Infrastructure from PolySpot Offers Secure Information Delivery Across the Enterprise
November 1, 2012
With the amount of attention on big data, any software solution vendor is likely to rise up and present their fancy marketing language for enterprise infrastructure as the one and only kind of software that can tackle the challenge big data poses. Well, ZDNet speaks only the language of pure and simple truth in their article “Big Data: Why It’s Really an Architecture Challenge.”
Business intelligence and data warehousing may be two common aspects of the larger system for extracting insights from big data, but data warehouses were not designed for the volume of integration and access required and neither were business-intelligence systems.
The article opens by pointing directly to infrastructure as the key component:
What’s missing from all the conversations about big data is a focus on the infrastructure necessary to support it — and in particular its use in real time. For many companies, big data means opening up access to the data warehouses they have always maintained. Data warehousing has been and continues to be a critical component of enterprise-class organisations. Such systems provide the aggregation of data from across the organisation and enable it to be sliced and diced into consumable chunks allowing business analysts to provide insights into business conditions.
Infrastructure is what delivers information across the enterprise, allowing the true dissemination of insights to occur. More often than not, companies allow the magnitude of little data bits to distract from the larger ideas that evolve from the sum of the parts – but not PolySpot.
Megan Feil, November 1, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
No Plunge Involved When Extracting Big Data Insights With PolySpot
October 26, 2012
What popular concept does not garner a lot of talk and buzz before the ball gets rolling? Big data is not unlike anything else. Action will come when planning around purchasing software and acquiring talent fall into place. No matter the level of hype businesses will rely on information provided by articles such as ZDNet‘s “Taking the Big Data Plunge a Challenge for Enterprise: Cisco.”
When this happens, IT architecture will no longer look the way it did in the traditional business analytics and application delivery model, which consisted of a compute tier, a storage tier, and networking. Architecture for big data is based on a scale-out model with multiple clusters of compute and storage units. Fortunately, there is not much change in hardware making the transformation to focusing on big data and easy and affordable one.
The article shared:
Regardless, organisations are still grappling with changes in the method of handling an influx of data, Cisco Consulting Systems Architect Adam Radford said, but it’s important to take advantage of big data, as it provides much more insight into things like internal operations and customer sentiments. However, big data and traditional analytics not only require different IT architectures, but approaches in retrieving information as well, he said.
There is one certainty: enterprise organizations want big data and they want the tools to make sense of it. As for recommendations, PolySpot has made a name for itself specializing in delivering information and insights.
Megan Feil, October 26, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Big Data Creates Jobs and PolySpot Delivers Information
October 19, 2012
Big Data has been helping to increase efficiency and generate ROI for businesses, and now it might just help in lowering unemployment. Read Write Web’s article “Big Data Is Creating Big Job Demand” tells us that Big Data is opening the door to some computer savvy positions now and in the future.
Corporations are investing in employees that are proficient in software development and have a nice mix of IT related skills:
Even if you are not an engineer, many hiring managers want candidates to have a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle. More development equals more QA or ensuring a project, product or service meets certain standards and satisfies requirements. Programming has been at the top of the career skills lists for quite a while, and there are no signs of this demand abating any time soon. Between big data and mobile-application demand alone, those who code well should have more employment opportunities for some time to come.
The innovative technologies keep developers in high demand and increase the need for skilled technical positions. Companies utilizing Big Data solutions that offer insight enabling infrastructure components such as PolySpot solutions will be set once the workforce is in place because these solutions deliver information securely to all employees.
Jennifer Shockley, October 19, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Information Delivery for Mobile Workers: A Big Data Need
October 17, 2012
In the beginning of the Big Data craze, there was always the impending potential of tiny mobile devices, tablets and Wi-Fi connections bringing even more data to the table. Now, massive amounts of data repositories from all the user activity on exists, but the question of analyzing it effectively and quickly still remains on the table.
With the consistent boasting of the benefits of Big Data, it is no surprise that the TechCrunch article “Telefonica Wants To Turn Its Mobile Data Into A Big Data Business, Launches Dynamic Insights Unit” states the mobile industry is ready for their piece of Big Data action:
Big data is one of the key building blocks of the digital economy. Approached in a smart and responsible way it has the potential to transform every part of business and society. Telefónica says that Dynamic Insights’ first product will be called “Smart Steps” and will be aimed at companies and public-sector organizations to “measure, compare, and understand what factors influence the number of people visiting a location at any time. Presumably, it will combine not just user numbers over given periods but also track movements at particular locations.
Having access to all that data does no good without a reliable information management platform to allow enterprise wide access to relevant data swiftly and securely. We’ve got our eyes on PolySpot information delivery solutions.
Jennifer Shockley, October 17, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Operational Efficiencies Improve with Solutions that Deliver Information
October 16, 2012
IBM branched into cloud computing with PureFlex and applications with PureApplications, so seeing them move toward data analytics is not surprising. The TechCrunch article “Meet PureData, IBM’s New Big Box For Big Data,” discusses the latest edition to IBM’s Pure series.
Apparently big players like IBM and Oracle have decided to sell their big box systems and replace the old servers that their customers utilize for legacy software:
They call these boxes converged systems. They essentially are new age mainframes with state-of-the art compute, storage, and networking all in one system. The PureData System is designed to manage petabytes of data. According to IBM, it can manage up to 100 databases and can perform analytics in a matter of minutes versus hours to understand consumer purchases and other data-intensive tasks, such as detecting credit card fraud. It focuses on transactional applications such as e-commerce, customer analysis and analyzing operations.
The combination of IBM’s three Pure strategy will create an all in one solution, but they are stepping into the game a little late. Developers like PolySpot have been providing an all-in-one solution for almost a decade offering a platform that delivers information. Their unique infrastructure component can be used to sort, store and develop innovative and cost-effective applications, while providing users with quick, access to the relevant data necessary to increase operational efficiency and ROI.
Jennifer Shockley, October 16, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Is Google Fiber Flopping in Kansas City
September 15, 2012
Business Insider recently reported on Google’s new super high speed Internet and cable TV service in the article “A Lot of Kansas City Residents are Not Signing Up for Google Fiber.”
According to the article, despite the fact that half the eligible neighborhoods in Kansas City showed interest in signing up for Google Fiber, now that the Gigabit Internet service has been officially launched these same “Fiberhoods” are not following through.
Google’s plan of only building a service for areas that really wanted it seemed like a smart idea. However, a few weeks before the pre-registration process was complete, only half of the available neighborhoods had signed up. So rather than deciding against going ahead with the service, Google chose to adjust the the goals to make it easier for Fiberhoods to qualify.
The article states:
“The net result is that more neighborhoods may become eligible to get Google Fiber. But it also points to another simple thought: a surprisingly large number of Kansas City residents aren’t interested.
There’s been a lot of discussion about how Google will turn this project into a nationwide service and that it could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to do that. If Kansas City doesn’t show a lot of love for it, it’s going to be hard to convince Google, or other cable companies, to make that kind of investment.”
We find this report puzzling. Our assumption was that Google would slam dunk the other broadband providers. It seems unusual to turn down a Googley deal.
Jasmine Ashton, September 15, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
HP Security Believes Stability is Overrated
September 13, 2012
The likely assumption for those working in information technology systems is that stability is an ultimate goal. However, according to HP Software Security Evangelist Rafal Los in the article “Three Steps for Introducing More Chaos Into Systems (Yes, That’s a Good Thing),” on ZDNet, too much stability is a bad thing. Los warns that too much stability would cause IT departments to lose their edge by encouraging complacency and resistance to change. Los argues that in smoothly running departments, if something goes wrong, it will be more difficult to recover.
The article reads:
“‘Every organization I’ve ever been a part of has spent countless dollars and immeasurable energy striving for stability in which everything is predictable,’ [Los] says. ‘Unfortunately, these are the organizations that recover slowest when the inevitable, unpredictable catastrophe hits.’ An apt comparison may be ‘a search-and-rescue team that sits idle for too long can become rusty under pressure without constant drilling and practice.’
Instead of striving for stability, IT executives should strive for more resiliency, Los says. In essence, be a little more of a ‘chaotic’ enterprise.”
His suggestions for “chaos?” Allowing some components to fail on purpose and not building completely unbreakable systems. We disagree with his thinking that chaos should be a goal. A strong and steady flow in an organization is something we think should be strived for as opposed to a chaotic environment.
Andrea Hayden, September 13, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Swiftype Needs Engineers for Modern Site Search
September 4, 2012
Have you ever been frustrated by site searches? Do you happen to be a “full stack” engineer? Well, you just might be in luck because Swiftype recently posted a jobs ad on ycombinator.com in need of help for the development of a new site search to be used on a variety of sites. The Hacker News posting, Swiftype (YC W12) is hiring full-stack engineers to build better search software, claims their new software offers:
“An API and dashboard built with Rails 3, Rails Metal, MongoDB, Redis and Lucene. A high performance crawler capable of spidering millions of pages per hour. An easy-to-install search box with modern features like autocomplete. Search analytics and results re-ordering. An intelligent page-content analysis system for parsing websites automatically. Client libraries for Ruby, Python, PHP and jQuery. Horizontally scalable Infrastructure. A lot of happy customers.”
If you are in need of a job and think you might qualify for the position, check out the post. If it works smoothly the new site search should be a much-needed update to the many crummy site searches out there today. However, nothing is free and an update of this kind is not going to be cheap. How much will this puppy cost?
Edie Marie, September 04, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
HP Plans to Dominate the Cloud
August 21, 2012
Think Amazon has the cloud locked up? Or that, perhaps, Google or IBM is destined to lead this field? InfoWorld presents another view in “HP’s Cloud Guy: Why We’re the Enterprise Cloud.” Wait, HP has a Cloud Guy?
Yes, it does, and his name is Biri Singh. Singh, who used to be VP of cloud computing at IBM, hopes to combine HP’s IaaS (infrastructure as a service) with integrated, private HP clouds. He and his team are basing the initiative on the open source cloud OS OpenStack. Writer Eric Knorr interviewed Singh and serves up part of the conversation in this article. It is a long read, so check it out yourself for all the details.
The part that interests me—who HP expects will use their cloudy solutions. Singh states:
“We’re going after the enterprise developer, where there are a bunch of expectations about which production workloads are going to end up on the public cloud. We happen to think there will be tens of thousands use cases that are ultimately going to be driven by the need for a secure, SLA-driven, enterprise-class quality of service. Our focus is the enterprise developer, but also IT ops.
“For production workloads enterprises may consider running, they want the scale, they want the advantage of cost efficiencies. They want the security. But most importantly, they want a vendor who understands what they’re about, who they’ve done business with, who understands the need for innovative services yet can balance out SLA, security, and customer service — and who provides choices in terms of being an open architecture, partnering with other stacks and not locking in customers.”
Singh asserts that some of HP’s competitors, including Amazon Web Services, have been shortsighted. Their approach, he says, is the outdated “stand up a bunch of VMs and see what happens.” Developers and businesses are looking for more—better tools, modern languages and frameworks, and tight security. HP is ready to address their needs like no one else can, he pledges.
We’ll see.
Cynthia Murrell, August 21, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
Can the Lenovo-EMC Tie Up the Storage Market?
August 7, 2012
An interesting new partnership just joined the ranks of teams created in 2012. This one may have the potential to impact the industry with their complimentary companies. Techworld’s article “Lenovo and EMC join Forces on Storage, Servers” talks about the agreements made and what is on the table for the future.
The duo already has their wheels turning with production plans:
“As part of the alliance, the companies have formed a server technology development program meant to improve Lenovo’s x86 servers, which will be embedded into select EMC storage systems over time. Lenovo will also manufacture and resell EMC’s networked storage products to customers in China, and eventually other markets.”
“Under the partnership, Lenovo and EMC are also establishing a joint venture to sell network-attached storage (NAS) systems to small and medium businesses.”
Lenovo is well on their way to becoming the world’s top PC vendor this year and already dominates the market in China. However, EMC is the global top vendor for external disk and open networked disk storage systems. The combination has the potential to rock the market if they play their cards right.
In the competitive market of today a partnership like this can flourish, or one can falter. This partnership has the potential to dominate, but what happens if Lenovo brings out its own line of storage hardware tricked up with open source search functionality? We are confident EMC has this well in hand.
Jennifer Shockley, August 7, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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