Irfan Khan

PowerBuilder Session at Cloud Expo Doing more with less is a familiar refrain for IT professionals, and today's challenging business environment has only increased the pressure on managers to achieve efficiencies, maximize performance and improve responsiveness of the data center. More and more frequently, IT is turning to virtualization to accomplish its mission-critical goals. The hot new trend in cloud computing is a natural extension of this drive toward virtualization. In the case of the public cloud, IT can add processing power and infrastructure as needed, and in the case of the private cloud, IT can improve the utilization of existing infrastructure. In other words, cloud computing platforms offer IT the opportunity to increase efficiencies and become more agile, transforming the data center into an environment that delivers greater benefits to end-users. ... (more)

Information Management Platforms: The Next Generation – Cloud Plays a Part

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 s... (more)