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Every business needs to monitor its performance. What better place to look than your key applications? Lew Cirne, CEO of New Relic, explains the value of software analytics
To get the most from big data, you must marshal new infrastructure and develop new collaborative processes. John Haddad of Informatica provides salient examples
With demands for agility and capacity, storage systems can't be islands. IBM's Ronald Riffe explains how software-defined storage provides a broad, hardware-independent solution
Users deal with more apps across more devices than ever before. How to meet the management challenge? Citrix's Chandra Sekar and Kevin Strohmeyer offer an answer
Fresh from the IBM acquisition, Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle offers his take on how the migration of data to the cloud is changing IT
Everyone wants to avoid being the next Target. Brian Milas, CTO at Courion, explains how to use the rich data generated by identity and access control solutions to reduce risk
A Hadoop cluster of white-box servers isn't the only platform for big data. IBM's Dexter Henderson argues that enterprise analytics require specialized, high-performance iron
According to Michael Bushong of networking startup Plexxi, three commonly occurring conditions ensure that open source software will steadily widen its data center footprint
You've heard the SDN hype, but where's the benefit? According to Andrew Warfield of Coho Storage, it's in the applications, and he has an example to prove it
Cloud storage sounds great until performance, availability, and security concerns arise. As Ranajit Nevatia of Panzura explains, cloud storage controllers offer an elegant prescription
The NoSQL revolution has happened so fast, few have a handle on the key architectural issues. Rahim Yaseen of Couchbase walks us through several crucial points
Network virtualization is not only essential to a mature cloud infrastructure, it also beefs up security, argues VMware's Rod Stuhlmuller
Node.js gives JavaScript coders an on-ramp to the server side, with easy access to tons open source code packages. Here are six high points courtesy of Joyent, the company behind Node.js
With billions of connected devices, each potentially vulnerable, you can't harden every endpoint -- so consider this practical security alternative
Software-defined networking centralizes control logic and argues for generic switch hardware -- and should drive strong adoption of white-box switches
You can't shift to a software-defined data center overnight, but you can't stick to old, labor-intensive ways, either. IBM's Jamie Thomas tells you how to get there
Celebrated author/Infoblox technologist Cricket Liu explains how to prevent DNS-based DDoS attacks -- and avoid being an unwitting accomplice to one
SDN will eventually relieve the burden of manual reconfiguration, but only when we collect and process enough data to enable the network to optimize itself
Networking is the last bastion of proprietary systems, but Cumulus Networks sees a near future where Linux powers network hardware by default
Hughes Networks systems offers a new quality of service solution to raise broadband reliability to business levels
Adara Networks has been selling SDN equipment to service providers for years. Adara's chief software architect explains how SDN's advantages extend across the data center
A 'terminal' hooked to a server sounds so last century, but HP chief technologist Tom Flynn says today's thin clients offer an attractive alternative
The Web will soon become a foundation for truly rich applications and immersive experiences. Adobe ponders the technologies that will likely play a crucial role
VisiCalc's legendary co-inventor argues that most developers should write mobile JavaScript apps rather than build apps in native code
As technologies like replication and RAID trickle down storage tiers, storage professionals gain broader options and greater control
We're only beginning to address the problem of cloud integration. CEO Sanjiva Nath describes a unique solution derived from the semantic Web
CEO Ben Werther tells how Platfora's Hadoop-based solution upends old-fashioned, inflexible business intelligence processes
Jason Hoffman, CTO/founder of cloud service provider Joyent, lays out his views on optimizing public cloud infrastructure
Many still believe NoSQL databases can't play at same level as relational forbearers. DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth puts the notion to rest
Accelerated SaaS adoption demands new technology to integrate cloud and on-premise applications. Maneesh Joshi explains SnapLogic's innovative solution
InfoWorld's New Tech Forum offers technologists a venue to explain how their innovative tech works in detail. In this first post, Delphix CEO Jed Yueh dives into database virtualization