Cloud – Page 22 – Taxodiary

The Potential in the Clouds

By Melody Smith | March 28, 2014

2013 was all about the clouds – making the most of storage and sharing, searching and finding, access and metadata trails. Metadata rose to the top of any most talked about word cloud due to Edward Snowden and the NSA. Metadata is all the information that surrounds a file, including the filename, when it was uploaded, who it was shared with, and when it was accessed. The NSA’s metadata collection program proves that such information can be extremely valuable.

Partnership in Integration

By Melody Smith | February 5, 2014

Brocade and fluid Operations have completed a technology integration project to simplify and automate deployment, management, and automation of EMC® VSPEX™ Proven Infrastructure solutions for small and mid-sized organizations.

Do you have a personal cloud?

By Melody Smith | August 1, 2013

Small businesses have less resources to achieve the same results expected of larger organizations. This gives them a different perspective on knowledge, expertise, and results. How they approach all three is what sets them apart.

File Cabinets In the Sky?

By Melody Smith | July 12, 2013

Combining their cloud-based storage with the voice recording skills of Orange Trading Solutions, Bloomberg can now integrate voice data into the Bloomberg Vault and produce electronic records in almost real time. Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Watch Your Tone — Bloomberg Vault Now Archives Voice Too.”

Semantic Approaches to Cloud Management

By Melody Smith | June 7, 2013

fluid Operations showcased their latest semantic approach to cloud infrastructure management, eCloudManager, at the SemTechBiz 2013 in San Francisco this week.

Technology in the Sky

By Melody Smith | May 7, 2013

Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.

Following the Trends

By Melody Smith | April 11, 2013

A group of enterprise architecture experts recently gathered to discuss big data, cloud computing and storage, and how these work best with overall information architecture. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by ZDNet in their article, “Complexity from big data and cloud trends makes architecture tools more powerful.” Simultaneous and complex trends, such…

Preparing for the Move

By Melody Smith | March 26, 2013

Moving part or all of an organization’s resources into the cloud is a step that should not be taken lightly. There is much to consider and reconsider as your business needs change. Governance is about taking action to help your organization optimize and manage your systems and resources to meet your business goals.

Going Open

By Melody Smith | December 26, 2012

The Open Group has announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to embrace elements of service-oriented architecture and cloud computing.

Accessing the Clouds

By Melody Smith | November 2, 2012

Even though the term “cloud” is thrown about frequently these days, to many, it is still not clear exactly what the cloud offers, where it, is and how to access it.