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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...]

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...]

Commoditise storage to slash costs using AoE, says Coraid

rss@it-analysis.com (Peter Williams, Bloor Research) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Thanks to x86 and other commodity components, users usually get good value for money from their server systems. However, storage subsystems and their connectivity remain stubbornly complex and... [Read More...]

CEP and Big Data 2

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

There have been a couple of things floating around in the ether about CEP (complex event processing) recently. The first is the question, supposedly credited to Curt Monash, of whether it should be... [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...]

Alteryx, another disruptive technology of huge importance

rss@it-analysis.com (David Norris, Bloor Research) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. For Dickens, in a Tale of Two Cities, this was how he saw the era of the French Revolution. I think that we live in a time that could be described... [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...]

Genuitec's MobiOne eases way for Windows development of iOS apps

rss@it-analysis.com (Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:00:00 +0100

Genuitec, LLC has revamped its MobiOne development tool to allow Windows operating system users to design and build App Store-ready iOS apps without using a Mac. [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...]

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...]

There is value in the system

rss@it-analysis.com (Bob Tarzey, Quocirca) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Reseller opportunity remains within the area of systems administration (sys-admin) for better management of privilege, automation and improved compliance [Read More...]

Secure disposal of old IT equipment

rss@it-analysis.com (Bob Tarzey, Quocirca) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0100

It is not just servers and storage arrays that need to have data securely deleted when it comes to end of life [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...]

Themes for 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

It's that time of year. Here are a few thoughts about what's to come, in no particular order. Real-time everything. Hardly a surprise. It's been real-time everything for a few years. What I think is... [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...]

FATCA and data governance

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

All the recent compliance headlines in the financial services sector, at least in the UK and Europe, have been around Solvency II, Basel III and MiFid II. A regulation that has been largely... [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...]

Simplifying ETL

rss@it-analysis.com (Philip Howard, Bloor Research) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I have just got back from the Netezza user conference and there was an interesting presentation on using IBM's Information Server in conjunction with Netezza. The major bone of contention during the... [Read More...]