Archive for May, 2012
Could Inexact Chip Technology Be The Answer To Power Consumption And Performance Hurdles?
It’s no secret that power consumption has become a major sticking point for datacenter operations within the past few years. As processors become smaller and cheaper, they also require significantly more power and generate much more heat. Today’s tightly-packed blade servers run significantly more heat into a much smaller area than previous generation of boxes. [...]
Full StoryHow ERP Requirements Differ Across Industries
How you employ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technologies varies widely from industry to industry. At its core, ERP works the same – The goal is to manage and distribute resources as effectively as possible between different pools of employees across a diverse organization. However, how this is done in different industries depends a lot on [...]
Full StoryA Set Of Skills You Can No Longer Afford To Outsource
The most fundamental principle of business strategy is that you must stick to your core competencies and outsource every other activity whenever possible. And traditionally, this has meant taking activities such as graphic design, copywriting and media production, and farming out these jobs to professionals in those fields. Although this is normally sound advice, a [...]
Full StoryDifferent Types of Cloud Computing Topologies Explained (Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud)
OK. So you’ve decided to move your servers to this magical place called “the cloud”. But wait! Have you thought about where your cloud will be hosted? Choosing the right cloud topology is one of the most important decisions you can make, because it will impact the costs, security, and control of your cloud server [...]
Full StoryProtecting Your Cloud Data And Applications From Being Blocked By Foreign Countries
The recent controversy over the Facebook IPO really showed how powerful and critical the Internet has become to our daily lives. Today, people all over the world are connecting via social networks and organizing massive grass-roots political movements. These have recently included everything from the fall of middle-eastern dictatorship regimes to the Occupy Wall Street [...]
Full StoryViolating Your Online and Digital Privacy Is A Big, Profitable Business
In most developed countries, including the USA, citizens have certain privacy rights when it comes to their personally identifiable information. For example, a doctor may not distribute your medical information, the police can’t search you without a proper reason and an employee may not divulge private trade secrets to competitors. These privacy regulations were put [...]
Full StoryHow big is big data?
How big is big data? In a single word: huge. Scientists studying big data have moved far beyond terms like gigabyte or terabyte. Now they use words like exabytes (20 zeros) and quintillion. In their paper “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information,” (PDF) researchers Martin Hilbert and Priscila López found that [...]
Full StoryProject Euler Demonstrate Important Social Change In The Coming Role Of Software Developers
Up until the late 1990s, computer programming was an attractive career choice. A young, self-taught programmer with no formal training could easily build a lucrative career by developing custom applications for clients on a freelance basis, by working full-time at a VC-rich silicon-valley start-up, or by getting employed by large company that wanted to automate [...]
Full StoryCoreVault Video Series: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About IaaS
Our friends at CoreVault have recently put together a fascinating in-depth video series about the inner-workings, features, and benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud server hosting. In an interesting change of pace, CoreVault has crafted an entire series which looks at IaaS from the view of the IT administrator. To do this, they brought in a real-world [...]
Full StoryKeep Up To Date On Your Personal Data Ecosystem With The Personal Data Journal
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for a while knows that we focus a lot on the effects that information collection, data mining and social media are having personal privacy. And we’re not alone. Many grass-roots organizations and self-regulating industry groups have emerged in order to set guidelines and impose ethical behaviour when it comes [...]
Full StoryUbuntu Linux is Great for Privacy
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” is due out in late April, and presently the second and final beta edition is out now. There are a lot of things that make this new version of Ubuntu Linux even better than the previous version, and many of these notable features are creating a lot of buzz with [...]
Full StoryLarge-Scale British Teleworking Experiment Shows Promising Results for the Future of Flexible Working
British Telecom company O2 has launched a 3-year sustainability plan in which they aim to help business employees collectively eliminate 160 million tonnes of carbon emissions by eliminating half a million miles of unnecessary driving through teleworking and flexible working practices. In order to help meet these goals, they’ve recently launched a very ambitious experiment [...]
Full StoryWhy ecommerce needs SaaS applications
We live in fast-moving times, where people do their grocery shopping on the train via a smartphone, pay their bills using Wi-Fi at the local coffee shop or book their next holiday while already overseas. Being able to access the internet to carry out such tasks wherever and whenever we please is not only convenient, but it also encourages people [...]
Full StoryThe Magnificent 7: No Spaghetti Western, Dynamics NAV 2013 is pure class!
Some 900+ Microsoft Dynamics NAV Professionals assembled in Rome at the end of April to discuss all things Dynamics NAV and in particular, the long-awaited announcement of the launch of NAV 2013. Unlike the other main Microsoft events, Convergence and WPC (World Partner Conference), Directions EMEA is organised by NAV Value Added Resellers and the [...]
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