SOA consultant Todd Biske, who did a great job on a panel I was honored to moderate earlier this week, has some good thoughts on the definitions and roles of IT categories and SOA.His blog posting on "acronym soup" is worth a read.And thanks to the other members of "The...
Further banking on SOA as a consolidation strategy accelerator for enterprises, IBM on Monday announced its intention to acquire DataMirror.The Markham, Ontario-based DataMirror provides real-time data capture and delivery across a broad range of data sources â€" including IBM's own DB2, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server â€" and allows...
As the amount of enterprise data explodes, so does the need to access this data from disparate and widely flung sources, increasing the market for data integration and management.Composite Software this week announced a major release of its Composite Information Server CIS, as well as a Composite Active Cluster, designed...
TIBCO announced today the acquisition of privately held Spotfire Inc. for $195 million, a quick way for TIBCO to provide greater insight into business activities through improved data analysis.The move follows Oracles recent purchase of Hyperion and further underscores the importance of business intelligence BI for service oriented architecture SOA,...
According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...
Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...
Determine how much information you really need . . .Sometimes I wonder how much information some of these businesses really need. Maybe it's time to turn off some of those pipes altogether . . .Sounds like a lot of extra overhead for some business types. I imagine mostly the news...
For businesses looking to do even more commerce and community building across the Web, text access and analytics forms a new mother lode of valuable insights to mine. by Dana Gardner
What is hiding in the analysis?One area that BI seems to miss is understanding what is going on inside business processes, especially those run by BPM tools. I think that there is often a feeling of comfort that comes from BI, since seeing is believing and you can ignore the...
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...
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Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...
CrossFTP is an excellent FTP client. CrossFTP Pro is a FTP client supporting SFTP, FXP, WebDav, and Amazon S3. It uses a familiar, Explorer-like interface so that the novice user can master in minutes. CrossFTP's main features are: 1. Multi-tabs navigation. 2. Archive browse, extraction, and compression. ...
Net neutrality can only...be accomplished by a company divesting the provision of the infrastructure from the provision of the services that use the infrastructure. As long as the same company provides both services there will never be neutrality. These companies have to much at stake in delivering services that ride...
We Americans are rightfully known the world over for being impatient. Why haven't we won the war, it's been six weeks already? Where's my burger, I've been standing here fifteen seconds? Fast food. Fast cars. Fast lanes. Fast forward. Fast tweets from...
How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...
Allway Sync compares files in specified folders and copies the modified file to the counterpart folder, it synchronizes folders. Unlike other file sync tools that just copy files with the most recent modification time, Allway Sync uses a true bi-directional synchronization algorithm that does not depend on system clock accuracy,...
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