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- Virtual Instruments launches VirtualWisdom
- Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to help organizations moving to a virtualized environment gain insight into and manage their virtual storage infrastructure. ...
- Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VirtualWisdom VirtualWisdom, VMware Performance Bottleneck, Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
- IT organizations are well-versed in protecting their physical infrastructure and data from interruptions. Most, if not all, organizations employ some level of data protection to minimize downtime and data loss in the event of a disruption. Just as introducing multiple operating systems created complexity and challenges, as these organizations incorporate...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Environment, IT Organization, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Backups, Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-23
- Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
- Server virtualization is pervasive in data centers of medium-size to larger organizations. As these organizations leverage server virtualization for Tier 1 applications, it becomes even more critical to ensure availability and protection of systems and data as physical hardware failures can impact numerous workloads. Data protection is often complicated by...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Environment, Enterprise Strategy Group, Disaster Recovery, Server Virtualization, Backups, Virtualization, Servers, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Data Mining-Based Fragmentation of XML Data Warehouses
- With the multiplication of XML data sources, many XML data warehouse models have been proposed to handle data heterogeneity and complexity in a way relational data warehouses fail to achieve. However, XML-native database systems currently suffer from limited performances, both in terms of manageable data volume and response time. Fragmentation...
- Tags: Fragmentation, Relational Data, Data Mining, XML-Data
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was
- Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Environment, Data Federation, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Management, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Dissemination of Heterogeneous XML Data
- A lot of recent research has focused on the content-based dissemination of XML data. However, due to the heterogeneous data schemas used by different data publishers even for data in the same domain, an important challenge is how to efficiently and effectively disseminate relevant data to subscribers whose subscriptions might...
- Tags: Dissemination, XML-Data
- White papers 2008-04-25
- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
- Note: Click the player to listen to my podcast interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com. Steve comments on his company's strategy, discusses on-premises software, and presents Salesforce.com's vision for mobile devices. Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Podcast, Outsource, Vision, Force.com, On-premises, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Splunk goes 'platform' to extend IT search benefits across more IT management functions
- Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on the top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off been depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can't get the full, integrated picture...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Application, IT Administration, Information Technology, Goal, Benefit, Splunk, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Object Oriented Database Prototype as a Model Execution Engine for Executable UML
- The concept of executable modelling, as outlined by the MDA approach, is not very common in the area of business software using databases. One of the reasons is certainly the increased complexity and heterogeneity of such software on its target platforms. Another reason is a weak support for such data-intensive...
- Tags: Software, Warsaw University, Object-oriented, UML, Model Driven Architecture, Programming Languages, Tools & Techniques, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2008-02-03
- Inside Amazon
- You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...
- Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Grid Computing Now! - Grids and Systems Management
- Since the onset of "Open" systems a couple of decades ago, and the resulting industry convergence on a few approaches to networking and device sharing, there has been a steady move away from relatively homogeneous, proprietary computing environments towards more heterogeneous, stovepipe infrastructures. Compound this with a high rate of...
- Tags: Quocirca, Grid Computing, Grid, Systems Management
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Variable Neighbor Selection in Live Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Networks
- Data-driven or swarming based streaming is one of the popular ways to distribute multimedia streaming traffic over live Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In data-driven streaming networks, each peer independently selects its neighbors based on gossip-style overlay construction and then exchanges streaming data with the neighbors using data scheduling. In a P2P...
- Tags: Network, P2P, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Internet
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Microsoft: My way or the highway with SOA?
- Ed Scannell and Chris Kanaracus of Redmond Magazine just published a cover story entitled "Microsoft Does Have an SOA Strategy," which nicely outlines Big Red's strategy for moving its product lines into the SOA world. The lead says it all:"Microsoft has never been inclined to play by the rules. For...
- Tags: SOA, Microsoft Corp., Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Microsoft's 'service-enabled' approach is really only sorta-SOA
- A new article on Redmondmag.com examines the fascinating topic of Microsoft and SOA. Microsoft's strategy -- pivoting on the strengths of Windows Communications Foundation WCF as well as (huh?) applications virtualization -- is different from earlier "embrace and extend" market assault campaigns.Microsoft's SOA strategy amounts to embrace and contract. They...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOA
- Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOATimes change, DanaBack when the WS-* specs were under development, Microsoft was a minority player in the server space, which was dominated by big iron and Unix systems.Today, they have more than half of the market.Interoperability (as distinct from int[u]ra[/u]operability) is a benefit...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Servers, Microsoft Corp., SOA, server
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOA
- Back when Web services standards were being devised and made part of an open standards approach to XML-based loosely coupled services interoperability, Microsoft was head of the pack. It was one of the main supporters of the WS-* family of specifications that found a home at the Organization for the...
- Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, datacenters, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- The Emerging Concepts and Applications of the Spatial Web Portal
- Geospatial metadata, data, and services have been widely collected, developed and deployed in recent years. This flourishing of geospatial resources also added to the problem of geospatial heterogeneity. Interoperability research and implementation are needed for advancement in potential solutions to integrate and interoperate these widely dispersed geospatial resources. The paper...
- Tags: Portlet, Web, Web Portal, Channel Management, Portals, Marketing, Internet
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Business Continuity and Availability - XP24000 Disk Array
- For financial services and other companies with grave requirements for business continuity, complexity of the data storage configuration can make meeting service-level and uptime objectives a nail-biter. Read this white paper to learn why HP's XP24000 Disk Array can offer peace of mind for any situation involving heterogeneity, long...
- Tags: Data Storage, Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Continuity, Disk Array, It Services, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Case study touts .NET development for IBM portal server deployment
- Call it a suck-up job for developer choice, but Ive been appraised of an interesting case study that highlights the ability to develop using Visual Studio/.NET -- but to then cross-compile the applications to play as portlets for deployment on IBM WebSphere Portal server on ... a System Z mainframe....
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Virtualization, System Z, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, Java, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, IDEs, IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools, datacenters, database, convergence, Application Lifecycle Management, Apache, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
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