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Nowadays, if we talk about CRMs (Customer Relationship Management) in the complex environment we live in, with the Internet, social networks and all the changes caused by globalization, we should talk about Business Intelligence.
The BI or analytic layer that we will call Customer Intelligence is able to extract valuable information from all the data about customers, and turn it into useful knowledge that enables the design of accurate strategies and generate competitive advantages…
It is cloud management solution – industry standard open source cloud computing tool to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of distributed data center infrastructures.
OpenNebula is a fully open-source management toolkit for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtual infrastructure in the data-center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management…
Cloud computing. The term derived from network diagrams that used a cloud to demonstrate the concept — a dispersed computing network where your infrastructure was hosted offsite and delivered when you needed. Easy enough to understand.
Cloud computing was supposed to be so much more than hosted. By hosting the hardware and software, providers could leverage aggregate the cost of hardware and maintenance and users would pay only for the amount of computing they used…
“The cloud.” It’s the buzziest tech buzzword in recent memory.
Thanks to fast, always-on Internet connections and vast server farms run by the likes of Amazon and Google, we’re able to offload more and more of our digital lives onto remote servers. Our documents can live in the cloud. Our photos can live in the cloud. Our e-mail can live in the cloud.
And soon, robots may live in the cloud. Or robot brains, at least…
The main objective of our projects like the Drummond Report and Cloud analysis, is to focus on the relationship between the technology and the desired outcomes in terms of business transformation.
The Drummond Report is another political exercise focused on the growing public sector deficits, Ontario in this case, and the author makes a number of recommendations for cost-saving measures to bring this situation under control…
“You put your information up there. You can get it from home, from your office, from your friend’s house,” she says.
Tesler is talking about cloud computing, a new way of looking at an old thing: the Internet (the time has finally come when we can call the Internet an "old thing"). The cloud is not really a cloud (it doesn’t hold moisture, doesn’t cause thunder, isn’t called stratus, cirrus, or nimbus); it is a metaphor for storage space and data that users can access from anywhere via the Internet…
The cloud is the new operating system for enterprises, and services are the new applications. The cloud provides the computing fabric upon which the next generation of services, from Pinterest to Instagram, foursquare to AirBnB, are being built. Just as Microsoft Windows and MacOS X have provided interfaces for the previous generation of desktop applications now on the decline, cloud providers like Amazon offer interfaces for the compute, storage, and networking these services require.
The cloud is a more fault-tolerant and flexible operating system than its predecessors. These two advantages derive from the cloud’s two hallmark features: it is both virtualized and distributed. Because it’s virtualized, failing hardware can be upgraded or swapped out, and virtual processes can be migrated to new machines with little end-user impact. Because it’s distributed across thousands of commodity boxes, services’ compute and bandwidth needs can be scaled up or down, and disk storage limitations are almost an anachronism…
As a former systems administrator, I can share a lot of stories about things that can (and will) go wrong when dealing with various customer requests. So, is cloud computing the secret weapon that can relieve many of the common customer service complaints?
Consider this: You’re a systems administrator who’s received a request for a new application server for a hot proof-of-concept project for a client. You fail to realize the customer marked the request urgent, so you acknowledge their request and it is added to your queue…
Everyone’s had the experience of discussing a concept with someone and suddenly seeing the look of understanding appear on their face as the meaning of the concept sinks in. I engage in a lot of conversations with IT managers about cloud computing, and have encountered many interesting reactions.
It can be intriguing to observe how IT executives perceive cloud computing will affect their organization’s processes and people. Most seem to regard cloud computing simply as a technology development that will affect one or perhaps a couple aspects of their organization. For example, some CIOs think of cloud computing as something that supports developer agility by providing the self-service of virtual machines. Others think of it as an infrastructure improvement that will reduce the cost of supporting legacy applications…
SolarWinds Inc. (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced its latest virtualization free tool – SolarWinds VM Monitor for Hyper-V.
“We’re seeing more customers add a second hypervisor to their virtualization mix, specifically Microsoft Hyper-V, based on what they need to achieve and for cost savings,” said Jonathan Reeve, SolarWinds’ Senior Director of Product Management. “SolarWinds VM Monitor for Hyper-V is a useful free tool for users testing a multi-hypervisor strategy and interested in monitoring Hyper-V in addition to their existing VMware hypervisor.”
SolarWinds VM Monitor for Hyper-V delivers an intuitive, desktop dashboard that continuously monitors a Microsoft Hyper-V host and associated virtual machines by providing real-time monitoring of health indicators.
SolarWinds VM Monitor for Hyper-V highlights: