For a number of years Intercloud has been a term known only in the academic world and amongst few industry experts.The Intercloud is a"cloud of clouds" and the Wikipedia description perfectly outlines the reason why Intercloud is ...
Hannover Messe is once again upon us. The world's premier industrial technical showcase will be held in Hannover, Germany fromApril 7-11, 2014. Last year's faire had a clear focus on the"The Integrated Industry", often...
In 2011, Cisco's Chief Information Officer Rebecca Jacoby established CITEIS, a 'private cloud' designed to more quickly, more flexibly and more cost-effectively give our employees the I.T. resources they need to do their jobs. CI...
Source: CDC Fluview 2013-2014 Influenza Season Week 11 ending March 15, 2014I was thinking the seasonal flu for the year was almost over, and then last week, I get flu. While looking at the CDS fluview, it continues to report a do...
Web surfers in February 2014 experienced a median malware encounter rate of 1:341 requests, compared to a January 2014 median encounter rate of 1:375. This represents a 10% increase in risk of encountering web-delivered malware du...
Last week I had the opportunity to attend theAFCEA Homeland Security conferenceinWashington, D.C. Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the first Director of theOffice of Homeland Security was appointedleadi...
At CES this year we announced the expansion of Videoscape to the cloud. By launching Videoscape Cloud Software and Videoscape Cloud Services, we are empowering our customers with flexibility and agility to provision and scale infr...
After a metric ton of work by the entire community, Open MPI has released version 1.7.5. Among the zillions of minor updates and new enhancements are two major new features: MPI-3.0 conformance OpenSHMEM support (Linux only) S...
Innovation. Change. Market transitions. This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today's accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibili...
A couple of months ago I designed a Cisco Unified Wireless Network for an enterprise company. One of the big challenges was the ability to serve wireless guest services in the branch offices, which are connected to the headquarter...
A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to prod...
This post was also authored by Min-yi Shen and Martin Lee. Security is all about probability. There is a certain probability that something bad will happen to your networks or your systems over the next 24 hours. Hoping that nothi...