It’s all too familiar a story. With over 900 million people on Facebook, and with Twitter expected to surpass 250 million in 2012, we all want to “go social.” Brands included; but there’s the rub. The enterprise and large brands are clamoring to gain control over their reputation online and simultaneously figure out just how ...

Enterprise computing is continuously evolving, but the pace of change has accelerated dramatically in the last five years. In this short period of time: Virtual desktops and remote desktop session technologies matured and assumed a more strategic role in office and campus computing environments. Laptop PCs eclipsed desktops as the predominant computing platform in most ...

From greater efficiency and dramatic cost savings, to anywhere, anytime access to applications and data, the advantages of cloud computing are well documented. Yet enthusiasm for the cloud is often tempered by security concerns: theft of data, unauthorized access, loss of data, and compliance issues. We are flooded with articles and discussions about the security ...

Nothing says family like money and – probably – the quintessential American experience is captured by the immigrant worker who sticks a few dollars in an envelope, glues on an airmail stamp and sends that $5 or $20 off to Mumbai or Lahore. We now are in National Family Month  which means it is especially ...

Zappos.com, Sony PlayStation Network and Citibank—they’re strange bedfellows. But if you hadn’t guessed, what these three have in common is the scarlet “H” they’ve been slapped with in recent headlines: Hacked. One consequence of a website hack is that it can infect thousands of visitors who trusted the website enough to visit it. The personal ...

Flash memory is taking the data center world by storm and creating disruptive opportunities to challenge the status quo, overcoming the capacity challenges of RAM and the performance challenges of hard disks to enable innovative new architectures. This article discusses several different real-world use cases for SQL Server, MySQL web scale, and performance scale up within a ...

Developers, by nature, want to build the coolest and most useful applications on the market.  This often means packing a mobile application with all the latest features and functionality that the platform makes available. Accelerometer? Absolutely! Camera? Definitely! GPS? Yes, please! We tend to forget that the user needs to give up personal information in ...

Today’s workforce is changing the concept of where work is done. Thanks to laptops, smartphones and thin client devices, mobile workers are empowered to work where, when and however they choose. As a result, telecommuting and ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) programs are on the rise.  IT organizations are scrambling to meet the onslaught of ...

Editor’s Note: this is a guest post from Chris Cook, COO at New Relic.   For SaaS start-ups, tasks like scaling web applications must compete with a long list of other priorities. But not having a performance and scalability strategy in place can spell ruin and quickly grind your business to a halt. In a ...