Maybe you’re looking to go long or maybe you are playing the market short. Maybe your pairing currency against one another (for the sake of context, the U.S. dollar vs. the Japanese Yen). Whatever your trade for the day or week and regardless of how much money you are currently day trading with, you are going to need an avenue in which to conduct your trading activities. More to the point, you are going to need a virtual platform which allows you to use any trading app you choose, scale your resources if need be, operate with sub-microsecond latency to major financial markets and trade from anywhere in the world with confidence and security. With this in mind, we want to introduce you to Solar VPS SolarSystem Windows VPS SolarSystem Windows VPS and SolarSystem Linux VPS. As noted on the site, SolarSystem Windows and Linux VPS Pods are highly scalable (see the six packages included), highly affordable and have the ability to keep you connected to your Forex trading life regardless of your location in the world. Due to this, below are five great reasons why you should invest your Forex trading needs with Solar VPS SolarSystem Windows or Linux VPS Pods. 1. Location, Location, Location When it comes to Forex Trading, everyone knows time makes all the difference. One second too late, the market shifts. One second too early, the market isn’t ready for your trade. In Forex Trading, timing is everything. Due to this, Solar VPS allows you the ability to provision your VPS Forex accounts from one of four different locations within the United States. Those locations are Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, Miami, FL and most important, New York City, NY. Having your Forex VPS provisioned in New York City means you have sub-microsecond access to the major financial markets of the world. It means you don’t have to worry about latency or lag when placing trades. Most importantly this means you have the ability to interact with the market before your competition on the other side of the world does. 2. Global Connectivity The nature of Forex Trading is that of someone on the go. Forex Trading is great because you have the ability to trade from your smartphone, your laptop, your tablet or your home computer. Whatever avenue you choose to utilize for your Forex Trading account, Solar VPS gives you the ability to access your Forex VPS from anywhere in the world. With our Cloud VPS solutions, you can access your VPS Forex account regardless of if you are on the train going home from work or if you are halfway around the world on a business trip. Solar VPS means global connectivity to your VPS Forex server. 3. Freedom in Applications Freedom in applications. Here is the thing, like the type of skittles you love, every Forex trader has their trading application of choice. For some that application might be ForexTrader or TradeWindowsFX. For others that application might be CitiFX or MetaTrafer. … Continue
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How to Project Manage When it’s Not Your Job AND Everything is a Priority
By Melanie Haskell, Project Manager III
Over the years, we have heard customers repeatedly ask for tips on how they can manage their initiatives when project management is not their only job function and everything is a priority. Before you can manage your time, you need to know what it is you must manage.
- Create a list of what needs to be done. The first draft of your list should capture only high level items; don’t worry you will add more details later. At this point, you’re focused on what you need to get done, not how you are going to get there.
- Prioritize the items on the high level list. In order to create realistic priorities, set aside the concept of “everything has to be done yesterday.” This is a first pass so prioritize the list based on what you know now. You can create any coding technique that works for you (for example, high, low and medium) – the only thing that matters that the coding works for you.
- Now take the highest priority items and determine what needs to be done to complete the objective of that item (this is called a Task List). Eventually you will work through all items on your list. This is an iterative process. You might be able to create this task list on your own, or you might need to pull in other entities to flesh out the details. The more complex the item, the more help you may need. For example, upgrading the firmware on your non-production SAN is a much easier item then moving your on premise email to a hosted cloud solution or embarking on hybrid cloud computing projects. When you start talking to people, you start discovering what needs to happen, and the picture becomes clearer.
- Organize the task list conceptually – see if you need to pull in others just like in the step above. Since you did your due diligence during the discovery stage, now your objective is to chunk out the work.
- Assign resources – ask for help if you do not have the ability to assign anyone. You might end up owning all items, but if you can delegate tasks do so. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to do it all. You can be much more effective if you can delegate tasks as necessary. Make sure individuals understand the overall goal and how it benefits the organization, as well as how their role affects the overall initiative. Gather feedback as much as possible as this will help identify risks, missed steps in the plan etc.
- Determine if there is a tool you want to use to help you manage the task plan (i.e. the to-do list). Some popular tools are Microsoft Project, Excel or Word. It does not matter what tool you utilize as long as it helps you with task management (i.e. what needs to get done, who is doing it and when will it happen). Use technology to help you!
- Set a communication plan – How will you know a task status? This information can be gathered in many ways. Find what works for you and your resources. Set schedules and follow up with people to make sure they are meeting their deadlines. Make time to monitor the task list to verify the team is in alignment with the committed tasks and timelines.
This all might sound like a lot of work, and you’re probably already over-tapped, but this will create efficiency and save a lot of time in the end. It’s better to plan out how you will build your house before you pick up a hammer, nails and some wood and start building. Good luck and remember, if needed, our Project Management team is here in the wings to offer you professional advice any time!
When Clouds Get Cloudy
The worldwide market for cloud computing is rapidly growing across all segments – 36% CAGR through 2016, reaching a market size of $19.5B by 2016, according to the InfoPro Wave 5 Cloud Computing Study from 451 Research. The result has been a substantial increase in the operational complexity of IT infrastructure management.
Legacy IT service management (ITSM) tools and suites from vendors like IBM, HP, BMC, CA and Microsoft, designed for on-premise data centers, are no longer effective for managing cloud-centric applications and infrastructure. Therefore companies are adopting multiple open source and point solutions designed to manage specific aspects of their cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Data Science Meets the Cloud
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Michael Driscoll, CEO & Co-Founder of Metamarkets, will present lessons learned from architecting an AWS-hosted analytics platform that manages trillions of events with millisecond latencies. Companies are storing ever-growing amounts of data on AWS, much of it generated from mobile and web applications that are unleashing data at unprecedented speed and scale. These data streams present significant opportunities for smarter pricing, more engaged customers, and greater operational awareness, but existing tools require complex integrations or simply don’t scale. Today, we are processing 100’s of billions of events each month with average query response times of <500ms.
Silicon Valley’s Quadruple Whammy: Cloud, Big Data, SDN and WebRTC
According to a report published recently by Wikibon the total Big Data market reached $11.4 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $18.2 billion this year. IDC says big data will be $24B market by 2016.
As for the Cloud, the cloud computing marketplace will reach $16.7 billion in revenue this year, including the large and well-established SaaS category, according to a research report by 451 Market Monitor, compared to a revenue of $8.7 billion in 2010.
From the Stone Age to Today – History of Security Infographic
When you think of security do you think of locks, guards or even your home security alarm? At the moment security is more likely to bring up thoughts of hackers, PRISM and well-publicized data breaches.
Of course I think of the cloud when discussing security. In the contemporary world of information security, enterprises and institutions are increasingly acknowledging the need to find new ways to protect their most sensitive information when using cloud applications.
Given the speed of advancements in the technology world, enterprises need to be constantly changing, adapting and improving security. From the beginning of history the issue of security has been a key priority.
Let’s see what we can learn from those that came ahead of us in this PerspecSys’ infographic that takes a fun walk through the past – The History of Security.
E-commerce: The Secret Sauce for SMBs and Hosters
If you’ve sat in front of a television lately, chances are that you have seen an advertisement for a Do-It-Yourself website for your small business. Who would believe that in this hyper-wired world we live in that some businesses still don’t have a website? Clearly some don’t. And the fact that we’re getting bombarded with these offers every night during prime time shows you just how significant an opportunity exists.
DIY websites are all the rage. For the end-user, they are low-cost, low-risk, full-featured, and easy-to-use. For hosters, they are a great way to attract and retain new SMB customers, and to eventually sell them more services and increase ARPU. And, because of intuitive WYSIWYG design and editing tools, they are also fairly easy to support.
The jump from having no web presence to having a basic website can be dramatic for a SMB – suddenly they are discoverable and contactable – but it’s not the same as having a storefront with goods and services available for purchase 24/7/365. It’s like the difference between having a ‘business’ or a ‘business card’ at your web address.
Enter e-commerce, SaaS-style.
Lunch Keynote at Cloud Expo: What About Your Private Cloud?
Want to gain an edge in your technical career? Industry insiders suggest that over 70% of businesses now run at least two virtualization platforms in their IT environment. That’s why IT pros who understand multiple platforms are invaluable to their companies and clients. With all the talk about the wonderful technologies in the public cloud space, what about all the great work you are doing in your private cloud? The modern datacenter is already virtualizing, and likely virtualizing using VMware vSphere, vCenter, and so on.
In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Matt Hester, Senior Information Technology Professional Evangelist for Microsoft, will help you get familiar with all that Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 can do; and in terms that you’ll understand.
Big Data and Analytics as Part of the Political Process
The Democratic National Committee leveraged big data analytics to better understand and predict voter behavior and alliances in the 2012 U.S. national elections.
To learn more about how the DNC pulled vast amounts of data together to predict and understand voter preferences and positions on the issues, join Chris Wegrzyn, Director of Data Architecture at the DNC, based in Washington, DC.
The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Cloud Expo | Big Data Is a Big Deal: Running Hadoop in the Cloud
Get a solid understanding of the underpinnings and principles of Hadoop, perhaps the most sought after high-paying skill for a developer today.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Bruno Terkaly, an evangelist for Microsoft, will begin by illustrating how you build your own single node cluster of Hadoop on the Linux virtual machine (CentOS) for free so you can start learning immediately. It will begin with a raw Linux VM and all the needed components will be downloaded and installed. You can be up and running quickly in the cloud within 30 minutes. This session will contain code and will show no more than a few slides. We will learn about writing the low-level map/reduce code in Java, which is really the low-level assembly language of Hadoop code. From there we will introduce more efficient approaches to analyzing big data with Hadoop, running high level queries and analyzing crime information from San Francisco as the example.