10 Ways Data Centers Are Becoming Greener
Get Purchased or Perish: The Harsh Reality of Cloud Platforms
Data management ‘can affect business performance’
Firms may wish to take the advice of one expert on board and tailor their data management software to ensure the best results.
Daniel Teachey, writing for Information Management magazine, said such technology can have a significant bearing on the performance of a company.
Especially in times like these, when the global economy is uncertain, organisations should spend money in areas that are sure to provide the biggest returns.
Many do not place data management within this bracket, although the author suggested it perhaps should be.
Node.js and the JavaScript Age
Three months ago, we decided to tear down the framework we were using for our dashboard, Python’s Django, and rebuild it entirely in server-side Javascript, using node.js. (If there is ever a time in a start-ups life to remodel parts of your infrastructure, it’s early on, when your range of motion is highest.)
This decision was driven by a realization: the LAMP stack is dead. In the two decades since its birth, there have been fundamental shifts in the web’s make-up of content, protocols, servers, and clients. Together, these mark three ages of the web:
VMware Launches Open Source Cloud Foundry
VMware Takes Over EMC’s Mozy Cloud Storage Service
The Role of the CIO in an IT Factory
Many chief information officers are really CIOs in name only. Far too many of them spend most of their time managing infrastructure rather than actual business information. In effect, the CIO is really the chief "infrastructure" officer.
In Search of a More App-friendly Cloud
When you get right down to it, the cloud isn’t about speed or flexibility or scalability or any of those infrastructure functions that IT worries about. It’s about applications.
Security ‘is not the only concern when conducting email marketing’
Firms in New Zealand that rely on email marketing strategies are among those to have been warned of some of the factors they must address when operating such a system.
Russell Parsons, writing for Marketing Week, explained security is the obvious item on the agenda, but there can be several others.
He noted there are numerous benefits to email marketing, such as reliability, a low carbon footprint and the ability to target the right audience.