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Can Android Be Stopped in the World of Smartphones?

— With worldwide carrier distribution, Android is on the march to dominate over the next four years, according to IDG. Nokia will still be the top dog, but it needs to be confident and deliver the strategies it has in place, else Google could own it all.

Sep 07 03:43:28 pm PDT / NYT > Companies»

Will the Bean Counters Control Cloud Computing in China?

— Meanwhile, China continues to transform itself. In recent years, the country has gained enough self-confidence to bring in (and pay for) world-class assistance, whether hiring famed Chicago architect Adrian Smith (of Skidmore, Owens, and Merrill at the time) to design its showcase Jin Mao tower in Shanghai, or working ...

Sep 07 06:07:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

VMworld 2010 review

— I got back from San Francisco late last night after attending my first ever VMworld. To put my experience in a single word: "Incredible". I've attended a lot of conferences over my 16 years in the IT field and have generally come away with positive experiences. However, VMworld exceeded my expectations. There was an...

Sep 05 01:36:46 pm PDT / VirtualizationAdmin Blogs»

Storm Clouds: Disruptive Technologies Create “New Normal,” Dispel Myths

— As much as information technology has changed in the last 10 years, the next decade promises even more significant change. And as cloud technology becomes more prevalent, IT enterprises will be driven to reconsider the status quo around just about everything we know, including Physical Infrastructure, Virtualization, A...

Sep 04 11:00:00 am PDT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

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...

Sep 03 09:12:57 am PDT / Data Storage - 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»

Virtual I/O Goes Native Ethernet

— It may seem like an odd thing to say after all these years, but it seems that enterprises will finally have the means to deploy virtualization in a big way. While the adoption rate for virtualization is very high -- upwards of 90 percent of enterprises

Sep 02 01:21:21 pm PDT / Arthur Cole»

Mafia Sourcing – How Insiders Game User Generated News for Money

— The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems. I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digi...

Sep 01 11:16:20 pm PDT / CloudAve »

Live from VMWorld

— No shortage of excitement coming from this years VMWorld. If you're not fortunate enough to be here, you can follow all the buzz over at VMWorld.com. I'm running around with Flip cam in hand and hope to get some content posted this afternoon. In the meantime, wanted to share a couple of inter...

Sep 01 12:19:28 pm PDT / EMC Feeds »

IDC Expert ROI Case Study – Optimizing a high-growth environment with NetApp

— See how an environment firm achieved savings of over 1.8 million dollars over 5 years with an ROI of 422%.

Aug 31 10:00:00 am PDT / NetApp - Analyst Reports»

Our Global Sourcing Book – Opportunities for Europe!

— You may have followed that I will be driving our Global Sourcing/Outsourcing initiative for our company called Quantum Step. I have quit Atos Origin after a decent –nearly 3 years — run at the service provider. Now I am moving back to the place I prefer to hang out the most, which is the buyer [...]

Aug 29 02:53:00 pm PDT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

Cloud: Professional Data Center Group Says Get On With It

— Two years ago it would have been impossible for a professional managers association to produce a position paper, Guiding Data Centers to Cloud Computing. The cloud was still being disparaged in too many quarters. Now its become respectable. I miss the days when the topic was more disputable and, in some quarter...

Aug 25 12:46:16 pm PDT / InformationWeek Virtualization Weblog»

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»

Essar’s Aegis group looks for $50-$200M acquisitions in Europe

— Aegis Ltd., an outsourcing unit of India’s Essar Group, will pursue acquisitions in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa during the next two years. The company is targeting deals in the $50 million to $200 million range and intends to complete one each quarter, Managing Director Aparup Sengupta said in a...

Aug 23 10:46:21 am PDT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

How to deal with a storage capacity crisis

— When faced with a storage capacity emergency, you almost always find yourself under enormous pressure to deploy a quick fix. "That's OK, I'll fix it later," you tell yourself, only to live with the unfortunate consequences of your actions for years to come. I know -- it's happened to me.

Aug 23 03:00:00 am PDT / Storage - Infoworld»

Most of APAC customers are looking at Cloud Computing

— Well, we know they have been looking at it for quite a few many years. Sometimes the surveys really don’t tell you much. I am curious about two things: - How many of them are doing it substantially? - What are their experiences with services like Force/Google/AWS and other tranditonal vendors as IBM, CSC, TCS, [....

Aug 22 07:19:38 am PDT / Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds»

NAND flash memory pricing to plummet to $1 per GB

— After two years of inflated prices, NAND flash memory prices are expected to dip down to a key $1 per gigabyte level, according to a new report by research firm iSuppli.

Aug 19 10:19:28 am PDT / Storage - Infoworld»

What's Next For Oracle?

— Watching Larry Ellison and Oracle over the years as it has morphed itself is a real study in market dynamics. It's transformation from database company through middleware provider to now being a "cloud computing pioneer" is simply amazing. The only question now seems to be "What's next?". The image below dipicts ...

Aug 14 03:49:00 pm PDT / Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson»

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»

Virtualization Will Cross the Chasm in Two Years (via ARCHIMEDIUS)

— As a part of my summer repost of my favorite Archimedius blogs I include my chasm crossing prediction hat still stands. Think about recent networking announcements from Cisco, F5, Juniper, etc. as the drumbeat leading the networking industry to a new era of network and therefore IT automation. G It seems counterintuiti...

Aug 10 03:07:48 pm PDT / ARCHIMEDIUS»

Update: Network admin Terry Childs gets 4-year sentence

— A city of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city's network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday.

Aug 07 12:05:00 pm PDT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Global IT spending set to rise

— IT spending has shown some hefty recovery after the economic travails of previous years. According to research from IDC, global sales of software and hardware have recovered from the low point of the recession and, consequently, the analysis company has revised its spending forecasts for the year. According to the rese...

Aug 05 07:59:52 am PDT / Storage - Infoworld»

Awkward Social Networks

— Do you remember Google Wave? The new collaboration platform from Google that was supposed to be what e-mail could have been if only cloud computing had existed thirty-seven years ago? The real-time Internet architecture that fully exploited commodity servers spanning the globe and administered by unicorns? Th...

Aug 04 05:35:17 pm PDT / BlueLock»

Holistic Approach to Energy Efficient Datacenters

— By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished EngineerGlobal Foundation Services, Microsoft A little over three years ago, I joined Microsoft to lead the hardware engineering team that helped decide which servers Microsoft would purchase to run its online services. We had just brought our first Microsoft-designed d...

Aug 02 08:00:00 am PDT / ms datacenters»

Colbert Report redux

— I am scheduled to be on the Colbert Report this Wednesday, chatting with Stephen Colbert about The Shallows. Tune in, or program your Tivo appropriately. (I was on the show once before, about two years ago, and you can watch that interview, during which Stephen multitasked with his iPhone, here.) In the meantime, I wil...

Jun 28 08:12:06 am PDT / Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog»

Your next laptop: Concept designs point the way

— Take a peek at laptops that roll up, sport multiple screens and imitate Transformers. While not all of these intriguing designs will make it to market, they show us what laptops might look like in just a couple of years.

Jun 10 03:00:00 am PDT / Computerworld HP News»

I went home and cried realizing that I was about to spend all of the money I'd made

— Two years ago I sat down with John Keagy and David Hecht from ServePath (most widely known for GoGrids.com now). Unfortunately later that day I had a hard drive failure, with little recovered. About six months ago I found a VIM swap file of my notes with them, and today decided I should post what I have. My hope is t...

Jun 09 04:04:46 pm PDT / mhalligan's blog»

Reflections on Uptime Symposium 2010 in New York

— This week I had the honor to be a keynote Speaker at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium event in New York City. I also participated in some industry panels which is always tons of fun. However, as a keynote at the first Symposium a few years back it was an interesting experience to come back and [...]

May 20 07:41:16 pm PDT / LooseBolts»

Will your next phone be a videophone?

— Videophone technology has matured to the point that sales of the devices could explode in the next two years.

May 13 03:00:00 am PDT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Enterprise Cloud Adoption Is Changing the Playing Field

— Cloud computing has played a starring role in the technology press for two or three years, but it's now moving from the haven of startups or random corporate side projects to the enterprise, so get ready for another round of acquisitions and investments.

May 03 12:30:42 pm PDT / GigaOM � Cisco»

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)

Apr 29 10:36:39 am PDT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

dev2ops Interview

— Want to hear me spout off more about DevOps? Well, here's your chance; I did an interview with Damon Edwards of DTO and they've posted it on the dev2ops blog! Killer quote: "I say this as somebody who about 15 years ago chose system administration over development. But system administration and system administrator...

Apr 28 08:45:33 am PDT / Web Admin Blog»

One Browser To Rule Them All

— There have been times in past years when it really looked like we our industry was on track to supporting only a single relevant web browser. Clearly that’s not the case today. In a discussion with a co-working today on the importance of “other” browsers, I wanted to put some data on the table so I looked ...

Apr 21 01:25:25 pm PDT / Perspectives»

Forrester: Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth

— Storage capacity has been growing fast for the past five years, and an end to the recession is only likely to spur further expansion as projects are re-funded. Recent data shows storage commanding a higher portion of the overall IT budget, but the amount of increased budget is likely not enough to fully accommodate the...

Feb 03 09:00:00 am PST / NetApp - Analyst Reports»

Lessons from Dad

— Last week my father retired from the Chicago Police Department. After 38 years on the force (34 of which he spent as a Homicide Detective in the worst areas of Chicago) he finally called it quits. Its an event I truly thought I would never see. My dad has had quite a colorful and storied [...]

Jan 23 03:48:03 am PST / LooseBolts»

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...

Nov 03 10:15:08 am PST / The AppGirl Blog»

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)

Feb 26 01:10:00 pm PST / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

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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.

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