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BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend

who's going to maintain the workstationsyeah it's a cloud system, but the hardware at the desk still needs to be maintained. Waiting for your 3rd party IT people could waste valuable time in the office.RE: BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascendI think...

Tags: Thin clients, cloud computing, thin client, imminent death, enterprise-IT, Briefingsdirect

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

BriefingsDirect analysts unpack PaaS and predict future impact on enterprises and developers

BriefingsDirect analysts unpack PaaS and predict future impact on enterprises and developersXaaS Frees Up Enterprises and DevelopersWhen we launched our ERP system "as a service" back in 2001, the impact on our organization and on our customers was overwhelming. The sales process, implementations, training, support and customization were all...

Tags: cloud computing, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Briefingsdirect, PaaS, developer, XaaS

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

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

Open Source and Cloud: A Curse or Blessing During Recession? BriefingsDirect Analysts Weigh In.Dana, can't you summarize the main conclusions?I guess it might be super exciting to read/hear the whole thing, but I can do that without you. What's your contribution? Why would anybody read/hear the whole thing if you...

Tags: open source, Briefingsdirect, whole thing, recession

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

BriefingsDirect Analysts list top 5 ways to cut enterprise IT costs during economic downturn

BriefingsDirect Analysts list top 5 ways to cut enterprise IT costs during economic downturnGet rid of MS Office suites/desktops & Server OSI can see no valid reason why anyone other than they think they need it the end user could not use Open Office.Also, that goes for Outlook, Thunderbird has...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Servers, Microsoft Office, SECURITY, Briefingsdirect, IT cost, server, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-03-22

A technical look at how parallel processing brings vast new capabilities to large-scale BI and data analysis

The core problem we've solved is the ability for our engine to redistribute the data and the computation on the fly, as these queries and analysis are being performed. ... The combination of the software-switch interconnect, which Greenplum built into the Greenplum product, and the underlying use of commodity parallel...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data, Parallel Processing, SQL, Greenplum, MapReduce, BriefingsDirect, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-01-05

BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligence

BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligenceExpect everything weighed against ROI.IT for the sake of IT is going to be a thing of the past. Just because everyone is doing it is no longer going to be a good enough excuse. If you can't...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Strategy, Pricing, Enterprise software, information technology, SOA Cloud, Briefingsdirect, business intelligence, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

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BriefingsDirect analysts discuss business commerce clouds: Wave of the future or old wine in a new bottle?

As the general notion of cloud computing continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds that multiple business-to-business (B2B) players could use the cloud approach to build extended business process ecosystems. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Business Process, Wine, B2B, Operational Planning, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-16

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

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. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Software AG-IDS Scheer acquisition and lackluster prospects for Google Chrome OS

Chrome OSI tend to agree with him on the Linux and usability part. However Win7 and Mac OS X runs great on netbookWith google behind linux, we can expect greater usability and perhaps more ported applications from Win/Mac worldAs for chrome OS as a thin client, it can practically runs...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, operating system, software, Google Inc., Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Software AG-IDS Scheer acquisition and lackluster prospects for Google Chrome OS

Another topic for our panel this week is the seemingly inevitable trend toward Web oriented architecture WOA, most notably supported by Google's announcement of the Google Chrome operating system OS. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Operating System, Google Chrome, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operating Systems, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Software, Business Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-18

BriefingsDirect user survey helps define latest ESB trends, middleware use patterns

This brief survey, distributed by BriefingsDirect for Interarbor Solutions, is designed to gauge the latest perceptions and patterns of use and updated requirements for middleware products and capabilities. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Survey, Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Got middleware? Got ESBs? Take this survey, please.

I'm hoping that you users and specifiers of enterprise software middleware, SOA infrastructure, integration middleware, and enterprise service buses ESBs will take 5 minutes and fill out my BriefingsDirect survey. We'll share the results via this blog in a few weeks. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Survey, Middleware, Enterprise Service Bus, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-13

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

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. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

BriefingsDirect analysts debate the 'imminent death' of enterprise IT as cloud models ascend

Some of the analyst reports these days indicate that hundreds of billions of dollars in IT spending will soon pass through the doors of corporate IT and into the arms of various cloud-service providers. We might conclude that IT is indeed about to expire. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-10

SOA security issues best addressed by empowered service consumers

Dr. Chris Harding, a thought leader behind The Open Group who I've enjoyed working with from time to time, wonders whether we've been looking at the SOA security problem "the wrong way around." In a guest post over at Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect site, Chris suggests SOA and the use of...

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

Blog posts 2009-07-21

Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data

Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...

Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Performance, Information Technology, Service, Paglo Logs, Log Management Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Services that scale: the 'intercloud' emerges

When clouds go global and services are shared across multiple time zones, perhaps that heralds the emergence of a new structure. Some have taken to calling this global confederation of services the "intercloud." Shades of the Internet, the network of networks. In a new post, Lori MacVittie...

Tags: Service, Intercloud, Application Delivery, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-07

SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'

Is it time to govern the cloud?  Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture?  These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...

Tags: Governance, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Ron Schmelzer, David Kelly, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2C, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-17

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

PostgreSQL delivers alternative for MySQL users wary of Oracle's Sun acquisition

"When MySQL got acquired by Sun, a lot of that community got fractured," Boyajian told BriefingsDirect. "That fracturing started with Sun and continues with Oracle so I think that will have an impact on adoption patterns." by Dana Gardner

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., PostgreSQL, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16