Jason Stamper's Blog: February 2009 Archives

We can guarantee cloud security: IBM
February 19, 2009

With many predicting big things for cloud computing in 2009, it was no surprise to see IBM make a slew of announcements regarding its hosted operations during their Pulse service management conference in Las Vegas, Steve Evans writes.

The Armonk, New York-based company announced partnerships with Juniper and Amazon as well as a new drag and drop interface for its Tivoli systems management engine that is said to enable businesses to manage their cloud infrastructures just as they do their data centre resources.

IBM also announced a new platform, called The Service Management Center for Cloud Computing, which the company says can provide users with a platform from which they can build and deliver cloud services.

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Recession hits IT
February 16, 2009

There has been a period of considerable disquiet on the financial markets of late, especially in the technology sector. While economies around the world are considered to be in some kind of melt-down, it's not only disappointing financial results that have unsettled the IT market.

Earlier this month the co-founder and chairman of Indian outsourcer Satyam admitted to a multi-year, $1.4bn fraud reminiscent of Enron. In a quite remarkable five-page resignation letter, R. Ramalinga Raju confessed seemingly all, and claimed that he alone was in on the con. He said once he had begun the deceit, "It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."

He and his brother, Satyam's managing director, are now behind bars while the fraud is investigated. Observers are also asking how Satyam's auditors, the Indian branch of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, failed to spot the financial black hole. Satyam, by the way, is Hindi for 'truth'.

But that's not all. The press has also been full of news of large rounds of layoffs. Oracle is believed to have shed up to 500 from its North American operation, and Google, Sun, Microsoft and Seagate, to name a few, are also said to have made or be on the verge of making swingeing staff cuts.

The recession is clearly starting to hit the IT sector... [click continue reading for more]...

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Snow brings travel websites to halt -- so where were the clouds?
February 02, 2009

It's not only the bus, tube and rail networks that ground to a halt as heavy snow fell across the UK: it also left transport websites struggling to cope with the peak in demand as tens of thousands of people sought the latest travel information online.

The National Rail Enquiries website, as well as the sites of major train companies -- and also for a time the Transport for London website -- all ground to a halt as they became overloaded with traffic...[click continue reading to find out how cloud computing and transaction performance management could have helped]...

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