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Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.
ValueWalk The investing maven bet big on technologies associated with the mobile computing sector while continuing to add other tech stocks to their portfolio. The firm filed it’s 13F report with the SEC yesterday on the 45 day deadline for submitting ownership … (more)
Our lives are all about being either on, or on call. (more)
Update We incorrectly posted that Cisco charges its users to participate in its BYOD program While the company’s report does list an average600 expense for … (more)
Computing By Peter Gothard A Liverpool NHS trust is pushing ahead with a bring your
own device (BYOD) strategy in a bid to cut costs, despite its IT chief conceding that the policy may well result in job losses in his department. James Norman, IT director, … (more)
FierceEnterpriseCommunications A Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) study found “quantifiable benefits,” as well as complexities associated with the “bring your own device” trend that has swept corporate America. A whopping 95 percent of respondents to the Cisco IBSG Horizons Study said their … (more)
The premise is simple enough, allow your employees to use their personal smartphones, tablets and computers for work, logging the devices onto your business … (more)
eWeek A BT survey of IT managers and bring your own device (BYOD) program users suggests concerns over corporate network security remain. It’s no secret that the bring your own device (BYOD) trend has opened up new possibilities for employees and the … (more)
InfoWorld By John Cox | Network World Cisco announced yesterday three pre-tested
bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility. The new Smart Solutions packages are by themselves not new at all: they’re … (more)
ZDNet (blog) It is why the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement is in the news so much, as many want to bring the tablet to work. The tablet frees folks up to work almost anywhere, in large part because mobile OSes have evolved to provide powerful mobile … (more)
PC Advisor By Thor Olavsrud | CIO US | 16 May 12 Late last year, VMware launched a new
bring your own device (BYOD) plan under which every one of its 6000 US employees was required to use his or her personal mobile phones for work. The mandate was more than a … (more)
eChannelLine Absolute Software has announced the release of Absolute Manage 6.1 which includes expanded “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) support for ultra-portable devices. With the release of Absolute Manage 6.1, the BYOD tasks required to enroll employees and their … (more)
Mobile & Apps People in the increasingly competitive political technology business say the industry is still in an early phase, with the massive data-collection potential of social media and mobile computing only beginning to be tapped. Nevertheless the field is … (more)
Technology Bloom News In today’s smartphone world, a new era of mobile computing is being experienced with the entry of quad-core powered smartphones into the market. And when it comes to these quad-core handsets, Taiwanese smartphone and tablet manufacturer HTC is … (more)
Does Mobile Computing Really Increase Productivity? Orion Jones on May 17, 2012, 12:35 PM. What’s the Latest Development? Being connected 24/7 … (more)
CenterBeam BYOD may offer competitive advantages for IT, according to research by communications service provider British Telecommunications. Sixty-four percent of IT managers said having BYOD policies would increase productivity, and 42 percent of employees who … (more)
NetworkComputing.com While that opens up market opportunities for a myriad of vendors, it’s a veritable Pandora’s Box for corporate IT grappling with ensuring that data leakage doesn’t become the order of the day in the age of BYOD, or bring your own device. (more)
IT Business Edge (blog) Hoffman told IT Business Edge blogger Carl Weinschenk that this is a growing issue as the amount of mobile malware increases and bring your own device (BYOD) makes the use of inadequately secured devices far more common. Hoffman: There have been many … (more)
Daily aggregation of big data news from @cloud_aware, dataaware.net.
The second annual Data Science Summit in Las Vegas on May 22 and 23, 2012, will bring together data scientists, executives, academics, data journalists, and … (more)
From Yahoo! Finance: HOPKINTON, Mass., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –News Summary:Greenplum, a division of EMC, will present the second annual Data … (more)
Alpine Miner is a visual data-mining tool built on and integrated seamlessly with the Greenplum database to utilize its massively-parallel processing (MPP) … (more)
It’s clear that we’re collecting more data, but the question is to what end? Whether it’s web analytics, web performance analytics or any other type of data, … (more)
Channel Insider Big Data is one of those mega IT trends that winds up being a gift to the channel that keeps on giving. Beyond the obvious impact of the Big Data on demand for additional storage capacity and the rise of new technologies to implement such as the Hadoop … (more)
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Michael Maoz VP Distinguished Analyst 13 years at Gartner 26 years IT industry. Michael Maoz is a research vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research. His research focuses on CRM and customer-centric Web strategies. (more)
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programmer’s notes on python, software and engineering. (more)
By Dmitriy Setrakyan
Dmitriy Setrakyan introduces GridGain, comparing it and outlining the cases where it is a better fit than Hadoop, accompanied by a live demo showing how to set up a GridGain job. (more)
As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score. (more)
Here Is The City Individuals will typically have previous experience as a data scientist / Data set analyst / data strategist. The organisation have a strong online presence … (more)
18th … PR Web (press release) “KDD continues to grow as it promotes new ideas and initiatives in the strategic and increasingly important fields of data mining, Big Data, predictive analytics and data science.” – Dr. Usama Fayyad, SIGKDD Executive Committee Chairman The world’s … (more)
GigaOM And while it has just one data scientist on its staff of 30, all of the teams at Howcast work with the data on a regular basis to inform their decisions. (more)
Data Scientist as a position is quite new and their roles are pretty much evolving still. In such a case, it is a little difficult to assess a salary offer for the position … (more)
Get information, facts, and more about Jake Porway, Data Scientist from National Geographic. (more)
The data scientist will work with large online advertising data sets to find patterns using statistical data mining and machine learning methods. The scientist will … (more)
Help … MarketWatch (press release) PALO ALTO, CA, May 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Cloudera Inc, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, today announced that Hadoop managed services provider MetaScale has joined Cloudera’s … (more)
CRN By Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Quantum this week unveiled a new appliance for big
data storage that can manage the metadata of up to 800 million files related to multiple petabytes of data. Quantum’s new StorNext M660 metadata appliance stores and manages the … (more)
ADT Magazine By Jeffrey Schwartz Informatica will be updating its flagship Informatica
Platform to facilitate the integration of big data with legacy and cloud-based repositories. The announcement was made this week at the company’s annual Informatica World … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) At last year’s Hadoop World, there was a feeding frenzy for data scientists, which only barely dwarfed demand for the more technically oriented data architects. In English, that means: Potential MacArthur Grant recipients who have a passion and insight … (more)
18th … Seattle Post Intelligencer Attracting hundreds of high caliber scientists, academics and students, as well as renowned industry experts, KDD 2012 is the top forum for present and discuss academic and industry advancements in data mining, data science, Big Data and predictive … (more)
BusinessWeek The so-called Big Data business has already permeated other industries and generated more than $30 billion in revenues last year, according to research firm IDC. It’s expected to grow to close to $34 billion this year in part because of increased use … (more)
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
IT brought into focus, from the network edge to the heart of the data center. (more)
Tips on deploying and using VMware vCloud Director 1.5. Preparing for deployment, network and security considerations, and product integration are included. (more)
In … SYS-CON Media (press release) HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwire) — 05/16/12 — Onit, a leading provider of business productivity and process management Apps, today announced that the Texas Lawyer’s In-House Counsel Summit has invited its CEO, Eric M. Elfman, to present on cloud computing … (more)
“We chose OpenStack because we want to help enterprise IT deploy and manage applications on OpenStack clouds. Scalr builds enterprise open source Cloud Management software designed to allow IT administrators to set quotas, budget … (more)
The study shows cloud computing emerging as an investment priority. When asked what types of investments companies were likely to make in technology, 40 of the respondents cited cloud computing. That’s close to automation of business … (more)
in … PR Web (press release) In an increasingly competitive business environment, SSAE 16 and SOC 2 Audits are providing cloud computing companies a competitive advantage amongst their competition. SSAE 16 Professionals has assembled top tier talent whose sole focus is on helping … (more)
PR Web (press release) IT leaders recognize the opportunities created by cloud computing today, yet they struggle to translate that opportunity into meaningful action within their organizations… Business and IT executives interested in learning the differences in various … (more)
PaaS … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Rishidot Research announced an enterprise conference focused on Platform as a Service Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 Rishidot Research LLC, the next-gen analyst firm, today announced DeployCon 2012, the first conference focused exclusively on … (more)
This is the demonstration of the flow of REST API requests between key services that comprise OpenStack Compute, exactly as it happens when one provisions … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) WOBURN, MA and NEW YORK, NY, May 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced at the Jenkins User Conference in New York City today new high availability functionality now … (more)
an … MarketWatch (press release) New monetization models that can be achieved by deploying a vertical platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and exposing business APIs to partners and customers. — How to create an “AppFactory” to host partner applications while maintaining compliance, … (more)
InformationWeek IBM also offers platform-as-a-service, SmartCloud Application Services, to give customers the option of using a collaborative lifecycle management service for developing and deploying applications. The service has been available in beta. (more)
Web Host Industry Review The move comes a few months after ViaWest launched its KINECTed Cloud service, which provides customers with a choice between a VMware-based vCloud Powered hypervisor and an open source Xen-based hypervisor. The launch of its cloud NAS platform signals … (more)
OStatic (blog) 17, 2012Comments (0) Since it first arrived on the open source scene two years ago and got its initial wind at its back from NASA and Rackspace, the OpenStack cloud computing platform has received support from many powerful organizations, Dell, IBM, … (more)
TechTarget Similarly, the new HP Converged Cloud brings together HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Converged Management and Security, Converged Information and OpenStack technology, according to the company’s news release. The Converged Cloud release roughly … (more)
Transportation … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Both SAAS (Software As A Service) solutions are designed to streamline a variety of transportation related processes, allowing companies to improve efficiencies and reduce shipping costs. “By enabling our customers with Intelliship and HALO, … (more)
InformationWeek (blog) Many small practices like the software-as-a-service approach to electronic health records because it removes tech headaches and offers low upfront costs. By Ken Terry InformationWeek Small practices are flocking to electronic health records that use … (more)
Salvatore Orlando introduces OpenStack and Quantum, a project intended to provide network connectivity as a service, covering the current state and expected … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) VIENNA, Va., May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Leading Service Provider and Technology Integrator MicroTech announces a new cloud computing solution — the MicroTech Advanced Virtual Environment; a next generation technology solution that offers … (more)
IT Business Edge (blog) The adoption of cloud computing into the US Government and its implementation depend upon a variety of technical and non-technical factors. A fundamental reference point, based on the NIST definition of cloud computing, is needed to describe an overall … (more)
BBC News The government may miss its cloud computing targets because of a lack of enthusiasm from public sector IT staff, a report has found. The G-Cloud plan calls for 50% of new government IT spending to move to cloud computing services by 2015. (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara Facebook decision makers and their bankers were
reportedly closeted together shortly before the markets closed in New York Thursday trying to decide whether to price Facebook’s IPO at $38 or $39 a share, according to the Wall Street … (more)
eWeek IBM announced enhancements to its SmartCloud cloud computing solution and highlighted several new customers and partners on the platform. IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced advancements to its SmartCloud Services and added new customers and partners. (more)
Taking the industry by storm Clifix has vouched for Leo Technosoft’s. (more)
Wired News Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) (running VMware CloudFoundry): check; Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) (tapping Nicira and SolidFire): check; a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform: check; and disaster recovery and a virtual desktop program: check, … (more)
Daily aggregation of log management and SIEM news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
Forbes Yesterday, the machine data company Splunk debuted on the Nasdaq at an opening share price of $17. By day’s end, shares more than doubled to $35.48, giving Splunk a valuation of over $3 billion. As #38 on our list of America’s Most Promising Companies, … (more)
There are plenty of ways that a business establishment or office building can be protected against trespassing and break-in attempts. (more)
This software plays a very vital role in enhancing network security by providing real-time alerts pertaining to Windows Event logs and W3C event logs. (more)
MarketWatch PALO ALTO, CA, May 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — TIBCO LogLogic, provider of the only scalable log and security intelligence platform (LSIP) for the … (more)
PALO ALTO CAMarketwire 051712 TIBCO LogLogic provider of the only scalable log and security intelligence platformLSIP for the enterprise and cloud today … (more)
SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world’s leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news. (more)
Marketwire PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – May 17, 2012) – TIBCO LogLogic, provider of the only scalable log and security intelligence platform (LSIP) for the enterprise … (more)
SC Magazine Lauds LogLogic MX as Only Recommended SIEM Product TIBCO LogLogic Receives 5Star Review From SC Magazine for EasytoDeploy Log Management Event … (more)
MarketWatch MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, May 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Sumo Logic, the next-generation log management and analytics company, today announced it has been … (more)
SYS-CON Media MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwire) — 05/17/12 — Sumo Logic, the next-generation log management and analytics company, today announced it has been selected … (more)
MarketWatch Splunk (NASDAQ:SPLK) began trading April 20, just four weeks before Facebook’s debut. It actually did quite well, doubling from its IPO price in its first day of trading. Still, that only helped the insiders and institutions who were able to get shares … (more)
GeekWire The arrival of Groupon follows engineering offices from companies such as Hulu, Splunk, eBay, Facebook, Zynga and others, a trend we’ve talked about in great detail over the past few months. The new office will be led by Vinayak Hegde who joined … (more)
Bloomberg Finra’s notice about market orders follows malfunctions that disrupted the debuts of Bats Global Markets Inc. in March and Splunk Inc. (SPLK) in April, and comes as Facebook’s listing venue, Nasdaq Stock Market, conducts tests of its computers and … (more)
Investor’s Business Daily Neither of them was quite as hot as Splunk (SPLK), which soared 109% Thursday after nearly doubling its planned deal size to $230 million. The reception for Splunk, which rose 2% on Friday, probably encouraged investors to open their wallets, … (more)
FCW.com Some agencies are turning to security information and event management (SIEM) applications to collect the data feeds into a consolidated view and identify … (more)
We use ARC Sight and have SEPM 11.0 with a SQL DB. My ARC Sight Tech is trying to have Logging flow. from the SEPM DB to Arcsight Express application. (more)
Job detail for the post of ARC SIGHT(SIEM Tools) Opening in Kolkata in Sonyo Consultants Kolkata, 3 to 6 years of experience. Apply for the job Now ! Search … (more)
In late 2010, HP scooped up market leader ArcSight for $1.5 billion. Last year, McAfee purchased Nitro Security while IBM acquired Q1 Labs. blogs. May 15 … (more)
TIBCO LogLogic, provider of the only scalable log and security intelligence platform (LSIP) for the enterprise and cloud, announced that SC Magazine, the … (more)
Daily aggregation of ITIL news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
MarketWatch (press release) HERNDON, Va., May 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Axios Systems, the world’s leading provider of IT Service Management (ITSM) and pioneer in automated ITIL(R) support, today announced the availability of assyst10, the award-winning enterprise ITSM solution … (more)
EIN News (press release) ISO/IEC 20000, the international IT Service Management standard, may be the answer: www.itgovernance.co.uk/iso20000.aspx. By implementing ISO20000 an organisation can gain considerable competitive advantage and thus ensure that it retains existing … (more)
CloudTweaks News Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is not just a cloud-based delivery model, but also a service that allows organizations to meet their IT service management needs. Without a doubt, SaaS applications have a lot of benefits: saving money and time, … (more)
Top IT service management (ITSM) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) White Papers for Xasir Mirza – May 16, 2012. Daily White Papers and Webcasts May 16 … (more)
Passing IT Infrastructure Library V3 Foundation exam. Posted on May 14, 2012 by ehendarsyah. Today I took EX0-101 ITIL V3 Foundation exam, and … (more)
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Herndon based Windward IT Solutions, a leading IT service management and systems engineering firm, is celebrating its 15 year anniversary. Since its incorporation in the Commonwealth of Virginia in May of 1997, Windward has been a trusted partner of … (more)
Daily aggregation of mobile computing news from @cloud_aware, mobileaware.net.
CRN By Rick Whiting, CRN SAP is looking to grow the number of channel partners
who can develop and sell mobile computing solutions around the company’s SAP Mobile Platform and Afaria mobile device management software. SAP Monday debuted a line of mobile … (more)
CIO Magazine More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work. (more)
Total Telecom By Nick Wood , Total Telecom, in Miami Survey reveals bandwidth use,
increased IT support costs are telecoms operators’ biggest concerns in bring-your-own-device segment. Telecom operators expect enterprise demand for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) LONDON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Over 80 per cent of IT managers think that enterprises with a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy hold a competitive advantage over other organizations, according to research commissioned by BT. (more)
MarketWatch (press release) … some cases embracing, “bring your own device” (BYOD) as a reality in the enterprise. The study shows some of the quantifiable benefits and complexities associated with allowing employees to use their own mobile devices on their employers’ networks. (more)
Your … MarketWatch (press release) LOUIS, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, today announced the results of a global survey that explores the growing demand for “bring your own device” (BYOD) support from … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) ANDOVER, Mass., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, today announced that Mat-Su Borough School District in Alaska is deploying an Enterasys OneFabric BYOD architecture to upgrade its … (more)
MSPmentor The bring your own device (BYOD) trend is gaining traction among businesses now, according to a new report from secure mobile device management technology provider Zenprise. Zenprise concludes that companies are not only embracing the BYOD trend, … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) Mobile computing has accelerated the global App Economy, with cross-industry deployment on the Android platform, such as mobile banking, gaming, healthcare and entertainment apps. According to a February 2012 mobile malware report from Kaspersky Lab, … (more)
Mobile bloom News In today’s smartphone market, we begin to see quad-core powered devices starting to slowly become available which essentially ushers in a new era of mobile computing to our lives. When it comes to quad-core devices, HTC has the distinction of being the … (more)
Inc.com Energy and health care companies and businesses that require a significant amount of customer interaction have been seeking mobile computing solutions aggressively and are the IT consulting industry’s best customers, Plunkett says. (more)
RedOrbit According to research firm Strategy Analytics, China remains at the forefront of the worldwide mobile computing boom, and last year saw 23 million smartphones sold in just the third quarter. The Chinese are even overtaking the Japanese for the love of … (more)
In this presentation from DevCon5, Dir. of Product Management at Qualcomm, Sy Choudhury … (more)
Datamation This particular act — and the convergence of social networking and mobile computing generally — dominates the hard-core center of what’s happening in Silicon Valley right now. The reason is that sharing mobile photos has suddenly become central to … (more)
Wall Street Journal (blog) … on the smart computing technologies of sensors and other awareness devices, machine-to-machine (M2M) networks, mobile computing, real-time analytics, collaborative applications for project, case, and services management, and related technologies. (more)
Billing World The results of a new bring-your-own-device (BYOD) study from Amdocs highlight the need for converged business and operational support systems (B/OSS) to provide an end-to-end view of the customer that links personal and business personas for a unified … (more)
ZDNet (blog) By Rachel King | May 16, 2012, 2:05pm PDT Summary: Join experts and CBS
Interactive editors to hear more about what the enterprise world is doing about the BYOD trend. If you’re using your personal mobile device for work, and there’s a good chance you … (more)
IT Business Edge (blog) By date: I think the recent news about the cyber attacks in hotels is as
good of an example as there is on the importance of strong security with BYOD. Whether or not we are authorized to use our devices for work and whether or not we are traveling on … (more)