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Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the...- more about Dana Gardner »
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- Cast Iron takes 'integration as a service' to cloud-based or on-premises deployment
- This ability to integrate applications across hybrid deployment types is critical for enterprises to increasingly move to cloud-based and SaaS models. More than not, applications will come from several sources, and so the integrations becomes the enabler of the models ongoing use and success. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Integration, Cast Iron, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management
- The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...
- Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- WSO2 eases enterprise data availability for SOA access, consumption
- In its initial release, the application supports access to data stored in relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL and IBM DB2, as well as the comma-separated values CSV file format, and Excel spreadsheets. It allows users to authenticate, encrypt and sign services using the WS-Security and HTTP security standards. In...
- Tags: Data Service, Web, Database Administrator, Enterprise Data, Web Service, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- I think that Oracle is going to have a cloud offering, IBM is going to have a cloud offering, Sun is going to have a cloud offering, and it's going to be the big talk in the big industry over the next two or three years. I think they are...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Improved insights and analysis from IT systems logs helps reduce complexity risks from virtualization
- We seem to be at a tipping point in terms of everyone doing virtualization, or wanting to do it, or wanting to do even more. IT managers experimenting with virtualization are seeking to reduce costs, to improve the efficiency in use of their assets, or for using virtualization to address...
- Tags: Information Technology, Server, Analysis, LogLogic, Logs, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Oracle and HP explain history, role and future for new Exadata Server and Database Machine
- Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise the day before by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations. The integrated servers re-architect the relationship between Oracle's 11g database and high-performance storage. Exadata, in essence, gives new meaning to "attached" storage for...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Industry Standard, High-performance, Storage, Leadership, Databases, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering
- It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Analytics, Greenplum, MapReduce, Database 3.2, Storage, Databases, Financial Planning, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Interview: From OpenWorld, HP's John Santaferraro on latest BI Modernization strategies
- Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Soon, business executives will have among the most powerful IT tools ever developed at their disposal to...
- Tags: Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- HP and Oracle team up on 'data warehouse appliances' that re-architect database-storage landscape
- The reason for the 10x to 72x performance improvements cited by Ellison are do to bringing the "intelligence" closer to the data, that is bringing the Exadata Programmable Storage Server appliance into close proximity to the Oracle database servers, and then connecting them through InfiniBand connections. In essence, this architecture...
- Tags: Team, Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Hey, you, get onto my cloud!
- More important than in past vendor sporting events, the business model rules. The cloud model that wins is the "preferred cloud model" that gives IT shops in enterprises high performance at manageable complexity and dramatically lower total costs. That same "preferred" cloud attracts the platform as a service developer crowd,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Boundary, Standards, Cloud, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- From OpenWorld, Oracle and HP align forces to modernize legacy apps and spur IT transformation
- Oracle and HP are providing products and services that holistically support the many required variables to successfully implement IT transformation. HP hardware and storage systems have been tuned to support Oracle databases, applications and software infrastructure for many years, and the partnership continues to expand in the age of SOA,...
- Tags: Legacy Application, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Oracle Open World, Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Amid financial sector turmoil, combined HP-EDS solutions uniquely span public-private divide
- The timing of Wall Street facing some of its darker days comes as HP and the newly acquired EDS unit are combining forces in unique ways. Between them, EDS and HP have been servicing the financial and government sectors for decades. Combined, HP and EDS are uniquely positioned to assist...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Podcasts, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Oracle's Beehive push portends rethinking of economics and methods of enterprise messaging
- Exchange and its cotierie is widely acklowledged as coming with an agilty deficit and at a premium TCO -- but with commodity-priced features and functions. For all intents and purposes, email, calendar, files foldering, and even unified messaging functions are free, or at least low-cost features of larger applications function...
- Tags: Client-server, Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Messaging, Exchange, Groupware, Instant Messaging, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Sybase moves to spur process modeling agility with latest PowerDesigner
- The main goal, according to Sybase, is to create greater agility by breaking down the silos that currently wall off the various IT elements from each other and from the business goals. See my thoughts on my CEP is stepping up to the plate on similar values. And we've seen...
- Tags: Sybase PowerDesigner, Sybase Inc., Modeling, PowerDesigner 15, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Complex Event Processing goes mainstream with a boost from TIBCO's latest solution
- I think that CEP offers the ability to extract real and appreciated business value from a long history of IT improvements. If companies like BI, and they do, then CEP takes off where BI leaves off, and the combination of strong capabilities in BI and CEP is exactly what enterprises...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Information Technology, Complex Event Processing, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- LogLogic updates search and analysis tools for conquering IT systems management complexity
- The latest release provides improved search for IT intelligence, forensics workflow and advanced secure remote access control. LogLogic 4.6 will be rolled out for the company's family of LX, ST, and MX products, helping large- and mid-sized companies to capture, search and store their log data to improve business operations,...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Analysis Tool, Analytics, Information Technology, Dynamic Range, Tool, Systems Management, Strategy, Pricing, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- Genuitec expands Pulse provisioning system beyond tools to Eclipse distros, eyes larger software management role
- Private Label, which can be tailored to customer specifications, can be hosted either by Genuitec or within a corporate firewall to integrate with existing infrastructure. Customers also control the number of software catalogs, as well as their content. Other features include full custom branding and messaging, reporting of software usage,...
- Tags: Software, Provisioning, Eclipse, Tool, Genuitec, Pulse 2.3 Community Edition, Pulse 2.3 Freelance, Pulse Private Label Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Management, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- iTKO's SOA testing and validation role supports increasingly complex integration lifecycles
- We like the fact that we're changing systems more frequently. We're not doing that because we want chaos. We're doing it because it's helping the businesses get to market faster, achieving regulatory compliance faster, and all of those good things. We like the fact that we're changing, and that we...
- Tags: iTKO, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Desktone, Wyse bring Flash content to desktop virtualization delivery
- Desktone dtFlash, introduced today, resides in the host virtual machine and acts as the interface between the Flash player and Wyse TCX. Together they allow users to run wide-ranging multimedia applications, including Flash, on their virtual desktops. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Desktop, Multimedia, Virtual Desktop, Wyse Technology Inc., Flash, Desktop Virtualization, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- SIMtone races to provide cloud-deployed offerings, including wireless device support
- The winner of the "picks and shovels" for cloud infrastructure may well end up the next billion-dollar company in the software space. It should be an intense next few years for these players, especially as other larger software vendors like Microsoft also build, buy or partner their way in. by...
- Tags: Data Center, Wireless Device, Wireless, SIMtone, SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing Platform, SIMtone Virtual Service Platform, Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
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