Data Protection Authority Measure for Banks

The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) introduced on May 12, 2011 a new compliance directive that will present a challenge to banking firms IT departments. Here's how Moviri can help.

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Velocity Conference 2011 – Day 3 Journal

Ready for the third and last day at Velocity Conference, starting with a very interesting keynote: how Facebook approaches optimization in datacenter consumption.

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Velocity Conference 2011 – Day 2 Journal

While day 1 was dedicated to workshop sessions, day 2 starts with the keynote speeches, followed by different talks, grouped by four main performance-related topics.

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Velocity Conference 2011 – Day 1 Journal

While we attended several events in the past as partners of HP, it's our first time attending this O'Reilly conference.

A Performance Optimization Maturity Model

In our experience, the most affordable way to address performance optimization is to follow a maturity model based on a pragmatic, staged approach.

Effective design of load test virtual users

When designing virtual users to be run during load test activities, there are some points to be taken in account to collect realistic and reliable performance measurements:

Hosting is dead. Long live the Cloud: Who can truly benefit from Cloud Computing?

There's a lot of marketing hype going on about cloud computing as the fabulous opportunity to drop IT costs and save the planet from CO2 emissions. Large companies from all around the industry spectrum (telco, finance, retails, etc.) have been

Managing Continuity in the Cloud era

In the age of virtualization and cloud computing are Organizations able to provide business services every time their customers expect it, even if a Disaster happens? I asked myself this question as I perceive a false sense of security from

How Virtualization affects IT Costs Chargeback strategies

Companies that have chosen to chargeback their IT costs to final users (departments, companies, etc), find that the usage of virtualized environments is challenging the chargeback strategies they have traditionally adopted.

Top 5 tips for an effective “Capacity Planning” report

Capacity Managers suffer from a common pain. We share a few key factors that make a Capacity Planning report (a Capacity Plan) effective.