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Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

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Reduce Cost and Improve Service Levels with Application Performance Monitoring Simplification

Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty. They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs. While virtually every IT organization has multiple management solutions in place, the unfortunate truth is that most companies are struggling to develop a product mix...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Performance Monitoring, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-11-19

Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2

At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Social Media, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Virtualization, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Hardware, Service Cloud 2, Marc Benioff, Salesforce

Videos 2009-11-18

Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the Enterprise

Salesforce is announcing today a Salesforce Chatter, an enteprise collaboration application akin to Facebook. The move puts SalesForce in competition with offerings from other providers, including IBM Lotus. Here's what's being delivered. Features: Profiles: Just like profiles on popular consumer-oriented social networking sites, Salesforce Chatter profiles include...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Platform, App, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision

Any Microsoft Professional Developers Conference PDC wouldn't be complete without a few new codenames. On November 17, Microsoft introduced three new ones that all are related to Microsoft's evolving cloud-computing vision and infrastructure. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Codename, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability

Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the IT infrastructure required to support them, in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in...

Tags: Recovery Management Corp., Operating System, CA XOSoft, High Availability, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-17

Office 2010 Beta 2 bits leak to the Web

Professional Plus?Good luck home users - this is the KMS version last time I looked. In other words, corporate version requiring a Key Management Server to activate... weekly?NO longer needed with Cloud infrastructureLook out Google used Linux derived success willconquer the MS Office with it solution forbusiness.Companies will save...

Tags: Office 2010 Beta 2, Microsoft Office, Office 2010, Web

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Bing 2.0 debuts

Bing Image SearchSpeaking of Bing, I recently did some Bing Image Searches, and found that they produced better results than Google Image Searches.Just keeps getting better.I don't know how anyone using Bing could find anything to complain about. In fact all the complaints I do see come from people...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?

CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...

Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Role of governance plumbed in Nov. 10 webinar on managing hybrid and cloud computing types

Increasingly, governance of hybrid computing environments establishes the ground rules under which business activities and processes -- supported by multiple and increasingly diverse infrastructure models -- operate. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Governance, Webinar, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

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.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Cloud computing making new alliances

Built your ownYou can even built your own cloud computing infrastructure with low cost software such as Thinserver and host it on a reliable third party co-locationhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htm

Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, alliance

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Cloud Computing and Its Security in Higher Education

Interest in cloud computing has witnessed a significant surge in the past few years. The basic tenet of this concept entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. This holds the promise of...

Tags: Education, Security, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-03

Securing the Physical, Virtual, Cloud Continuum

Information security best practices have not changed much in 15 years -- strong perimeter defense and defense in depth are still the primary security controls. However, virtualization and cloud computing are radically altering data center operations, leading to a hybrid physical/virtual/cloud computing environment. Securing this new environment demands the adoption...

Tags: Nemertes Research, Trend Micro Inc., Best Practice, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Product Marketing, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Webcasts 2009-11-01

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership

Just because you say it, doesn't make it so"This is what the cloud delivers: hardened, high-performance, reliable infrastructure far superior to that of any single enterprise ? at an aggregate cost of ownership and operation far lower than those enterprises would collectively spend across hundreds or thousands of separate private...

Tags: cloud company, cost of ownership

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Long-term Mozy for Mac review

Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...

Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-28