SYS-CON Events announced today that vLine, a provider of the leading WebRTC video chat platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 1st WebRTC Summit, which will take place on November 6–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
vLine is led by experienced developers focused on how technology changes the way people engage with each other. Mobile web browsers, web-based mobile OS, and real-time file sharing are just some of the innovative front lines they’ve led. We have big company experience at the likes of Apple, Palm, IBM, and Motorola as well as deep start-up experience.
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Parallels Among Leading Linux Contributors Four Years in a Row
The Linux Foundation recently released their latest report on the state of Linux kernel development, and once again Parallels is listed as a top contributor and reviewer. This is the fourth time in as many years Parallels has been listed in the annual report. Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It, September 2013 gives a clear view of the leading innovators in the Linux community and some of the key developments over the last 18 months.
Use EMC and VMware to Virtualize Oracle Environments
Read why customers choose EMC and VMware to dramatically increase performance and improve Oracle licensing ROI. Read how DBAs are getting up to 3X more performance and 80% faster tuning, deploying new Oracle servers and storage in minutes, and more.
Catch the Cloud with DorobekINSIDER LIVE!
Yesterday I thoroughly enjoyed an opportunity to participate in the DorobekINSIDER LIVE edition on cloud computing. The conversation was both lively and informative. Joining me on the show were:
Jim Sweeney, author of the book Get Your Head in the Cloud: Unlocking the Mystery for Public Sector and President and CTO of V3 Systems.
Patrick Fiorenza, Senior Research Analyst, GovLoop. He is writing the GovLoop Guide on cloud computing.
WebRTC Summit | Robust Carrier Grade WebRTC Service
Consumers have higher expectations of their telephony experience than they do of a web browsing experience. They expect the phone to connect instantly with minimal disruptions. The phone is already secure and phone numbers are used to make connections. Subscribers expect their phone service to work seamless across any network, anywhere, at any time. Subscribers will expect WebRTC into the enterprise to behave in the same manner.
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Douglas Tait, Global Director of Marketing for Telecommunications at Oracle, will look at the user experience and expectations of a WebRTC service and cover how a WebRTC service handles security, reliability, and interoperability within browsers and networks.
Inocybe Technologies to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Inocybe Technologies Inc., the company that aims to keep IT simple, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Inocybe Technologies Inc. makes networking infrastructure simple to launch and monetize by alleviating the complexities of today’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) management of shared infrastructures. The company delivers a one-stop-shop for businesses that want to quickly find all the providers and products they need to deploy, operate, and manage a virtualized network infrastructure. Inocybe Technologies combines network element virtualization, cloud computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and DevOps technologies into their single, flexible Inocybe Virtualization Platform (IVP) turnkey solution that any organization can use to create virtual infrastructures in just seconds. Inocybe Technologies is privately held and has been a pioneer in user empowered networking research since 2005.
Collaborating Through Crisis and Change for Successful Outcomes
By Brian Shaw, Program Manager, Managed Services Solutions
Crisis management and change management begins long before an incident occurs with the creation of a collaboration and decision making framework prior to project implementation.
A collaboration strategy needs to address the types of change to be communicated (perhaps based on thresholds for schedule and cost impact), who change needs to be communicated to, and what actions may result from that change. Actions resulting from change collaboration may be as simple as accepting the impact to the project schedule or as complex as allocating additional budgets and personnel. Follow the below steps prior to project implementation and your project team will be ready for change when it occurs. [Note: the method of applying these concepts should scale to the complexity and duration of the project.]
Preparation
Could it be coincidental that “preparation” and “Project Manager” both begin with a “p?” I think not. It is the responsibility of the Project Manager and the project team to create an environment for project success. A communication plan is a key component of project preparation. The plan should take into consideration the multiple audiences for project related information. All too often a single communication method is selected (such as emailing weekly status updates); however, this strategy doesn’t take into consideration that each audience has its’ own needs. A project engineer will require information regarding architecture and device level access that would be extraneous noise to an executive audience.
Additionally, most projects have a threshold for which change can be quickly accepted versus change or crisis that requires escalation. Define these thresholds as early as possible. If the duration of the work effort changes by less that x% or the cost changes by less than $x, can the project team quickly move forward without engaging an executive for approval? Prior to project initiation determine what types of change need to be escalated and who those changes need to be escalated to.
Control Sheet/Project Dashboard
Believe it or not, some audiences of project information don’t like reading MS Project plans and Ghantt charts…go figure. Both executive and client audiences often prefer a succinct format which quickly identifies task families that are on track, those at risk and those that have failed. This type of shorthand project metrics update is often referred to as a project dashboard or control sheet.
A project dashboard should quickly communicate project budget to actuals, project timeline and the status of milestones and/or important tasks. A popular method of sharing the status is the red, yellow, green light methodology. The critical benefit of this communication strategy is that audiences of this information can move quickly to problem areas and work towards resolution actions. If you are using a risk register then the yellow and red lights may kick out to the risk management work stream.
Collaboration Tools
Knowing what you are going to communicate and when you are going to communicate is only part of the collaboration strategy. It is critical that the project team determine how to collaborate and share types of information. Collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Drop Box and Huddle are commonplace, and I highly recommend your project team adopt a collaboration tool if you haven’t already done so.
The collaboration tool you use should allow the storage of multiple types of information along with selective access to information. The best tools allow access control at both the folder and file level. This level of information control allows sensitive information such as access credentials to be locked down to those that need access only.
The control sheet should be maintained within your collaboration tool so appropriate consumers can pull up a live project status at any time. Additionally, the collaboration tool should not replace individual action. If an important change or crisis occurs an update to the control sheet should not suffice as engaging decision makers. Those changes should be escalated in an active way to decision makers.
Execution:
Creating a communications plan around change is only the beginning. Once you’ve determined how you are going to communicate change, what changes will be communicated and how crises will be handled, it is then the responsibility of the Project Manager to ensure that consumers of this plan are informed and clearly understand the expectations. The plan is actionable and when change occurs the project team should be familiar enough with the plan to easily put it in motion.
Four Strategies to Simplify Cloud-to-Cloud Migration
In the storage industry, we hear the term «migration» all the time – almost every day. One of the first visuals that comes to my mind whenever I hear that word is a neatly formed «V»-formation of geese or ducks flying south for the winter. The «V» formation is a very efficient way to fly long distances. One bird’s wing-flapping causing a vortex, giving the bird directly behind effortless lift. The group works together in this way to migrate vast distances in a short amount of time while expending as little effort as possible.
Just as bird migration is inevitable, so to is data migration – no matter what form it’s in. In the storage world, this might mean you need to migrate older tape formats to a more current one to support the new tape drive you’ve just bought, or migrate data from an older storage array to a new one.
Too often, storage strategies are developed without migration in mind. The reality is that regardless of the storage solution you’ve deployed, migration is a normal part of the lifecycle, and you need to design and incorporate a migration strategy into your storage environment.
Responding to a New Breed of Services
Cloud computing is enabling services transforming many industries and every CIO needs to be ready to respond to new competitive threats.
Benefits from cloud computing are often focused on infrastructure optimization, but one disruptive change occurring across a variety of industries are a new breed of commercial services delivered through the public Internet. The common themes these services share include ease of use, accessibility through a wide range of devices and always targeting inefficient business processes. I will focus on two examples of such services that I believe show promise of future success and growth.
How cloud services usage is rising in the Middle East and Africa
In the third annual Global Cloud Index, Cisco forecasts that global cloud traffic, the fastest growing component of data center traffic, is expected to grow 4.5-fold — that’s a 35 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) — from 1.2 zettabytes of annual traffic in 2012 to 5.3 zettabytes by 2017.
The Cisco Global Cloud Index (2012–2017) was developed to estimate data center and cloud-based Internet Protocol (IP) traffic growth and trends. The Index serves as a complementary resource to existing network traffic studies, providing new insights and visibility into emerging trends affecting data centers and cloud architectures.
The forecast becomes increasingly important as the network and data center become more intrinsically linked in offering cloud services. Overall global data center traffic will grow threefold and reach a total of 7.7 zettabytes annually by 2017.
Approximately 17 percent of data center traffic will be fueled by end …