Cloud computing has taken center stage over the last two years as the hot enterprise technology, but in the database realm, the public cloud and off-site hosted database services still represent too many unknown factors to truly have mass adoption. According to the co-author of the InformationWeek “State of Database Technology” report, the public cloud is so far having very little impact on enterprise databases.
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Virtualization, Cloud Having Little Impact On Databases
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Prepare The Mobile Ship For Ludicrous Speed!
Thinking back on the 1987 movie “Spaceballs”, I picture a comical Dark Helmet standing on the bridge of his ship. In my mind, he holds a smartphone and contemplates the latest buzz on mobile network speeds, fresh from the International Telecommunications Union. As he ponders the 100 Mbps data speeds soon to be delivered by his preferred carrier, he utters the order “Prepare for ludicrous speed” and the ship IMT-Advanced warps off to hyperspace at an impossibly crazy velocity. Speeds in the mobile data world are about to get quite exciting.
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Basics: Five Switching Settings You Must Know
These five configurations are the first thing a network administrator should apply to a newly-provisioned switch or router. Although these may seem like common sense, 90 percent of devices I see are missing at least one of these settings, and about 75 percent are missing two or more. Use this checklist as an action item to verify your existing devices have these settings, at a minimum, and integrate these in to any templates or provisioning documents you use. You’ll appreciate the results of the consistency this adds to your network management and monitoring.
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Need More Storage? Upgrade Your Drive
Like taxes and death, it’s virtually inevitable that you will fill up your hard drive. In decades gone by, that might mean scrutinizing the data stored there and figuring out what to throw overboard to free up space. But, storage is relatively cheap, and there are a variety of options available to extend your storage capacity.
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4 Tips to Secure and Protect Your Kindle Fire
Amazon managed to parlay the tremendous success and brand recognition of its Kindle e-readers along with a custom forked version of the Android operating system to hit a home run with the Kindle Fire tablet. With a tablet ecosystem that is seamlessly entwined with your Amazon identity, though, securing the device is imperative.
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VMware Simplifies, Automates Virtual/Cloud Management
VMware is expanding its management portfolio with vCenter Operations Management Suite by integrating with VMware vCenter Capacity IQ and VMware vCenter Configuration Manager for improved performance, capacity and configuration management. VMware revamped its virtualization management suite last October adding the VMware vFabric Application Management and VMware IT Business Management tools. The new enhancements focuse on embedding and integrating management tools into the platform streamlining processes and applying analytics so customers can achieve better economics with their cloud computing deployments.
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Scale Computing: New Twists to Scale-Out Storage for the Mid-Market
Startup Scale Computing delivers scale-out, unified storage for the mid-market, meaning users can access SAN/NAS resources from the same, scalable pool of disk storage. Scale is by no means alone in doing that, but Scale goes beyond just delivering storage in a box to delivering a data center in a storage box! And that is very interesting.
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