The need to streamline and provide cloud IT services, as well as extensive monitoring and management, remains and will grow, according to Bruce Lichorowic. CEO of San Jose, CA-based Blue Hawk Networks.
Gartner conference attendees’ pressing interest this year was beyond the "shiny new" topics, but were more day-to-day challenges: avoiding IT outages and increasing speed of service recovery, along with monitoring, as related by James Sivis of...
Bob Duestche of Intel continues his discussion of cloud computing principles with consideration of networks and bandwidth, asserting bandwidth and data transmission may not always be as inexpensive and unencumbered as they are today.
Bryan Doerr, of Savvis/CenturyLink, writes that the current swirl of activity in IT means for the role of the CIO as orchestrator of the overall corporate application portfolio is changing.
From New York to London to Tokyo, the hot buzz words “High Frequency Trading (HFT)” and “algorithmic trading” have been making their rounds on the world’s largest stock exchanges. They have revolutionized the way deals are made and this fast...
Billy Cox, of Intel, describes the way workloads are managed through large cloud environments, including some areas where Intel is collaborating with the Open Stack community.
David Swenson, of Infineta, describes the compound effect, a measure of the combined effects of both reduction and acceleration, when optimizing Wide Area Networks (WANs).
Any data center, cloud or otherwise, depends on its Ethernet network to allow servers, storage systems and other devices to talk to each other. No network means no data center, writes Brian Yoshinaka of Intel.
Technology-driven business practices often circumvent government regulations, but legal and government policy standards will dictate the cloud’s success - this is a fundamental truth of cloud computing, according to Bob Deutsche of Intel. He...