Archivo mensual: Agosto 2012

Sin categoría

Cloud services are an organizational innovation, not a technology "silver bullet"

By Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, IT, Asia-Pacific, Ovum

Many executives regard technology evangelists as “drive-by shooters” – people who cruise by their offices firing so-called “silver bullet” solutions. Are cloud evangelists in this category? Perhaps. If they are selling cloud computing as a technology innovation, then the “drive-by shooter” label can fit quite well.

Most ICT executives know how to manage technology evangelists: they do not let them into the office. Cloud services evangelists, however, are a much bigger problem because they proffer pervasive organizational disruptors – pre-assembled bundles of people, processes and technology – not technology point solutions.

The challenge for the ICT department is fending off the army of cloud services evangelists that is out there selling piecemeal organizational disruption to executives throughout the enterprise. The ICT department must get ready. It is in danger of losing its monopoly over the provision of ICT services, and a big test of …

Sin categoría

Cloud Migration Management (CMM): Consulting and Best Practices

Our headline professional service engagement is Cloud Migration Management (CMM). The issues that the service needs to address were recently identified through an auditors analysis of the progress of the US Government’s Cloud First program. In the GAO report Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned they reported that despite the hype about […]

read more

Sin categoría

The 50 Best Federal Technology Blogs

Fed Tech Magazine recently released their list of “50 Must-Read Federal Technology Blogs,” which included CTOvision.com. The list is a great resource, featuring the blogs of numerous government CIOs, CTOs, cybersecurity experts, and departments, as well as top federal news sources. I noticed that most of these blogs and experts also had a Twitter presence […]

This post by was first published at CTOvision.com.

read more

Sin categoría

The Future of Cloud Computing: Part 1 – VDI is DOA

Innovations in streaming application code… rather than streaming pixels… will kill VDI before it even fully arrives.
From the start, the concept of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is flawed for most real-world applications and use-cases. The future application delivery method will instead use the server-side to deliver application functionality, data, and licensing on-demand to devices directly rather than just screen shots of the monitor output; enabling previously unattainable accomplishments like “Cloud-bursting” to become a reality.

read more

Sin categoría

Buttoned-Down IBM Gets Flashy

IBM is going to buy privately held high-performance flash memory house Texas Memory Systems (TMS).

It did not disclose the terms of the definitive agreement. The deal is expected to close later this year.

The Houston company has been around since 1978. It sells its solid-state solutions as the RamSan family of shared rack-mount systems and Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) cards. They’re supposed to improve performance and reduce server sprawl, power consumption, cooling and floor space requirements.

The purchase is a shift from IBM’s usual concentration on software.

read more

Apache Hadoop, Big Data, BigData, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, Dremel, Google, Hadoop, MapReduce

Google’s Dremel is the Holy Grail of Big Data: Really Big, Really Fast, Really Simple

First Google created, and wrote papers on, Hadoop and MapReduce, which got reverse-engineered into the current state of the art for Big Data.

But Google has moved on to Dremel, and the rest of the world is slow in catching up.

With BigQuery Google offers a simple-to-user service that doesn’t sacrifice Big Data scale OR speed.

As  Armando Fox, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in these sorts of data-center-sized software platforms. put it in a Wired article:

“This is unprecedented. Hadoop is the centerpiece of the “Big Data” movement, a widespread effort to build tools that can analyze extremely large amounts of information. But with today’s Big Data tools, there’s often a drawback. You can’t quite analyze the data with the speed and precision you expect from traditional data analysis or “business intelligence” tools. But with Dremel, Fox says, you can.

“They managed to combine large-scale analytics with the ability to really drill down into the data, and they’ve done it in a way that I wouldn’t have thought was possible,” he says. “The size of the data and the speed with which you can comfortably explore the data is really impressive. People have done Big Data systems before, but before Dremel, no one had really done a system that was that big and that fast.

“Usually, you have to do one or the other. The more you do one, the more you have to give up on the other. But with Dremel, they did both.”


Consulting, Database, Linux, MySQL, NoSQL, Open Source, PostgreSQL

Bull Services Facilitate Adoption of Open Source PostgreSQL

Bull HN Information Systems is rolling out IT support services with the launch of its MOVE IT (Modernize, Optimize, Virtualize and Economize Information Technology) campaign to showcase products and services that it recently announced and plans to announce in the future. These products and services help customers derive maximum value from their legacy IT investments and get the most out of their IT operations while opening enterprise data to the cloud and mobile devices.

Bull’s newest MOVE IT service offerings are PostgreSQL support subscriptions; database design and build assessments; database performance and tuning services; and forms and reports migration services. These service offerings support migration to PostgreSQL—recognized as the world’s most advanced open source database—enabling organizations to reduce costs and open enterprise data to the cloud and virtualized environments.

According to Bull’s Data Migration Business Unit Director Jim Ulrey, “MOVE IT services and software help free companies from high licensing and maintenance costs, and offer both dramatic operational efficiencies and the agility required to flourish in competitive business environments.

“We developed MOVE IT enterprise solutions including database migration services, software and our newest support services to meet the needs of IT departments that prefer to manage work internally, as well as those that prefer to outsource—whether due to skill sets, resources or project objectives,” concluded Ulrey.

Bull’s MOVE IT products and services work effectively standalone by providing solutions to specific challenges, and they’re also engineered to work together to provide enterprise IT clients with multiple benefits. From cost-saving database migrations from Oracle to flexible open source PostgreSQL, to LiberTP™ software to migrate transaction-processing applications, Bull’s solutions open enterprise data to modern environments that support the cloud, virtualized environments and mobile devices. Most importantly, Bull can help free companies from high licensing and maintenance costs, offer dramatic operational efficiencies and the agility required to flourish in competitive business environments.