The Legacy Environment Challenge
IT management seems simple enough — in a vacuum. But the trouble is nobody has a technology vacuum unless you are a virgin start-up with no legacy systems in place. Most companies however, don’t have the luxury. Most organizations are in fact burdened by a slew of legacy systems and if you are a hospital or insurance company, you could still have databases dating back to the 60s and 70s. When it comes to monitoring, this presents even larger obstacles. So says Nicole Sullivan, a web architect and blogger at Stubbornella, in an interview with Mac Slocumb as part of the Velocity...
read moreBig Data is Truly Transforming the Enterprise
Among the many trends slamming into IT today is the idea of Big Data, and while it is no doubt the buzzword of the day, there is definitely something happening around the idea of using data to understand your business better. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to MIT professor Andrew McAfee about this notion of big data. McAfee is best known for being the guy who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, the idea of bringing social tools into the enterprise. He is currently principal research scientist at MIT’s Center for Digital Busines and recently wrote a book called Race Against the Machine with...
read moreZynga shows how to build a hybrid cloud
When it comes to building a hybrid cloud, just ask game maker Zynga how it’s done. That’s because Zynga, like many start-ups, started out as an Amazon EC2 customer, but as it grew it recognized it would need to build out its own data center too. Yet instead of giving up EC2, Zynga opted for a hybrid approach and has solved many of the issues that may be concerning you about going in a similar direction — but is Zynga’s experience applicable to all companies? Networkworld recently interviewed Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand to find out what it took to pull off a hybrid cloud...
read moreReport: Good Monitoring Tools Could Be Key in Mobile-Cloud Shift
A recent study by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) looked at the big concerns facing CIOs today, and not surprising cloud and mobile were near the top of the list — with big concerns about how to deploy and monitor mobile and cloud apps. According to the summary of the study on the EMA website, one of the technologies that could relieve the strain is Applications Performance Monitoring. Let’s start by looking at the lay of the land. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before. Issues around the Consumerization of IT are having a profound impact on enterprise IT. Users...
read moreGartner CIO Survey Finds Flat IT Budgets for 2012
In spite of the fact we seem to have left the 2008 recession long behind us, a new survey of CIOs by Gartner finds that IT budgets in some parts of the world will remain effectively flat or even decline for 2012. Gartner reports that overall there will be just a 0.5 percent average budget growth worldwide with numbers actually declining in North America and Europe. Latin America was reporting the largest IT growth with an impressive 12.7 increase in IT spending. Asia/Pacific was reporting a more modest 3.4 percent increase. I can understand the continued belt-tightening in Europe where the...
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