Ubi talks IoT
Near ubiquitous broadband, cloud technologies and processor miniaturization, which has enabled the distribution of intelligence across multiple sensors and devices, have combined to ignite...
It's time to get paranoid about cloud
For customers of cloud-based services, the July 31, 2014 ruling by a US district court judge that data stored on Microsoft's email servers in...
YP Analytics to drive ad ROI awareness
Background
Founded in 1908 as a division of Bell Canada, the now autonomous YellowPagesGroup has become a household name in directory services. The core component...
New InsightaaS whitepaper links security with success and profitability
A new Dell-sponsored whitepaper by InsightaaS ‘connects the dots’ between IT security practices and business success. The paper, which includes research conducted by Techaisle,...
451 Research: Sprint's managed collaboration play: Google Apps for the SMB masses
InsightaaS perspective: 451 Research is one of the world’s leading sources of insight into cutting edge technologies — including areas that are important to...
BlackBerry returns to its roots
The key message at BlackBerry’s Security Summit last week in New York came across loud and clear: BlackBerry is returning to its roots as...
Distributed intelligence and IoT fog
By this point, anyone who is connected to the Internet knows how many ‘things’ will be online by 2020. Numbers of connected devices, first...
Enterprise ready Hadoop by RainStor
It's a common question: is Hadoop enterprise ready? Viewed from one angle, this is a moot question. Hadoop, v1.0 and v2.0, are already in...
DC for less than the price of power?
Notwithstanding the industry’s fixation on growth in cloud services markets, the colocation business is alive and well. While many individual players are executing on...
Vitamin Y: An alliance analysis of IBM/Apple
Context: On July 15, Apple and IBM announced a "global partnership to transform enterprise mobility." It spanned several different areas of collaboration: "industry-specific enterprise...
Building network basics
Case studies serve a dual purpose. As a technology showcase, they provide a vehicle for vendors to educate the market on state-of-the art offerings....
Building cloud security from the end up
In the spring of 2009, Gartner identified data security as one of the top five inhibitors to broader adoption of cloud computing. Research commissioned...
Automation overdrive: from IaaS to Blueprint engine
"Automation is the lifeblood of cloud," according to David Shacochis. "It’s like liquidity in the financial sphere — if we had to barter and...
Vitamin Y: Paul Lewis on why "You don’t have a Big Data problem"
Context: Paul Lewis is a CTO with a deep interest in Big Data. Now with Hitachi Data Systems after holding IT executive positions at...
Who can you trust?
Technology, like any tool, can be used well or badly. Sometimes the bad is malicious, and sometimes it's just the result of laziness, carelessness,...
