5 questions you must answer before choosing your IaaS cloud strategy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), has enabled organizations to rent IT infrastructure from a service provider rather than purchasing the technology and hosting it internally. IaaS cloud has moved ahead of the general cost-benefit upsides and has allowed organizations to develop and host highly voluminous consumer-facing and B2B content.

According to Gartner, using IaaS cloud, we can also develop enterprise applications, enable disaster recovery and create high-performance computation solutions. source: www.blogs.msdn.microsoft.com Implementing IaaS cloud can be a challenging task….

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Using the Tragedy of Commons theory for application portfolio guidance Many times, business and application leaders bring their rationalization efforts as far as a plan, but stumble getting the business engaged to execute the plan. They question the reasons for spending money on an IT problem and do not understand how they contribute to the problem, so nothing happens.  

Many design principles laid out by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrum can provide a useful analog for business and application leaders in addressing the application portfolio problem. Some of them are…

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Big Wishes for Big Data We live in a world where information is everything. IBM estimates that each day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created or replicated, with 90% of the world's data having been created in just the last two years! According to IBM, that's the equivalent of a million hard drives filling up with data every hour.  With high-performing analytics tools, the study of big data can lead to new understandings of consumer behavior, better management decisions, new innovations, and improved risk management.

In fact, experts now want to take big data implementation a notch higher by using tools that make the process more convenient for organizations and its IT users. We have…

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Is Big Data the Big Brother? While there are many benefits to the growth of big data analytics, traditional methods of privacy protection often fail. Many notions of privacy rely on informed consent for the disclosure and use of an individual's private data. However, big data means that data is a resource that can be used and reused, often in ways that were inconceivable at the time the data was collected.  According to writer Jeffrey Van Camp, "None of these cloud storage companies guarantee the protection of any files you upload, and there are no promises that these services won't freely share your files and information with the government or other companies."

  Hence the question arises, is big data is the new big brother? Will it have control over individual’s online data? Will it always invade our privacy? Keeping all these…

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Why is it important for digital businesses to be context aware? As we explained in one of the previous articles, context awareness is the property of mobile devices that may be applied more flexibly in comparison with location awareness, to smart phone users. It helps in providing task relevant information or services, improving decision making and efficiency of the tasks.

External context data, which, in almost all of its entirety is routinely incorporated into application logic (such as ODSs and MDM stores) originates from well-structured, predictable and familiar sources. These…

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What is cloud orchestration and how is it different from cloud automation? Today both small and big business units want to include cloud computing in their IT infrastructure. This is because cloud computing helps them minimize capital costs and operational expenses.

What is cloud orchestration? Cloud computing handles a prodigious amount of data and processes across multiple systems. This heterogeneity makes manageability and coherence a major challenge in cloud computing. The…

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