Next Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, which means that next Friday is Black Friday–the official launch of the holiday shopping season and a day filled with remarkable deals. One of those Black Friday specials will be the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, but at $ 199 it still isn’t much of a bargain.
The Cloud, Day 8: A Different Approach to Email
30 Days With the Cloud: Day 8
For yesterday’s 30 Days With the Cloud post, I spent time choosing a cloud-based email service, and getting it all set up. In the comments, there were some issues raised about how or why I set things up the way I did, so today I am taking another look at the issue of email in the cloud.
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Symantec Claims 30 Times Faster Server Failover For Windows Applications
Symantec is introducing a new version of its storage management suite for Microsoft Windows environments that, among other things, reduces server failover times from an average of 30 minutes to as little as 1 minute. Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) 6.0 for Windows manages both physical and virtual servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor. Failover time is improved by detecting server failure more quickly using asynchronous monitoring and notification instead of the traditional polling-based monitoring.
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The Idle Cycle Conundrum
One of the advantages of a private cloud architecture is the flexible pooling of resources that allows rapid change to match business demands. These resource pools adapt to the changing demands of existing services and allow for new services to be deployed rapidly. For these pools to maintain adequate performance, they must be designed to handle peak periods, and this will also result in periods with idle cycles.
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CA’s Executive Solution Addresses IT-Business Gap
Designed for the increasingly mobile workplace, CA Executive Insight for Service Assurance is intended to change the way IT communicates with the business. It enables executives, business managers and knowledge workers to answer fundamental questions about the business, regularly monitor potential risks and make time-sensitive decisions that impact business results, says Mike Sargent, general manager, service assurance, CA Technologies.
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ISACA Survey Looks At Online Shopping At Work, Shows Worrisome Side Of Mobility And BYOD
I’m generally not big on survey results when it comes to drawing hard conclusions about IT matters, but occasionally the right data set hooks you. Given that we’re fast approaching the thick of the online holiday shopping season, ISACA’s recent “Shopping on The Job” survey tickled my curiosity. Even though I don’t see many smoking guns in the results, I do find it interesting to be privy to how more than 1,200 U.S. consumers in an increasingly mobile world see their own use of company time and resources when the shopping bug hits.
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BMC Treads Carefully Among The Giants
Since its founding in 1980, BMC Software has been successfully delivering management solutions to large enterprises. During that time, the vendor has been able to deftly maneuver around possible potholes to earn a top position in this highly competitive market sector. But more work remains. Like other high tech segments, the management segment is experiencing slowing growth.
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Zyrion Uses Automation To Simplify Monitoring
Specializing in cloud and IT monitoring solutions, Zyrion Inc. wants to ‘dramatically’ simplify monitoring the performance of distributed, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures with its Traverse Automation Module. Automation is the second element of the company’s three-party strategy that was launched in April with the ‘Data Capture and Processing’ module for monitoring cloud technologies like VMware, Xen and AWS, and will be completed next month with the unveiling of an ‘Intelligence & Predictive Analytics’ capability.
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Restore The VMTN Subscription
I was pleased to see that blogger Mike Laverick, of RTFM-ed.co.uk, has inspired a grass roots movement to convince VMware management to restart the VMTN subscription. Like Microsoft’s TechNet, Action Pack and MSDN subscriptions, VMTN subscriptions would get non-production licenses into the hands of geeks with home labs, independent developers and the like. VMware should restart VMTN tout de suite, not as a gesture to the power of social media, but because it will be good for business in the long run.
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Can Dell Do For Networking What They Did For Storage?
Dell is focused and while they aren’t considered by many to be a solutions provider–many consider Dell to be a box pusher–they plan on changing perception. As Frtiz Nelson points out discussing Dellss earnings, the company did a remarkable job in acquiring storage companies that fit with their overall vision, investing in the product lines doubling or tripling the head count in some cases, and setting off on an integration path that continues today. However, Dell has a difficult road ahead if they want to get beyond supplying servers to the data center.
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