Security specialists are fond of using expressions like "robust protection"
and "multi-layered defenses" when it comes to setting out their stall and
telling us exactly how they are able to protect our data and applications.
Looking closer at enterprise security, we see that lower down the buzzword
pecking order for some reason is the word "insight" in its various forms.
It seems insight means more than one thing in information technology these
days, but perhaps it's no coincidence that every meaning or interpretation of
the term essentially falls somewhere under the umbrella of enterprise
security.
Insight means "application visibility" -- and the need for a clear picture of
enterprise software form, function and therefore stability. Insight means
"staff and stakeholder" control - and the ability to stipulate policy
throughout the enterprise on access controls and... (more)
If the Linux Foundation releases a survey suggesting that open source is
poised for growth, is that hard to get excited about? Well, they would say
that, wouldn't they?
If the Ovum Research team releases a study suggesting that Android is soon to
become the top developer platform, is that hard to get excited about? Well,
they have, haven't they?
The Linux Foundation sees open source technology set for its grandest age yet
based on low total cost of ownership, technical features and security.
Comments are based upon a new survey entitled "Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A
Survey of ... (more)
The topic of performance management in information technology circles has, by
and large, been a relatively thorny issue at times. Part of the problem with
post-deployment solutions is that code may be buggy and troublesome,
functionality may not be close enough to original requirements and (often
most important) real-world data volumes supersede that which the system might
have originally been designed for.
Yes cloud computing can provide a route to much needed flexibility in both
processing power and data storage capacity, but users want a software system
that works right from ... (more)
I put it to you that there is no more emotive word in information technology
than "sprawl"..! From the olde Middle English word ‘spraulen,' it is surely
the term (other than ‘crash') most deeply loathed by network managers and
individual users alike.
As the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's American Dictionary of the
English Language seem to be lacking a formal definition, we'll provide one
ourselves here.
IT Sprawl (verb, with object) - that state of IT deployment wherein
successive waves of corporate procurement have resulted in a fragmented and
disconnected collection ... (more)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 launches today with what is labelled as
"significantly expanded" management tools and enhancements to its
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
Technology analysts at IDC have argued that this is an "increasingly
competitive" time in the virtualisation marketplace, so Red Hat has clearly
played to up its game and offered more capabilities than the product it
initially launched in November 2009.
For its part, Red Hat asserts that its virtualisation software is being used
in increasingly "mission-critical production deployments" and th... (more)
Adrian Bridgwater is a freelance journalist and corporate content creation specialist focusing on cross platform software application development as well as all related aspects software engineering, project management and technology as a whole.
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