EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

During the week of May 5th, EMC held its fast-growing user conference in Las Vegas, while just down the strip the Interop 2013 event was also underway.  Lacking an ability to clone myself, I did my best to attend both, in the process actively supporting the local contingent of taxi drivers and putting in more than a few miles of walking (not sure my shoes will ever be the same).  In short, both events were heavily focused on programmability of network and storage – two of the three “legs” of the IT infrastructure stool, the last being servers.  The big ...

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Dell’s Clean Slate Approach to Enterprise IT

Dell’s Clean Slate Approach to Enterprise IT

Breaking News: Dell Acquires Enstratius to Further Complete Its Cloud Story Today, on May 6, 2013, Dell acquired Enstratius, a company aimed at deploying, automating and managing applications in complex hybrid cloud environments. Enstratius enforces governance and security in the cloud, offering automated scaling, disaster recovery and cloud bursting. The Enstratius solution supports all popular public and private cloud offerings such as VMware vCloud, Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, HP Cloud Services, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack and CloudStack. Enstratius enables developers and operations staff to keep using their monitoring, configuration management – e.g. Opscode Chef and Puppet- and other operations ...

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Network Management Goes BIG at CAWorld 2013

Network Management Goes BIG at CAWorld 2013

This year’s theme for CAWorld 2013 was “Go Big: IT with Impact.”  So I thought what the heck – let’s go big.  I stepped back and took a much broader look across the CA Technologies portfolio than I normally would.  Usually, I focus on the network management solutions, which live primarily within CA’s Service Assurance group, and almost all under the heading of Infrastructure Management.  That’s where Spectrum lives, along with Performance Center, which is a latest-generation update to eHealth and ReporterAnalyzer.    Nimsoft was recently added to this list as well. But as I was to find out, that is ...

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posted by John Myers   | January 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

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MicroStrategy adds Teradata to list of Cloud Partners This week at the MicroStrategy World 2012 Conference in Miami Teradata and MicroStrategy announced that Teradata Integrated Data Warehouse (IDW) was being added to the lineup of partners for the MicroStrategy Cloud.  The list of partners includes: IBM Netezza Informatica ParAccel With this addition, MicroStrategy Cloud continues to...

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posted by Torsten Volk   | January 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

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IT as a Service is one of the hottest topics these days. In a nutshell, it entails the radical alignment of all IT disciplines around strategic business requirements. Instead of having to beg IT for resources and services, as many of us are accustomed to, we can now pick all the resources and services from...

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For the past few months, I have been “heads down” completing my latest EMA Radar Report—which is why I have been notably absent from the Blog- and Twitter- spheres. Entitled “Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud”, it discusses the challenges of managing Cloud-based applications, and eighteen APM solutions which can help solve them. So what...

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posted by Tracy Corbo   | January 18, 2012 | one Comments

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SOPA highlights the frustration and tension between technology and content providers. Messages flash across television screens as channels are removed due to disputes between service providers and the content providers. Book and magazine publishers offer a mixed bag of digital content. Some opt for PDF version of printed materials while others embrace a full interactive...

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posted by    | January 16, 2012 | 0 Comments

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This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It’s rung down the curtain and joined...

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posted by John Myers   | January 13, 2012 | 0 Comments
In-Memory and Mobile Drive SAP Today, SAP announced their revenues for 2011.  It was a record year in many respects.  In particular, SAP touted growth for their in-memory database HANA and their Mobile Solutions growth – two components I consider important for the development of an organizations Mobile BI capabilities.  Both exceeded expectations. Speed of Analytics From...

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The game is afoot. Riverbed announced that they had “purchased certain assets of Expand Networks, including its intellectual property, out of liquidation in Israel. Riverbed did not purchase the corporate entity of Expand Networks and has not assumed any of Expand’s liabilities, obligations or contracts.” Last October Expand Networks had gone into liquidation under the supervision...

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posted by Jim Frey   | January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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In keeping with my nascent tradition of not predicting trends, I’ll instead propose a number of focal points that network engineering and operations professionals should keep in mind in the coming New Year of 2012.  2011 resolutions were around application-awareness, connecting with the network security team, assessing the impact of videoconferencing, embracing automation, and improving service...

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posted by Steve Brasen   | January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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For the past two decades or so, several leading IT management vendors have tried to convince us that organizations should invest in a single unified management platform for supporting all of IT management needs.  Setting aside for the moment the fact that such an animal does not and cannot possibly exist (no vendor has the...

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posted by Steve Brasen   | January 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Desktop PCs and laptops are the backbone of business profitability.  Yes, yes … I know … last week I raved about the rising mobile device revolution – but that transition is still a few years off.  Today the PC desktop remains king in enabling enterprise workforce productivity, and, in fact, organizational success and ongoing profitability...

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