A guide to monitoring your IBM SoftLayer environment

When you plan on moving any of your workloads to a cloud environment, there are several IT items that are necessary to deeply understand while building the solution design. First, you need to understand what server options are available from the cloud vendor you choose. Next, you may plan for storage, networking, load balancing, security, message services and monitoring services. In the information technology (IT) business world, many organizations need their most critical applications available…
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The Biggest Mistakes That Healthcare CIOs Are Making

My career in healthcare now spans over 35 years. I started out as a clinician (medical technologist), but have spent the last 20-plus years in the healthcare IT space. I spent several years in the software vendor world, well over 20 years in the healthcare consulting environment, and approximately 10 years in the provider IT […]
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"Boost Your Sales With Channel Partners": A New Salesforce E-Book

When it comes to growing your business, a channel partnership is an oppotunity to increase your value proposition to customers and grow your profits. A channel parter offers lead sharing, joint selling and access to different geographical markets to give your business a competitive advantage. But managing these partner relationships...

Vision of NexGen Storage After Spin-Out From SanDisk

NexGen Storage, Inc. unveiled its vision to provide value-driven data management solutions, which align the cost of storing, accessing and managing data to the business value of the data. Recently spun-out from SanDisk Corp., the newly independent company is well-positioned to deliver on its vision, the cornerstone of which it unveiled with the announcement of […]

No Longer Practical For Google To Update Android's Critical Security Flaw

Google's Adrian Ludwig has taken to Google+ to talk about the security issues around the new policy of not supplying patches and support to exploits of WebView on devices running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean or older. While it does explain Google's thinking behind only supporting the last two major versions of Android, it abandons a significant majority of Android users because "it was no longer practical."

18 New Open Source Projects in the 2015 Guide to the Open Cloud

The Linux Foundation this week released its second annual Guide to the Open Cloud, which profiles the open source projects that organizations are using to build their own open clouds from the ground up. This year's paper includes many new projects – 18 in total – and two additional technology categories that have become increasingly more relevant in the past year.

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