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This week’s interview takes predictive analytics and turns them on managing virtual systems.

Listen here:  http://bit.ly/sXKJ6a(60 mintues)

When most listeners hear the term “predictive analytics” they think of systems that use statistical modeling in the finance or insurance.  Today’s interview takes the ability to collect data from systems and make predictions as to reliability of the systems themselves – everything from ability to scale to serious downtime issues. Netuitive takes the basic concept and applies analytics to the physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure. 

Netuitve has a set of patented algorithms that work in the area of application performance, cloud management, and virtualization optimization.  This field is perhaps the next step in moving to the cloud.  If an agency has several application that are integrated into a cloud system, it is important to be able to manage the operation of each system in the cloud.  When you make a move to the cloud, you get a fluid structure and, along with that, you get the challenge of all systems interoperating together in an efficient manner.  The offering from Netuitive will give you a visualization of the status of the system.

Federal IT professionals should know about this technology because it has been successfully managed a massive private cloud of 130,000 virtual machines.  If you are looking at coordinating all aspects of big data, then you should listen to this interview.

Tags:  Virtualization management, Predictive analytics, application performance management (APM), Virtual data center, IT analytics, Behavior Learning technology, Self-learning technology, IT Operational Analytics, Netuitive

Listen here: http://bit.ly/trzf7Y  (60 minutes)

When most listeners hear the term “Cobol” they think of computing done with paper cards in huge rooms with raised floors.

That’s IF they have even heard of Cobol.

However, they may not realize that 90% of all daily financial transactions take place in a Cobol environment.

On today’s show, Tod Tompkins from Microfocuswill discuss how agencies take a look at applications in Cobol and migrate to other areas, perhaps other systems or even to the cloud.

He makes a compelling argument that these kind of projects can pay for themselves in the first year.

The recent federal debt ceiling and budget debate accentuated and highlighted pressures across government.

Every agency will face the inevitable challenge of significant budget cuts in information technology (IT) and the systems/programs IT supports.

There are approaches, however, for reducing spending and eliminating the need for future debt ceiling increases, not in terms of launching new and complex IT programs, but refining and re-hosting current legacy systems.