Author: David

January 4, 2011 Off

The Benefits of the Private Cloud

By David
Grazed from Insurance and Technology.  Author: Alfred Goxhaj.

The ever-increasing demand on insurance technology systems from multiple sales channels and processing operations makes the leveraging of cloud computing a logical choice for carriers. Businesses need to respond quickly to market demands and to scale resources up or down on demand, while providing customer access to those resources from anywhere at any time — all while reducing costs. In such a high-pressure, competitive marketplace, building availability, flexibility and agility into the IT infrastructure is key.

January 4, 2011 Off

More Yum Plugins: Security and Package Priority

By David
Grazed from ServerWatch.  Author: Joe Brockmeier.

Last week we looked at Yum Plugins and how to extend Yum’s functionality. This week, I’ll look at a few of Yum’s plugins, in particular the security plugin and the priorities plugin.

As I mentioned last week, I’m using Fedora 14 in these examples. If you’re on another system using Yum, like CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Yellow Dog (the original distro to ship Yum, by the way), the plugin behavior might be slightly different — or the plugin may not be available at all.

January 4, 2011 Off

Help Desk Hooks Into the Social Media Cloud

By David
Grazed from Internet Evolution.  Author: Sean Gallagher.

Many companies have embraced social media marketing as a way to get their messages to customers. So why do they still make their customers send email?

As The New York Times reported recently, email use is in decline as people — especially younger people — turn increasingly to social media and text messages to communicate. And people are more apt to express frustration with their customer experiences in social media like Twitter.

January 3, 2011 Off

IT Profession: Peril or Opportunity for African Americans?

By David
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author:  Don Tennant

I’ve written fairly extensively about African Americans in IT over the years, not because I claim to have any brilliant insights about the challenges faced by African Americans in this industry, but because I feel strongly that the topic warrants a lot more attention than it tends to get. So when I came across a blog post that lambasted “racism, prejudice and oppression” not just in IT, but specifically in social networking and cloud computing, my interest was piqued.

 

January 1, 2011 Off

Flash video gets a cloud option through Amazon

By David
Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Stephen Shankland.

Flash Media Server 4 lets customers send streaming video across the Net. By using it hosted on AWS‘ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, customers don’t have to worry so much about installation and configuration details.

January 1, 2011 Off

Supplying the Law of Demand

By David
Grazed from Destination CRM.  Author: Denis Pombriant.

Demand generation is one of the few things on which most businesspeople enthusiastically agree. We need it and we crave it. Without it, life is pretty miserable, as the last couple of years have vividly demonstrated.