Technology News: Sysadmin

Why Business Transaction Management Is Hot in 2009

Tuesday - June 30, 2009

Business transaction management has been getting a lot of attention lately: IT organizations want it, and every major vendor in systems and performance management has rushed to claim they do it. The promise of BTM is to finally be able to manage IT from a business perspective and make sense of the complexity of modern applications broken down in services that run across environments distributed behind the firewall and in the cloud. [More...]

Top 5 Reasons for Building Governance Into the Cloud

Monday - June 29, 2009

Our topic this week centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We're going to talk not just about IT governance, or service-oriented architecture governance. It's really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance. [More...]

Conspiracy Theories and the 'Smoking Gun'

Monday - June 29, 2009

Linux bloggers are never shy about laying blame at Microsoft's door, but in recent days the accusations seemed to be flying faster than ever. First, Groklaw published a post entitled, "Linux on Netbooks: The Smoking Gun." "Microsoft continues their predatory ways," lamented Anonymous in the Groklaw comments. [More...]

Why You Need a Network Analyzer

Wednesday - June 24, 2009

In today's world, it seems that more of the people I run across do not feel they need -- or, more accurately, don't understand why they need -- a protocol analyzer for their network. A few years ago, it seemed that more people understood just how important the analyzer was. For some reason, as networks have become smarter and much more complex, this understanding seems to have dissipated. [More...]

Is It Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Tuesday - June 23, 2009

Is there a difference between quality control and quality assurance? Just night and day. Unfortunately, many companies believe they are the same, when in reality the differences are overwhelming. Quality control, or black box testing, is chartered to ensure that the product is going to meet the user's needs -- not just to demonstrate that the program runs. [More...]

Wired Water: IT Gets Ready for the Shock

Monday - June 22, 2009

Go wet, young IT man. Your parched, imperiled planet needs you. When it comes to creating a future filled with fresh, drinkable water, information technology professionals have a significant career opportunity in a mega-sized market. The very economic survival of a thirsty, arid Earth depends a great deal on properly applying the skills and expertise of app developers and systems administrators. [More...]

The Many Layers of the Cloud

Monday - June 22, 2009

Let's discuss cloud computing in the context of the real-world enterprise. We've certainly heard a lot about the vision for cloud computing and what it can do for the delivery of applications, services, infrastructure, and even development and deployment. What's less clear is how we take the vision and apply it to today's enterprise concerns and requirements. [More...]

IT Needs a New Drug

Monday - June 15, 2009

Let's talk about the next era of information technology. We seem to be in it, but we don't have a name for it yet. Suddenly, "cloud computing" is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture, Software as a Service and Web-oriented architecture. [More...]

HP Gives Scale-Out Architecture Extreme Makeover

Thursday - June 11, 2009

HP on Wednesday announced its Extreme Scale-Out portfolio, intended to cut data center costs for businesses involved in heavy Web 2.0, cloud computing and high-performance computing activities. Such companies typically have data centers with thousands of servers. The HP ExSO portfolio includes a lightweight modular system architecture, as well as services and support. [More...]

Google Edges Deeper Onto MS Turf With Outlook Plug-In

Wednesday - June 10, 2009

Google released on Tuesday a plug-in to its Google Apps arsenal that could be the last push needed to nudge some businesses into fully adopting its cloud computing services. The product, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, works with the Premier version of Google apps, which costs $50 per business user per year, as well as the free educational version, which is limited to 50 user accounts. [More...]

The Mainframe Bridge to the Cloud

Monday - June 8, 2009

How can mainframes can help enterprises reach cloud-computing benefits faster? Let's look at what defines cloud computing, with an emphasis on private clouds or those computing models that enterprises can control on-premises, but that also favor and provide cloud-like efficiency with lower-end costs and a heightened ability to deliver services that support agile business processes. [More...]

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