Both cloud and mobile computing create a major impact in businesses these days. Each of them appears as a major source of revenue for market vendors who wish to capitalize on products that are popular among users. But, the numbers game states that mobile computing gets all the money and only 1 to 2 percent…
Millions of people are connected to the Internet and a lot of those people are connected on social networking sites. Social networks have become an excellent platform for sharing and communication that reflects real world relationships. Social networking plays a major part in the everyday lives of many people. Facebook is one social networking site…
In today’s cloud computing services market, the biggest and the best providers are slugging it out for higher market share and revenue. Being a utility service, the service quality is what matters In this two part series, we would check out the two of the biggest names in cloud computing arena, the established leader and…
“Project Olympus” is going to be launched soon by Citrix. This platform hopes to help businesses build an infrastructure for private cloud computing using their own firewall even while running a service provider on a public cloud. This announcement was made in the Citrix Synergy 2011 held last week at San Francisco. This is just…
APM: Assuring Service Delivery and an Optimum User Experience Your business depends on its IT ecosystem, and you are responsible for making sure IT delivery is flawless. Of course, you have to do this in a constantly changing environment where you are adopting new technologies to deliver more flexible and powerful applications. While new applications…
As cloud adoption grows, the traditional technology ecosystem is facing disruption—but few players in the ecosystem are fully prepared. The disruption will increase opportunities for many players, including web and cloud masters like Amazon.com and Google, as well as telecom operators and other service providers. As companies turn increasingly to the cloud for their IT…
The Cloud-based Systems Management startup, ScaleXtreme is launching their Early Access program today. We had the chance to interview their CEO, Nand Mulchandani. Which problems do you solve? The rate of server deployments is vastly outstripping the rate of systems admin hiring. Admins are being asked to manage more servers, with more complexity, which can…
Intel Corporation’s venture capital arm, Intel Capital, announced recently their new ventures in 4 new companies whose focal point is cloud computing and more advanced mobile phone technology. This new undertaking will entail an additional investment of $24.5 million from the company bringing their total investments for the last 20 years up to $10 billion…
Business IT solutions that are considering upgrading their computer systems and migrating from a private cloud infrastructure must consider pitfalls and provide the necessary security and monitoring to avoid these situations from happening. This is based on a report made by migration specialist SANpulse. The report stated that there are many areas to be considered…
We are living in the age of “Big Data” where billions of transactions, events or activities are generated through use of smartphones, web browsing, smartmeter sensors and more. Hadoop, MapReduce and a new generation of NoSQL technologies are helping us manage, transform, analyze and deal with the data overload. Together they process extreme volumes using…