeping the lights on
— Having spent years running 24×7 internet-facing production systems, I find that the monitoring element of an application delivery environment is often the last item to be addressed and built outside of the application delivery architecture. As we continue to build our application delivery infrastructure in the clo...Silicon Architecture will change the way we work
— I've been exposed recently to some incredible developments in the silicon world. Some that I cannot mention. However, I do want to share with you an opinion about how this world will impact our world. Over the years, servers, storage and network systems...(read more)Power at the edge
— PowerEdge R300 and T300 servers have industry-leading performance, memory and high-availability features previously available only in more expensive systems designed for larger businesses claims Dell.Thinking about the Systems Modeling Language and the Datacenter
— For a while, developmental and operational environments have rarely worked well together. Developers design something and then throw it over the wall for the infrastructure team to design an environment to support it. Then it’s thrown over the wall for operational teams to deploy and monitor it for the rest of it...
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My name is Catherine Liao and you're reading the latest postings of various blogs I follow. You'll notice that the topics tend to center around Cloud Computing, Data Center, Virtualization, Servers, Web Technologies and 24x7 Operations.
These are topics that I'm interested in as I've spent a large chunk of my professional career building, deploying, and maintaining 24x7 application delivery environments. I use the knowledge I've garnered daily in my role as a Technology Solutions Architect for Cisco. I should note that this site is my personal site and does not reflect the views of Cisco.
Feel free to drop me a note if you find this site useful or if you'd like for me to check out your blog. I can be reached at catherine.liao@gmail.com. You can also connect with me via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Looking for less "geeky" content? Check out my travel blog 1-Day Itinerary.
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