June 1, 2011 10:03 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
cloud computing,
cloud standards,
SaaS
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Overheard: Winston Bumpus
“One of the things cloud tends do is hide a lot of the complexities by having these virtualized environments. Understanding what’s going on in the infrastructure is important when you’re running production applications and services in the cloud.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is CloudAudit.
May 26, 2011 10:53 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Fibre Channel,
SAN management
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Overheard: Shamus McGillicuddy
“Most data center networking vendors at Interop 2011 conceded that Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Transparent Interconnections of Lots of Links (TRILL), Shortest Path Bridging and some other hot buzzwords are overhyped…During the session, not a single vendor was willing to stand up and argue that FCoE would take anyone to the promised land.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
May 18, 2011 8:38 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
compliance,
financial data
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Overheard: Fred Cohen
“[Dodd-Frank compliance] is just a huge undertaking. Y2K is going to be a walk in the park compared to this.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Dodd-Frank Act .
May 16, 2011 9:20 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
SAN
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Overheard: Greg Schulz
“LUNs represent a logical abstraction or, if you prefer, virtualization layer between the physical disk device/volume and the applications.” |
Today’s Word of the Day is logical unit number (LUN).
May 12, 2011 4:41 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
collaboration platforms,
collaboration software
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Overheard: Linda Tucci
“Now that Facebook has trained people to socialize online and Twitter has turned opinion into global “activity streams,” the rush is on to develop enterprise collaboration platforms that add broad social networking capabilities to work processes.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is collaboration platform.
May 9, 2011 9:26 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
telephony,
unified communication
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Overheard: Jon Arnold
“The PBX has long been the gold standard for quality and reliability for which businesses have paid a premium. This speaks to the primacy of telephony—and voice—for getting things done in the workplace.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is private branch exchange (PBX).
May 5, 2011 8:32 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
social engineering
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Overheard: Marcia Savage
“To complete a fraudulent transaction, such as changing a mailing address on a credit card or confirming a large online banking transaction, a criminal can simply place an order at what RSA calls “fraudster call centers.” For $7 to $15 per phone call, these centers will provide professional callers who can impersonate a broad range of people, from a middle-aged English speaker to an elderly Italian.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is pretexting.
May 2, 2011 12:33 PM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
search engines
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Overheard: John Overbaugh
“I’ll be honest, I heard about [Wolfram Alpha] a while back and wrote it off as just another search engine without ever visiting it. Man, was I wrong. It is no more a search engine than a computer is a calculator.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Wolfram Alpha.
May 2, 2011 8:06 AM
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
programming
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Overheard: John Overbaugh
“In agile and waterfall alike, your code is your heartbeat; you live and die by it. If your code is “spaghetti code” (weaving and winding all over the place) and difficult to read, not only will it likely have a higher defect rate per KLOC, but it’ll also take forever to debug.” |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is KLOC.
