While the shift to cloud infrastructures offers incredible potential to speed up the way companies adapt to changing business requirements, many companies are still sitting on the sidelines, warily watching the cloud revolution. Why? One word: Trust. Can you trust a public or virtual private…
When we set out to build our own internal clouds we wanted to deliver on four critical fronts: Blazing fast performance Strong enterprise features Reasonable & controlled costs No single points of failure Anyone who’s ever rolled out a virtualized infrastructure…
According to research conducted by MGI, McKinsey’s Business Technology Office, large data sets, known as big data, will emerge as the vital basis of competition establishing new surges in productivity, growth, innovation, and consumer surplus. MGI conducted the study in five areas: healthcare in the…
The FAA has succumbed to requests from travelers to reexamine the law banning the use of electronic devices during takeoffs and landings. Depending on the results of this analysis, we could receive an extra fifteen minutes to listen to music, chat, and surf the net…
The concept of “data mining” is quite popular with companies such as Facebook and Google who sift though vast quantities of data to discern what their users like and care about. Microsoft recently created new software that uses this concept for one’s own personal accumulation…
How did the 3cX phone system fare during an online attack? Charles Ambrosecchia of Sigma Networks, a 3CX premium partner, stated that their Networks Operations Center encountered a direct, concentrated online attack. The attack originated from an ISP address in Germany and continued steadily for…
Are you the kind of person who doesn’t remember things even if you diligently make a list? If you are human and sometimes lose the list you made to remember what you have to do, you will enjoy and benefit from the Microsoft One Note…
For all you techies out there craving something new! There will be an interesting alternative to your smartphone in stores very soon. Google’s terminator style glasses project is set to launch and be available for purchase in stores by year’s end. This smart phone alternative…
I was at the O’Reilly convention when Rackspace announced OpenStack and that was all anybody wanted to talk about after and for good reason. OpenStack will be essential to preventing vendor lock in and making sure that there are open standards for cloud computing. While…
Imagine a world without Wikipedia? On Jan 18 2012 Wikipedia gave people a taste of what that would be like and it felt like a return to a darker time, when you had to go to a library to look up something that may or…
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