December 2011
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Billy on Open Source: The CIO is the Last to Know →
This is old - but really brilliant. And still very relevant. Probably even more so today. Thanks to RedMonk for linking to it in the preceding post.
A recent Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates that these executives do not plan to spend much money on cloud computing in the coming year. Indeed, most of their stated plans involve reducing the amount of consulting services and hardware that ...
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Bottom Up Adoption: The End of Procurement as... →
RedMonk - and Stephen O’Grady specifically - is on a roll with the enlightening posts. Today they discuss the forces that are reshaping the enterprise procurement process. Nothing particularly surprising, but a very succinct, well-put argument about the consumerization of IT.
Traditionally, industry analyst firms have been oriented around top down adoption patterns. CIOs and other IT...
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» Everything is PaaSible Cloud Comedy, Cloud... →
A few additional thoughts on the previous article from Vambenepe’s blog - the idea that cloud is hosting + SOA is pretty interesting.
If you can get past the punny title you’ll read about the following points:
In traditional (and IaaS) environments, many available application infrastructure features remain rarely used because of the cost (perceived or real) or adding them to the...
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InfoQ: Everything Is PaaSible →
Fantastic article about PaaS - and more. Worth it alone for the opening in which Vambenepe discusses the headaches that enterprise architects face in building out applications and services. I love his description of middleware and the choices that enterprise architects need to make.
I’m not much of a cook. Of the many errors I commit in the kitchen, the most common is a failure to use the...
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Top 10 IT Service Management Challenges For 2012:... →
Somewhat boiler plate - but a good overview of the types of challenges that IT managers are increasingly confronted by.
As we approach the holiday season and possibly the end of the financial/budgetary year, let’s pause for a moment to think about 2012. For many IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals, 2011 was a challenging year; the bad news is that 2012 isn’t going to be...
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IBM is Jumping Into Network Virtualization with... →
A good overview of how virtualization complicates traditional networking approaches - and how IBM is addressing the issue.
As virtualized servers become more prevalent in the data center, networking components such as switches must adapt to become more aware of virtualization. Most switches were originally designed for physical networks, in which LAN configurations were more or less static....
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Brazil, China trample UK in virtualization gold... →
Dell and Intel have released a series of reports that look at workforce attitudes toward computing in the developed world and emerging markets. Looks very interesting.
Mexico, China and other rising economies are quicker at employing new technologies than the UK, meaning that Britain is lagging behind in the shift to server virtualisation, according to a survey by Dell and Intel.
“The...
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IBM Research: The Future of Healthcare →
The IBM Research Haifa lab recently hosted a colloquium on the future of healthcare. They’ve posted a number of videos that look a little technical - but might prove of interest.
The introduction of so much new digital medical information is transforming the decision-making process in the healthcare ecosystem. Patients often seek out information before they speak to a doctor, and ...
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What’s Holding Back the Age of Data – tecosystems →
A sprawling blog post from Stephen O’Grady at RedMonk. He looks at the software industry’s transition from closed to open models of distribution, and then jumps into the current state of the “data industry” (my term). He contends that the companies that are pioneering data collection and distribution as a business model are hampered by a lack of standardized licensing in...
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Oracle whips out Solaris 11 system lasher • The... →
A month after the release of Solaris 11, Oracle releases its systems clustering product - Solaris Cluster 4.0. A lot of the third-party software and hardware that was supported by the earlier iteration are no longer supported.
Oracle has duly announced the high availability clustering companion to the new Solaris 11 operating system, and as you might expect from a company that is pitching its...
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IBM unveils high-capacity, high-speed storage... →
Racetrack memory moves one step closer to market.
IBM has scored a blow in the high-stakes prizefight for the title of next-generation non-volatile memory technology, revealing a prototype “racetrack memory” chip baked using the same silicon fab technologies as run-of-the-mill chippery.
Racetrack memory, for those of you who haven’t been scoring at home, is competing with...
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Oracle fires Itanium countersuit at HP • The... →
More legal shenanigans from HP and Oracle over Itanium. Oracle claims that HP is paying Intel to continue developing Itanium.
Late Friday, Oracle filed a countersuit against HP, which sued Oracle back in June because Oracle said in March that it would not be developing future releases of its database, middleware, and application software on future Itanium processors.
It’s hard to tell...
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More than $60bn spunked on cyber-security in 2011... →
PwC has just released a report on spending in the cybersecurity “industry.” Good background material.
Global cyber-security spending is on track to exceed $60bn for 2011, according to a study by management consultants PwC.
The growing tide of cyber threats, coupled with greater vulnerabilities due to the more pervasive use of technology – particularly mobile devices and cloud...
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With Solaris 11, Oracle Makes Sun’s OS Its Own... →
Oracle recently released the first post-Sun version of Solaris. Ideas International gives a long, detailed report on Solaris 11.
In early November, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Solaris 11, a major update to its UNIX operating system (OS). Solaris 11 introduces many new features, and following Oracle’s announcement of SPARC T4 systems in September, the update serves as more proof...
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Xen hypervisor ported to ARM chips • The Register →
Some big advances in developing hypervisors for ARM-based server environments.
The Mobile Virtual Platform (MVP) hypervisor that VMware sells for smartphones and fondleslabs running the Android variant of Linux on ARM RISC processors is getting some competition.
Intrepid techies are working away on two different implementations of the open source Xen hypervisor for ARM chips, and another...
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Ideas pits physical servers against fake ones •... →
Performance testing isn’t just for physical servers anymore. Ideas International have just released a performance tool called CloudSizer that measure the relative price/performance of different public clouds - ranging from Amazon to IBM to smaller players like GoGrid and SoftLayer - running different workloads. Pretty cool.
Looking to try to size up the workloads running on your physical ...
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Micron's glass memory monster chews up slowcoach... →
Micron makes the case for phase-change memory performance in the post-NAND world. This is a direct competitor to HP’s vision for memristor memory.
Micron has demonstrated Phase-Change Memory (PCM), enabling an app to run around 50 times faster than it would on NOR memory.
PCM is a post-NAND and post-NOR contender in the non-volatile memory arena; it’s said to combine the speed and...
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Cloudy servers find their niches • The Register →
A breakdown of the latest IDC and Gartner server numbers for the quarter. Two things of note - IBM continues its dominance of the UNIX space, growing its worldwide marketshare by 5% in the quarter; and stripped down “cookie-sheet” servers, modeled on the bare-bones servers that Google uses in their datacenters, are becoming a sizable part of the server business.
The cookie-sheet...
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Big Blue prototypes software for big, big data •... →
Making sense of the vast amount of information generated by radio astronomy:
IBM has prototyped a software architecture for the huge data demands of astronomy projects such as the SKA (square kilometer array).
One of the many problems created by a project as large as the SKA is that wherever it’s built – we’ll know next year if the South Africa bid or the Australia / New Zealand bid wins –...