1. IBM to the World: You Got Nothing On Us, Including Cloud Explore Wired.com (17 hours, 42 min ago) Cloud & Virtualization When it comes to cloud computing IBM is making a big statement this week that the status quo remains. “Whatever you want,” seems to also apply to cloud computing. The company revealed some stats and made some SmartCloud announcements that make a very strong statement about its cloud services... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Dell   Cloud Computing

2. The Data Center That Was Built by Software Explore CloudTimes.org (21 hours, 2 min ago) IT Topics One of the most contentious problems in the IT industry is the fact that applications have always been the driving force behind infrastructure. The advancements in hardware or infrastructure have always been held back or limited by the desire to be backwards compatible which is why majority of datacenters these days are a melting pot of specialized legacy systems. According to VMware CTO Steve Harrod, this shouldn’t really be seen as a problem... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   Citrix

3. Data Centers Are Becoming Software Defined Explore InformationWeek (May 18 2012) Cloud & Virtualization VMware's SVP & GM of Cloud Infrastructure and Management, Raghu Raghuram, tells about the software defined data center, and how virtualized infrastructure will bring in more flexibility and efficiency... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Cloud Computing   Data Center

4. The Top 10 Startups Best Positioned to Attract Engineering Talent Explore ReadWriteWeb (May 17 2012) IT Topics In today’s Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company’s most important asset, so we decided to use LinkedIn’s data insights to discover which startups are grabbing the attention of San Francisco Bay Area engineers... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Virtualization

5. The Data Center Design and Implementation Shift Explore PR-USA.net (May 17 2012) IT Topics A major shift is underway in data center infrastructure procurement and design.... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   EMC   Cisco

6. CIO Challenge with BYOD: Don't Fall Down the Rabbit Hole Explore CIO.com (May 17 2012) IT Topics A recent slew of surveys about the bring your own device trend portray a topsy-turvy computing world shaping up in the enterprise. The CIO's ultimate challenge is to prevent the very real world of BYOD from becoming surreal. Employees want to use unapproved apps for things like social networking, a highly controversial worker-productivity killer. They want to read, send and store documents using cloud-based email or a cloud-based storage service provider, which is an IT security nightmare. They want to communicate over their personal IM that is presumably outside IT's purview... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Forrester   CIO

7. The Future of Data Centers: Is 100% Cloud Possible (or Desirable)? Explore TechRepublic (May 16 2012) Cloud & Virtualization Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous in today’s businesses, with the rising popularity of free SaaS applications like Dropbox and Google Apps, among others. For IT decision makers, however, the decision to migrate all back-end and mission-critical applications to the cloud may not be the most appropriate - at least for now... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon   IaaS   SaaS

8. Compuware Realigns Branding to Reflect DynaTrace Acquisition Explore Home Page » Ovum (May 16 2012) Application Performance The highlights of Compuware’s application performance management (APM) Spring 2012 Platform Release includes a consolidation of functions in its traditional Vantage data center products, and a realignment of branding that highlights Compuware's relatively recent Gomez and DynaTrace acquisitions... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Compuware   Application Performance Management   APM

9. Upgrade paths to System Center 2012 Operations Manager Explore TechRepublic (May 15 2012) Application Performance The topic of this article is upgrading to the 2012 release of SCOM for current SCOM 2007 R2 users. Because upgrading to a new version of SCOM is going to take some work, you want to know if it’s going to be worth the effort... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Application Performance Management   APM

10. Compuware Brings Enterprise APM to Cloud and Big Data Applications Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (May 15 2012) Application Performance Compuware announced a deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud and Big Data applications. With dynaTrace Enterprise, EC2 and Azure cloud applications as well as Cassandra and Hadoop Big Data applications can be easily... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Compuware   Application Performance Management   APM

11. Top 10 Cloud Influencers, Thought Leaders Explore Wired.com (May 15 2012) Cloud & Virtualization Cloud computing is everywhere these days and is becoming increasingly vital to any IT strategy. Forrester forecasts that the global cloud market will grow from $40.7 billion to more than $241 billion in 2020. We’ve compiled a list of the top cloud influencers and thought leaders that we’ve followed since the cloud’s inception... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Forrester   Amazon   CIO

12. Are Enterprises Ready for the Performance Challenges of Big Data and Cloud? Explore Application Performance Blog (May 15 2012) Application Performance Big Data applications suffer from many of the performance challenges and bottlenecks that plague current distributed applications, though the volume of performance data can be much larger, making troubleshooting all the more challenging. To facilitate speed and real-time results, a new approach to application performance management (APM) is required to support massively scalable architectures and dynamic, elastic resource allocation... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   APM   Big Data   Hadoop

13. Corporate culture and women in IT Explore Gartner Blog Network (May 15 2012) IT Topics I want to start this blog post by stressing that, like all of my posts, according to Gartner’s policies, it is strictly personal opinion. But I feel like this issue is important, and that I can say something constructive in the conversation around the role of women in technology and the culture of technology as it relates to women... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   Dell   Gartner

14. Mission-Critical Apps Not Up For Cloud Explore ZDNet Asia (May 15 2012) IT Topics Mayank Kapoor, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan, said that top tier service providers currently have the required technology, security and infrastructure to support the migration and running of mission-critical applications on public cloud platforms. However, there are still technical and non-technical challenges that need to be overcome before more companies dare to move their critical apps and data on these services, he said... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   CIO   Public Cloud   Mission Critical

15. SMBs Veering into Virtualization Explore Computerworld Singapore (May 14 2012) Cloud & Virtualization With the increasing challenges of maintaining numerous servers, coupled with the high cost of keeping a robust data center, small and medium businesses are now seeking alternative solutions to keep their IT systems and infrastructure less costly while still being efficient, and at a healthy pace against competition... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Data Center   Virtualization

16. Five Things CIO's Should Know About Big Data Explore Homepage (May 14 2012) IT Topics #1 You need to think about big data... #2 Useful data can come from anywhere (and everywhere)... #3 You will need new expertise for big data... #4 Big Data doesn't require organization beforehand... #5 Big Data is not only about Hadoop... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   Microsoft   CIO

17. 5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros Explore cio.com.au (May 14 2012) IT Topics Big trade shows like Interop can be confusing. So many vendors, so much noise, so much spin, so little clarity. Searching for technology trends among the tchochke seekers, spokes-models and aggressive PR reps can feel like a hopeless task.  But after dozens of meetings and a slew of informal conversations, here are five key takeaways from Interop 2012 that CIOs should be aware of... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Google   Intel   Cisco

18. Is HP Coming After Amazon With Its Platform Cloud? Explore Wired.com (May 10 2012) Cloud & Virtualization Unlike an “infrastructure cloud” such as Amazon EC2, a platform cloud lets developers build and host applications without worrying about virtual servers and other raw computing resources. “It lets you worry about the app,” Derek Collison, one of the founders of Cloud Foundry, told us this past fall, “and not virtual machines or what operating system they’re running or all this other stuff.”... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon

19. "Predicting" is the Future in Application Performance Management Explore TheServerSide.com (May 9 2012) Application Performance To make application software faster we need to combine and apply all four of the above strategies but not within different phases in the application lifecycle, not at different places in the application architecture, not at a particular (static or reference) point in time, not with an expected performance model in mind. No these strategies needs to be applied all the time and just in time by the software itself (in parallel)... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Application Performance Management

20. What is a next-generation data centre (NGDC) anyway? Explore Cloud Pro (May 9 2012) IT Topics Cloud computing has spawned a provincial language all of its own with terms like 'elastic scaling',  'agile re-provisioning' and of course 'virtualisation' now being unexceptional to the commonly understood lingua franca of the industry.The upshot of cloud in deployment terms has meant that the back office or even the 'server farm' as we once knew it has transmogrified into the so-called next-generation data centre or NGDC.So what has changed?... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Gartner   Cloud Computing

21. Successful Cloud Migration Practices and Strategies Explore examiner.com (May 9 2012) Cloud & Virtualization Cloud migration is based on five simple steps: Purchase, Plan, Assess, Execute and Monitor . Each should be a stage of practicing efficient cloud deployment... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Azure   Public Cloud

22. VMware CTO, Steve Herrod, Reveals Future Direction Explore The Register (May 8 2012) Cloud & Virtualization “VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite is really more of a marketing term. Those of you know our products deeply know that they don’t fit this well together as they need to. Some of them have multiple databases, some don’t look the same, some install differently, and what I can’t stand that is Site Recovery Manager doesn’t currently work with vCloud Director. So, what we are basically able to say is that we created and acquired companies that led to a lot of individual products that don’t work well enough together yet.”.. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Intel   Microsoft   SAP

23. Addressing Cloud Application Lifecycle Challenges Explore IT news, technology analysis and how (May 8 2012) Cloud & Virtualization One solution often proffered is to put a template image through a conversion process (commonly referred to as virtual-to-cloud, or V2C) to make it able to run in another environment. There are two problems with this solution, however. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   IBM   Google   Microsoft

24. Top 10 Windows 8 Features Explore ReadWriteWeb (May 8 2012) Cloud & Virtualization With Windows 8, Microsoft extends its server-class hypervisor platform to the desktop. And no, it's not just a play for enthusiasts and testers: There's a solid reason for Hyper-V to become the backbone of future Windows versions... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Microsoft   Oracle   Citrix

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