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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...]

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...]

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...]

Andy Isherwood on running IT like a business

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

The combination the down economy, tight IT budgets, and the advent of more cloud sourcing and data center architecture options offer two paths to IT leaders: Remain on the alienated edge, or move to center-stage in how businesses adapt. [Read More...]

ColdSpark and FASTRecover help change BakBone's game

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

BakBone's two recent acquisitions provide innovation building blocks for its new Universal Data Management strategic direction for data on the move [Read More...]

Podcast: HP case studies on managing application performance

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

To better understand the journey to quality assurance for new applications -- and the processes that work best -- BriefingsDirect interviewed IT executives at FICO, Gevity and JetBlue in a podcast discussion. [Read More...]

EDS's David Gee on the spectrum of cloud and outsourcing options unfolding before IT architects

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

HP's purchase last year of EDS came just as talk of cloud computing options ramped up. So how does EDS fit into a new cloud ecology? We pose these and other fluid sourcing questions to David Gee, Vice President of Marketing at EDS. [Read More...]

HP Software marketing head Anton Knolmar delves into creating new IT economies of performance

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +0100

To probe deeper into the harsh new IT economies of performance can be managed, BriefingsDirect sat down with Anton Knolmar, Vice President of Marketing for HP Software & Solutions. [Read More...]

PostgreSQL delivers alternative for MySQL users wary of Oracle's Sun acquisition

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Potential MySQL customers who are wary of the database's future under Oracle stewardship have a possible alternative in Postgres Plus, an open source alternative from EnterpriseDB. [Read More...]

HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0100

Analysts in addition to myself are hearing consistently from IT executives that cost-optimization, cost-containment, and cost-reduction initiatives are the top priorities being driven from the business side onto IT. [Read More...]

'Everything' as a service future means transforming IT for efficiency, scale, says HP's Livermore

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

HP's Ann Livermore said the recession and technology advances have combined to offer a new era in computing, one where a hybrid of sourcing and delivery means moves all IT assets to the level of a service. [Read More...]

Infortrend's green ESVA attacks the storage virtualisation market

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Infortrend, long known for assembling systems for buyers who pick and mix their preferences, is now providing a complete virtualised storage SAN to compete on price/value [Read More...]

Cloud grows globally: Russia, South Korea, and Malaysia join Open Cirrus Initiative

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:05:00 +0100

A global, multiple data center, open-source test bed for the advancement of cloud computingresearch, Open Cirrus was started last summer by HP, Intel Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. [Read More...]

Podcast: how governance needs to support corporate adoption of cloud

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Any meaningful move to cloud-computing adoption, certainly that which aligns and coexists with existing enterprise IT, will need to have such total governance in place. [Read More...]

Greenplum speeds creation of 'self-service' data warehouses with Enterprise Data Cloud release

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Greenplum's goal: To foster speedy creation of vast data warehouses by non-IT personnel in either public or private cloud configurations. [Read More...]

Fujitsu's ETERNUS global storage launch includes enterprise capabilities for low-end

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

Fujitsu is tidying up its new and re-branded storage portfolio, making it more coherent, and also extending its capabilities for an international market; its march towards the global top table continues [Read More...]

TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100

TIBCO's take on PaaS is notable for its emphasis on global 2000 enterprises, with a target on custom business applications, and with a largely automated means to integrate cloud applications and processes with on-premises IT resources. [Read More...]

Mainframes provide fast-track access to private cloud benefits for enterprises, process ecosystems

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

Turns out so-called private clouds, or those cloud computing models that enterprises deploy and/or control on-premises, have a lot in common with longstanding mainframe computing models and techniques. [Read More...]

Data quality vendor map

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

Like most companies we are always trying new methods of visualisation to better understand and communicate our message. One technique that we have recently introduced is what we call a market map, a variant of which is a vendor map. [Read More...]