The first Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Joint Cloud Lab with the Open Grid Forum (OGF) was held from April 28 to 30, 2010 at the SNIA Technology Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The SNIA and OGF are working on the development of the reference implementations for the SNIA Architecture Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) [...]
As those with IT responsibilities attempt to balance increased demands with increased costs, the topic of open source software (OSS) usually enters the conversation. However, this very familiar term is still wrapped in a high degree of misunderstanding and vendor hype. This paper will cover the best practices necessary for identifying the need for open source, evaluating open source options and integrating solutions based on standards like Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI).
Building Adobe Flex applications using Ant would seem like a no brainer. It appears the Ant builds using Flex has issues with understanding image paths. My CSS and any image embeds for our flex application StorageIM needed to have the image paths modifed in order for our Ant flex build to work appropriately. Below are [...]