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Google News Moves Advanced Options To Search Bar; A Sign Of Things To Come?
Oct 21st
In what may be a sign of things to come across other Google properties, the advanced search search options in Google News have been moved away from their own page and placed right inside the main search bar. Here are before and after screenshots to show what I’m talking about. Before: After:…
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VMware Moves Deeper into Business Intelligence Virtualization
Oct 19th
Cloud-based business services are becoming commodities. As such, applications, storage, bandwidth, and now even analysis are marketable items with fluctuating values, almost by the day. As enterprises’ hybrid clouds extend their boundaries to encompass not only their native data centers but multiple public cloud providers, cost management becomes an everyday operational task.
“The way that things are being done is dramatically changing. How infrastructure is provisioned and managed — how applications and frameworks and emerging deployment models are being developed and provisioned. You now have VMs moving dynamically across the environment, and entire services that are starting to move across service providers.” This from Rob Smoot, VMware’s director of product marketing for management tools, in an interview with RWW.
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This week at the VMworld Europe conference in Copenhagen, VMware is demonstrating a number of revised and extended approaches to virtual data center management. These include a rethought vCenter Operations console and a new application deployment tool called vFabric AppDirector. It’s a new mix of management concepts, and a new alignment of product names against those concepts (in all honesty, I got it wrong a few times myself on first try).
Perhaps just as important as these new concepts, but sneaking more slowly into the spotlight this week, is the culmination of VMware’s June acquisition of BI service provider Digital Fuel. Redubbed VMware IT Business Management Suite (IT BMS), the new toolset enables enterprises that both consume IT services from elsewhere and provide their own services to customers, to manage costs and expenditures in real-time.
“The cloud ownership model is changing,” Smoot tells RWW. “IT is no longer the full provider of services; it’s becoming more of a broker of services. At the same time, there’s not visibility down to the lower layers of the infrastructure.” For example, a business running its services on Amazon’s EC2 typically isn’t able to observe performance, service availability, and expenses in real time, at that level. “There’s a separation happening at the various layers of the IT stack, and as a result, you need a different management approach.”
IT BMS addresses this concern with three components, one of which — IT Finance Manager — provides live analytics into how resources are being utilized, and how costs are being distributed, with an up-to-the-minute indicator of TCO. IT Service Level Manager helps businesses determine the requirements and resources necessary to accommodate service-level and operations-level agreements (SLAs and OLAs) required by customers. And IT Vendor Manager reverses the roles, tracking performance of the services businesses consume, assessing in real-time how — and if — service providers are meeting their SLA commitments.
Using the IT BMS suite, Smoot tells us, the CIO of a company will have a dashboard that charts all services in use, whether they are being provided to the company by a SaaS or IaaS provider, or the company is providing them. Here, different clouds may have varying compliance standards, changing resilience metrics, and fluctuating performance levels. The CIO will be able to manage these relationships at a glance.
“We’re enabling the movement of these services across providers,” he remarks, “so you can think about making a real-time decision to move an application first to a cloud… There are significant cost and compliance considerations in doing something like that. So if IT wants to stay at the helm of managing the diversity of models and different providers of services, it needs more actionable and accurate information about costs, compliance, and the vendors they’re working with.”
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Google moves to secure searches, alienates SEO jockeys – Ars Technica
Oct 19th
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Google moves to secure searches, alienates SEO jockeys
Ars Technica The move to make searches more private has caused an uproar among search marketers and SEO experts, who will now get limited information about how site visitors found them. The move is part of Google's ongoing response to concerns over the privacy of … Google's Encrypted Search Meets the Myopic SEO Google encrypts search data against hackers, marketers 'howl' Google to Encrypt Searches & Clicks by Default [Google Increasing Web Security … |
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SEO Seattle LLC Moves to New Office Located in Prestigious Skyline Tower – Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Sep 26th
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SEO Seattle LLC Moves to New Office Located in Prestigious Skyline Tower
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Seattle, WA, September 26, 2011 –(PR.com)– SEO Seattle LLC, a Search Engine Optimization Services Company recently completed its move to their new office located in Downtown Bellevue, Washington. As a resident of the Skyline Tower SEO Seattle will … |
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SEO SEATTLE LLC MOVES TO NEW OFFICE LOCATED IN PRESTIGIOUS SKYLINE TOWER – Online PR News (press release)
Sep 24th
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SEO SEATTLE LLC MOVES TO NEW OFFICE LOCATED IN PRESTIGIOUS SKYLINE TOWER
Online PR News (press release) SEO Services Company recently moves their office to the upscale Skyline Tower located in Bellevue Washington. SEATTLE, WA, SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 21st, 2011: SEO Seattle LLC, a Search Engine Optimization Services Company recently completed its move to … |
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Russia’s Search Engine Yandex Steathily Moves West
Jul 26th
Yandex now has deeper cash pockets following its IPO — so where and in what type of expansion is the company going to expand? Moving west and south perhaps? There are good competitive reasons why Yandex needs to take its battle with Google to other markets — but it also needs to be secure at…
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UltraViolet Moves One Step Closer To A Fall Launch
Jul 13th
A consortium of content providers, delivery services, software and hardware companies called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is ready to launch a business-to-business content licensing program based on the UltraViolet format. Haven’t heard of UltraViolet? Pretty soon, you will not be able to escape it.
UltraViolet is the child of 70 (and growing) companies including movie studios, technology providers like AMD or Akamai, device manufacturers like Toshiba and entertainment retailers like Netflix and Blockbuster. The program is designed to permit cloud access to digital rights through a “locker” system. In other words, after you purchase music or video, you can access that content everywhere. It is the entertainment industry’s attempt to strike back at a decade of Internet piracy and will soon be a significant part of consumers’ lives.
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The business-to-business rollout of UltraViolet gives companies the chance to ensure that they meet technical specifications and are prepared to market content, services and products.
UltraViolet is an aggressive move initiated by the studios. As the primary content providers, the studios hold all the keys to legal viewing of their content. The purpose of UltraViolet is to allow all content providers to use one cloud and one set of Web standards for digital rights management (DRM).
“Consumers are looking for a better value proposition to own and collect digital movies and TV shows – a proposition that provides downloads, streaming and physical copy viewing options which are accessible on multiple platforms,” said Mark Teitell, the general manager of UltraViolet.
The format is based on the Common File Format that will play on computers, televisions, tablets and smartphones – basically, any device or platform that conforms to UltraViolet’s rules and standards. Netflix is a member of DECE and all the corporations that are part of Hulu (except Providence Venture Partners) are as well. DECE hopes to see a broad launch of UltraViolet by the fall.
Warner Bros. bought movie rating and information application Flixster earlier this year (which also owns movie critic website Rotten Tomatoes). The company hopes that application will be the delivery mechanism through which Warner Bros. brings UltraViolet content to consumers. It’s a interesting play by the studios as they try to put their foot down and control the flow of premium content across the Internet.
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MacBook Air Contest: Protecting Data as it Moves Between Private and Public Clouds?
Jul 1st
What are key considerations for protecting data as it moves between private and public clouds?
That’s the question this month for our MacBook Air contest. Best comment on this post wins. You’ll need a Disqus account to participate. The question raises all kinds of potential conversations, ranging from the type of server security to remote access and encryption considerations. So, let’s hear it!
We’ll review the comments and pick a winner at the end of the month. Independent analyst Dan Kusnetzky is our co-judge this month. Thanks to Tom Raftery for his help in the June contest.
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The winner will be announced on the first of August. We’re still waiting to hear back from the winner we selected for June. We’ll announce soon!
Now, let’s hear from you. We look forward to the conversation!
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