Gartner Gets It Wrong With Cloud Quadrant
Cloudera Puts Its Money Where Its Tech Is
The Benefits of the Private Cloud
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.
More Yum Plugins: Security and Package Priority
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.
For Facebook, Now Is the Time for Infrastructure Spending
Does Skytap’s $10M Signal a Strong Year for IaaS Clouds?
Help Desk Hooks Into the Social Media Cloud
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.
IT Profession: Peril or Opportunity for African Americans?
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.