The database hacking scandal rocking Major League Baseball raises new questions about how to secure insider information about the algorithms developed by professional sports teams to evaluate prospects and assign values to ballplayers offered or sought in trades. If the St. Louis Cardinals breached the network and database of the Houston Astros, as has been ...Full article
While interest in application containers continues to grow, with Docker the overwhelming container technology of choice, enterprise adoption of containers in actual production environments remains relatively low, a new survey of the container adoption confirms. The good news for container proponents is that 94 percent of organizations surveyed are either using containers or investigating the ...Full article
Mention shadow IT to many technology professionals and they'll shudder before trading war stories. But to empower their organizations to innovate, grow, and succeed, IT departments must embrace and manage this phenomenon, said analysts speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 in Orlando this week. "Shadow IT looks a lot more scary than it is. Shadow IT is the ...Full article
Cards have become mainstream. They are now inescapable across every social network, including being a central part of Google’s Now offering. If this is a new term to you, take a quick peek at your favorite social service and you’ll easily see content is presented in card-like visual elements – small snippets of information that ...Full article
After two years in stealth mode, startup Verilume today emerged with a suite of software designed to morph idle datacenter resources into a self-service analytics cloud environment. About 30 percent of servers – virtual and non-virtual – are "comatose," according to a June 2015 study by the Antithesis Group and Dr. Jonathan Koomey, research fellow ...Full article
The latest version of the SAP HANA in-memory database and application platform rolled out this week predictably emphasizes big data analytics while adding greater connectivity to the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). SAP said Tuesday (June 16) its latest HANA release (SPS 10, or service pack 10) attempts to shift more functionality to the network ...Full article
Simply by changing its storage technology, a fast-growing SaaS and application provider cut energy costs, eliminated support overhead, and freed up terabytes of storage, while simultaneously improving customer service. BlueTie, a 15-year-old provider of hosted email and calendar solutions for small and midsize companies, was at the end-of-life for its existing storage infrastructure when it ...Full article
Despite the amazing number of cybersecurity breaches, so far the Target CEO appears to have been the only one to pay the price. While we hear some calls for the removal of the Anthem CEO, few are talking about the main cybersecurity threat in any enterprise – the organization chart. In the most glaring example ...Full article
IBM has jumped on the Apache Spark bandwagon, revealing it would throw its considerable weight behind the open source big data project that has been gaining momentum over the last year. IBM said Monday (June 15) it would integrate Spark software into the "core" of its analytics and commerce platforms while offering Apache Spark as ...Full article
Dell said this week it is partnering with up-and-coming software-defined networking specialist Pluribus Networks to accelerate SDN adoption in the cloud. The partners said Thursday (June 11) they would seek to speed SDN deployment by demonstrating that its value extends beyond disaggregation of hardware and software. Dell also hopes to burnish its reputation for open ...Full article
Dr. Ren Wu vigorously denies the charges of cheating that led Baidu to reportedly fire the head of its Heterogeneous Computing team after the Chinese search engine developer's supercomputer team was accused of cheating in an artificial intelligence competition. "We didn't break any rules, and the allegation of cheating is completely baseless," Wu told Enterprise Technology ...Full article
Add Virtustream Inc., the cloud services and software provider acquired in May by EMC Corp., to the growing list of potential U.S. government cloud vendors. Washington-based Virtustream said Wednesday (June 10) it has gained provisional authority to supply cloud services to federal agencies under the Federal Risk and Management Program, or FedRAMP. The certification means ...Full article
To derive full value from the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations must integrate existing networks, databases, and applications with new sensors, field management systems, and related technologies. Solutions tying all these systems together must be secure, backward compatible, and open, working with multiple vendors' offerings with little or no customization required. After all, IoT is ...Full article
Cisco Systems this week rolled out what is says are the final pieces of its Intercloud Fabric that targets the growing enterprise shift to hybrid cloud infrastructure while allowing workload management "from a single pane of glass." The networking giant also announced at a company event on Wednesday (June 10) that it is partnering with ...Full article
Organizations must figure out a better way to manage cybersecurity like a business, using metrics to determine the relative return on investment (RROI), and constantly evaluating the lifecycle and effectiveness of their security products and programs in order to protect their reputation and data, a new study by the RAND Corporation found. In partnership with ...Full article
When it's time to adopt cloud, many organizations embrace virtualization as one of their initial steps in this transformative process. But in addition to setting the groundwork for a move to cloud, virtualization delivers many benefits of its own. Virtualization was the top priority for 2015 in a survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers by consulting ...Full article
Many government organizations are discovering new benefits of moving data into memory as enterprise adoption of in-memory computing slowly begins. So what additional benefits are government IT agencies realizing from IMC? Here are just a few. Improved Cluster Synchronization The most prevalent mechanism for scaling enterprise applications today is through a combination of horizontal scaling ...Full article
U.S. National Security Agency digital surveillance programs that were previously estimated to cost U.S. cloud vendors as much as $35 billion in sales by 2016 could "far exceed" that total as a ripple effect threatens the competitiveness of the entire U.S. tech sector, a new report asserts. In response to revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, ...Full article
The world’s largest and most influential businesses are rethinking how they handle data so they can increase business agility, develop stronger customer relationships, and spur more product or service innovation. A key requirement is to integrate data across different boundaries, including system, departmental, and company boundaries. But the increased use of SaaS applications has accelerated ...Full article
The leakage of corporate data though public file sharing services and the resulting security consequences are prompting more enterprises to consider cloud storage options such as storage gateways that are replacing file servers and tape storage, a new study finds. The cloud storage survey of about 300 IT professionals released by vendor CTERA Networks found ...Full article
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