Freely available GroundWork BoxSpy adds automatic container monitoring alongside your IT infrastructureSAN FRANCISCO, CA – 13 November, 2014 – GroundWork, Inc. (www.gwos.com), the leading dynamic monitoring solution for IT operations management and hybrid cloud monitoring, releases GroundWork BoxSpy, designed specifically to monitor Docker and other Linux container environments. GroundWork BoxSpy is the most resource-efficient, comprehensive…
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IT Struggles With Control of Enterprise Data
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More than 26 percent of applications are being used by various business functions without the IT department’s approval or knowledge. Read more at eWeek Source: Linux
SCC partners with Centrix Software to drive IT efficiencies
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– WorkSpace iQ’s usage analytics helps SCC prepare its customers for desktop transformation, virtualisation and the cloud Centrix Software, workspace management solutions expert, and SCC, Europe’s largest independent technology solutions provider, have announced a partnership; to jointly sell and market Centrix Software’s WorkSpace iQ usage analytics solution as part of SCC’s IT infrastructure services.With over…
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic IT Trends For 2015
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Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is under way in Orlando. As always, their IT experts have identified what they believe to be the top-ten information technology trends for the year ahead. Strategic technology trends are defined as having potentially significant impact on organizations in the next three years. Here is a summary of the trends: 1. Computing Everywhere With…
Tight IT Budgets to Drive Efficiency Demands in 2015, Brocade Reveals
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Research Finds Businesses Focusing on Efficiency in the Short Term, but Looking to SDN and NFV for Longer-term Innovation, Supporting the New IP IP Expo, London, 8 October 2014 – Increasing efficiency will be the number one priority for IT departments in 2015, as organisations look to get more value out of their IT spend,…
Demystifying Kubernetes: the tool to manage Google-scale workloads in the cloud
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Once every five years, the IT industry witnesses a major technology shift. In the past two decades, we have seen server paradigm evolve into web-based architecture that matured to service orientation before finally moving to the cloud. Source: Tech
How to Overcome the Cloud-Savvy IT Talent Shortage
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Senior executives at large multinational enterprises are already demanding that their CIO has a plan in place to ensure that they can effectively procure public and private cloud services for their organization. In smaller companies, some IT managers are now expected to acquire the knowledge and skills to perform a similar role. Are they prepared?…
11 open source security tools catching fire on GitHub
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Malware analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics — GitHub hosts a number of compelling tools for securing computing environments of all sizes The famous tenet “all bugs are shallow” is a cornerstone of open source development. Known as Linus’s Law, the idea that open code leads to more effective bug detection in a project is often…
6 Strategies for Cancelling a Major IT Project
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In the recent book Think Like a Freak, well-known authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner touch on a difficult topic for those in charge of IT budgets and project development: What if your project fails? In their witty and highly opinionated style, they explain how failure in business isn’t always a bad thing.…
Facebook’s Open Compute Servers Still Tough Sell for Corporate IT Shops
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Facebook’s Open Compute Project has been one of the most talked about developments in the world of data center hardware over the past couple of years, and interest in the first ever open source hardware design community and its output has only grown. While there are some individual success stories, however, there has been little public information…