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ExecEvent highlights the relevance of tape in the Big Data ageFrankfurt, Germany - 5th November 2012 - The role of tape in the enterprise is changing and the major vendors are responding to new opportunities such as the rise of Big Data. These are some of the themes of the European Tap...
We are very excited to announce an Intel API management solution that was released today. The Intel® Expressway API Manager is a composite API platform. Just creating outstanding APIs is not enough. Intel realized that you need to have a … Continue reading →
At Silanis, we often work with legal counsel to keep up-to-date on new case law and other resources relating to e-signatures in the insurance industry. In fact, we try to connect our customers and friends with those same resources so that we can help carriers feel reassured that electr...
It has been 20 years since I set out to start my own business, and this column is a combination of a look back and a way of saying thanks to all of you that are still reading my work. … Continue reading →
Storage Resource Management (SRM) made easy: Remote Backup Center increases backup and storage efficiency while saving valuable time and budgetOctober 29, 2012 - Viby J, Denmark - Debriefing Software today unveiled the Remote Backup Center, a special edition of Wizards Storage Portal f...
Last week I briefly attended the Tape Summit at IP Expo.  Unfortunately due to other commitments during the day I was only able to join the round-table.  To be fair this was probably the part of the day I most wanted to attend – hearing everyone’s opinion generates much mor...
Today we’re happy to share a post from Deney Dentel, CEO for Nordisk Systems, Inc.  Nordisk Systems provides cloud computing infrastructure, available and accessible for businesses of all sizes and industries. Enjoy! ————— There are many reasons to make the switch to cloud servic...
Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News A...
New partnership will deliver outstanding productivity for customersLondon, UK and Oslo, Norway and New York, NY: 25 October, 2012: Confirmit, the leading global software provider for Customer Experience, Employee Engagement and Market Research, has announced that InVADE, an industry le...
Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise Delivers High-performance Data Replication for Faster AnalyticsRedwood City, CA and Burlington, MA - October 25, 2012 - Actian Corporation, creators of Vectorwise, the innovative performance analytic database, and Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), a...
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – 24 October 2012 – Nexenta Systems, the leader in Software-defined Storage solutions for the enterprise, today announced that LeaseWeb, a leading global hosting provider, has chosen its flagship solution NexentaStor to underpin its new cloud platform. LeaseW...
One striking aspect of this presidential campaign season is the lack of vision for, or even mention of, the future. Neither campaign is talking much about how it sees the future unfolding. We’re hearing differing views about how 20th Century jobs can be created. Some candidates (...
By BobGourley Today we lost a great great man.  At 1:15pm today, Friday Oct 19, 2012, Mac Showers passed away peacefully at Virginia Hospital center in Arlington, VA. Those of us who knew Admiral Showers will be full of sadness and we feel for his family. But this is also time to refle...
Quicker than I thought possible, another TechEd has come and gone. It's been a fantastic TechEd this year.
I learned a lot at SAP's TechEd 2012 this week.  Here are some of my impressions and notes.  SAP, if I have any of this wrong please correct me! SAP hired a new M2M leader that reports into Sanjay Poonen.   SAP's Vishal Sikka and Sanjay Poonen both spoke about the "...
One of the stated goals of the Shared Services Canada initiative is “to transition to a single, shared telecommunications network infrastructure, while maintaining required departmental segregation of data through security domains and zones.” This prompts an interesting que...
Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News C...
ExecEvent unveils Tape Audit Europe initial findings at Tape SummitIP EXPO, London, UK - October 18th 2012 - The ExecEvent has announced interim findings of the first European Tape Audit at the first European Tape Summit held at IP EXPO in London this week. In the European Tape Audit 2...
By RyanKamauff SAN CARLOS, Calif. — September 17, 2012 — MarkLogic Corporation, provider of the enterprise NoSQL database, today introduced MarkLogic® 6, a product designed to make it faster and easier for organizations to generate reliable, scalable and secure Big Data results. The pr...
- Rittal use pyrotechnics to demonstrate effectiveness of solution, while Dr Mike Lynch OBE lights up seminar theatre with opening keynote -IP EXPO, 17 October 2012: The starting gun was fired at IP EXPO with a sold-out seminar by Autonomy founder, Dr Mike Lynch OBE and a series of pro...
SLOUGH, 16th October, 2012: Logicalis, the international IT solutions, managed services and cloud provider, has been named 'EMEA Channel Partner of the Year' for managed services by independent analyst firm Canalys, at its inaugural Candefero Channel Partner of the Year Awards. Designe...
Helping Application Producers and Enterprise IT Developers Migrate Their Apps to the Cloud and Virtual EnvironmentsNew release enables multi-platform installation development from a single project file across physical, cloud, and other virtual environmentsMaidenhead, UK - October 16, 2...
Sooner or later the following (not so hypothetical quandary) will undoubtedly arise: When moving your data to the cloud, you’ll be faced with an array of decisions that will need to be made. What considerations will you make for the … Continue reading →
You wouldn’t think that a hang gliding accident could start a revolution in medicine. But when a teenager fell 150 feet into a lake several years ago, the subsequent events that sparked a revolutionary new diagnostic method, what I am … Continue reading →
Rappel des « chapitres » précédents : Première partie : les bases de la R2I. Deuxième partie : les infrastructures. Troisième partie : les usages La R2I, Révolution Industrielle Informatique apporte beaucoup de « plus » aux entreprises utilisatrices ;...
Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News I...
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full September/October edition (with highlights from this blog and community events) online. You can subscribe to the Revolution Newsletter to get it monthly via email. New R Co...
You probably remember Rodney King.  All he wanted was for all of us to get along.  To peacefully coexist.  And really, that’s what we are asking for with the latest versions of IBM’s WebSphere MQ… to all get along, to … Continue reading →
Three decades ago, only one Spanish-language network was on the air (Univision, then known as Spanish International Network), and it was a huge deal for them to land a national advertiser like McDonald’s or Kraft, because the majority of national advertisers didn’t see the ...
-IT vendor targets UK market at the UK's number one IT infrastructure event-London, UK: 9 October 2012 - Praim, the global vendor and designer of Thin Client solutions, will make its UK debut at IP EXPO on 17 and 18 October at London's Earls Court 2, showcasing its latest hardware plat...
Much is said and written recently about software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage. Both heavily depend on the new virtualization capabilities and can together be conceptualized as follows: Hardware virtualization goes way back to the early 1970s and may be even...
Foster City, Calif and Hamar, Norway - October 8, 2012 - eMeter®, A Siemens Business, a leader in Smart Grid management software, today announced that Eidsiva Nett has selected the EnergyIP® Platform and selected Applications as their meter data management platform and energy...
Recently, people have started to apply the term “software-defined storage” (SDS) to our NexentaStor and to OpenStorage approaches more generally. That prompted us to look at what we really mean when we use that term. Already I’m seeing a rush towards the “Software-defined” label. Consi...
Does Dell have a cloudy cloud strategy story (Part I)? By Greg Schulz This is first of a two-part post (click here for second post) that is part of ongoing industry trends and perspective cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy s...
Does Dell have a cloudy cloud strategy story (Part II)? By Greg Schulz This is the second of two posts (here is the first post) that are part of ongoing industry trends and perspectives cloud conversations series that looks at Dell and their cloud strategy sto...
DWF LLP selects Logicalis UK for pay-per-use IP Video Service5th October 2012, London - Logicalis UK today announced that business law firm, DWF LLP, has signed up for its cloud-based video facility. Logicalis' ImmersiV video-as-a-service, which connects via IP and is delivered in a p...
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Watch CloudViews Unplugged! Watch the October episode of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News A...
This week at the Oracle Open World conference, Larry Ellison announced the new Exadata X3 processor that has 4TB of DRAM plus 22TB of Flash or SSD memory. Therefore, he said that you could have 26TB of in-memory data for fast processing at very … Continue reading →