Demystifying IT

Welcome to my shiny new blog about everything tech. I decided to join the blogging bandwagon soon after i realized how hard it was to gather research about new technologies and tools when starting a new IT project. Sure you have all your geeky tutorial blogs and pages, or the gurus’s introductory articles telling you how psyched they are about the emergence of this or that tech/tool.

I wanted more. I want a practical approach that explains the basic technology, then how it fits into the business picture, before delving into more details. The bottom line is almost never how cool  would it be having an ESB in your architecture, nor is it how much maintenance costs would we cut by going virtual. It’s a mix of the two worlds. You need interesting and technologically relevant projects to attract the best and the brightest and keep them, and at the same time these projects must make sense economically to sustain activity and growth.

The first step  i took in setting up this blog was to publish a poll to gather feedback about the general interest about topics such as virtualization, high availability, SOA/Soap, single sign on, data-mining or identity management. Shortly after that I received an email introducing MonetDB, a newcomer in the open source database systems for high performance applications in data-mining, and so i would very much appreciate all feedback/leads to help me in this new endeavour.

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