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HTML5 May Help Web Pages Talk, Listen

— The World Wide Consortium is investigating integrating speech capabilities into Web standard

Sep 07 01:43:05 pm PDT / NYT > Business Computing»

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 »

Data Center Transformation Part 8: Storage Economics

— Data Center transformation will not happen if we do not invest in the right technologies. In my previous posts, I have talked about some of these technologies — server virtualization, storage virtualization, dynamic provisioning — and the need to integrate them into a common pool of resources. Unfortunat...

Sep 07 10:39:02 am PDT / Hu Yoshida»

F5 Friday: Elastic Applications are Enabled by Dynamic Infrastructure

— You really can’t have the one without the other. VMware enables the former, F5 provides the latter. The use of public cloud computing as a means to expand compute capacity on-demand, a la during a seasonal or unexpected spike in traffic, is often called cloud bursting and we’ve been talking about it (at least ...

Sep 04 07:45:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Virsto Virtualizes Storage I/O For Virtual Machines

— Back in February of this year, Virsto launched their "Virsto One" storage virtualization software product. Much was written about Virsto at that time, and they were covered here on Network Computing. I had the unique opportunity to sit down and talk with Mark Davis, CEO of Virsto, in San Francisco this week while we we...

Sep 02 03:09:31 pm PDT / Network Computing»

Microsoft Becomes the Alternative in Hostile VMware Territory

— A small delegation from Seattle knocks VMware's view of the cloud world and talks up Azure as the better way to go. - SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft as alternative. This is certainly not a typical notion, but in the context of VMworld 2010, it absolutely fit. The world's largest application and operating system software...

Sep 02 03:05:05 pm PDT / Virtualization - RSS Feed»

Dropbox bridges gaps in Microsoft's mobile sync

— My last Tech Watch post talked about the sorry state of Windows Live Mesh, the sync-and-more utility designed to help folks on the go get their data into

Sep 02 07:31:40 am PDT / Cloud Computing - Infoworld»

VMworld: Security Buzz

— Nearly everyone I talked to at VMworld was buzzing in some form about Virtualization Security. Everyone has picked up on the pre-show buzz from VMware, Trend Micro, HyTrust, and every other security vendor. This week will tell. There are announcements about security, keynote sessions that include security, and more tha...

Sep 02 07:31:15 am PDT / The Virtualization Practice»

Silverlight UK User Group [September 2010] Agenda

— School holidays over so it’s time for another meeting! Heralding a call to return back to some of the more fundamental aspects of Silverlight development, I’m pleased to announce that the next meeting will feature Guy Smith-Ferrier (who organises the .Net Developer Network) talking about In...

Sep 02 01:13:59 am PDT / EMC Feeds »

Tablet Design Specs: 10 Weak Features to Avoid

— The tablet market is heating up. With the iPad continuing to sell well, Google's Android platform starting to make some inroads and talk of a deluge of products hitting store shelves in the coming months, it won't be long before the vast majority of customers have at least one tablet in their homes and office. But that...

Sep 01 11:25:54 am PDT / IT Infrastructure - RSS Feed»

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.

— We're putting our money where our (digital) mouth is: having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I sus...

Sep 01 10:49:19 am PDT / CloudAve »

Cloud Gateway to Google Storage

— In the eyes of cloud storage service providers such as Google Storage, any On-Ramps tools, desktop clients, edge devices or appliance that can talk to Google Storage is a gateway. In the eyes of end users or IT admin, a cloud gateway refers to a central access point that does the translation of LAN based file protocol ...

Sep 01 07:39:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

VMware Project "Origami:" unifying the server, desktop, and SaaS app models?

— For years we've been talking about how IT is really just about the applications, and how today's business world is about Windows applications. Of course now that's changing. We're not moving to the web/cloud/SaaS overnight, but we're...(read more)

Aug 24 10:16:00 pm PDT / Brian Madden»

CloudFucius Repeats: Money (Really) Moving to the Cloud

— Ever wish you saved a blog title for that ‘perfect’ eye-catcher? Well, I do. Last week I wrote about some cloud surveys talking about how financial institutions are using cloud services titled: CloudFucius’ Money: Trickles to the Cloud. I get to this week’s weekly entry and Ka-Chow (with apologies to Lig...

Aug 24 04:37:29 am PDT / DevCentral Weblogs»

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 [...]

Aug 22 07:36:02 am PDT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

Deconstructing Virtualization and the Cloud

— Deploying Applications in the Cloud While there’s more talk than actual use of cloud computing in the enterprise, a Zeus Technology survey looks at the beginnings of a major shift under way. Clear expectations and planning can improve your experience

Aug 20 11:29:03 am PDT / Arthur Cole»

Jonathan Eunice weighs in on converged infrastructure servers

— I recently talked to Jonathan Eunice of Illuminata for a case study I wrote on the HP BladeSystem Matrix. We talked about the benefits and challenges associated with converged infrastructure platforms, aka Infrastructure-by-the pound. This is an excerpt of the conversation that didn’t make the article: Why wou...

Aug 18 01:54:31 pm PDT / Server Farming»

The End of IT Outsourcing As We Know It

— Within five years, the traditional IT outsourcing industry will be extinct, argues A.T. Kearney's Arjun Sethi. Most Indian providers will be sidelined or subsumed while the fate of seemingly stalwart U.S. players will hang in the balance. CIO.com talks to Sethi about his bold predictions for the IT outsourcing industry...

Aug 11 11:20:00 am PDT / Computerworld Dell News»

Postmark: Email Delivery in the Cloud

— This post was written and contributed by Chris Nagele, Management & Strategy for Wildbit, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Wildbit has created web products like Beanstalk, Postmark and Newsberry. I’ll start this off with a simple question. If your application or site sends email, how many of those emails are...

Aug 11 08:01:19 am PDT / Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting»

What exactly is an "enterprise app store?" (No seriously... what is it?)

— There's a lot of talk about "enterprise app stores." I'm not sure what the exact definition of an enterprise app store is, but the analogy most used is something like "imagine Apple's iPhone App Store, except for corporate IT...(read more)

Aug 05 04:19:00 am PDT / Brian Madden»

Tradeoffs

— I had the pleasure last month of talking about The Shallows with Christopher Lydon, a superb interviewer, in his offices near Charles Street in Boston. Lydon has a very different view of the Web than I do, which, combined with his sympathetic reading of the book, made for, I think, a particularly good conversation. You...

Jul 26 10:41:44 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Why aren't VMware and RSA working together to create the ultimate secure virtual desktop environment?

— RSA and VMware both have legions of crazed fanatical customers, and as it happens both companies are owned by EMC. This was the topic of one of the side conversations I had at BriForum last month. We talked about how it's weird that the two companies...(read more)

Jul 25 10:00:34 pm PDT / Brian Madden»

Author Mezrich calls Facebook controlling, but says he's a 'huge fan'

— Author Ben Mezrich talked about social networking and his book chronicling his book about Facebook before a keynote audience at the Cisco Live! user conference Thursday.

Jul 01 02:05:00 pm PDT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Velocity 2010

— I did a talk at Velocity 2010 last week. The slides are posted at Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation and the video is available at Velocity 2010 Keynote. Urs Holze Google Senior VP of infrastructure also did a Velocity keynote. It was an excellent talk and is posted at Urs Holzle at Velocity 2010. Jonatha...

Jul 01 08:36:43 am PDT / Perspectives»

60,000 servers at Facebook

— Last week, I estimated that Facebook now had 50,000 servers in Facebook Software Use. Rich Miller of Datacenter Knowledge actually managed to sleuth out the accurate server count in: Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or more. He took Tom Cook’s Velocity 2010 talk from last week that showed growth with...

Jun 28 07:50:24 am PDT / Perspectives»

Cisco Live Seamless Cloud Panel – July 1 in Las Vegas

— I’ll be speaking on a panel at Cisco Live on July 1. I’m looking forward to talking about the new demands on network infrastructure, and whether or not the enterprise is ready for seamless cloud. Frankly, so much of the discussion about cloud is for SMEs (or regarding apps) and so little is about the [...]

Jun 22 03:24:29 pm PDT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

Economic Incentives Applied to Web Latency

— Last month I wrote about Solving World Problems with Economic Incentives. In that post I talked about the power of economic incentives when compared to regulatory body intervention. I’m not really against laws and regulations – the EPA, for example, has done some good work and much of what they do has improved the...

Jun 07 06:44:22 am PDT / Perspectives»

Netflix on AWS

— I did a talk at the Usenix Tech conference last year, Where does the Power Go in High Scale Data Centers. After the talk I got into a more detailed discussion with many folks from Netflix and Canada’s Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry. The discussion ended up in a long lunch over a big table with folks...

May 31 06:59:29 am PDT / Perspectives»

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...

May 04 06:48:56 am PDT / Perspectives»

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...

Apr 01 04:43:29 pm PDT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

Let Stormy Session On Cloud Standards Be Your Guide

— A panel Wednesday at the Cloud Connect show in Santa Clara, Calif. to talk about where cloud standards are going did not go as planned. Whatever the script, it was as if the audience had come prepared to present its point of view, and the panel members were forced to listen.

Mar 18 04:46:29 pm PDT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

Seven Questions with Cisco CEO John Chambers

— Cisco CEO John Chambers talks virtualization, cloud, and the "Cisco Tax," in this installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series.

Mar 12 11:46:00 am PST / Computerworld Cisco News»

The Emotion of VMotion…

— A lot has been said about the wonders of workload VM portability. Within the construct of virtualization, and especially VMware, an awful lot of time is spent on VM Mobility but as numerous polls and direct customer engagements have shown, the majority (50% and higher) do not use VMotion. I talked about this in a [.....

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

Incomplete Thought: Virtual Machines Are the Problem, Not the Solution…

— I’m an infrastructure guy. A couple of days ago I had a lightbulb go on. If you’re an Apps person, you’ve likely already had your share of illumination. I’ve just never thought about things from this perspective. Please don’t think any less of me You can bet I’m talking above m...

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»

The Great FCoE Dance Debate - An Allegory

— [NB: This is a slightly different type of blog entry. Despite the links within the blog connect to individual posts, this allegory is not directed at any specific individuals or groups] “Today we’re going to talk about swing dancing, specifically Lindy Hop.” “But wait, I want to talk abo...

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

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