New Jersey suffers yet another state datacenter failure
Exactly how big a stick do you need to get them to pay attention?
Exactly how big a stick do you need to get them to pay attention?
Remember those early reports we broke (before anyone else, by the way), of BlackBerry email outages on T-Mobile?Well, as colleague Erica Ogg reports, those early outages were just the start of something far more widespread.
Kusnetzky Group clients often speak to us about their need for scalability, reliability, management, and security. They also report the challenges they face when considering cloud computing, the use of Big Data and analytics to better understand their customers' needs and how to safely and effectively support both their own staff and customers using today's smartphones and tablets. IBM says System z is up to the challenge
EMC and VMware are reportedly pondering ways to get back together. Such a deal would cost the combined entity time as the enterprise market transforms and may only lead to a HP Enterprise merger.
I've been unable to access Skype all day and it turns out it's not just me. User from around the world are reporting the service is down and impacting personal and business communications for potentially millions of people. There's not a lot of information available at this time. Here's what Skype posted on their blog earlier today...
No matter how advanced the technology, sooner or later it will become obsolete. Will your faculty (or your education IT department, for that matter) be prepared?
Wintel centralization has combined with Intel'scommitment to gigahertz space heaters to drivedata center space, cooling, and power costs up much faster than other costs
Follow up: Northrop Grumman said that it is committed to restoring the information systems behind key state of Virginia services and supported a thorough post mortem.
IBM and Microsoft have been left looking like rank cloud amateurs after this weekend's events. It's typical of how big, established companies over-estimate their competence at cloud computing and SaaS.
IBM's workforce rebalancing is as predictable as the seasons, but it's a stretch to think Big Blue is cutting more than 100,000 employees.