Fed’s Efforts to Boost IT Project Success Could Become Victim of Budget Cuts
It’s kind of ironic. The federal government’s effort to cut costs through better management of its IT projects might become a victim of cost cutting.
Data management ‘is key to virtualisation’
Firms or individuals tempted by the prospect of desktop virtualisation have been advised efficient data management is the key to successful adoption of the technology.
Robin Birtstone, writing for the Register, said implementing the capacity to safely store hundreds or thousands of pieces of information is a necessary step.
He noted getting the size of a data centre is important and suggested planning its arrival and initial operations is another wise move.
Lenovo collaborates with Intel on cloud-based applications service
Lenovo on Tuesday announced a hosted applications service that can detect the hardware capabilities of an end user’s laptop and tailor the service accordingly.
Secure Cloud Access (SCA) provides access to Windows applications that are hosted on a central server and optimises the services based on the available processing power, memory, graphics, battery life and bandwidth, said Bryan Thomas, manager of alternative client computing and server software at Lenovo.
Microsoft cloud ERP plans met with mixed reactions
Microsoft’s announcement this week that it would begin offering its Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) software via the Azure cloud platform drew significant interest from attendees of the Convergence conference in Atlanta, but some users and partners have questions Microsoft has yet to answer about its plans.
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Watson Goes to Work in the Hospital
Designed to answer Jeopardy! questions, IBM’s Watson is of little use beyond the game show’s set. But some of the techniques that helped the computer defeat two human Jeopardy! champions in February are showing promise in a new context: the hospital. Researchers in Canada are using analytics like those that helped the computer decipher the language of clues to provide an early warning when babies in an intensive care unit acquire a hospital-borne infection.
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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: