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- Why is Microsoft Tepid in Its March to Cloud Computing?
- Dana Gardner submits: Few topics among economists and business leaders engender the same enthusiasm as productivity. Doing more for less seems the universal balm for individuals, businesses and markets. If we all have growing productivity, well, then everything practically takes care of itself. You'll find few dissenters.Ask 50 economists, however,...
- External links 2008-10-31
- HP Reveals Solutions to Optimize Recession-Battered IT Operations
- Dana Gardner submits: LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HPQ Tuesday unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time.FP&A is part of...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Microsoft Survey Says IT Departments Still Have Room to Invest in Infrastructure
- Dana Gardner submits: Even in this global recession, one-third of IT organizations plan to increase virtualization, including cloud-computing initiatives, in the next two years, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Microsoft MSFT. Seeing the downturn as an opportunity to upgrade, nearly two-thirds of 1,200...
- External links 2009-06-24
- Oracle: Middleware's Next Generation Arrives, Now What About the Cloud?
- Dana Gardner submits: After nearly a 20-month gestation period, Oracle ORCL today announced the arrival this month of the next generation of its sprawling middleware family, the long-anticipated Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Billed as a "complete, integrated, and hot-pluggable" middleware set of suites, the new software infrastructure offerings, which...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Oracle's OSGi Silence Is Deafening
- Dana Gardner submits: This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog . Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum. This week's announcement by Oracle ORCL of the rollouts of Fusion Middleware 11g is a bit anticlimactic in that the details are pretty much according to the plan...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Rackspace Differentiates Itself from Amazon with Open Community Approach
- Dana Gardner submits: Positioning its cloud hosting services as an alternative to Amazon’s AMZN Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace RAX announced Tuesday the public availability of Cloud Servers API based on representational state transfer. Taking an open-source approach, Rackspace’s 43,000 cloud-computing customers played a major role in the...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Governance Ecology Cooperation Begins: Tibco Supports HP's Lifecycle Software
- Dana Gardner submits: TIBCO Software TIBX is expanding its governance solutions for service-oriented architecture (SOA) and will now provide support for Hewlett-Packard HPQ SOA Systinet lifecycle governance software. ActiveMatrix Policy Manager and Service Performance Manager from TIBCO combined with HP SOA Systinet are designed to reduce risk and improve...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Akamai Joins Push for Desktop Virtualization Services into the Mainstream
- Dana Gardner submits: Call it a trend – and not just a virtual one. Akamai Technologies AKAM is the latest tech firm to join the effort to push desktop virtualization into the mainstream with the salient message of swift return on investment (ROI) and lower total costs for PC desktop...
- External links 2009-09-30
- When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get an Apple
- Dana Gardner submits: I've been ruminating the past few days on why Apple AAPL is doing so well with it's pricey high-end products and services during a recession. The answer came as I was reading Wednesday's New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, whom I deeply admire and read anything...
- External links 2009-10-22
- HP Prepares for Transformation to the 'Everything' Services Future
- Dana Gardner submits: LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HPQ opened its Tech Form 2009 conference here Monday evening with a portrait of a future in which everything in IT is delivered -- and perhaps consumed -- as a service.Ann Livermore, Executive Vice President for HP's Technology Solutions Group (TSG), said the...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Tibco Throws Hat in Cloud Computing Ring
- Dana Gardner submits: Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software TIBX Wednesday threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Where Is Cloud Computing Going?
- Dana Gardner submits: People talk about “The Cloud” as if it is one unified platform, but it’s the exact opposite, argues Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research.Misconceptions of what “The Cloud” is and a general lack of standardization among the vendors offering cloud computing services is bound to be...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Will Microsoft Peak in the Next Few Years?
- Dana Gardner submits: Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 32, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts and guests. In this episode, recorded Oct. 10, 2008, our experts examine the state of Microsoft...
- External links 2008-11-02
- HP Explains Advantages of Remote Support for Enterprises
- Dana Gardner submits: The trend around use of remote support software for monitoring, remediation and IT maintenance automation is gaining steam in the global enterprise IT market. I certainly expect that as companies become even more cost conscious, they will seek to further reduce their total cost of IT operations...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Cloud Computing Will Transform Business
- Dana Gardner submits: Many enterprises and service providers are now grappling with how cloud models and economics will impact them. The specter of a challenging business climate may well hasten the need to seek IT resources that are supported through greater cloud computing approaches -- to save money, as well...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Citrix Takes Two Steps Forward in Virtual Desktop Development
- Dana Gardner submits: Citrix Systems CTXS last week delivered a one-two punch in the battle for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) differentiation with the introduction of XenDesktop 3 and Citrix HDX high-definition technology, promising to lower costs associated with servers and storage in the data center.XenDesktop 3, a key component of...
- External links 2009-02-10
- IBM Interested in Sun? A Flaming Red Herring
- Dana Gardner submits: Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to the Wall Street Journal, that [[IBM]] is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems JAVA for $6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart...
- External links 2009-03-18
- IBM Could Replace Sun in the Hot Seat the Next Time Around
- Dana Gardner submits: From the perspective of IT users, developer communities and global industry as a whole, [[IBM]] may be the worst place for beleaguered Sun Microsystems JAVA to land.Sure a merger as is rumored is good -- but not urgently or obviously so -- for IBM. Big Blue gains...
- External links 2009-03-22
- Amazon Demonstrates How Cloud Computing Can Change the World
- Dana Gardner submits: Amazon's AMZN announcement of a cloud-based data mining and analysis service, using the Hadoop implementation of MapReduce, potentially opens advanced business intelligence (BI) activities to many more businesses and organizations. It's an excellent example of just how much cloud computing can change the world.In essence, the service,...
- External links 2009-04-02
- Progress' Enhanced CEP Platform May Help Financial Institutions Supply Detailed Data
- Dana Gardner submits: Progress Software PRGS this week announced the release of an enhanced Parallel Correlator for its Apama Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform so it can take advantage of multi-core, multi-processor hardware.Progress claims a seven-fold increase in CEP performance on an eight-core server in the company’s internal benchmark testing...
- External links 2009-04-23
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