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HP provides more picks and shovels to cloud miners

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud. [Read More...]

Conference observations: Enterprise transformation, enterprise architecture, SOA and cloud computing

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

The Open Group's Dr. Chris Harding gives his recollections and impressions of the Open Group Conference held in San Francisco the week of January 30. [Read More...]

EMC's Hadoop strategy cuts to the chase

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Analyst Tony Baer explores the big-data landscape and explains the significance of EMC's latest move with Hadoop. [Read More...]

Nuance on track to transform enterprise printing

rss@it-analysis.com (Louella Fernandes, Quocirca) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

At its first European analyst event in London, Nuance discussed its strategic priorities for 2012, which include integration of its scan and print products and expansion of mobile and cloud delivery platforms. [Read More...]

Enterprise architects play key role in transformation, data analytics value

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Good data management, analytics, and helping to shape the goals of the business are keys to transforming the enterprise through impactful enterprise architecture (EA). [Read More...]

Innovation Games - A Fun Way to Discover Customer Insight and Improve Product Marketing

rss@it-analysis.com (Mark McGregor, Bloor Research) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

In my recent article The Game of Process Improvement, I referred to a book called Innovation Games. The book is packed with details on how any of us can leverage Innovation Games to gain greater... [Read More...]

RFID

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

When I first wrote the RFIC market overview, one of the key things I identified was that RFID hardware couldn't exist without RFID middleware and applications, and neither could RFID middleware and... [Read More...]

CRM data integration provider Scribe boosts cloud offering with GUI synchronization services

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Scribe Software, a customer relationship management (CRM) data integration provider, will launch next week Scribe Online Synchronization Services (SYS). [Read More...]

Expert Chat on how HP ecosystem provides holistic support for VMware virtualized IT environments

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Advanced and pervasive virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving the need for a better, holistic approach to IT support and remediation. [Read More...]

The Open Group releases SOA and cloud computing standards, updates OSIMM

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

The Open Group has announced this week the availability of two new industry standards to integrate fundamental elements of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing into a solution for enterprise architecture (EA). [Read More...]

Capgemini's CTO on how cloud computing exposes the duality between IT and business transformation

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Capgemini is about to publish a white paper on cloud computing. It draws distinctions between what cloud means to IT, and what it means to business -- while examining the complex dual relationship between the two. [Read More...]

How professional services and portfolio management helped Nottingham Trent University

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

The latest BriefingsDirect case study podcast discussion centers on how Nottingham Trent University gained strategic operational efficiency and improved IT management. [Read More...]

Oracle fills another gap in its big data offering

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

With Oracle's announcement of general availability of the big data appliance, it is filling in the blanks by disclosing that it is OEM'ing Cloudera's CDH Hadoop distribution and, more importantly, the management tooling. [Read More...]

MIT's Ross on how enterprise architecture and IT more than ever lead to business transformation

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Jeanne Ross, Director and Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research says adoption of enterprise architecture (EA) leads to greater efficiencies and better business agility. [Read More...]

Travel giant TUI Group leverages virtualization management tools

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

The critical need to better identify performance issues and outages prompted TUI InfoTec to find ways to cut time to troubleshooting, resulting in a 50 percent reduction in the time needed to identify the causes of such problems. [Read More...]

Overlapping Criminal and State Threats Pose Cyber Security Threat to Global Internet Commerce

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Joe Menn explores the current cyber-crime landscape, the underground cyber-gang movement, and the motive behind governments collaborating with organized crime in cyber space. [Read More...]

AuraPortal

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

While doing the research for the update of the Bloor Market Update on BRMS, I came across a number of vendors that I must have missed when doing the original survey. One of these was AuraPortal. So... [Read More...]

Digital marketing technologies will start to deliver enterprise customer goals in 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Gerry Brown, Bloor Research) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Marketing and IT have never been a match made in heaven. Extrovert creative communicators and geeky analytical techies rarely choose to passionately embrace. However, corporate needs, rather than... [Read More...]

SAP runs VMware to provision private clouds that support complex and critical training applications

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Worldwide enterprise applications leader SAP has designed and implemented a private cloud infrastructure model that supports an internal consulting and training program. [Read More...]

Metadata virtualization and orchestration seen as critical new technology

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

This discussion then examines how metadata-driven data virtualization and improved orchestration can help provide the inclusion and scale to accomplish far better data management. Such access then leads to improved integration of all inform [Read More...]

SEGA Europe uses VMware to standardize cloud environment for globally distributed game development

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

SEGA Europe is standardizing its cloud infrastructure across its on-premises operations, as well as with a public cloud provider. [Read More...]

Efficient data center transformation requires tracking and proving improvements incrementally

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

The latest BriefingsDirect discussion then explores how to build quick data center project wins, by leveraging project tracking and scorecards, as well as by developing a common roadmap for both facilities and IT infrastructure. [Read More...]

Come together? The evolution of integration for enterprise software

rss@it-analysis.com (Phil Lewis, infor) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Phil Lewis, Business Consulting Director, UKIMEA, Infor looks at the next generation of middleware [Read More...]

Embarcadero brings self-service app store model to enterprises to target PCs

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of database and application development software, recently announced AppWave, a free platform that provides self-service, one-click access to PC software within organizations. [Read More...]

HP hybrid cloud news shows emphasis on enabling the telcos and service providers first

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

HP at the Discover 2011 Conference in Vienna last week announced a wide range of new Cloud Solutions designed to advance deployment of private, public and hybrid clouds for enterprises, service providers, and governments. [Read More...]

Big Data meets CEP: AccelOps delivers a better way to solve the data center analytics problem

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion centers on how new data and analysis approaches are significantly improving IT operations monitoring, as well as providing stronger security. [Read More...]

Vodafone Ireland IT group sees huge ROI by emphasizing business services

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

A shift from a technology emphasis to a business services delivery emphasis has created significant improvements for a large telecommunications provider, Vodafone. [Read More...]

The independent managed print services approach

rss@it-analysis.com (Louella Fernandes, Quocirca) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Although hardware vendors have been the predominant MPS suppliers for some time, the market is at a tipping point, evolving to encompass a wider range of providers. [Read More...]

HP experts to explore advances in service and support for VMware data center environments

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

A live, deep-dive discussion on Dec. 7 with a group of HP experts will explore how to make the most of the available people, technology, and processes to provide an insurance policy against failure. [Read More...]

German travel agency starts a virtual desktop journey to get branch office IT under control

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0100

This case study interview focuses on how Germany's largest travel agency has remade their PC landscape across 580 branch offices using virtual desktops. [Read More...]