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TIBCO rolls out Spotfire 3.1 with spotlight on predictive analytics

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The company says its software is not just for analytics gurus but also marketing professionals, business development managers and others who need forward-looking business intelligence in a hurry. [Read More...]

Cast Iron launches integration platform to help pull hybrid cloud models together

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Integration can get complex in a hurry with a growing number of applications in the enterprise, such as Salesforce, Google Apps, WebEx and ADP. Companies could take a do-it-yourself approach but it won't scale over time. [Read More...]

Inspiring Launch of Apps for Good

Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

On Wednesday 3 March 2010 I attended the inspiring launch of Apps for Good in Tulse Hill, Lambeth, South London. Apps for Good is a project that will provide an environment for young people in the... [Read More...]

Survey: IT executives experimenting with mostly 'private' cloud architectures

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Some 95 IT executives across a number of fields offered insight into how organizations are experimenting with cloud computing and how they view the value of private clouds. Nearly 85 percent intend to keep their clouds within the firewall. [Read More...]

Database Activity Monitoring Part 3 - Other Common Attacks

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

This article will explore how database activity monitoring deals with other types of data attacks. Temporary Accounts Temporary accounts have a perfectly legitimate part to play in any... [Read More...]

Cloud Security Alliance research defines top threats and best paths to secure cloud computing

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As Cloud Security Alliance Founder Jim Reavis sees it, cloud services are the next generation of IT that enterprises must master - and it's imperative that companies understand and mitigate security threats that accompany the cloud. [Read More...]

Mutual embrace of SOA and cloud computing builds into productivity waltz across the IT landscape

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Three years ago, the IT transformation poster child was SOA, and now we're well into the hype curve around cloud computing, but has one actually given way to the other? [Read More...]

HP rolls out data center services aimed at boosting IT ROI for global SMBs

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The SMB IT services and support market is ripe for efficiency and lower total costs. And the SMB arena is also a prime user for upcoming cloud and hybrid-sourced services. So now everything as a service can go anywhere. [Read More...]

Citrix Online acquires Paglo, launches GoToManage

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0100

Citrix Online is positioning the latest addition to its online services portfolio as an affordable alternative to premise-based IT management software. [Read More...]

HP 'trims' SharePoint web doc management risks, builds advanced workflow tools

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The latest version of HP's advanced records management solution aims to help organizations transparently manage Microsoft SharePoint Server records in a single environment. [Read More...]

Print revival at HP as it builds strategic enterprise MPS and midmarket focus

Louella Fernandes, Quocirca — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Signs of a rebound in printer sales were evident from HP's latest Q1 2010 results which saw its imaging and printing business revenue grow by 4% year-on-year to $6.2 billion. [Read More...]

Electric Cloud updates software production offerings

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

With Electrify, developers can conduct parallel testing or data modeling on their desktop, in a private cloud or on a dedicated server. Meanwhile, the subbuild technology works to help developers avoid unnecessary or broken builds. [Read More...]

Smart Grid for data center from HP

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. It's now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use -- and misuse -- in these enterprise data centers. [Read More...]

Aster Blossoms

Andy Hayler, The Information Difference — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Version 4.5 of Aster Data's data warehouse appliance has just been released. It has specialized in near real-time analysis of large data sets, and has some highly credible customers in this challenging niche. [Read More...]

Improved data center productivity, private clouds

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

This latest BriefingsDirect discussion explores how converged infrastructure provides more business results productivity and offers a stepping stone to private cloud implementations. [Read More...]

Mobile applications development - out of WAC?

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Lack of standardisation fragments markets, but too much might stifle innovation - in the reflected glow from Mobile World Congress 2010, what now for mobile applications? [Read More...]

BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

We ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond now that the IT spending recession appears to have bottomed out. [Read More...]

Database Activity Monitoring Part 1 - An Introduction

Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

We are inundated with new technologies and products designed to help make our organisations safe from hackers and other malcontents. One technology that has gained ground over the past few... [Read More...]

Seeing a golden lining around efficiency, HP expands cloud consulting services portfolio

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Dubbed HP Cloud Design Service, the new offering advises organizations how to quickly design and deploy scalable, cloud-based infrastructures. [Read More...]

ISM3 brings greater standardization to security measurement across enterprise IT

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0100

BriefingDirect assembled a panel this week to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than a mysterious art form. It turns out, rigorously applying data and metrics to security can dramatically improv [Read More...]

IBM to Put Billions upon Billions of Files in the Cloud

Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Storage solutions have traditionally retained more of the traditional siloed approach than their server brethren, yet part of the challenge lies in the fundamental difference between how storage is consumed and how applications are. [Read More...]

ArchiMate gives business leaders and IT architects a common language to describe the enterprise

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

ArchiMate provides ways to develop visualizations and control of IT architecture to more swiftly obtain business benefits. [Read More...]

Why IT managers have embraced Skype

David Tang, VoSKY Technologies — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Ever considered Skype but been unsure of exactly how it could benefit your business? Here are 5 reasons why you could learn to love it. [Read More...]

'Business architecture' helps leaders decide on and execute changes at the new speed of business

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

To me enterprise business architecture is a set of artifacts and methods that helps business leaders make decisions about direction and communicate the changes that are required in order to achieve that vision. [Read More...]

Social media and CSAT surveys

V Bharathwaj, 24/7 Customer — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

This article looks at opinions on social media as indicators for CSAT [Read More...]

The pen is mightier than the digit

Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

For hundreds of years we have been recording, collecting, distributing and storing information using pen and paper; this extends to thousands of years if we include making marks on... [Read More...]

New definition of enterprise architecture emphasizes 'fit for purpose' across IT undertakings

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

There are basically five words or phrases; mission, solution, environment, fitness for purpose, and essentials. Those capture all the ideas behind the definition of enterprise architecture. [Read More...]

Real-time web data services in action at Deutsche Borse

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As the culmination of a four-part series on web data services, we examine a fascinating use-case for how real-time content and data assembled from various online sources provides a valuable analysis service at Deutsche B�rse Group. [Read More...]

IBM Announces New POWER7 Servers

Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The sheer size of this announcement cannot be underestimated; just one glance at the press release shows a litany of technology and product detail that is not easily dismissed as just another upgrade. [Read More...]

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss ramifications of Google-China dust-up over corporate cyber attacks

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China have uncorked a Pandora's Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. But there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance. [Read More...]