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Industrializing software opens new possibilities

Martin Banks, Bloor Research — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Fujitsu-Siemens' FlexFrame could be the model for a new way of building applications and services. [Read More...]

Thin provisioning's fat chance during the credit crunch

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Thin provisioning has been gaining momentum as a green storage technology which can bring considerable cost savings; but can its vendors gain from the economic downturn? [Read More...]

The roles of governance in SOA, cloud and managing B2B boundaries

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

SOA governance heightens the business benefits of services, increases IT efficiency returns, and reduces the risk that complexity could undermine the services lifecycle in large organizations. [Read More...]

CU2008 Day 1

David Norfolk, Bloor Research — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:00:00 +0100

David is in the port of Amsterdam, celebrating the immediate availability of Compuware's Uniface 9.3. [Read More...]

Podcast: cloud models and managing transition risks using service governance

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Understand more about the balance and best practices route to emerging cloud and utility IT values and enterprise cloud adoption. [Read More...]

Backup and Recovery - Still Imperfect After All These Years

Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Some things in life, for example taxes, taxis and the music of younger generations, seem to have been around forever yet we are still not comfortable with them. The same can be said of some areas of IT, with Backup and Recovery springing [Read More...]

Exploit existing communities before trying to create new ones

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Public access Wi-Fi hotspots have had mixed success, but perhaps they just need to be layered on top of private services? [Read More...]

Podcast: review of new SOA governance book, propose scope for U.S. tech czar

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

In this episode, our experts examine SOA governance by interviewing Todd Biske, author of the new Packet Publishing book, SOA Governance. The panel also focuses on the IT policies that an Obama administration should pursue. [Read More...]

"Mainframes don't de-dupe": Shoden shows 'em how it's done

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The mainframe world has not so far gained from the various benefits of data de-duplication during backup and replication; but Shoden Data Systems' solution, launched last week, plugs this gap. [Read More...]

Podcast: how enterprises can virtualize applications

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:00 +0100

Managing virtualized applications across a lifecycle is an essential ingredient in making cloud-computing productive. [Read More...]

Jaspersoft - is free BI the way to go?

David Norfolk, Bloor Research — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

BI tools are traditionally specialist and expensive products - but there are now Open Source alternatives. Should you be considering them, and is there a special opportunity for developers? [Read More...]

IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A recent webinar captures the IDC findings and shows how Hewlett-Packard (HP) is working to help companies adopt SOA successfully. [Read More...]

Double-Take's take on low-cost DR: back up the lot with rock solid reliability

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

While CDP is good for doing low-cost file replication, including to remote locations, the OS and applications need also to be recoverable for DR; absolute reliability is another factor; take Double-Take's word [Read More...]

Podcast: HP and solving IT energy conservation issues

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The critical problem of energy management for IT operations and data centers is both a cost and capacity issue. The goal is to find innovative means to conserve electricity use so existing data centers don't need to be replaced. [Read More...]

Small networks, big prizes

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Some technologies behind fixed mobile convergence, such as femtocells, might be whetting the appetites of the marketing departments of product vendors and service providers, but why should business users care? [Read More...]

Attempting to measure sustainability

Simon Perry, Quocirca — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Measuring and reporting on the progress of a business's sustainability strategy is made more complex due tot he fact that underlying many such strategies are a wide range of only loosely related motivations. [Read More...]

Beat the credit crunch with software that saves

Peter Williams, Bloor Research — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

As the credit crunch gets worse, the software vendors destined to do well are those able to show their customers a quick ROI and saving [Read More...]

Genuitec, Eclipse aim for developer kit to smooth rendering of RIAs on mobile devices

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:05:00 +0100

The two tool frameworks will enable mobile web developers to visualize and debug mobile web applications from within an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE). [Read More...]

Podcast: Taking Microsoft's pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Analysts and experts examine the state of Microsoft at the onset of the annual Professional Developers Conference. [Read More...]

IT's emissions footprint is a matter of where you draw the line

Simon Perry, Quocirca — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

The decision to outsource is the single biggest factor related to the level of emissions a business must report. [Read More...]

Microsoft's cloud push lacks economic expediency, sidesteps catalysts for ecology-wide adoption

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Most of us observers expected Microsoft to move to the cloud now, based on the success of Amazon Web Services and Google. But the apparent pace is to offer developers training wheels, little more. [Read More...]

Crisis management or clever thinking?

Rob Bamforth, Quocirca — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Businesses are looking to minimise the effects of a downturn, but will they act in haste and repent at leisure, or are they taking positive and decisive steps to emerge better placed? [Read More...]

Is Unified Communications worth it?

Carl Potter, Bloor Research — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

A brief overview of the likely benefits to be gained from Unified Communications [Read More...]

Web 2.0 acts as accelerant in pending corporate Darwinian shake-out, says Palladium Group CEO

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Companies in today's increasingly hot, flat and crowded world, need to make better decisions. Information alone does not do the job. A systemic and ingrained corporate capacity around decision making is needed. [Read More...]

CSOs need to watch the meter.

Simon Perry, Quocirca — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Electricity meters have so far been innocuous devices and certainly not ones that any Chief Security Officer would have given more than a moment's thought to. However as these devices become smarter they become a potential attack targets. [Read More...]

Lombardi in 2008

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:55:00 +0100

This is the sixth in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. It looks at what is happening at Lombardi and analyses their USPs. [Read More...]

Podcast: IT winners and losers in economic downturn

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In this episode, recorded Oct. 10, 2008, our experts examine the worldwide economic maelstrom, with an eye to the IT sector and how enterprises and vendors will be impacted. [Read More...]

Cloud providers may need their own OS in the sky, risking a new level of lock-in

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

VMware, Citrix and now Oracle have pledged to come to market with the infrastructure that enterprises and service providers alike will want. [Read More...]

Adoption of Data Governance by Business?

Dr Dave Waddington, The Information Difference — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

The Information Difference conducted a survey in August-September 2008 into the take-up, adoption and present level of maturity of data governance in business. [Read More...]

It's a question of scale

Clive Longbottom, Quocirca — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0100

SOA is a great way forwards for enterprise IT - but what about down at the micro level of sensors, actuators and controls? [Read More...]