Pitfalls of Subscription Software Thoughts on Downsizing Big Data Industry Perspective: Using Seawater to Cool the Data Center George Orwell, Meet the Data Center

Pitfalls of Subscription Software

The subscription model for software came into the limelight following Adobe’s announcement that it would abandon its Creative Suite line in favor of Creative Cloud ...

Thoughts on Downsizing Big Data

The amount of data generated and transmitted is growing constantly, feeding into the big data phenomenon as companies (and governments—hi NSA!) seek to glean business ...

Industry Perspective: Using Seawater to Cool the ...

Industry Perspective is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers ...

George Orwell, Meet the Data Center

Edward Snowden could in some ways be compared to Winston Smith, the ill-fated protagonist of George Orwell’s illustrious novel 1984. Snowden, an employee of Government ...

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Pitfalls of Subscription Software

Pitfalls of Subscription Software

June 18th, 2013

The subscription model for software came into the limelight following Adobe’s announcement that it would abandon its Creative Suite line in favor of Creative Cloud exclusively. Creative Cloud—a slight misnomer, but obviously one that aims to tap into the cloud craze—offers the same essential software as Creative Suite, but users pay monthly or annually to use it. Adobe, Microsoft and other companies and pundits regularly tout the benefits of the subscription model, from regular (included) updat[...]

Misery vs. Mastery: Choosing the Right Software Asset-Management Tool

Misery vs. Mastery: Choosing the Right Software Asset-Management Tool

June 17th, 2013

Although software asset management (SAM) is high on businesses’ priority list, satisfaction with the tools implemented to facilitate SAM processes fails to match user expectations more often than not, according to a January 2013 survey conducted by IT asset-management firm Express Metrix. The company's 2013 Software Asset Management Survey gathered information from 115 organizations that had evaluated SAM tools over the past two years. The survey defined SAM tool as “a software product designed to collect and[...]

Top 5 Reasons Why Flash Storage Is Essential for Data Warehouse Applications

Top 5 Reasons Why Flash Storage Is Essential for Data Warehouse Applications

June 14th, 2013

Data warehouse applications have been around since the late 1980s, and their main purpose was simply to take raw data and turn it into a sensible format for business or financial reporting. Over the years, however, the demands on reporting systems have changed dramatically. To name a few, We’ve moved toward real-time data processing Data footprints have increased The number of users has exploded Queries are ad hoc, not always planned in advance Updates occur over the course of the b[...]

Thoughts on Downsizing Big Data

Thoughts on Downsizing Big Data

June 13th, 2013

The amount of data generated and transmitted is growing constantly, feeding into the big data phenomenon as companies (and governments—hi NSA!) seek to glean business value from all that information. But even if storage technologies and costs manage to keep pace with this growth, is maintaining all kinds of stale data really worth it? On the other hand, identifying data that can be safely deleted may be just as difficult as identifying data that holds v[...]

RIMS “2.0”: Remove FUD and Achieve Next-Generation IT Operations Productivity

RIMS “2.0”: Remove FUD and Achieve Next-Generation IT Operations Productivity

June 12th, 2013

The “FUD Factor”—fear, uncertainty and doubt—is an acronym that has been bandied about by MBAs and marketing folks for years. But when FUD meets IT, the results can be disastrous. CIOs are always trying to manage FUD by balancing people resources, improving processes and reducing risk. Many have tried remote managed services to help, but they’re finding out that remote management and process automation aren’t always enough. RIMS (remote managed infrastructure services) has been around a while, prim[...]


Magazine

Has the Cloud Matured?

Has the Cloud Matured?

June 11th, 2013

At the heart of the cloud is a swirling mixture of promise, hype and concern. As more companies have turned to this technology and studies have supported it, however, the important question has changed from whether the cloud will mature to when it will mature. To some extent, the answer..more...


Press Releases

Hortonworks and Red Hat Extend Collaboration, Innovate in the Apache Software Foundation Community

June 14th, 2013

Hortonworks, a leading contributor and enabler to enterprise Apache Hadoop, and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an engineering collaboration to a..more...

Internet Infrastructure Coalition Statement on NSA Information Gathering

June 14th, 2013

Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) Co-Founder and Board Chair Christian Dawson today released the following statement on the National Security Agency’s information gathering program and efforts to declassify the Foreign Intelligence S..more...

7x24 Exchange International Presents the First Lifetime Achievement Award to Kenneth G. Brill at the Spring Conference

June 10th, 2013

7x24 Exchange, the leading knowledge exchange for those who design build, operate and maintain mission critical infrastructures recognized one its founders, Ken Brill, at the Spring Conference earlier today at..more...