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IT Service Management: A Top Priority for 2008: IBM recently commissioned the Butler Group to discover the priorities of more than 100 senior IT professionals working in large organisations and enterprises. The results of the survey show what role ITSM will play in 2008, what the priorities will be and how capabilities are deployed. It also provides...; Tags: Butler Group, Priority, Information Technology, IT Professional, IBM Corp., Research Finding, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2008-06-13
OS-Virtualisation Review - Butler Group Report: This Technology Audit from the widely respected Butler Group gives an overview of the OS-level server virtualisation solution "Virtuozzo", analysing how and why it differs from hardware virtualisation and detailing the benefits arising from this approach.; Tags: Virtualization, Butler Group, Server Virtualization, Parallels Inc., Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage; White papers 2007-07-23
Analysts: more SOA vendor carnage ahead: A new report from Butler Group confirms what we already suspected: the big vendors are pouring out lots of cash in efforts to roll up smaller, more specialized SOA vendors into suites -- and will continue to do so.The Big SOA vendors are being chased upstream to maintain their high-margin...; Tags: General, Vendor Watch; Blog posts 2007-06-20
Butler Group Technical Audit: Sterling Commerce Managed Services: Read Butler Group's report about Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructure solutions that allow trading organizations to interact with each other across a secure network. Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, such solutions are providing organizations of all sizes the ability to trade and collaborate electronically via...; Tags: Internet, E-business/E-Commerce, B2B, It Services, Sterling Commerce, Audit, Managed Services, Butler Group; White papers 2007-06-01
Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail to Deliver ROI.: Too many Business Intelligence BI projects fail to deliver on their promises. The Butler Group identifies the key drivers of success, showing how structured approaches can deliver sustainable ROI.; Tags: Butler Group, SAS Institute, ROI, Roi/Tco, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management; White papers 2006-10-05

Sun: Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite: Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite CAPS is a fully-featured suite that addresses the development and deployment of integration processes and composite applications. Many organisations are facing the challenge of needing to integrate existing applications whilst wanting to consider how these may fit into a future architecture that is more...; Tags: Butler Group, Suite, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java, Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite, Java Composite Application Platform Suite, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-07-01
Butler Group: Red herring and bull?: Butler Group's weblog takes a look at MIcrosoft's"redbull" efforts on Notes migrations:Fear,Uncertainty, and Doubt FUD is, all too frequently in the IT world, partof a marketer's armoury, and well ahead pre-announcements of software arenot uncommon from Microsoft. However, to announce and then 'lose' a productsupposedly...; Tags: bull, Butler Group; Blog posts 2006-02-10
Butler Group, Tumbleweed SecureTransport Technology Audit: SecureTransport from Tumbleweed is a safe, automated file transfer family of products, available as software or an appliance, which allow users to select their transport protocol of choice to transmit or receive data, without having to resort to the purchase of expensive solutions. Compliance, and the need to transfer...; Tags: Weakness, Butler Group, SecureTransport, Audit, Tumbleweed Communications Corp., Smb/Sme, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2005-05-31
Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005: Butler Group estimates the global market for real-time business analytics tools will reach $10 bln by year-end 2005. IDC puts the current UK real-time business analytics market worth at about $340 mln.; Tags: business analytics; Blog posts 2005-04-16
Real-time business analytics market to be worth $10 bln in 2005: Butler Group estimates the global market for real-time business analytics tools will reach $10 bln by year-end 2005. IDC puts the current UK real-time business analytics market worth at about $340 mln.; Tags: Butler Group, real-time Business Analytic, business analytics; Blog posts 2005-04-16
Cadbury Schweppes' Remedy for ITIL Success: Cadbury Schweppes is a major confectionery and beverages supplier, and one of the UK's older, and most well established companies, but is also one that still wants to remain highly competitive. What the company needed was an approach somewhat like the army has - things should be done in the...; Tags: Butler Group, ITIL, Remedy Corp., Cadbury Schweppes Plc., Help Desk System, Help Desk, Call Centers, Change Management, It Operations, Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies
Technology Audit: Butler Group Evaluates Industry's First Network Attached Processing Solution: This Butler Group report describes the Azul Compute Appliance, the industry's first Network Attached Processing NAP solution that's purpose-built to meet the power and processing demands of computationally intensive and multi-threaded Java applications. The paper explains how Azul's Compute Appliances, which can be pooled to provide virtually unlimited processing capacity,...; Tags: Butler Group, Audit, Azul Systems, Network, Industry, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers

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2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel.": July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...; Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-24
DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality: Why isn't the Linux kernel group doing what the BSD people did with respect to DTrace: seeing a better idea and grabbing it with both hands? My guess is personal antipathies expressed as a big dose of not invented here syndrome. by Paul Murphy; Tags: DTrace, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game: Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...; Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-23
COPA is unconstitutional: COPA is unconstitutionalgovernment censorshipNow that Andrew Cuomo AG NY has had most of the ISP's Eliminate ALT* Bineries newsgroups. Does this action, which is like finding a book in the library and burning down the complete facility . Eliminate Cuomo's actions and allow the ISP's to again carry ALT Bineries...; Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...; Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience: Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....; Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot; News items 2008-07-23
NY gov signs game bill into law: New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...; Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot; News items 2008-07-23
Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games: Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...; Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox; News items 2008-07-23