Networking | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Tuesday, November 8, 2011
It’s no secret that there are billions of things connected to the Internet. The challenge is finding ways to let these devices communicate and share information without having to introduce a lot of complexity. Continue Reading »
Enterprise Applications | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Monday, October 24, 2011
"Real time" is one of those concepts that is open to a lot of interpretation. But if IBM has its way, the definition of real time is going to be: a sub-second response time in analytic applications that are working with ever increasing amounts of Big Data. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, August 3, 2011
One of the fundamental issues with distributed computing has been that in order to scale any application, it generally requires the addition of another server. But deploying that server obviously takes a fair amount of time to provision, which tends to make distributed computing a little cumbersome. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The trouble with data is that not all of it is of equal value. From a storage management perspective, there are basically two types of data. There is the data in the production system and then there is everything else, which depending on what backup medium is used is generally referred to as Tier 2 or 3 storage. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst Friday, June 10, 2011
At the IBM Rational Innovate 2011 conference, IBM was touting the capabilities of its research project, Watson – a supercomputer-based artificial intelligence emulator that can mine massive amounts of data and come up with intelligent answers to questions. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Feature | Mike Vizard Monday, May 23, 2011
From a technology perspective, when all is said and done concerning cloud computing, there may not be a whole lot new. That doesn’t mean that cloud computing doesn’t represent a seminal moment in the development of enterprise IT; it just means it’s more about changing the way we think about IT rather than the development of any actual new technology. Continue Reading »
