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 Sometimes I wonder if anyone, in the entire history of computing, has every bothered to read and consider the contents of a typical End User License Agreement (EULA). Some Product Manager, I suppose (though truthfully, I’m not even sure of this one).
The EULA, however, is important....Dec. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,643 |
 David Linthicum published a good article on the lack of IT cost analysis and planning related to cloud a few weeks ago that is worth some discussion. The article highlights a study from the Big Data Group’s called the Cloud Cost Benchmark Study, which indicates AWS users are significan...Dec. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,248 |
 I will make this simple. There is only one question you need to ask yourself or your IT department to determine if what you have is really an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.
Can I get a VM in 5-10 minutes?
Perhaps a little bit more detailed?
Can a properly credentialed user, wit...Dec. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,840 |
 It isn’t so much that cloud computing solutions are more vulnerable than traditional solutions; rather, cloud vulnerabilities take a much different form (and can occur on a much wider scale) than traditional security vulnerabilities.
Up to this point, most of the major issues with clo...Dec. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,390 |
 A question – specific to F5 technology – was raised during the panel session I moderated at Gartner DC 2012 that for me, at least, raised an interesting question. Well, actually it wasn't just that question, but rather the question was the icing on the cake after hearing commentary fro...Dec. 19, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,940 |
 I asked this on Twitter as a general question after reviewing the results in the Completely Unscientific Hybrid Cloud Survey Results from Gartner DC 2012 and continued to wonder why IPSec VPN was specifically noted but SSL VPN was not. Certainly a VPN of some kind is a requirement, no ...Dec. 17, 2012 09:34 AM EST Reads: 1,838 |
 According to recent research conducted by the London School of Economics, cloud computing as an IT service not only assists organizations to cut costs, but also spurs innovation. Despite the criticism that cloud computing often receives, as a technological innovation it suits the needs...Dec. 16, 2012 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,036 |
 I am surprised nobody has figured out how to use the term valueware to describe their hardware, software or services solutions, particular around cloud, big data, little data, converged solution stacks or bundles, virtualization and related themes.
Note that I'm referring to IT hardwa...Dec. 15, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,166 |
 Along the lines of the first blog in the testing portion of the Bare Metal Blog series, I’d like to talk a bit more about how the testing environment, the device configuration, and the payloads translate into test results.
One of the problems most advanced mass education systems run i...Dec. 14, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,388 |
 It is late in the day December 12, 2012 and best I can tell, we are still here, and for some, by time you read this it will be a few days or weeks later which means that either the Mayan calendar had it wrong, or we misinterpret it. Some would say that December 12, 2012 is not the impo...Dec. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,906 |
 It was nearly a year ago that I authored a post predicting ten hot trends in cloud data for 2012. While there’s a strong temptation to cast old predictions into ancient history and dive into ten predictions for 2013, I felt it more appropriate to first glance back and reflect on how th...Dec. 13, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,974 |
 Cloud Computing is finally changing the sound of conference calls. As hard as Skype and Skype alternatives tried, none of the peer-to-peer solutions has kicked the archaic audio bridges in the dust. The quality is just not good enough for important business conversations. Newcomer Voxe...Dec. 12, 2012 12:55 PM EST Reads: 2,265 |
 “Consider a principle as a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct.” With those words we began the first post here at CTOvision over five years ago.
Since then we have visited this topic several times here at the blog and...Dec. 12, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,612 |
 Like last year, everyone has their Technology predictions with their annual lists for the coming year. Instead of coming up with my own, I figured I’d simply regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen.
Cloud computing in 2013: Two warnings: @DavidLinthicum has his two tragi...Dec. 12, 2012 08:28 AM EST Reads: 2,729 |
 Both articles add to the body of knowledge that is rapidly evolving on what object storage is, and why customers should adopt it – so, every article helps. With a topic as technical as object storage, it’s easy to evangelize with a deep technical dive. But that misses the “elegant sim...Dec. 12, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,863 |
 The cloud community and anyone with an opinion if not immediately, periodically and frequently gravitate to the question of cost. Is it more? Is it less? Are we being wasteful? Are we being too frugal? Will Google and AWS drive the price of storage to zero? Can we scrunch the market fo...Dec. 11, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,544 |
 I was touring what reminded me of the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker – one of the safest places on earth. Except in this case, this was one of the safest places for your enterprise data on earth. “The entrance will open, you will drive in, and an armed guard will be out to escort you...Dec. 10, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 2,338 |
 Most attacks, like the recent DDoS attacks on banks, show most hackers do not use brute force to gain entry to sensitive data. And as organizations expand the perimeter of their networks,, there are so many more opportunities for data leakage and theft. To control it, a more nimble, fl...Dec. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,850 |
 It’s been a busy and successful seven days for online retailers. Black Friday and Cyber Monday traffic and sales were well above 2011, and there was the extra benefit to those businesses that started deals on Thanksgiving Night. The traffic data collected by the Compuware Ecommerce and...Dec. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,391 |
 Every Tuesday I publish a newsletter entitled M2M News Weekly. I try to find all the interesting data that is reported on The Internet of Things and M2M (machine-to-machine) each week and then share it with a link to the original article. This week one of those items was Cognizant's S...Dec. 8, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,948 |
 Marc Andreesen said recently that 2012 will be remembered as the year of SaaS. What he meant is that SaaS has been around for a while, but it came of age this year, with examples of successes such as the Workday IPO. No one questions the significance of SaaS any more. But the year 2013...Dec. 6, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,594 |
 In December 2006 I blogged on the topic of Explaining SOA to the Business Audience. It started out “I note resurgent interest in LegoTM blocks as a metaphor for explaining to the business audience the value of SOA. My advice is don’t treat the business audience as dummies!” The blog go...Dec. 5, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,627 |
 For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming year. This is the second year in a row that they’ve invited me to contribute, and I thoug...Dec. 5, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,529 |
 "Selling" the discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in the Federal Government (particularly in non-DoD agencies) is difficult, notwithstanding the general availability and use of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) for some time now, and the relatively mature use ...Dec. 4, 2012 10:23 AM EST Reads: 1,960 |
 I could cite various studies, pundits, and research to prove that automation improves the overall success rates of continuous deployment efforts, mitigates outages caused by human error and misconfiguration, and generally makes the data center smell minty fresh, but we already know all...Dec. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,348 |
 Those of you who followed my blog for a while know that the idea of applying manufacturing best practices to cloud computing is a favorite topic of mine*. This week the topic popped up in a fireside chat (the popular term for keynotes delivered from a set of armchairs, often with no fi...Dec. 4, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,789 |
 Test results provided by vendors and “independent testing labs” often test for things that just don’t matter in the datacenter. Know what you’re getting.
When working in medicine, you don’t glance over a patient, then ask them “so how do you feel when you’re at your best?” You ask t...Dec. 4, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,054 |
 Wikibon produced an interesting material (looks like paid by Aerospike, NoSQL database recently emerged by resurrecting failed CitrusLeaf and acquihiring AlchemyDB, which product, of course, was recommended in the end) that compares NoSQL databases based…Dec. 4, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,607 |
 The use of the term ‘Service' is somewhat overloaded. Everyone will have heard or used the terms Business Services, IT Services, Software Services, and now Cloud Services, and yet often there is much confusion and misunderstanding in their use.As my colleague David Sprott suggested in ...Dec. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,680 |
 So, here is the thing. Domain Names are Important.
Recently we saw a glossy commercial while watching some Sunday NFL games. The ad was for the hosting company, 1 & 1. Although the ad was short, it was selling one thing and one thing only – Domain names. Although we don’t have the ex...Dec. 3, 2012 12:14 PM EST Reads: 1,844 |
 Last month Gartner Analyst Jay Heiser conducted an extremely informative and thought-provoking webinar entitled “The Current and Future State of Cloud Security, Risk and Privacy.” During the presentation, Mr. Heiser highlighted what he called the “Public Cloud Risk Gap,” characterized ...Dec. 3, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,948 |
 Recently while I was in Europe presenting some sessions at conferences and doing some seminars, I was invited by Ed Saipetch (@edsai) of Inktank.com to attend the first Ceph Day in Amsterdam.
As luck or fate would turn out, I was in Nijkerk which is about an hour train ride from Amste...Nov. 27, 2012 11:30 AM EST Reads: 3,308 |
 Do you know the computer technology saying, garbage data in results in garbage information out?
In other words even with the best algorithms and hardware, bad, junk or garbage data put in results in garbage information delivered. Of course, you might have data analysis and cleaning so...Nov. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,739 |
 Recently an article came out stating that APM was going the way of the space shuttle. Too expensive, outdated, not needed and so on. There were statistics given indicating that APM products were growing out of favor as well. Balderdash!
To my experience most customers don’t even us...Nov. 27, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,324 |
 On October 24, 2012 Cloudera announced the release of Cloudera Impala and the commercial support subscription service of Cloudera Enterprise Real Time Query (RTQ). Impala is a SQL based Real Time Query/Ad Hoc query engine built on top of HDFS or Hbase. As I watched the demonstration u...Nov. 27, 2012 07:05 AM EST Reads: 2,612 |
 Recently I was in Europe for a couple of weeks including stops at Storage Networking World (SNW) Europe in Frankfurt, StorageExpo Holland, Ceph Day in Amsterdam (object and cloud storage), and Nijkerk where I delivered two separate 2 day, and a single 1 day seminar.
At the recent Stor...Nov. 26, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,846 |
 GridGain is Java-based middleware for in-memory processing of big data in a distributed environment. It is based on high performance in-memory data platform that integrates fast In-Memory MapReduce implementation with In-Memory Data Grid technology delivering easy to use and easy to sc...Nov. 26, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,750 |
 The objective of our new Cloud Revenues program is to build a knowledge base of insights and materials to support Solution Selling new Cloud offerings.
Key insights include those from key thought leaders – For example this piece on the Cloud SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is powe...Nov. 24, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,928 |
 Did you know 72% of data breaches worldwide the previous year occurred at companies with 100 or fewer employees — a 63 percent increase. However, with unified security solutions, small businesses can gain enterprise-class safeguards at an affordable price.
I just got off the phone wit...Nov. 23, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,921 |
 I recently (finally) received the Google Chromebook in the mail. After over 2 weeks of intense waiting, it is here, and has absolutely matched all of my expectations. The device is thin and light and amazing looking. It is quite and never gets hot, even after extended use. The battery ...Nov. 21, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,159 |
