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30 Days With the Cloud: Day 18There are a number of advantages and benefits to using cloud-based tools from a PC, but when it comes to mobile devices like my iPad 2 tablet, the cloud is essentially a requirement. For today’s 30 Days With the Cloud post, I am taking a look at how the cloud enhances the capabilities of the iPad.
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One of the more hyped use-case examples for private cloud is cloud bursting, and why not, it’s truly the have your cake and eat it too scenario. During normal business operations, your systems run in-house on private cloud infrastructure, and during unforeseen or unpredictable peaks, your services burst to excess capacity at your public cloud provider(s) of choice. It’s a perfect IT utopia right? It’s the comfort of maintaining your own systems with the insurance of endless available capacity for the unknown.
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I remember getting my first stylus-equipped handheld computing devices. Back in the salad days of my multi-touch input youth, a plastic-tipped pencil-looking thing that made chunky letters was slick stuff. Fast-forward to today, and the tea leaves tell us that we may be on the edge of a new pen and multi-touch input technology explosion, enabled by slick “active pens” that are a far cry from stylus devices of old.
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BMC Software Inc. has improved its workload automation product, Control-M, with two major enhancements. One is that the software now supports IBM’s Cognos Business Intelligence tool. The other is that the software now includes a wizard conversion toolset that makes it easier for users to migrate from another vendor’s automation tool to Control-M. The company is also promoting a role-based self-service mobile app that it released in April, which lets users monitor and manage their scheduled automated workload activity on an iPad tablet or an iPhone.
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BlazeMeter is officially unveiling its initial offering, a cloud-based load-testing service based on the open-source Apache JMeter initiative. Load-testing, the process of putting demand on a system or device and measuring its response, is either very complex and time consuming, or, if you build your own version, very limited and often misleading, says company CEO and founder Alon Girmonsky.
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Dell has announced that the “Streak 7 is no longer available.” The death of Dell’s Android tablet line doesn’t come as much of a surprise, but it points to some lessons that other tablets might learn from to be stronger competitors.
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Intrusion prevention system vendor Sourcefire is delivering on its October 2010 promise to add next-generation firewalls to its security portfolio. The company says the NGFW, built around its contextual-awareness technologies, delivers advanced firewall capabilities, as well as integrated application control and the “world’s most powerful IPS” in a security appliance that provides enterprise visibility, adaptive security and advanced threat protection.
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Seagate this week announced an updated version of its Momentus XT hybrid disk drive. By combining flash and a spinning disk, hybrids promise most of the performance of an SSD at the cost per gigabyte of a hard drive. The new version comes pretty close to delivering on that promise.
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Not content with more than half of the WAN optimization market, and more than twice the share of its closest competitor, Riverbed Technology is looking to broaden its lead with a major update to the software that powers its line of Steelhead application acceleration appliances and Steelhead Mobile client software. “RiOS (Riverbed Optimization System) 7 is a big release for us,” says Naveen Prabhu, senior product marketing manager. “We’re paying a lot of attention to enterprise video.”
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30 Days With the Cloud: Day 15Moving on down the list of things I normally do on my PC that I now need a cloud-based equivalent for, next is keeping track of my finances. I have been using Intuit’s Quicken in some way shape or form for over a decade, but for 30 Days With the Cloud I am going to transition to Mint.com.
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