A few posts back, we encountered the evolving term big data which describes gigantic mass of data that big business enterprises are eyeing to mine for whatever value can be obtained from the data. Examples of big data may be found in the unimaginable collection of...
Yes. Cisco Systems, the dominant giant in the networking equipment industry, migrated to Active Directory. But before we look into the why or how of this story, let’s have a little background on Active Directory and on Cisco. Active Directory Active Directory (AD),...
Many layers of virtualization are currently at work, and one of them is application virtualization. Application virtualization is software technology that implements the encapsulation of an application so that it can be isolated from its host OS. The resulting...
A user doing daily routine work in front of a virtualized system may not be aware of the fact that there is some “illusion” taking place right before his eyes. He may be running Linux applications one moment and Windows applications the next while using exactly the...
It never fails. For every gain in technology there is always a matching specter of loss close by. For every capability, a hindrance. For every moment of celebration, a cause for regret. There are currently spectacular advances in IT brought about by such technologies...