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5 Buzzwords for Efficient IT Services
This week’s IT buzzwords focus on efficiency. As a small business owner it is important to be able to identify practices and systems that can help your IT partners deliver better quality service. Here...
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What Is Platform As A Service?
So we’ve covered Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, now let’s talk about Platform as a Service. What is Platform as a Service? According to TechTarget.com, it is “a way to rent...
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Old Hosting Providers Moving To Become Cloud Providers With The Help Of...
Before cloud computing went mainstream, the internet was dominated by large web hosting providers. Anyone that wanted to make a website needed to sign up with a hosting provider for either a free basic...
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Data centers are getting more sophisticated, so why aren’t our metrics...
The word is out. Legislators in Iowa say Facebook is the company behind what could be a $1.5 billion data center project in Altoona, Iowa, that will result in 1.4 million square feet of data center...
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Cloud Governance Should Be Prioritized
When businesses move existing applications and resources to the cloud, they always do it in phases, moving the most stable applications first in order to minimize down time. The transition is a slow...
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Timing is not just for traders anymore, networks need it too
The past few years have seen low-latency networking get a lot of attention, driven primarily by high-frequency traders looking for an edge for their algorithms. However, the importance of communication...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t Know About Your ITAD Vendor (And How to Find Out)
What many organizations don’t realize about IT asset disposition (ITAD) is that the vendor that picks up their equipment to be recycled or remarketed is not necessarily the last one to touch the...
View ArticleThe Importance Of The Network (And How To Manage IT Better)
If there’s one thing that supports the world of technology in general and cloud computing in particular, it has to be the Network. While servers and applications may get most of the coverage on the...
View ArticleSurvey shows 1 in 5 enterprises use software-defined networks
Although people have been talking about software-defined networking (SDN) for about three years now, use cases don’t come to light every day. But a new survey suggests that SDN isn’t just for lab...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Shrinking Server Infrastructure as Cloud Matures
According to both Gartner and IDC worldwide server market revenue has fallen by up to 5%, with major server manufacturers taking a hit. The figure doesn’t appear big but the impact and shift to Cloud...
View ArticleB2B Sales: How to Stop Your Pipeline Becoming a Sewer
There’s a huge difference between a healthy sales pipeline and a rotten one. It’s long been a hobby horse of mine, and something I’ve regularly written about. But I don’t think I’ve ever managed to...
View ArticleThe Structure Show: Who will win in cloud and whether SDN is for real
In this week’s episode of the Structure Show, Derrick Harris recounts his big data adventures at a Chicago data mining show and Microsoft’s latest open-source project. Hint: It has to do with YARN and...
View ArticleRoundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts Update, 2013
Time-to-market, more flexible support for business strategies by IT, and faster response time to competitive conditions are combining to accelerate cloud computing adoption today. Of the enterprises...
View ArticleThe IP Transition: What is it and what the debate is about
The Federal Communications Commission Chairman today said that the Commission will open a proceeding in January to lay out how the nation will graduate from the old copper telephone networks to the...
View ArticleCloud Computing May Save U.S. Government $20 Billion A Year (But There’s More...
A new study suggests that adoption of cloud offerings — particularly Platform as a Service middleware and application development tools — can cut the cost of U.S. government application development...
View ArticleBig Data: It’s Not A Buzzword. It’s A Movement.
Big Data has become an all encompassing, somewhat sprawling term. Seemingly, it has as many definitions as it does applications. So what is Big Data, exactly, and what does it mean for business and...
View ArticleTech Entrepreneurs Agree: It’s Time To Regulate The Internet Ecosystem
Among the crowd of optimists and cheerleaders for the transformative power of the Internet, Andrew Keen stands out as the contrarian. The Internet is transformative, all right, he says: It’s...
View ArticleFor every 400 smartphones, you need 1 server
The explosion of smart devices is driving the growth of data centers. Intel illustrated that point today by showing exactly how many servers are required to serve the internet needs of the newfangled...
View ArticleAnyone Anywhere Can Build The Next Google — There Are No Barriers
A common excuse that entrepreneurs make for not being able to innovate is the lack of venture capital in their region. They argue that because investors are not ready to take a risk, they can’t...
View ArticleThe IT triangle strategy for evaluating enterprise tech startups
There have been plenty of blog posts on why enterprise startups are “hot,” but enterprise startups can range from cloud infrastructure companies to developer software to new enterprise applications....
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