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Plods Plod the Perilous Wikipedia Path

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100

Wikipedia is a perilous path that needs to be trodden with care [Read More...]

Fixing the engine of UK, Ltd

Clive Longbottom, Quocirca — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:52:01 +0100

We often hear about what is happening with the largest enterprises in the UK - those who are seen as making up the main part of UK, plc. However, there are few organisations with more... [Read More...]

The drunkard's walk

Philip Howard, Bloor Research — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:05:00 +0100

Probability is not well understood. Many people expect things like luck to even out - but it doesn't - this has various implications for IT. [Read More...]

Working from Home: The Essential Questions your Broadband Provider May Rather Ignore

David Heyes, TFM Networks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

David Heyes, chief operating officer at TFM Networks discusses the benefits of home networking for businesses and outlines the issues that your Broadband provider might not be telling you [Read More...]

Aster targets mid-market with budget-conscious, massively parallel data warehousing appliance

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Aster is seeking to level the playing field on the data warehousing entry front, and that message should resonate well with companies that need an entry-level solution that doesn't compromise on power. [Read More...]

Alfresco and ParaScale - a new ECM partnership

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Alfresco have recently announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution with ParaScale (www.parascale.com), a startup company developing cloud storage solutions. [Read More...]

Oracle closes in on 'any'-ware with debut of middleware behemoth 11g suites family

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

With the spoils of the BEA acquisition now baked into the mix -- and with anticipation for what the pending Sun Microsystems buy brings -- Oracle is well on its way to obviating the middleware moniker. Perhaps we should call it anyware. [Read More...]

Podcast: SaaS delivery of IT lifecycle and quality management functions

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

As interest in cloud computing ramps up, the ability to deliver more aspects of IT lifecycle and quality management, along with broader project and portfolio oversight values, is also ramping up. Yet there are missing ingredients. [Read More...]

UK Government Data Handling - Some Thoughts

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0100

It quite often shocks people when they realise the amount of data that is stored across government systems. Will government data handling regulations make this data any safer? [Read More...]

Wacko Jacko and the Masters of Spam

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0100

Expect to see a lot of Michael Jackson related spam over the next few months [Read More...]

Web data gains some due respect

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +0100

More than ever, web-based content plays an essential role in many business processes and analytical presentations. Doing operational and business ecology business intelligence (BI) requires fast an easy integration of web-based content. [Read More...]

IBM Rational Software Conference 2009 - Day 2

David Norfolk, Bloor Research — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Managing assets for a Smarter World - and a bit of speedjamming. [Read More...]

Cloud and upgraded computing future brightens despite overcast economy.

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Seeing the downturn as an opportunity to upgrade, nearly two-thirds of 1,200 IT professionals surveyed in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan plan to invest in new infrastructure technology. [Read More...]

Mixed enterprise environments could make FCoE a winner

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) just another standard that will not take off? Some have dismissed it and others have said going down the FCoE route is a bad move. I disagree. [Read More...]

The quantity of quality (management software vendors) is shrinking

Michael Warrilow — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

It's worth keeping an eye on the current market dynamics in the testing / QA software market [Read More...]

CSC - Cloud Strategy Coming

Simon Perry, Quocirca — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:26:14 +0100

CSC this week hosted their EMEA Industry Analyst summit; Innoventure, in Paris. It was never quite explained what exactly an innoventure was but it sounds like a cross between innovation and... [Read More...]

Eclipse plug-in puts TOGAF 9 into IDE collaboration mode for architects

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

The customizer contains the content of TOGAF 9 in a structured and editable form, including guidelines, concepts, and checklists, as well as detailed work breakdown structures for the framework's new and improved architecture details. [Read More...]

New Release of SharePoint Connection from Appian

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +0100

Appian have released a new module that provides tighter integration to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. [Read More...]

Skype and FMC: Easy as 1, 2, 3

David Tang, VoSKY Technologies — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Using Skype to enable fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) spells the end for expensive mobile roaming as well as basic fixed line to mobile costs for businesses. VoSKY's David Tang shows the 3 simple steps to deploying FMC for any business [Read More...]

Platform applies HPC lessons to 'private' cloud creation, operations, efficiency

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Platform ISF, which becomes the centerpiece of Platform Computing's cloud computing strategy, creates a shared IT infrastructure from physical and virtual resource pools, to deliver application hosting environments. [Read More...]