Information Technology landscape become
increasingly complex, the question for many is how to connect the
dots in a way that makes the customer engagements meaningful,
practical and profitable, and the goal of this web site is to sharing
information that will help you achieve it.
The
reason for this web page is to share all things data, may it be mobile, tablet
technology, database and cloud computing.
Video Series from Microsoft and EMC, on XtremIO.
A
three part video series from Microsoft and EMC, talking about how
XtremIO helps Microsoft SQL Database Administrators meets their data
management needs. First video of the series has Eyal Sharon, Solution
Manager, Microsoft Global Solutions and Vinay Gaonkar, Director of
Product Management XtremIO discusses how XtremIO helps Microsoft SQL
Database Administrators meet their toughest challenges.
Second
and third video in the series has Jason Hepp, Senior Director, Global
Solutions at EMC and Vinay Gaonkar, Director of Product Management
XtremIO at EMC, talk about XtremIO. In the second video of the series,
they discusses how XtremIO creates value for Microsoft SQL Database
Administrators. The last video in the series talks about how XtremIO
redefines the Microsoft SQL Server landscape. Link below to all of the
videos from the series.
Part 1 of 3, Meeting SQL DBA Challenges:
Part 2 of 3, Creating Value for Microsoft SQL DBAs:
Part 3 of 3, Why All Flash Arrays Redefine the Microsoft SQL Server Landscape:
Posted on 02/06/2015
ASCO 7000 Series Power Transfer Switch.
Emerson Network Power
delivers a full range of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and power
distribution units (PDU), from individual data center solutions to
integrated systems that keep network closets, computer rooms and data
center infrastructure up and running.
ASCO 7000 Series Power
Transfer Switch is Microprocessor Controller. The controller's sensing
and logic is provided by a single built-in microprocessor for maximum
reliability, minimum maintenance, and the ability to communicate
serially through an optional serial communication module. Also the ASCO
7000 Series Power Transfer Switch is available in the conventional,
two-position transfer configuration, and closed or delayed transition
modes of operation.
Link below with more information about the Emerson ASCO 7000 Series Power Transfer Switch.
VMware Social Demand Roadmap, Part One, Two and Three.
Videos series from VMware Partner called, “VMware Social Demand Roadmap.” Session 1 – Brand yourself online and put in place measurement resources, link below:
Session 2 – Make your online profiles 100% complete, link below:
Session 3 - Making your Website a Lead Generation Machine, link below:
Posted on 02/02/2015
Oracle's X5
Engineered System Launch Event.
Oracle
have a new integrated appliances that will deliver greater business
value by reducing IT costs. Oracle's integrated appliances are
simple to use and ready for production deployment out of the box.
Oracle's X5 Engineered System is engineered for Modern IT.
On
Jan 21, 2015 Oracle's Larry Ellison, Chief Executive Officer and
Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President, Systems Technologies. announce
Oracle's X5 Engineered System at the launch event from Oracle's
campus in Redwood City, CA. Oracle's X5 Engineered System will help
to reduce customer costs and increasing value with a new generation
of engineered systems, including Oracle's new Virtual Compute
Appliance X5, Oracle FS1 Series Flash Storage System, and
sixth-generation Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5.
Below
is a link to a video from SilconAngle, from the Oracle's X5
Engineered System launch event. Second is link is to a press release,
from Oracle.
Link
to a video from SilconAngle:
Link
below to a press release.
SimPRO working with Rackspace.
Video from Rackspace, in this video simPRO’s Brad Couper CEO, Jonathan
Eastgate CTO and Alan Bignell COO talk with Rackspace about how their
job management software finds dramatic increases in service, uptime and
reliability on the Rackspace Managed Cloud, link below to the video:
Link below to the video:
Posted on 01/22/2015
Cisco Jabber for Android 10.5, Voice and Video Calls.
Demo video from Cisco, on Jabber for Android 10.5. The video how to
make voice and video calls to your work contacts from your Android
device. Cisco Jabber for Android give users the freedom to be
productive from anywhere, on any device. Cisco Jabber lets users
access presence, instant messaging, voice, video, voice messaging,
desktop sharing, and conferencing. Now users can find the right
people, see if and how they are available, and users can collaborate
using their preferred method.
Link below to the video:
Posted on 01/20/2015
IBM Z Systems 2015 Technology Summit
The reason
for the IBM Z Technology summit is to showcase new market-driven applications
for cloud, analytics, mobile and security with the latest in
mainframe technology. At the summit,
attendees have the opportunities to learn from real-world scenarios,
live demonstrations and in-depth presentations. Also experts will be
on hand to discuss many of the out of the box benefits of using the z
Systems portfolio of products with practical tips.
There are three links
below with more information about the event. First link is the IBM
home page for the summit. The second link is a video from
SiliconANGLE, Michael W. Perera, from IBM, talks with John Furrier
and Dave Vellante. The last video is a trailer, by IBM, title “IBM
z Systems: The New Possible.”
Home page for the IBM Z systems summit.
SiliconANGLE, Michael W. Perera, from IBM, talks with John Furrier
and Dave Vellante.
Trailer for IBM Z Systems, title “IBM
z Systems: The New Possible."
The Waddington Group Gains Agility and Scalability through Virtualization.
Below is a link to a blog I found
over at VMware, by the VMware Small and Midsize Business group. In the
blog it talks about working with the Waddington Group, who is a major
global packaging manufacturer and marketer, talks about how they used
virtualization to address the challenges brought by rapid growth.
Click the two links below, for the blog, and a YouTube video about
how Waddington Group face the challenge of rapid growth by leveraging
VMware vSphere with Operations Management.
Link to the blog, VMware Small and Midsize Business group:
Click here for the blog.
Link to a video by VMWare, talking about work with Waddington Group
and how they were able to reduced time spent integrating backend systems
by more than 80%.
IBM Cloud Big Data.
Video
from IBM Cloud Computing YouTube page, sometimes the natural flow of
data is limited by boundaries that prohibit the right data from
getting to the right place at the right time. With IBM help these
boundaries can be broken, and the data itself can be free-flowing.
Below is a link to a video:
Leading Online Video Platform, Kaltura, Relies on EMC Isilon Storage for Scale and Performance.
Video from EMC, talking about working
with Kaltura, the leading online video platforms service. In the
video EMC talks with Ariel Hitron, Kaltura, Vice Presidents of
Products and Operations Leah Belsky, Senior Vice Presidents discuss
why one of the world’s leading online video platforms relies on EMC
Isilon to achieve its strategic Information Technology vision for
over-the-top streaming. By using EMC Isilon, Kaltura has
gained scalability, high performance, and agility – vital
requirements in its online video environment. Link below to the
video:
Getting Started with Azure API Management.
Azure API Management provides a API for
performing operations on selected entities, such as users, groups,
products, and subscriptions. The API can be used for automating and
integrating with API Management. Below is a link to to a demo video I
found over on the Youtube user "I'm a Developer."
VMware Software-Defined Data Center
Storage Vision.
Demo video from VMware, talk about a
new approach to dramatically simplifies storage management for VMware
customers, enabling them to dynamically create and provision storage
services per virtual machine and control them by policy. In the
video, Yanbing Li, VMware VP, R&D, of Storage and Availability,
talks about the steps the company’s vision to is to meet today’s
storage challenges with software-defined storage, link below to a
video:
Last-mile Security with Microsoft Azure API Management.
Demo video from Microsoft Cloud Platform, show how to implement
last-mile security to protect you backend services by using HTTP basic
authentication or shared secret authentication. Link below to the video:
Modern Selling Cloud Services.
Video
from Oracle, modern selling with Ms. Joanne Olsen, Oracle's SVP North
America Applications and Global Cloud Services, link below:
Creating Views in vRealize Operations Manager.
A video from VMware
Tech Publications, how to creat views in vRealize Operations Manager.
Views are the building blocks of reports, and allow users to look at
different types of information across your network environment. In the
below video VMware Staff Engineer Justin Smith shows us how to create a
custom view to reflect your specific needs in your network environment.
IBM Adds Cloud Centers in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
IBM
today announced a continued expansion of its global cloud computing
network to 40 cloud centers with 12 new locations serving there growing
clients looking to move to hybrid cloud computing, link below to the
press release:
Cloud Predictions for 2015 with
Rackspace CTO John Engates.
Rackers Alan Bush, Drew Cox and John
Engates Rackspace CTO give their predictions for Cloud
Computing, for 2015, link below to a video from the Google Hangout.
How to Migration to vRealize Operations Manager 6.0
Demo from VMware on the steps for migrating vRealize Operations Manager
5.8 to the vRealize Operations Manager 6.0. Explore the migration
scenarios and prerequisites need for setup, link below to a video:
BlackBerry Announces Samsung Partnership.
BlackBerry is teaming up with a company that, just a few
months ago, was among its fiercest rivals. BlackBerry made announces
that it will be partnering with Samsung, link below to a article:
Activate a Device on BlackBerry Enterprise Service 12
Demo video shows you how to configure BES12 so that a user can activate a
BlackBerry 10, iOS, Android, or Windows Phone device, link below:
vCloud Air: Virtual Private Cloud on Demand
Demo video on how to set up a user account, create a virtual machine,
and modify its network settings on VMware vCloud Air, link below:
VMware EVO:RAIL Full End-to-end Experience video.
Demo on the VMware EVO:RAIL user interface with software architect. It
includes configuration, management, and adding a new appliance, link to a
video below:
Click here for the video.
Cut Down Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective, with vCloud Air.
National Physician Services uses VMware
vCloud Air to cut down their recovery point objective and recovery
time objective by 75%. They choose vCloud Air Disaster Recovery
because of its stability, security, performance and resiliency, link
below to a video:
Accessing the Virtual Machine Remote Console, with vCloud Air.
Video from VMware on accessing the
Virtual Machine Remote Console, with vCloud Air, link below:
Working with Snapshots in vCloud Air.
Video from VMware, demonstrates how to
take snapshots of virtual machines in vCloud Air and how to revert to
those snaspshots when needed, link below:
Take
Virtualization to the Next Level: vSphere with Operations Management.
Video
from VMworld 2014, “Take Virtualization to the Next Level: vSphere
with Operations Management.” See how to manage your data center
with only vSphere Operations Management. See a demonstration of
vSphere features and capabilities that helps you to easily assess
health, monitor risk, reclaim capacity, and gain efficiency in your
data center. Link below to demonstration, with examples:
Click link below to the
video:
Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
The
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the World's Largest
Gathering of Women in Technology. The event is a three-day event,
from Wednesday, October 8 through Friday, October 10. It was held in
Phoenix Convention Center and produce/developed by the Anita Borg
Institute for Women and Technology and the Association for Computing
Machinery. Many of the sponsors of the Grace Hopper Celebration are
recognized as leaders in diversity.
Some of
the sponsors for this year event was Amazon, Bank of America GoDaddy,
HP and Google, link below to sponsors page. The conference was sold
out this year, expected draw of nearly 8,000 attendees, representing
over 60 countries and over 900 organizations.
Links below with more
information about the event.
Homepage for Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing:
Sponsors page with detail
list of all of the 2014 sponsors:
Video from SiliconANGLE,
interview with Catherine Crim of Microsoft, at the Grace Hopper
Celebration of Women in Computing (2014) with Jeff Frick.
BlackBerry Passport
BlackBerry Passport smartphone is here,
and puts a new look on a classic. BlackBerry Passport takes the
BlackBerry iconic keyboard to the next level. The physical keyboard
gives you more typing accuracy and leaves more screen space for
viewing. BlackBerry Passport has a large square touch screen that
provides an amazing viewing and reading experience.
Also the BlackBerry Passport delivers
better battery performance, with a 3450mAh battery and optimization
of power consumption with BlackBerry, which gives a user over 30
hours of battery life. Links below with more information, on
BlackBerry Passport smartphone:
Video from BlackBerry,
the story behind the innovative, boundary-breaking design of the
BlackBerry Passport, link below:
Link to BlackBerry
company web page, with more information:
BlackBerry
Passport Unboxing, video fromTechnoBuffalo, link below:
PhpStorm 8 Release.
PhpStorm is a editor for PHP, HTML and
JavaScript. Also offers code analysis, error prevention and
automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript. Some of the new
features is support for Drupal 8, multiple cursors, PHPUnit 4, and
the ability to open remote URLs. PhpStorm provides professional
software development with more productive and enjoyable experience
for the end user.
PhpStorm software editor is made by
JetBrains, who was founded in 2000. JetBrain start in Prague with
five employes, now have offices all over the world, example
Boston(USA), Moscow and Munich, and now has over 400 plus employees. Also has a larger customer base, with
companies like LinkedIn, Bank of America and eBay. There are two
links below, one to JetBrain press release about PhpStorm 8 release
and another to JetBrains company info page.
PhpStorm 8 press release, from
JetBrian, link below:
JetBrains company info page, link
below:
Announcements for the New Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Apple
has made there announcements for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
The screen on the new iPhone 6 is 4.7 inches in size, offers a 1334 x
750 resolution, and the iPhone 6 Plus, which uses an even bigger Full
HD, 1080p, and has a 5.5-inch screen. The iPhone
6 and iPhone 6 Plus, release date is September 19th, pricing for the iPhone 6 will start at $199 for 16GB, then
jumps to $299 for 64GB and $399 for a 128GB.
The
iPhone 6 Plus will start at $299/16GB, $399/64GB and $499/128GB. The
new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will have a 8 megapixel main camera
and 2.1 megapixel front-facing camera. The two new iPhone's has
a f/2.2 aperture lens and dual-LED flash. The iPhone 6 uses digital
image stabilization, with the iPhone 6 Plus also having optical
stabilization. There are links below to videos and article on the
release of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Video
from iMore, “Hands on with iPhone 6 and iPhone
6 plus!,” link below to a video:
SourceFed video, “iPhone, iWatch, I WANT!,” link below to a
video:
From MacWord (UK) iPhone 6 hands-on
review, link below to the article:
Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server
The Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server is
the most versatile, high-density, general-purpose enterprise
infrastructure and application server on the market today. It can be
deployed as a standalone server or in a UCS-managed environment.
Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server can be
single, or a two-socket Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 product
family CPUs, with many processor options. Can be setup with 2.5-inch
SFF hard-disks or 3.5-inch LFF hard-disks. Also work with various
Operating Systems, some example Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware vSphere ESXi. Links below to a video
by Cisco, Cisco web page with more information, and the data sheet
for the Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server:
Video on Cisco YouTube page, link
below:
Cisco web page with more information,
Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server:
Link below Cisco data sheet on the
Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server:
Cisco
WSA AsyncOS 8.1.0 Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Update.
Cisco
WSA AsyncOS 8.1.0 Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) update is here,
AMP is a malware-defeating solution that enables malware detection and
blocking, continuous analysis, and retrospective alerting. AMPS takes
advantage of the vast Cisco cloud security intelligence networks, with
two new features. One of those features is the Cloud Web Security
Connector.
Cloud Web Security Connector offers a new configuration mode, which
allows users to connect and direct traffic to Cisco Cloud Web Security
for policy enforcement and threat defense. Cloud Web Security Connector
mode is available through the Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance as
well as the physical Web Security appliance. The other new feature is
the Kerberos Authentication.
Kerberos is a “pass through” authentication protocol for Windows, Mac
OS X, and other operating systems. Many of today's operating systems
no longer support NT LAN Manager (NTLM) or NTLM Single Sign-On (SSO) ,
Kerberos has become a very strong authentication protocol. There are
two links below with more information about Cisco Advanced Malware
Protection (AMP), one to a demo video from Cisco, another to a pdf
download.
Link to demo video from Cisco:
Click here for the video.
Link to “Release Notes.pdf” document:
Diamond Dallas Page YOGA went to Rackspace for Web Hosting.
Diamond Dallas Page YOGA brand is working with Rackspace for there
web hosting needs. Working with Rackspace Managed Cloud allowed the
organization to focus on their core business and marketing rather than
worry about management and hosting configuration.
One of the reason why Diamond Dallas Page YOGA went to Rackspace.
Before Rackspace they had a single web server dedicated for there web
traffic needs, at the time could handle a great deal of traffic, but
soon organization learned they needed to add more infrastructure.
Diamond Dallas made a appearance on WWE’s Monday Night Raw for an “Old
School Raw” episode where they bring back wrestling greats. Dallas was
allowed to promote Diamond Dallas Page YOGA on the show.
The exposure and internet traffics generated from the WWE's event
caused they server to slow down, and then crash. The web site database
was corrupted, the site was down for over six hours, and lead to
massive amount of lost revenue. After this happen they turn to
Rackspace, because the organization needed to prepare for an appearance
on the TV show Shark Tank.
Rackspace assigned a Project Lead to prepare Diamond Dallas Page YOGA
for the Shark Tank event, and brought in a partner, ScaleArc, which
specializes in database caching and efficiency. ScaleArc is the
pioneer in database traffic management software that simplifies scale
out and scale up solution. Diamond Dallas Page YOGA infrastructure went
from a single server, to 25 8GB Rackspace Performance Cloud Servers,
and a database architecture consisted of four 8GB Performance Cloud
Servers and two 30GB Performance Cloud Servers.
The day the Shark Tank episode aired there was 1,000 percent increase
in traffic on the web site, without any problems to report. Web
traffic increase from an average of 4,500 visitors per day to nearly
57,000. Link below to blog by Steve Yu, President, Diamond Dallas Page
YOGA, posted on Rackspace web site with more information:
EMC Isilon S210 Specifications.
Video
below on the EMC Isilon S210 node including cover is the
specifications, connection points, and internal components. EMC
Isilon S210 node, offer many features one of them is data protection.
Data
protection with FlexProtect, a file level striping with support for
N+1 through N+4 and mirroring data protection schemes. Also have
data replication with SyncIQ fast and flexible file based
asynchronous replication. Another features of the EMC Isilon S210
node, is the scale out storage.
The
scale out storage highly efficient and delivers over 80 percent
storage utilization versus about 50 percent for traditional
platforms. Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication software further
enhances storage efficiency to reduce your physical storage
requirements and associated costs.
A
System Administrator can install, configure, and have an EMC Isilon
S210 cluster online in less than 10 minutes. Links below to the
video and a pdf, in the video describes, with more information:
Posted on 08/04/2014
Samsung Galaxy 5s Active Cell Phone.
Samsung Galaxy 5s Active phone is here,
the Galaxy 5s Active has a rugged design that’s engineered for
outdoor activities. Run in the rain, camp in the desert, the Galaxy
5s Active is dustproof and water-resistant. One of the feature is
the S Health Monitor, a user can get real time data on heartbeat,
exercise, and track nutritional goals with the built-in health
platform.
Another feature is live video capture
and playback. Galaxy 5s Active had Ultra HD video capture, and
1080p HD on-device video playback. The camera specification is
Rear-facing camera 16MP and the Front-facing camera 2MP, with Phase
Detection Auto Focus camera with flash and 4x zoom.
Cameras on the Galaxy 5s Active does
offer Zero shutter lag. There are three links below with more
information on the camera:
Link below to Samsung web page with
more info on the Galaxy 5s Active:
Review of the Galaxy 5s Active, done by
Trisha Hershberger's professional host on Sourcefed:
Another review, found on PC mag online
by Eugene Kim (Analyst, Mobile):
IBM Cloud: Success for their Clients.
In the video IBM and SLayers discuss the advantages that IBM Cloud brings to its
clients, a common infrastructure platform with performance, flexibility
and control, link below to the video:
Big Data SQL Software tool for Oracle Database.
Oracle
is hoping to turn heads in the crowded data analysis market with Big
Data SQL, a software tool that can run a single SQL query against
Oracle’s own database as well as Hadoop and NoSQL. Note, Big Data SQL is only compatible with version 12c of the Oracle database, link
below to the article with more information:
AvePoint & Rackspace Announce a Partnership.
AvePoint & Rackspace announce a
SharePoint hosting
partnership. Some
of the benefits of this partnership is AvePoint & Rackspace will
managed your organization SharePoint, the organization get the
benefits of SharePoint, without all the work.
With
the power of AvePoint’s award-winning DocAve software platform, you
get the benefit of it's Data Protection, get full range of backup
and recovery solutions that fits your organization unique business
needs. Second benefit is, Reporting, get visibility with social
reporting, analytic tools, audit history, and the ability to adapt to
future growth. Also
another benefit is Content Management, get the flexibility to build
on-the-fly to maintain an architecture that makes sense for your
users. AvePoint and Rackspace is working on brings customers the
most secure flexibility and reliable managed hosted for SharePoint.
Rackspace
is already established as the world leader in managed hosting,
meaning they can run hosting infrastructure better than anyone out
there, and now it is believe that Rackspace, with AvePoint, has
achieved and created a strong managed
SharePoint offering, links below with more
information:
Link
below to a Youtube video, from Rackspace, about the announcement of
the partnership: Click here for the video.
Link
to a AvePoint page, with more information about it's SharePoint
hosting solutions:
Link
to a Rackspace page, with more information about it's SharePoint
hosting solutions:
Posted on 07/15/2014
Announcing Security Monkey - AWS
Security Configuration Monitoring and Analysis.
Netflix had released the AWS Security
Monkey. This tool allows systems administrators to harden the
security on their Amazon cloud using the same tools that Netflix
uses. Tool is available for download, link below to a blog with more
information:
Cy7 ARM Storage Server.
Ambedded Technology was founded in1990, with the goal to make their customer’s ideas come true by
providing knowledge and resources. One of Ambedded partnership is
with Cynny, they built the CySeven, 0.5U/1U Rack Mount 7 Nodes ARM
Micro Server, also know as the "Cy7 ARM Storage Server."
The Cy7 ARM Storage Server is designedto allow infinite scale computing, how this is done, it is designed
with seven Processor Slots, for CYOne - pluggable independent
computing units. This allows for no single points of failure. Each
computing module is a network node of his own; internal
interconnection keeps communication between the nodes, while
outside/cluster connectivity is provided by two ethernet interfaces.
When used for Cloud storage it scales linearly in capacity and speed
with the addition of more units. It is Open Source friendly and fully
Linux compatible, link below to a page with more information:
EMC ScaleIO software Defined Storage Architecture.
New
from EMC, ScaleIO you can easily deploy a flexible, scalable and high
performance software defined storage architecture - delivering
elastic, converged storage to organization on a ‘pay as you grow’
model. This converged infrastructure delivers hyper scalability and
increased performance levels whilst reducing storage total cost
ownership.
Posted on 06/21/2014
NightHacking, Interview with
Rob Gingell.
Video from NightHacking, interview with
Rob Gingell during the Java Community Process 15th Year Anniversary Party. Gingell has
been developing systems software for over 35 years. In 2004 Gingell
was CTO and EVP of Product Development at cloud-computing pioneer
Cassatt Corporation. He is strong advocate of open standards, and he
has served as the chair of the Java Community Process, link below to
the interview:
Posted on 06/20/2014
Oracle 12c New Enterprise Manager.
Oracle 12c Enterprise Manager in-memory feature will be release in
July of 2014. Oracle's Enterprise Manager 12c developing focus on
building and running databases and in private clouds. The latest
release of Oracle Enterprise Manager will give Oracle customers an
out-of-the-box experience with cloud services for databases and
applications.
Oracle Database In-Memory demonstrated to be 100x to more than
1000x faster for enterprise application modules in performance
testing. With these new enhanced management features Oracle 12c
enables organizations to dramatically increase application
throughput, while reducing total cost of ownership and time to market
for new application development/deployment. There is a Link below to
a article by Larry Dignan, "Oracle's Q4 on tap: Will product
upgrade cycle follow?," with more information:
Posted on 06/17/2014
Cisco Hosted Cloud solution with ASBIS.
A video from Cisco talking
about how ASBIS is replacing in-house data centers with Cisco hosted
cloud service, reducing costs and improving availability of services,
link below to the video:
Article I found over at Red Hat web page, "Birth of an xPaaS"
By Craig Muzilla, a Senior Vice President, Application Platform
Products Business Group, Red Hat. xPaaS to bring integration,
business process management, and mobile services to OpenShift, with
the following xPaaS services will be available soon:
Application Container Services (aPaaS)
Integration Services
(iPaaS), still in development.
Business Process Services
(bpmPaaS), still in development
Mobile Services (mPaaS)
Go to www.openshift.com/xpaas
to learn more about Red Hat JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift, also
link below to the article:
Click here for the article:
Women in Technology Event at EMC World 2014.
EMC was proud to host Women of World: Women in Technology Event at
this year EMC World event. EMC honored 3 incredible and inspirational
women that join them for the event. First was Nina Tandon is CEO and
co-founder of EpiBone, the world’s first company growing living human
bones for skeletal reconstruction. She is also author of Super Cells:
Building with Biology.
Second was Molly Fletcher, she spent nearly two decades as one of the
only female sports agents. She has recruited the top athletes,
coaches, and media personalities in the game and earned the nickname
“the female Jerry Maguire." Fletcher is also an author of two books,
The 5 Best Tools to Find Your Dream Career and The Business of Being the
Best. Last to join EMC for the event was Rosario Marin served as the
41st US Treasurer, the first Mexican-born official to hold this office.
Rosario is also the author of Leading between Two Worlds: Lessons from
the First Mexican-Born Treasurer of the United States. Two links below one to a
web page that has more information, and other to a video:
Link below to a web page with more information:
Link below to a YouTube video from
Silicon Angle show, "the cube" sit down with Nina Tandon, EpiBone, and
Stella Low, EMC, at EMC World 2014.
Next Generation Cisco Nexus 5600.
Next Generation Cisco Nexus 5600 switch, video on how Cisco Nexus 5600
switches deliver innovative features for large scale, converged, and
virtualized data center deployments, link below to the video:
Using
Hadoop and Big Data to Understand Web site Behavior.
Using
big data to understand web site behavior. Video from NightHacking
presentation at the Chennai Summit by Balaji Srinivasaraghavan on
Hadoop and Big Data. In the video, you have Balaji
Srinivasaraghavan, who is a Solution Architect and a Java Developer
for PayPal, talking about working with Hadoop and Java.
Some
of the highlights of the video, was ways to read and write data in
parallel, how data is stored in HDFS and example of how to use the
data pulled from Apache log in Hadoop, for a viral video, to better
understand a web site behavior, link below to the video with more
information:
Cisco
Application-Centric Infrastructure with OpenStack.
Cisco and Red Hat are collaborating to
offer customers an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) that is
integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (RHEL
OpenStack Platform). The solution will enable the next generation
cloud deployments that drive business agility, lower operational
costs and avoid vendor lock-in.
Learn how network work flow functions
like create network and create subnets can be accomplished from the
OpenStack console, link below to the demo video:
OpenStack Icehouse Information and Demo
Video.
OpenStack Icehouse, the ninth release
of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid
clouds. OpenStack Icehouse has nearly 350 new features that reflect a
community-wide effort to bring the voice of the user into the rapidly
maturing open source cloud software platform, link below to web page
and demo video:
Link below to web page with more
information:
Click here for the web page.
Link below to demo
video:
Click here for the video.
Data Center Fabric Evolution with Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation.
Video
on Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation a single network architecture for
physical, virtual, and cloud deployments. Cisco has establish a
common programmable automation and management framework to simplify
operations and increase agility for any network infrastructure.
Below is a link to the video:
Deploying a Private Cloud for SAP.
EMC
working with SAP systems bundle approach allows flexibility of choice
in how organization can implement a cloud infrastructure. EMC
have developed solutions, and services that make it easier for any
organization to modernize there data center. Discover
the benefits of SAP virtualizing systems with EMC.
SAP Cloud Infrastructure has large
range of benefits to choice, two of them is Automation
and Operations. The SAP
Virtualization Manager is well suited for organizations implementing
SAP requiring on-demand provisioning of SAP systems, reduced downtime
windows during maintenance, and enhanced agility. Another benefit is
Disaster Recovery.
The
Disaster Recovery bundle automates the following, processes,
policies, and any procedures related to preparing for recovery of
organization infrastructure after a natural or human-induced
disaster. EMC, with SAP systems is supplying the next generation of
cloud infrastructure with increasing levels of automation, links
below with more information:
Demo: Virtual SAN Integration with VMware Horizon 6.
Video demonstrations, from VMware, shows Horizon 6.0 integration with
Virtual SAN. Virtual SAN helps Horizon 6 simplify management
capabilities of storage based on Virtual SAN's policy based management
framework. Performance and scalability capabilities are also leveraged
by Horizon 6 from Virtual SAN, link below to the video:
Click here for the video:
VMware Hosting Applications in Horizon 6.
Video from VMware, Rory Clements from VMware's EUC Business Unit
demonstrates how to set up RDS Hosted Applications in Horizon 6. Rory
Clements shows how to publishes applications to his Workspace using
Horizon 6. Horizon 6 delivers virtualization, with remote desktop and
applications through a single platform and supports end users with
access to all of their Windows and online resources through one unified
workspace, link below to the video:
Upgrade to VMware vSphere with Operations Management.
Video from VMware on the benefits of
why you should upgrade to VMware vSphere with it's Operations
Management, which includes, core virtualization product, vSphere,
has built in performance monitoring and capacity management
capabilities.
One example of the benefits is to
virtualize your x86 server resources and combining several elements
into logical pools for allocation to multiple workloads. Another
benefit is efficient storage, reduce the complexity of back-end
storage systems and enable the most efficient storage utilization
available in a virtual environment. Below is the link to a video with
more information:
VMware Knowledge about adding and removing users in My VMware.
I would like to share a article from
VMware Knowledge about adding and removing users in My VMware. This
article provides procedural information for the following:
-
Adding & Remove users
from folders, Subscription Services, and accounts
-
Share folders with existing
account users
-
Invite new users to folders
and Subscription Services, and accounts
The VMware Knowledge Base provides
support solutions, error messages and troubleshooting guides, a link
is below to “Adding and removing users in My VMware (2016235),”
with more information, and video discusses and demonstrates:
Blinkbox UK video streaming services has moved to Microsoft
Azure.
Blinkbox
a UK video streaming services has moved its day to day operations to Microsoft
Azure. By moving its entire video
workflow to Microsoft Azure and unplugging its data center, Blinkbox will save
millions of dollars, gain the ability to scale IT infrastructure on demand, and
deliver a better customer experience on multiple consumer devices. The company is taking advantage of Microsoft
Azure data centers around the world to expand its business globally and deliver
more content to more customers in more countries, link below to the video with
more information:
BlackBerry 10.3 Os Leaked.
BlackBerry 10.3 has leaked some of the new features and
capabilities have been revealed. BlackBerry
will be getting its own voice activated virtual assistant, it has been noted it
does not work on the leaked version of the OS. Another change in the update, BlackBerry 10
users will be able to capture 720p video in 30fps and 60fps. Beside the updates to the video settings, the
Camera setting has some new features.
A
timer for taking pictures was added, and you will be able to take panoramic
photos. Also the keyboard has received a
new layout and color scheme. BlackBerry 10.3 does appear to have some small
changes that will make BlackBerry 10 better-looking and easier to use. Below is a video by Crackberry.com title “Hands-on
with an early build of BlackBerry 10.3,” link below:
Paul Smith Fashion Designer New Hybrid Cloud Solution.
British
fashion designer Paul Smith had a goal to optimize its IT function. Paul Smith embraced the Microsoft cloud
operating system vision and built an agile, Paul Smith used Windows Server,
Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center hybrid cloud and data center technologies
to virtualize more than 80 percent of its servers, improve data center density
by 200 percent, and save more than $1.8 million in IT costs in one year.
Another
benefit Paul Smith embraced the Microsoft cloud operating system is a infrastructure,
which can be managed by only 15 people, and it can provide efficient services
to ensure that the business continues to play a leading role in the fashion
industry, while keeping costs down. As
far disaster recovery, Paul Smith reduced their infrastructure recovery time
from 48 hours to five minutes for its mission-critical applications, link below
to video with more information:
Going Green: The Eco-Friendly Aspect of Cloud Computing.
"Going
Green" article below talks about the most overlook benefit of the cloud
computing, reducing the corporate carbon footprint, by using cloud computing. It’s known for saving organizations large or
small a great deal of money. How this is
done is fewer computers, more efficient equipment and control costs.
Organizations when trying to move to green or more
eco-friendly procedures means an increase in cost for a company with cloud base
computing, it will leads to cost savings, link below to the article:
Click here for the article
Posted on 03/19/2014
Article on the concept BlackBerry Q15, a possible mobile phone that may
be made by BlackBerry, link below to a crackberry.com web page with more
information:
Demo shows Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation integration with
OpenStack. Video show how a partition is
created from OpenStack and network is subsequently deployed by Dynamic Fabric
Automation 's fabric manager, link below to the video:
March 8 was
International Women's Day. The reason
for the event is to celebrate women’s achievements throughout history and
across nations. International Women's
Day has been started in the early 1900's.
For
International Women’s Day events are held worldwide. Various women, including political, community,
and business leaders, as well as leading educators, inventors, entrepreneurs,
and television personalities are usually invited to speak at various events on
the day. Below are links to videos made
by Cisco, EMC and VMware, to celebrate International Women’s Day:
Video of Cisco, Senior Vice President and CMO, Blair
Christie's for the International Women's
Day, link below:
Click here for the video
Conversation with ML Krakauer, Executive Vice President,
Human Resources, as part of EMC's celebration of International Women's Day,
link below to the video:
Click here for the video
Video from VMware celebrating International Women's Day:
Click here for the video
Happy International Women's Day!
Posted on 02/22/2014
I want to share a video I
found on Cisco Youtube page, title “Boost Efficiency and Automation
with Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud.” Cisco Intelligent
Automation for Cloud unifies all areas of any organization, it will
help to increases efficiencies, and inspires innovation with cloud
service delivery. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud provides
capabilities and more with an extensible framework for cloud
management. Cisco Intelligent Automation is a powerful platform that
can scale from single cloud to multicloud deployments while
supporting application that are ordered by end users on demand, link
below to the video, also Cisco web page for more information:
Link below to Youtube video,
"Boost Efficiency and Automation with Cisco IAC," with more
information:
click
here for the video
Link below to Cisco web page
with more information:
click
here for more information
Posted
on 03/04/2014
Starting in January,
BlackBerry began their global rollout of OS 10.2.1 to carriers across
the globe. Below is a video review on the BlackBerry 10.2.1.OS,
done Crackberry.com, has received a number of significant updates
since original launch. Watch the video and read the
article below for more information:
Article from Crackberry.com
click
here for the article
Video from Crackberry.com,
click
here for the video
Posted
on 03/03/2014
Nokia Lumia Icon, will be a
flagship device for Verizon Wireless in the United States. Nokia
Lumia Icon has a thin and stylish frame with a 5-inch, 1080p full
screen. It has the Carl Zeiss optics, like the Sony Point and shot
camera’s, and takes 20-megapixel photos. The phone also will have a
2.2 GHz quad-core processor and 2,420 mAh battery, link below with
more information:
click
here for more information
Posted
on 02/22/2014
AOL.com Architecture evolved
to 99.999% availability, 8 Million visitors per day, and 200,000
requests per second. What I was surprise about AOL.com is run it
operations out of only three data centers, two are in Northern
Virginia and one in California, all are owned and operated by AOL.
All three data centers see
large amounts of internet traffic, but each of the data centers is
sized to be able to handle the entire amount of internet traffic on
its own. Even with the lost of two of these data center, the third
one will be able maintain normal service. So when one data center is
offline for maintenance, AOL is still able to have normal service, in
case of failure of a second data center.
Link
below to the article by Dave Hagler, who is a Systems Architect at
AOL:
Click
here for a link to the blog
Video from the Open Compute Summit, held on January 28 & 29, at the San
Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California.
IO CEO & Product Architect George Slessman, demonstrated the concept of the data center as an API, setting
up a virtual instance on IO.Cloud for the audience. He does this from a iPhone, in only three
minutes.
Beside
George Slessmen from IO, you have Tim Lyons (Executive director, Digital
Innovation and Outreach, Merck & Co.)and
Cole Crawford (Executive Director, OCP Foundation), talking about "Open
Architecture," link below to a video:
Posted on 02/13/2014
BlackBerry Messenger application included on BlackBerry
devices allows messaging and video calls for BlackBerry 10 smart phones, between
BlackBerry users. In later 2013 it was
made possible for people to download the official version of Blackberry Messenger
for Android and iPhone.
Blackberry Messenger for iOS has been update. The biggest changes come to the iOS and
Android versions. In BBM 2.0 we see the
addition of BBM Channels, BBM Voice, location sharing and more. Another big addition to BBM 2.0 is BBM Voice
it now allows you to make Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls over Wi-Fi and cellular, if your mobile carrier will
permit it, below is link to an article by Crackberry.com and a video: click here for the video
Posted on 02/13/2014
Google Cloud Platform is a fully managed MySQL service hosted, providing
a database backbone for applications running on Google App Engine or
Google Compute Engine. Today, Google made the announcing Cloud SQL is
generally available, now with: encryption of customer data, a 99.95%
uptime SLA, and support for databases up to 500GB in size, link below to
blog with more information:
The Cisco 2014 Annual Security
Report highlights the most current security concerns, such as shifts in
malware, trends in vulnerabilities, and the revival of distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Cisco discuss the threat
landscape in today's cyber security environment includes the increase amount of
devices that can be found on a network , transition to the cloud, demographic
shifts, social networking, and external geopolitical forces. There are
three links below, I found on Cisco’s YouTube page talking about the Annual
Security report :
1) First video has a presentation
done by Omar Santos of Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team
(PSIRT). Cisco PSIRT is a global team that investigates any public
reporting of security vulnerability information that is related to Cisco
products and networks, link below to the video:
Click here for the video
2) Cisco Intelligence Lead, Joel
Esler explains indicators of compromise and the chain of events that leads to
discovery. Joel explains how anyone can be compromised and how
intelligent intrusion prevention discovers and defeats potential security
vulnerability, link below:
Click here for the video
3) The third video has Ed Paradise,
Vice President of Engineering for Cisco Threat Response and Development, discusses
how the company provides consistent product security across Cisco's entire
product portfolio.
Click here for the video
In today’s world Cybercriminals are learning how to harnessing the power of the
Internet. Cisco has a global team that manages & investigate any reporting
of security vulnerability related to Cisco products and networks, link below
will lead you to a web page where you can download the full 2014 Annual
Security Report from Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/lp/2014-annual-security-report/preview.html
Posted on 01/28/2014
Top
Ten Videos from the Consumer Electronics Show 2014.
For this article I am going to cover my top ten favorite videos from Consumer
Electronics Show (CES). CES is an internationally electronics and
technology trade show, attracting major companies and industry professionals
worldwide, held in Las Vegas, from January 7 to 10, 2014. List will cover
mobile devices, tablets, computers and various other technologies. Below
is ten links to videos, with sources:
10) Video from iMore, “Otterbox
previews new Symmetry case line at #CESlive,” link below:
Click here for the video
9) Sony and T-Mobile announced at
CES the brand new Xperia Z1s. Video from Techno Buffalo, titled “Sony Xperia
Z1s Unboxing - CES 2014.”
Click here for the video
8) Samsung Galaxy Camera 2, hands on
video, from Android Central, link below:
Click here for the video
7) Video from Wall Street Journal,
on the Next Generation of 3D Printers from MakerBot, link below to the video:
Click here for the video
6) Video from CNET, Sony shows its
First 4k Video Camcorder, the FDR-AX100, link below:
Click here for the video
5) Another video from iMore, This Is
Ground Mexican Food Inspired accessories case, for USB chargers and headphones,
more information below;
Click here for the video
4) First look at LG Mirror and
Transparent Displays, video from Techno Buffalo:
Click here for the video
3) Video from Cisco, keynote given
with speaker John Chambers. Chambers shares Cisco's vision of the
Internet of Everything and the value for organizations today, link below:
Click here for the video
2) Razer’s Project Christine fully
modular gaming PC concept, video from Linus Tech Tips, link below:
Click here for the video
1) Toyota FCV electric car that
never needs plugging in, FCV is a concept car, Toyota is trying to get them on
the roads as soon as 2015, video from Techno Buffalo.
Click here for the video
Thank you for checking out my top
ten lists for this year Consumer Electronics Show. If there is anything I
missed, please feel free to email at Object
Posted on 01/14/2014
Video from VMware, talks about
vCenter Configuration Manager automates configuration and compliance management
across virtual and physical servers, workstations, and desktops, link below to
the video:
click here for the video
Posted on 12/22/2013
IBM Master Inventor Lisa Seacat
DeLuca describes how she stays at the forefront of mobile and cloud innovation.
She also has filed more patents than any other woman at IBM, link below to the
interview:
click here for the audio interview:
Posted on 12/22/2013
Found this blog at Ciphercloud.com
some of the top internet companies call for government surveillance reforms to
ensure greater cloud data privacy. This week some of American top tech
companies came together to resistance to government practices, and went public
in a big way with an open letter to President Obama and Congress signed by
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL.
To address problems caused by the
alarming scope of government surveillance activities alleged by this year’s NSA
spying revelations, these companies came together to call on the United State
Government to take the following five actions taken from the Ciphercloud blog:
- Set “sensible limitations on their ability to compel
service providers to disclose user data.” These limitations should,
according to Reform Government Surveillance, preclude the indiscriminate
collection of bulk data. This is especially vital for enterprises with
data stored in multi-tenant clouds.
- Enforce “strong checks and balances” on the agencies
charged with collecting data from cloud providers. Among these checks and
balances, Reform Government Surveillance places particular emphasis on
independent reviewing courts with public, adversarial process “so that the
courts are accountable to an informed citizenry.”
- Create an environment of transparency around government
surveillance programs and activities. Companies should be free “to publish
the number and nature of government demands for user information,” Reform
Government Surveillance states, and “should also promptly disclose this
data publicly.”
- Permit data traffic across national borders, which
Reform Government Surveillance calls “essential to a robust 21st century
global economy.” Most of the major cloud service providers maintain data
centers in multiple countries. Restrictive data residency regulations can
severely restrict their ability to function at the levels customers
require.
- Create a “robust, principled, and transparent framework
to govern lawful requests for data across jurisdictions” to further
support the international operations of major cloud companies and prevent
what the Guardian‘s Dan Roberts and Jemima Kiss called “a
balkanisation of the web as governments try to prevent internet companies
from escaping overseas” and the companies themselves look for ways to
protect their data and interests.
Link below with more information:
click here for a link to the blog
Posted on 12/11/2013
Video from OpenStack title
"Foundation Building an App-Centric Cloud OS Based on OpenStack."
Apps have changed the way we use computers and it will do the same for Data
Centers, link below to the video with more information:
click here for the video
Posted on 12/07/2013
Video from
EMC, titled "Next-Gen VNX Video." In the demo they discuss VDM
Replication. How to replicate a VDM environment via Unisphere, and show
failover and failback in the replicated environment, link below to the video:
click here for the video
Posted on 12/03/2013
Akamai
Technologies has announced its intention to acquire security firm Prolexic Technologies,
to offer cloud platform protection. Prolexic Technologies is the world’s
largest and most trusted DDoS mitigation provider, and has defend against
some of the largest and most complex DDoS attacks ever launched.
Akamai, which
operates a cloud-based content delivery network with a global presence, said
the reason for this move will enable it to provide customers with a
comprehensive portfolio of security solutions to defend against
application-layer, network-layer and data center attacks, link below to the
article:
click here for more information
Posted on 12/02/2013
I would like to share
something I found over on SQL Server Blog. SQL Server Blog is the
Official News from Microsoft’s Information Platform, the post I want to share
is title “Boosting Transaction Performance in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
with In-Memory OLTP.” Blog talks about upcoming release of SQL Server
2014, and the significantly boost of performance of Online transaction
processing (OLTP) workloads in Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
One of the topics covered is Windows Azure Virtual Machine Configuration, for
best performance for In-Memory OLTP. Blog recommends using a single
storage account for all disks attached to the same virtual machine.
Another recommendation, do not use native operating system striping for storing
the log of an In-Memory OLTP-enabled database. Link below with more examples
for Virtual Machine Configuration, also in the blog there is information on
scenarios for SQL Server In-Memory OLTP on a Windows Azure Virtual Machine:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/26/2013
BlackBerry cell phone Z50 and Q30 scheduled to release in 2014. BlackBerry Z50
is rumored to be sporting a 5.2" screen at 1080 x 1920 and a
quad-core processor. The Q30 looks to carry a 2.3GHz processor
with a 4" touchscreen and 3GB of RAM. Both devices are rumored
to be available later in 2014, link below to the article:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/18/2013
Zimbra Collaboration is an open source messaging and collaboration solution,
trusted by more than 5,000 companies and public sector customers, and over 100
million end users, in over 140 countries. Below is a link to a basic
architecture of Zimbra email hosting service:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/18/2013
Shares of Citrix Systems were down for a second day following Amazon.com's
announcement that its Amazon Web Services unit will enter the desktop
virtualization market to boost its cloud computing business.
Amazon WorkSpaces will help
companies connect to by offing infrastructure-as-a-service, link below with
more information:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/15/2013
Update on IBM lawsuit against
Amazon. U.S. Court of Federal Claims sided with Amazon and shut down
IBM’s renewed effort to win the CIA contract. Lawsuit started when Amazon
Web Services received a $600 million contract to create a private cloud inside
CIA data centers, IBM believed that Amazon.com’s bid did not meet the criteria
for the CIA contract, and the contact should be rebid.
The CIA was asked to reopen the
bidding process, which lead to Amazon taking legal action against the United
States, last July. U.S. Court of Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler’s ruling in favor
of Amazon, IBM will drop $600 million lawsuit. Link below to an article
on pulse2.com:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/12/2013
I found article about a UK study
published this week suggests that skills in cloud computing is on top the list
of desirable skills for IT professionals in the UK, followed by network
security. Article was written by Jonathan Brandon, could be found at
Business Cloud News, link below to the web page:
click here for more information
Posted on 11/07/2013
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