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A bumper crop of new mashup platforms

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...

Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Applying Web 2.0 in the enterprise: News from the trenches

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend I finally had time to compile my notes on a significant new Web 2.0 in the enterprise story that emerged earlier this month from the Web 2.0 Summit. At the same time, one of the inevitable recurring debates about Web 2.0 made its rounds...

Tags: Web 2.0, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-27

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications.  Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-05

Additional Resources

Live Webcast: Enhanced Availability in a Virtual Data Center with the Dell PS Series and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ introduces new capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized environments. To capitalize on these capabilities, organizations must design an infrastructure that includes a robust, reliable shared-storage solution with built-in redundancy and tight integration of virtualization management capabilities. Join this live...

Tags: Virtual Data Center, Dell Computer Corp., Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Data Center Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Centers, Data Management, Virtualization

Webcasts 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Developing Something for Nothing with SQL Server

When looking for no-cost software development solutions, does "free" always mean "free?" Is the free solution scalable? What about support? How long will it be "in play?" Are there legal issues to consider? In this new Quest Software technical brief, learn about SQL Server Express - Microsoft's...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Quest Software Inc., Software Development, Databases, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-10-22

Microsoft hints at second low-cost Office option

Looks like they figured out that the price people are willing to pay for MSOffice is going to be falling like a rock. Can you say "pennies on the dollar"??$0 is about rightfor all the headaches MS has caused the world.M$ still has to drop the price a lotin order...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware

Watch the free, on-demand webcast to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal variation, its middleware must be flexible, cost-efficient, and easily modified to accommodate this fluctuation. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Video, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-10-12

Build a high-performance gaming PC for under $650!

Nice post but ..What about the Intel side of the house? I myself am not much of an AMD fan they run hot. Go $2 over budget...And get a WD Caviar Black 500GB HDD instead of the discontinued Samsung.Mostly good choices..but lately, Foxconn boards tend to have a really bad...

Tags: Corporate governance, Microsoft Windows 7, Games, PC, DDR2-1066, high-performance, Foxconn, ASUS, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Containing the Cost of Enterprise Databases while Boosting their Flexibility and Availability: Sybase ASE Cluster Edition

It is time for enterprises to radically rethink the way they deploy databases and look for technology that will help them find an affordable path to high availability, scalability, flexibility in deployment, and economy of resources, all of which translate into much higher efficiency, better reliability, improved service levels, and...

Tags: Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-09-17

EU right to investigate Oracle's MySQL buy

Devaluation of intellectual propertyYou said: "And there are many who believe that ?free? software undermines the value of intellectual property."Of course if does. It is not a question of "believing", it is a fact. But so what? Intellectual property is devalued all the time when something better comes along -...

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

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Red Hat Enterprise Linux leads the way with web applications

Independent tests performed under industry benchmark standards find that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for running web servers--as well as Java applications and other large-scale online transaction processing tools in popular use by Internet vendors. Red Hat also confers additional benefits in the form of cost...

Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc., Web Application, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2009-09-01

Highest Quality at the Lowest Cost

Swisscom is Switzerland's primary telco provider, with over 5 million mobile phone customers and around 1.8 million broadband connections. Swisscom wanted to develop new USPs to differentiate Swisscom IT Services from its competitors in the Swiss market and act quickly to meet the IT requirements of existing and new customers....

Tags: Swisscom AG, Intel Corp., Servers, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Case studies 2009-09-01

Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters

Cloud storage solutions promise high scalability and low cost. Existing solutions, however, differ in the degree of consistency they provide. Its experience using such systems indicates that there is a non-trivial trade-off between cost, consistency and availability. High consistency implies high cost per transaction and, in some situations, reduced availability....

Tags: Consistency, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-08-28

SaaS in tough times: Don't just survive, thrive

SaaS SaaS does indeed allow CIOs to do more with less, and has all the lower cost, ease-of-implementation and scalability/continuous quality advantages mentioned above. But I think another key point warrants mention as well: In some cases, cloud computing and SaaS *perform* better. In our case, http://www.nefsis.com Video Conferencing, a...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Top 5 IT Budget Killers (and how you can fight back)

You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are saying ""do more with less"" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without electricity! ...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-08-26

British Airways Makes Business-Critical Systems Unbreakable and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership

British Airways plc BA wanted to guarantee availability of passenger-facing and core back-office processes with instant failover, transparent disaster recovery, unparalleled performance, and seamless scalability. The challenge was to cut system management overhead, reduce hardware costs, and optimize data center efficiency to lower energy consumption. British Airways plc BA migrated...

Tags: British Airways Plc., Oracle Corp., TCO, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Virtualize for the Most Value With VMware and an EMC Information Infrastructure

Virtualization has become a top IT strategy for one simple reason: business value. A fully virtualized data center - the first step of the journey to private cloud - brings simplicity and cost efficiencies to new heights. And it positions the IT infrastructure to quickly support the capabilities and scalability...

Tags: Information Technology, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Virtualization, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Management

White papers 2009-08-01

Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?

As the soap opera that is SAP Business ByDesign rumbles on, I can't help but think of the opening lines in Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, ByD, Zinow, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Servers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-20