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How Amazon cashes in on its Cloud
I had a very interesting conversation with Jeff Barr, the senior web services evangelist at Amazon. I have known Jeff for almost 15 years. In those days Jeff was one of the architects at a company called Visix, an early graphical development...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 15th May '08
Finally "Management" Not Just "Monitoring"
Almost since the world was created, at least the IT world, computer systems and all the associated, and increasingly complex, plethora of associated equipment has required feeding and watering. Few systems, with perhaps the notable exception of...
Freeform Comment | By: Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 15th May '08
Be heard. Be seen. Be green.
The push for environmental sustainability must have been music to the ears of those involved in videoconferencing and its many derivatives. It provides another strong weapon in the vendors' sales armoury. Now, not only can organisations save staff...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt, Freeform Dynamics | 14th May '08
What does it mean if HP buys EDS?
I was minding my own business and twittering (I think that is how you say it) when I noticed a breaking news story from the Wall Street Journal: HP would be acquiring EDS. This is quite a significant transition for HP that will help transform the...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 14th May '08
Can Twitter Trigger Innovation?
A few months ago I wrote a blog entry criticizing Twitter. I was not sure I got the relevance of this micro-blogging site. So, I decided that it made sense to spend time getting deeply involved in a Twitter community to test it and see if my...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 13th May '08
Oracle makes its "enterprise 2.0" play
Along with an assorted collection of other analysts and journalists, on Friday I sat down for a conversation with Charles Phillips. The invitation came pretty much out of the blue a couple of weeks ago; the reason was because Charles is interested...
MWD | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 12th May '08
Welcome Josie
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Josie Sephton into the fold as the latest addition to the Freeform Dynamics team.
Josie may be a fledgling Freeformer, but is a highly experienced telecom analyst and consultant with a solid track...
Freeform Comment | By: Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 8th May '08
What's Next For Text Analytics?
When I first started to research the text analytics industry about three years ago, people didn't understand why I was so interested in this nascent marketplace. I had always anticipated how important it would be. I remember working at Bell...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 8th May '08
Some reflections on Green IT 08 day 1
Today saw the start of Green IT 08 at the Design Centre, Islington. It's a combination mini-exhibition and conference. It was interesting to see a mix of customers, vendors and analysts sharing their views. And, my, how the field has consolidated...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt, Freeform Dynamics | 7th May '08
Getting Smart about SOA at IBM IMPACT
Just after I returned from last month's IBM SOA IMPACT Conference, the Hurwitz team started to interview companies for case studies to be included in the second edition of SOA For Dummies. So for me, one of the benefits of attending IMPACT was...
Marcia Kaufman | By: Marcia Kaufman, Hurwitz & Associates | 7th May '08
Ten things I learned about CA
I spent part of last week at CA's (Computer Associates in the old days) industry analyst meeting. My overall impression is very positive. CA is a complicated company with a complicated history. Often when a company has a near death experience,...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 6th May '08
e-Access 08 was a great day in London
e-Access is a yearly conference in London reviewing accessibility and technology. I could not attend last year so I found it particularly interesting to compare the change in emphasis over two years. See my blog Accessibility to direct the...
Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 6th May '08
Which comes first: process or service? Part 2
The question of how to combine BPM and SOA came up a lot here at TIBCO's TUCON user event—and, a little disappointingly, the standard response seems to typically revolve around reinventing the three-tier architecture of the 1990s, just with...
MWD | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, Macehiter Ward-Dutton | 2nd May '08
Accessibility Conferences
This blog will be updated each time I become aware of a new conference. If you are running a conference please click on the contact the author button and I will update the blog.
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Abrahams Accessibility | By: Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 1st May '08
Oracle completes BEA take-over
Oracle announced on April 29th 2008 that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.
Oracle President, Charles Phillips, said, The addition of BEA will accelerate...
RFID Scanlines | By: Simon Holloway, Bloor Research | 30th April '08
A quick route to unified communications?
A cheeky little outsider from Spain has been quietly snitching large unified communication (UC) deals from under the noses of major competitors.
(Reminder: a major benefit of UC is the acceleration of business processes, especially when...
Teblog | By: David Tebbutt, Freeform Dynamics | 29th April '08
The Desktop as a Service: Can Desktone be a Focal Point?
I have been thinking a lot about the evolution of virtualization lately and so I was intrigued when a company I had never heard of called Desktone asked to come in for a briefing. When I heard that the company specialized on desktop...
Judith Hurwitz | By: Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates | 29th April '08
Cloud Computing and Web 2.0
Don't you just hate it when another woolly ambiguous term is forced upon us? When I was approached by yet another journalist the other day asking me my thoughts on the impact of cloud computing, I simply sighed and told them it is a bit like Web...
Keeping IT Grounded | By: Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics | 27th April '08
A different way to search?
I recently had an interesting conversation about classification and search with James Zubok, CFO of Brainware, Inc. Brainware is a Virginia based company that was once part of SER Systems AG, a former German ECM company. Brainware provides...
Fern Halper | By: Dr Fern Halper, Hurwitz & Associates | 26th April '08
Security solutions seeking problems
The last few days have involved me in a number of meetings with both vendors and end customers of all sizes. For much of the week I spent time at the Infosec security show in London but I also managed to squeeze in meetings with ProCurve, once...
Freeform Comment | By: Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics | 25th April '08