EnterpriseLeadership.org invites you to explore the top five downloaded podcasts for 2009 (1/1/09 through 12/28/09). The subject matter was a good mix and you are sure to find one that interest you!
In this podcast, Mike Karp, VP and Principal Analyst at Ptak-Noel Associates and founder of Infrastructure Analytics, talks about how technology trends, such as cloud computing and virtualization, will continue to reshape enterprise storage, and what CIOs must know to take advantage of these trends.
How does both cloud computing computer and virtualization change enterprise storage? According to Mike Karp, a former storage analyst for Enterprise Management Associates and the Hurwitz Group, says that these technologies will profoundly change storage at all levels – from the enterprise of global companies to small businesses. He says that it is important to keep in mind that there is a continuum here. “Virtualization differs from cloud computing. In fact, virtualization provides a path to cloud computing. You can go from virtualization to private clouds to public clouds, or you can do just one of them or a mix of them. You typically see hybridization or hybrid architectures. Virtualization enables a great deal of mobility for where you store your data, applications or where your processing resides. You are not restricted to a particular type of hardware. The mobility of the application and the processing enables you to move from one virtual environment to another one instanteously.”
In this podcast, Karp, the founder of Infrastructure analytics, a research firm that focuses on how storage networking fits into the organization’s overall infrastructure, talks about the following:
how have both cloud computing and virtualization changed enterprise storage,
what pros and cons emerge in the move to each one of these technologies,
what type of impact these technologies will have on disaster recovery, and
what changes CIOs must prepare for when they move to these technologies.
Bio
Michael Karp is the founder of Infrastructure Analytics. He spent nine years as the senior analyst for the storage networking practice at Enterprise Management Associates. Here he consulted with vendors on technologies ranging from data reduction to cloud computing. For about six years, he wrote the twice weekly Storage in the Enterprise newsletter for NetworkWorld. Before EMA he was director of storage technologies for Hurwitz Group.
He also has held senior technology leadership positions at Bellcore/Telcordia Technologies and Microelectronics/Symbios Logic/LSI. He was a doctoral candidate in systems management at Colorado Technical University. He also has written about storage networking for a number of computer trade publications, including CIO Update, Computerworld, Enterprise Storage Forum, and TechRepublic.
In this podcast, Theresa Lanowitz, former Gartner Group analyst, provides some down-to-earth discussion about cloud computing as a disruptive technology, moving one step closer to pervasive utility computing.
Every household doesn't need its own energy grid. If you follow this logic, then each enterprise does not need to be in the business of creating massive infrastructure. Why not take advantage of the some of the world's largest infrastructure offered to you by Amazon.com's Web Services or Google Apps Engine? That is the view of Theresa Lanowitz, a former Gartner Group research analyst and the founder of voke, a research firm focused on breakthrough technologies, such as cloud computing.
She says that while Salesforce.com has revolutionized customer relations marketing by elevating it as a platform as a service, Amazon.com and Google.com have the opportunity to share their knowledge and expertise with every enterprise. She adds, "By making their massively scalable, highly available, high-performance environment, and a solid security infrastructure available, both Amazon.com and Google.com have moved one step closer to software as a service and pervasive utility computing. As a result, companies will be able to lower the cost of doing business and to remain innovative, competitive, and profitable. Enterprises of all sizes need to focus on delivering value to the marketplace of their core competency, regardless of what it is."
In this podcast, Theresa Lanowitz discusses the following:
What type of impact Amazon.com Web Services and Google Apps Engine will have on cloud computing;
What other areas of cloud computing and Web 2.0 will prevail;
Why CIOs are hesitant to embrace cloud computing; and
What three cloud computing takeaways CIOs need to think about in making decisions about this app?
Bio Theresa Lanowitz, is founder of founder of voke, inc., an industry research firm specializing in breakthrough technologies. From 1999 through 2006, she was a research analyst with Gartner, where she was the lead analyst for Mercury. At Gartner, Lanowitz was the founder, creator, and chairperson of the highly successful Application Development conference. She is the founding member of AppSIC (the Application Security Industry Consortium), a member of the German ComputerWoche.de "Expert Panel on Quality IT Practices" and a frequent guest on SD Times "Week in Review" podcast.
She began her professional career with McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) where she worked on the C-17 transport plane. While at Borland Software, she shipped the ground breaking Java development tool JBuilder. Lanowitz also played instrumental roles at Taligent in the areas of product management and international marketing. At Sun Microsystems, she was responsible for the strategic marketing of the Jini project – a precursor to emerging convergence market.
Lanowitz holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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