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Consolidated Client Infrastructure: Exciting End User Computing Solution

This webcast shows how to lower desktop total cost of ownership, while raising levels of security, service quality, and ease of management with centralized desktop compute and storage resources.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidated Client Infrastructure, TCO, Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

Webcasts 2007-01-01

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Agrofruta Ltda. Consolidates Production System Information and Extends Visibility of Reliable Data

Agrofruta Ltda. is a Chilean fruit producer with extensive field holdings, and two processing plants. Agrofruta Ltda. consolidated and ensures the consistency and reliability of information on production and operation of fruit packaging plants and extend information visibility to allow for rapid decision making. The challenge was to develop an...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us

Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for usIsn't the main advantage of "The Cloud" being Cross Platform Comp.The main reasons I can think of to use the cloud rather than a desktop app is being able to access from basically any web connected computer. If you have to have...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Amazon.com Inc., computer, Open Cloud Manifesto, Amazon Web Services, Web service

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First

Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well.  I guess they aren't really all that surprising.  But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...

Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-16

Casas GEO Extends Information Visibility and Improves Administration and Control of Sales

Casas GEO wanted to establish a solid and reliable IT infrastructure to provide information visibility throughout the organization and consolidate up-to-date financial information from more than 200 sales offices to improve sales administration. The challenge was to make centralized information available in a Web environment for strategic decision making and...

Tags: Administration, Casas GEO, Information Visibility, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

Case studies 2008-09-01

Ceedo: Application Virtualization for the Desktop

Dror Gill, Chief Strategy Officer of Ceedo Technologies Ltd. and I played an exciting round of Email tag a few weeks ago. Ceedo presents its technology as "portable desktop virtualiztion." What does that mean? Well, my posts Just what is “desktop virtualization” anyway?, The Role Application Virtualization Plays in Desktop...

Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Technology, Ceedo Technologies Ltd., Dror, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Development of Remote Diagnostics Solution for a Large Building Automation Company

MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise on web technologies and the building automation industry to build a consolidated portal that allowed remote management of services and infrastructure for a large infrastructure management company. This improved the usability of the portal by allowing analytics and diagnostics to be captured within the application...

Tags: MindTree Consulting, Portals, Web Technology, Internet

Case studies 2008-01-26

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data centerSounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0Sounds like McNealy's Big Friggin Webtone Switch 2.0. Only this time, there won't even be ANY servers. It will be in the magical cloud. The network is the computer, who needs computers....

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Reading, data center, server, consolidation, Big Switch, network

Discussion threads 2008-01-13

Cadena Farmacenter S.A. Centralizes Its Information in a Robust, Highly Available Database

The pharmacy chain Cadena Farmacenter S.A. was founded in 1983, when its owners opened the first pharmacy in the city of Asuncion. Cadena Farmacenter S.A. wanted to centralize information in a robust, high-availability database for timely analysis of critical information, and for better decision making by the board of directors...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Pharmacy, Oracle Database, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2007-12-01

Veritas NetBackup 6.5 for VMware 3.x: Best Practices

VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a "megatrend," VMware software is making its way into data centers of every size. Recognizing this trend, Veritas NetBackup has engineered innovative, award winning...

Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VMware Inc., Best Practice, VERITAS NetBackup, Storage Management, Backups, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

IT Outsourcing in a Large Physician Cardiology Practice New Mexico Heart Institute Albuquerque, New Mexico

New Mexico Heart Institute NMHI needed to upgrade and improve its infrastructure, IT operations, WAN/LAN network and security. They also needed to prepare for the expansion and application growth anticipated in the next year. The Phoenix solution: provided project management services for two major projects: the consolidated business office move...

Tags: New Mexico, Physician, Phoenix Technologies, Information Technology, IT Outsourcing, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2007-08-15

HP ships third generation of blade PC solution with new Athlon 64

HP must be getting something right with its blade PC-based solution. Despite the way the HP's approach seems to take go the opposite direction to the way that client-side computing trends are heading, the company is today launching its third generation of the architecture; a sign that it's...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-06-11

Global IT Solution Provider Uses Unified Project Management Platform That Reduces Internal IT Operations Costs by 10 Percent

Amsterdam-based Getronics is a global IT solution and services provider, whose 25,000 employees serve enterprise clients across 25 countries. Since 1999, Getronics has transformed its IT infrastructure from stand-alone operations with limited standardization to a centralized and consolidated system. Getronics wanted to grow revenue by creating a flexible but standardized...

Tags: Getronics, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2007-01-01

BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 4 on Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle's growing Linux and SOA support with analysts Steve Garone, Neil Macehiter and Joe McKendrick

Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of service oriented architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host and moderator.BriefingsDirect...

Tags: Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Enterprise Java, SOA, SOA Governance, Linux, Microsoft, Software Development, IBM, Developer Tools, Virtualization, JBoss, Red Hat, Intellectual Property, Silicon Valley, Sybase, database, Java, Oracle

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Too late for federated identity?

Too late for federated identity?The right time for Liberty"[...] what about the Liberty Alliance? They are still around. Sun was one of the original sponsors. Have you used that lately? I haven't."Ask the average person in the street if they've used TCP/IP lately. Or GSM. Or CDMA.The thing with...

Tags: identity federation, federation, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-08-29

First look: Foldera shows great promise

I had an opportunity recently to get a first-hand look at Foldera in an online demo with founder and CEO Richard Lusk. For those of you unfamiliar with the as-yet-to-be-released online application, Foldera is an AJAX-rich information manager that combines e-mail, instant messaging, a calendar, task management, and...

Tags: Foldera

Blog posts 2006-05-09

Implementation of an ActivCard Smart Card Solution on HP CCI

Smart cards can provide additional security to a CCI implementation. This white paper discusses the implementation of ActivCard smart cards on HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure CCI. This white paper is not intended as a comprehensive overview of ActivCard smart card technology. The paper describes a smart card reference implementation that...

Tags: Smart Card, Hewlett-Packard Co., ActivCard, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security

White papers 2005-11-01

Unix business architecture example

The key components of the Unix Business Architecture are: Minimal manpower, centralized processing, decentralized control Unix servers (Linux, Solaris,or BSD) Smart display desktops (e.g. Sun Ray) Playphones, Laptops, and/or custom hand helds for roaming use Network printing and other services Organizational support for Linux...

Tags: Operating systems, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, server, CPU, network, Unix

Blog posts 2005-09-22

Business app vendor consolidation shifts power on infrastructure choices

It wasn't that long ago that platform and infrastructure vendors were the dogs that wagged the independent application vendors' ISVs tails. The ISVs had to make risky and costly bets on which platforms would, as much as years in the future, be prevalent in their desired markets. Back...

Tags: ISV, business application

Blog posts 2005-09-12

Business app vendor consolidation shifts power on infrastructure choices

It wasn't that long ago that platform and infrastructure vendors were the dogs that wagged the independent application vendors' ISVs tails. The ISVs had to make risky and costly bets on which platforms would, as much as years in the future, be prevalent in their desired markets. Back in the...

Tags: ISV, business application

Blog posts 2005-09-12