Cloud computing has been a hot topic among federal CIOs and their staffers in recent years. In response to the Obama Administration’s “Cloud First Initiative” announced in 2011, the US government has significantly reduced the […]
The concept of virtualization in the IT world has been around for a long time. Looking at the three main pillars of infrastructure: compute, network, and storage, computer virtualization dates back to 1964 with the […]
When Juniper Research estimated last year that the number of IoT (Internet of Things) connected devices will increase 285 percent from 13.4 billion in 2015 to 38.5 billion in 2020, it confirmed what everyone already […]
Imagine taking a walk in a park and as you walk all the different objects you notice are both living and nonliving. You notice these objects using all the different sensory devices within a human […]
Alvin Toffler first predicted that the rate of technological change and progress was accelerating faster than people are ready for, or can handle, in his 1970 bestseller, Future Shock. Future shock, he argues, causes disorientation, […]
It is hard enough to make sense of things when you are in the middle of the action. Harder yet is to perceive the reality behind events that do not conform to your worldview. It […]
“An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless an external force acts upon it” (Wikipedia, 2015). This is Isaac Newton’s first law of motion. In the IT world, we can make the […]
Converged infrastructure (CI) describes the practice by storage, network, and server vendors to offer a joint, pretested, preintegrated platform. Server virtualization also plays heavily in such converged environments. The result of CI is a highly […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it will be no surprise to hear that the global economy has its challenges. Instead of waiting for global corrections, companies have resorted to solely relying upon themselves […]
So much is so great about the cloud that anyone who talks or writes about it is in danger of sounding like they are in the midst of some kind of religious rapture. Naysayers, on […]