DevOps a new wave for IT

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	DevOps a new wave for IT In speaking to my friends at JumpCloud they have talked an awful lot about DevOps. They have spent a lot of time speaking to companies moving infrastructure to the cloud. Many of these cloud migrations were instituted by the developer teams at these companies. Read More WHITE PAPER: CDNetworks Web Business and the Right Solution This white paper describes the challenges that Fortune 2000 companies face when delivering content into China via the Internet, the ways in which Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) can ease market entry into China, and what to look for in a CDN provider to optimize content delivery, both in China and globally. Learn more. In this Issue Brocade sharpens its focus on the data center Buzzword alert: First we had Anything as a Service now we have Software-Defined Everything We are all a bunch of bigoted jerks...about technology How good is Speech Recognition in Windows 8? ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA Why Microsoft's Surface 2 doesn't fix what's really broken How to replace your desktop PC with an Android tablet Oracle's Ellison flip-flops on in-memory databases WEBCAST: Juniper Networks Converged Access for a More Agile Enterprise A new convergence trend is making its way through the enterprise: converged user access across wired and wireless networks. Driving this trend is the need to accommodate a dizzying array of devices and data, communicating wirelessly from a variety of locations across and outside of the enterprise. View now >> Brocade sharpens its focus on the data center On September 25th, Brocade held its annual "Tech Day" conference. This yearly event is normally a pretty geeky show where the company talks about things like Ethernet Fabrics, software defined networks (SDNs), and other exciting topics like the transition from 16 Gig to 32 Gig FibreChannel. This year's conference included its fair share of geek talk, but new CEO Lloyd Carney did take the time... Read More Buzzword alert: First we had Anything as a Service now we have Software-Defined Everything Technology loves its buzzwords. Over the past few years one of the hottest, most buzz-wordy industries has been the cloud. Almost every technology vendor seemingly has a cloud strategy now with vendors offering their products and services via "as a Service" through the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE Vblock™ Solution for SAP Mobility Enterprises can utilize Vblock Infrastructure Platforms technologies to deploy application and workload mobility for large-scale SAP databases, with no impact on business continuity. Learn More. We are all a bunch of bigoted jerks...about technology It is amazing to me how many technologies that we, as nerds, use (and don't use) based solely on our own prejudices towards (and against) any given piece of tech, even when those prejudices are no longer relevant (and, perhaps, never were). Case in point: Apple. (No, this isn't an anti-Apple article... it just makes an excellent example.) Read More How good is Speech Recognition in Windows 8? How many times have you looked at your computer, phone or tablet and dreamed of just not using your keyboard? When Scotty in Star Trek is trying to talk to a computer to show the design for transparent aluminum, how many of you yearned for the day when you could just dictate your notes and control your computer with only your voice? (if you don't see a video below this line, please hit reload) Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration solution Midsize businesses don't have the IT resources they need, nor do they have the financial slack to invest in expensive and complicated software based integration tools. Read to find out how WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration empowers Mid-Size organization to achieve their application integration goals. Read Now ACLU: FBI has '20 separate records' for every adult and child in the USA According to a recent ACLU report about surveillance abuses by the FBI, the agency knows quite a few things about you even if you've not done anything wrong. "Unleashed and Unaccountable [pdf]: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority documents this extraordinary expansion of FBI power over the last 12 years," states: Read More Why Microsoft's Surface 2 doesn't fix what's really broken Microsoft's announcement on Monday of the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets made the existential distinctions between the two devices even clearer. Read More How to replace your desktop PC with an Android tablet I am now living, 100% of the time, on my Android devices (specifically with my primary work machine now being a Nexus 7). And, despite my love for Linux desktop distributions, I have no plans on going back to using a traditional desktop or laptop anytime soon. The ability for me to be completely mobile far outweighs any inconvenience of going without a traditional desktop. What I would like to do is... Read More Oracle's Ellison flip-flops on in-memory databases This is a very busy week for Oracle here in San Francisco, what with its America's Cup boat trying to complete a huge comeback, and the start of the company's huge user conference, Oracle Open World. The event is so big it closes a major downtown street for more than a week and takes over Treasure Island for a giant rock concert (this year featuring The Black Keys). Read More
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