Describing today's enterprise IT environment as "complex" would be a gross
understatement all things considered. The intricate model needed to support
day-to-day business operations boggles the mind, with much of the complexity
attributed to evolving applications, and the way people use data.
Today, managing geographically-distributed data is considered the norm and is
no longer treated as an exception. The volumes of data needed have increased
as well, often having to come from other systems and in real-time. Data
access is increasingly event-based for reasons of efficiency and speed in
decision-making. Streaming data in particular is much more prominent today
than ever before and requires new, integrated approaches to infrastructure
planning and management. The nature ... (more)
Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
"Dramatically improving the agility, flexibility, performance and efficiency
of data centers ultimately leads to business success," notes Sybase CTO Irfan
Khan, in an article published in the run-up to his participation as a
breakout session speaker on the opening day of SYS-CON's 4th International
Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, being held at the Santa Clara... (more)