This is Your Wake Up Call: Get your Head in the Clouds!
Say the words “Cloud Computing” to CIOs of government agencies, universities or school districts and you’ll likely get one of three reactions: 1. the tell-tale “Deer in the Headlights” expression of...
View ArticleWhat a Difference a Year Makes – Accelerating Cloud Computing
Have you noticed how cloud computing is morphing as it is maturing? There is now a flurry of cloud types – public, private, hybrid and community – and 2011 is shaping up to mark the move of the cloud...
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A Star is Born
Anything is possible during the NCAA college basketball tournament. We have already seen some things that we expected as well as a few last second surprises. Of all the stories that are coming...
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Springtime in Germany
It’s March and I’m in Germany, and that can only mean one thing; no, not beer (although we will look into that subject later this week). Right now it’s time for WorldHostingDays 2011. WorldHostingDays...
View ArticleBig Data! It’s Real, It’s Real-time, and It’s Already Changing Your World
Being in the IT market research business, a lot of people ask me what’s the next big thing? It would be easy to pick a trend like data center transformation, converged IT infrastructure The Cloud, or...
View ArticleBig Data In HPC: Back To The Future
By Guest Blogger, Steve Conway, IDC Research Vice President, High Performance Computing Data-intensive applications for things like cryptography and weather forecasting have been part of high...
View ArticleStretching the Cloud and Your Budget… The Wonderful World of On-Demand Data
The man on the other end of the phone identified himself as a network security analyst at Sandia National Laboratory. He was not amused. Someone was forging DNS requests as if they were originating...
View ArticleAMD Supports Red Hat – Now Can You Beat Our Open Source Contest Challenge?
As an active contributor to the Linux Operating System and a board member of the Linux Foundation, AMD is a long time supporter of the open source software community. This year, we’re once again...
View ArticleThe Cloud: Driving the Consumerization of IT
Let’s see a virtual show of hands – how many of you use a personal cell phone or notebook PC for work purposes? By Forrester’s estimates, 80% of IT organizations are supporting an increasing variety of...
View ArticleAMD Open Source Challenge – the Answers
So how’d you do in this week’s Open Source challenge? To everyone who participated (and for those who just want to brush up on their open source trivia), here are the correct answers to the questions....
View ArticleBusiness Value of Big Data
Data creation is occurring at a record rate. In fact, IDC’s Digital Universe Study, sponsored by EMC, May 2010, predicts that between 2009 and 2020, digital data will grow 44 fold to 35 Zetabytes per...
View ArticleBig Data! What Is It Good For? Just About Everything!
By Guest Blogger, Richard Villars, Vice President of Storage and IT Executive Strategies with IDC As my colleague, Matt Eastwood, mentioned in an earlier blog , data creation is occurring at a record...
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Mind the Gap – The Rise of Cloud Computing
Whenever I visit London I always enjoy listening to British phraseology. My favorite expression from my most recent trip is “mind the gap” – not just because I find it a more lyrical way of saying...
View ArticleBig Data and Cloud: This May Be the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Over the past four blog posts from me and my colleagues at IDC, we’ve tried to alert you to one of the most important new developments in the IT landscape: the emergence of Big Data as a driver of...
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Put a cap on that TDP
I once had a friend that worked in the concert business. When one of the biggest names in music came to town (they were exiled on main street), they brought several semi trailers full of equipment....
View ArticleIT Innovation in the “Cloud”
By Mike Wolfe, Senior Vice President and CIO at AMD. Designing world-class semiconductors, platforms and cores for our customers and OEM partners around the globe is one of AMD’s most complex and...
View ArticleCaching in on the Cloud with the Power of More Cores
Cache is a word you hear every day when you when you work for a silicon vendor. For CPUs, cache plays the very important role of reducing memory access by buffering frequently used data. But caching...
View ArticleBig World
As a fan of obscure 1980’s music, I always enjoyed Joe Jackson’s “Big World”, the only 3-sided record. Yes, I said record, and yes, I realize that dates me. Three sides to one record? Don’t most...
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Virtualization for the Masses
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a blog post about limited virtualization support on some other x86-based platforms going back five years. It got me thinking about the challenges our customers face...
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Map It Out
Someone once said “it’s a small world – but I’d sure hate to have to paint it.” Take a drive from Austin, Texas to Amarillo, Texas some time and you start to realize that it is actually a lot bigger...
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