by Chris Kenealy on March 15, 2013
in Audio, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, IT, SaaS, Storage, Technology, Top 10's
Four Human Characteristics Given To Cloud Computing I have always admired the haughtiness of most people when it comes to making everything more human. It truly is a testament to our own sense of entitlement that we must make nonhuman concepts and objects, and change them so we can take an interest in them. We even have a word for this practice called personification. This is the act of giving an animal a human voice in cliche children’s films, and making our early 1990s computers a little too creepy when they said hello and goodbye to you. Now, I am
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Heroes Of The Cloud – Part 7, Ladies Edition When we think of the stereotypical IT worker, for better or worse, a certain image comes to mind. Fairly or not, we tend to think of some one who takes up IT as a profession as a grown up computer geek, either a very skinny or slightly over weight guy, in either case the result of too many hours in front of the screen resulting in not enough physical activity. This has also resulted in a need for corrective lenses, if your image of the IT worker included tape on the
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What Are CIO’s Saying About (EIM) Enterprise Information Management Infographic Source: OpenText
by Pete Knight on March 12, 2013
in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Google Cloud, Google OS, Images, IT, Storage, Technology, Uncategorized, Virtualization
Heroes Of The Cloud – Part 6 (Google and VMware) If there is one company that defines the growth and importance of the Internet, the company would have to be Google. Google did not invent everything that it does on the ‘net, and to be sure, some of the things that the company is attempting to do are in arenas where Google is playing catch-up. There is no denying that in Google’s core business, search, they are still the “go-to” application for most users. Google’s power and influence make them a contender in almost any field they choose to operate
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SimCity – Look At My City. And It Is Gone The dream they all waited for to come true, to build a modern city with resource management and cooperative play, filling empty lands and hills with thriving cities and metropolises, was close. Having your friends in the neighborhood supplying you with goods and services sounded like fun, like a real improvement and innovation to the monotone single player experience in the past games, which urged you to build everything you need yourself. A feature online and cloud gaming could achieve. Too bad most pre-orders of the new SimCity (5) could
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The Lighter Side Of The Cloud – Last Years 10 Favorites Each Friday we bring you a new comic. However, for this Friday, we have decided to compiled a list of our Favorite 10 “The Lighter Side Of The Cloud” Comics from the past year. Hopefully these will make your Friday a little bit lighter. Please consider sharing and Tweeting @cloudtweaks some of your favorites comics from this list. Enjoy! #1) Bullseye #2) Growing Up #3) Transformation #4) Don’t Worry #5) Self Education #6) Magical #7) The Answers #8) The Wish List #9) Big Data Project #10) Company Profits
Cloud infographic: Cloud Security Adoption Security is a real issue even though it is true that cloud computing is just as safe as traditional systems when it comes to apparent vulnerabilities and security holes. This is because of the nature of cloud computing, the public cloud, there are a lot more people with proximity access to the data… Continue reading Included is a useful infographic made available by CA Technologies. Infographic Source: CA Technologies
Cloud Infographic: Companies Fighting For Data The amount of data in our world increases massively day-by-day. Big data is about capturing, storing and analyzing large pools of data from customers/consumers, suppliers, partners, operations, employees etc. According to a McKinsey report, US companies from almost all industry sectors have, on average, hundreds of terabytes of data stored per company. The amount of data is growing as companies gather more and more information with each transaction and interaction with their customers. Read More: Big Data & The Cloud Infographic Source: Evault
