[Contributed by Dominik Szwiec] Why migrate your database? Efficiency and availability problems are harming your business – reports are out of date, your batch processing window is nearing its limits, outages (unplanned/planned) frequently halt work. Database consolidation – remove the costs that result from a heterogeneous database environment (DBAs time, database vendor pricing, database versions, hardware, OSs, patches, upgrades etc.). OK, so the driving forces for migration are clear,  (…) Więcej »

Obecnie jestem pochłonięty moimi studiami podyplomowymi (o których wkrótce napisze) i powtórką materiału przed egzaminem do certyfikacji ITIL Service Manager. W poście zestaw flashcards na bieżąco rozbudowywany przeze mnie, który ma mi pomóc opanować materiał do egzaminów IT Sevice Manager.Poniżej zestaw flashcards, (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Stanisław Kulczycki] BigDataMatters is focused on the issues faced when processing and managing large amounts of data. In light of this, it would be a crime not to blog about the security of this data. Over the next few weeks, I will write a series of posts focused on Identity management in the enterprise. Before you read any more, how is your identity secured?

Does your working day start with logging into your workstation? Then your email with another user ID and password, and (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Sebastian Czechowski] Thecase for in-memory databases (IMDB) can be made in three simple points (1)performance - data is kept in RAM so no disk I/O limitations (2) HAwith built in fail-over (3) support for relational schema and SQL.Current disk based RDBMS can run out of steam when processing largedata. Can these problems be solved by migrating from a disk basedRDBMS to an IMDB? Any limitations? To find out, I testedone of each from the two leading vendors who together hol (…) Więcej »

W czwartek, 26 listopada odbyło się walne zgromadzenie członków it SMF Polska (a raczej jeszcze cały czas it SMF PL), w którym miałem przyjemność uczestniczyć.Głównym celem spotkania było wprowadzenie zmian w statucie stowarzyszenia, które miały usprawnić jego funkcjonowania i ułatwić działalność kolejnemu Zarządowi (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Wolfgang Gentzsch] WolfgangGentzsch, Senior Strategist at GridwiseTech, Open Grid Forum,and EU Project DEISA

Now thatwe have a new computing paradigm, Cloud Computing, how can Cloudshelp our data? Replace our internal data vaults as we hoped Gridswould? Are Grids dead now that we have Clouds? Despite all thepromising developments in the Grid and Cloud computing space, and theavalanche of publications and talks on this subject, many peoplestill seem to b (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Kevin Glenny] Companies earnings outstrip forecasts, consumer confidence is retuning and city bonuses are back. What does this mean for business? Growth! After the recent years of cost cutting in IT budgets, there is the sudden fear induced from increased demand. Pre-existing trouble points in IT infrastructures that have lain dormant will suddenly be exposed. Monthly reporting and real time analytics will suffer as data grows. IT departments across the land will be crying out “T (…) Więcej »

Zauważyliście pewnie, że dawno nie pisałem, jest to związane między innymi z tym, że zaangażowałem się w projekt blogowania korporacyjnego dla mojego pracodawcy. Pierwszy post już został opublikowany, co lubię w nowej wersji ITIL - spojrzenie na ITIL w wersji trzeciej z punktu widzenia komercyjnego dostawcy usług IT (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Mateusz Kyc] The essence of my work is coming into daily contact with innovative technologies. A recent example was at the request of a partner company who wanted to answer - which one of these tools will best solve my virtualized datacenter headache? After initial analysis all the products could be classified as tools that troubleshoot VM sprawl, but there was no universally accepted term for them. The most descriptive term  that I found was Virtual Resource Manager (VRM) (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Kevin Glenny] Oracle OpenWorld 2009 starts next week (11–15 October) in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. It is the annual event for all things Oracle - 1,800 sessions, 400 partner exhibits, keynotes from the world’s technology leaders, hands-on labs, and more. With such a wealth of information available, the canny attendee will have to focus their attention on the issues that are hindering their IT’s infrastructure. What is worth seeing? Let’s find the sessions! Oracle (…) Więcej »

Witam w pierwszej odsłonie ‘IT Management Blog Carnival’ z 15 zgłoszonych postów, 8 przeszło proces selekcji – kolejna już za miesiąc (termin przyjmowania zgłoszeń – 31 października). Zapraszam do zgłaszania postów z dziedziny szeroko rozumianego “zarządzania IT”. W kolejej edycji (…) Więcej »

[Contributed by Maciej Opiela] Why are Enterprises implementing Private Clouds if the Public Cloud deployment model is gaining in popularity day-by-day? Guy Rosen summarizes Public Cloud growth within the user base of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Since its debut in 2006, 8.4 million EC2 instances have been launched. Impressive as these statistics are, many enterprises still consider the Public Cloud as currently a no-go area. Reasons include data security  and SLA concerns, data compl (…) Więcej »

Greetings Fellow Krakowians,

    I wanted to take the opportunity to share with the IT w Krakowie audience a number of very exciting initiatives in which you may have an interest. In certain cases, we would also request your input so that we can leverage “the wisdom of the crowd” to help us in taking things forward. There are a number of different initiatives, so I will start with the Krakow Network.

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[Contributed by Chris Wilk] Recently I attended a lecture presented by Manik Surtani, JBoss Cache & Infinispan project lead. The goal of the talk was to provide a technical overview of both products and outline Infinispan’s road-map. Infinispan is the successor to the open-source JBoss Cache. JBoss Cache was originally targeted at simple web page caching and Infinispan builds on this to take it into the Cloud paradigm. Why did I attend? Well, over the past few years I have worked on proj (…) Więcej »