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BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computingSun already HAS a DW ApplianceDana,Actually, Sun already has a data warehousing appliance: the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, as it's named, based on Greenplum and Sun's Thumper. It's been quite successful, with several large commercial deployments and some...

Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., BriefingsDirect Insights, Exadata, cloud computing, virtualization, business intelligence, Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

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HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today 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...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds

Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., PaaS, TIBCO Silver, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Service Level Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Open Source and Cloud: A Curse or Blessing During Recession? BriefingsDirect Analysts Weigh In.

It's time again, then, to look at the pluses and minuses of open source software models in the context of tight IT budgets and the advent of cloud-based services for enterprises. Our latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights roundtable discussion, vol. 39, therefore examines open source in the context of economics, complexity,...

Tags: Recession, Analyst, Context, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Active Endpoints aims at greater process design and implementation productivity with ActiveVOS enhancements

Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system, has kicked things up a notch with the recent release of ActiveVos 6.1, which incorporates new features and functions designed to make developers more productive. The latest offering from the Waltham, Mass. company provides what amounts to shrink-wrapped...

Tags: Business Process, Developer, BPM, BPEL, ActiveVos 6.1, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Manes: in today's climate, be specific about SOA-related requests

In the second half of our recent BriefingsDirect podcast, hosted by Dana Gardner, we heard more from Anne Thomas Manes, who provided more perspective on  her recent proclamation that SOA -- at least as we knew it -- is dead. (Link to podcast here, full transcript here.) The...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-02-02

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition,...

Tags: Communication, SOA, Service, Architecture, SOC, Communications Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-26

BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts identify IT winners and losers in global economic downturn

I think this is a great time to do a startup. Number one, VCs be damned at this point. You don't need their money at all, just some angel investors to invest in some very minute infrastructure. With cloud computing out there and the number of things you can do...

Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dana Gardner, Data Warehouse, Financial, SOA, Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Vertical Industries, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Blog posts 2008-10-17

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

Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society

The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...

Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-03

ZoomInfo spins off 'bizographic' platform for controlled circulation online advertising play

Business information provider ZoomInfo has spun off its advertising business units in a new company, Bizo, offering a targeted B2B advertising platform, or what it calls "bizographic" advertising. Privately held and venture-backed ZoomInfo, Waltham, Mass., announced a new set of business segments last fall, but has now...

Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, ZoomInfo, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-21

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner â€" more on that in a moment. Let's move on...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-16

BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking

Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing

Read a full transcript of the podcast.  There's been welling interest and discussion lately around so-called Web Oriented Architecture WOA and established Services Oriented Architecture SOA, and how the two relate. And then there's the whole cloud computing trend, and well ... how does that relate, too?...

Tags: Web, Cloud Computing, SOA, Podcasts, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-25

TIBCO's ActiveMatrix earns 'Product of Year' nod from SearchSOA.com judges

TIBCO Software came home this week with a gold star when SearchSOA.com named its ActiveMatrix SOA platform a "Product of the Year" in the assembly and integration category in SearchSOA.com's annual awards. The award was sweeter for the Palo Alto, Calif., company because it was based on...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., ActiveMatrix 2.0, Podcasts, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Carbon management dashboards and SOA's uncertain role in Green IT

There's been plenty of discussion about 'Green IT' over the past year, but, as far as I can tell, there has been little discussion about SOA's role in all this. It can be assumed that as data centers are consolidated and streamlined, SOA methodologies will be employed to play some...

Tags: Green IT, Dashboard, SOA, Carbon Credit, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Google App Engine creation process live on Twitter

I'm watching Dion Hinchcliffe and a small group of other observers and developers create a Google App Engine GAE application live via Twitter. We're on the cutting edge of using social media and near-real time collaboration tools free to learn and use GAE for free, and then...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Twitter, App, Google Accounts, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-12

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Splunk goes 'platform' to extend IT search benefits across more IT management functions

Gaining more insights early and often into what vast arrays of servers, routers and software stacks are actually doing has long been on the top of the IT wish list. Traditional IT management approaches force the trade-off been depth and comprehensive reach, meaning you can't get the full, integrated picture...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Application, IT Administration, Information Technology, Goal, Benefit, Splunk, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-04