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Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the...- more about Dana Gardner »
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- BriefingsDirect analysts unpack the psychology of project management via 'Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0' and SOA
- A crucial element for avoiding and overcoming social and user dissonance with technology adoption is to know what you are up against, in detail. Yet, data and inferences on how people really feel about technology is often missing, incomplete, or inaccurate. In this discussion, we hear from two partners who...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- Upside case study report shows connections between BPM and security best practices
- While the organization had identified appropriate anti-virus and security software, it needed a solution that could automate and manage the actual process of shepherding unknown files through a battery of security screenings, reporting on results, managing the state, and raising exceptions when a file needed to be investigated further. by...
- Tags: BPM, Best Practice, Security, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-12-02
- The more Oracle says MySQL not worth much, the more its actions say otherwise
- The irony is that Oracle has advanced MySQL, lost money in the process, and helped its competitors -- all at the same time. When Oracle buys Sun and controls MySQL the gift other than to Microsoft SQL Server keeps on giving as the existential threat to RDBs is managed by...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory
- It's my contention that we're only now entering the true data-driven decade. And all that data needs to run somewhere. And it's not going to be in MySQL, no matter who ends up owning it. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Antitrust, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Gardner, IBM Corp., Corporate Law, Open Source, Databases, Security, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- HP offers slew of products and services to bring cost savings and better performance to virtual desktops
- HP has unleashed a barrage of products aimed at delivering affordable and simple computing experiences to the desktop. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Cost Savings, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Elastra beefs up automation offering for enterprise cloud computing
- Elastra Cloud Server helps IT organizations leverage the economics of cloud computing, while preserving existing architectural practices and corporate policies. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Automation, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- 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
- ZapThink explores the four stages of SOA governance that lead to business agility
- By formalizing its approach to governance by following SOA best practices at the EA level, an organization can leverage resources in a more agile manner. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: ZapThink LLC, SOA, SOA Governance, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Here's why text-based content access and management play crucial roles in real-time BI
- For businesses looking to do even more commerce and community building across the Web, text access and analytics forms a new mother lode of valuable insights to mine. by Dana Gardner
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- Blog posts 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
- HP takes converged infrastructure a notch higher with new data warehouse appliance
- HP isn’t just betting on a market whim. Recent market research it supported reveals that more than 90 percent of senior business decision makers believe business cycles will continue to be unpredictable for the next few years â€" and 80 percent recognize they need to be far more flexible in...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson
- 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: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Aster Data architects application logic with data for speeded-up analytics processing en masse
- When both data and applications reside in the same system, they are independent of one another, but both execute as "first-class citizens" with their respective data and application management services. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Analytics, Application Management, Application Performance Management, It Services, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Survey: Virtualization and physical infrastructures need to be managed in tandem
- Virtualization is seen as a key enabling technology. But on its own it does not address the most important operational and management challenges in a shared infrastructure. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Survey, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software
- All the enterprise software that could be sold has been sold, and the reasons for buying or implementing new licenses are few and far between. Invest in enterprise architecture over enterprise software, services over customizations, and clouds over costly and unpredictable infrastructure -- and you’ll be better off. by Dana...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible
- Fewer data centers means longer distances between servers and users. Network services and Internet performance management therefore need to be brought considered to produce the desired effect of topnotch applications and data delivery to enterprises, consumers, partners, and employees at far lower cost. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Data Center, Performance, Data Center Consolidation, Data Centers, Internet, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Separating core from context brings high returns in legacy application transformation
- A widening cost and productivity division exists between older, hand-coded software assets and replacement technologies on newer, more efficient standards-based systems. Somewhere in the mix, there are also core legacy assets distinct from so-called contextal assets. There is legacy wheat and legacy chaff. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Asset, Legacy Application, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- Linthicum's latest book: How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits
- SOA is the way to do cloud. It's really about breaking down your architecture into a primitive state of several components. Then, it's figuring out how to assemble those in such a way that you can use those components to resolve problems as your business changes over time. Cloud computing...
- Tags: Benefit, SOA, Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Application transformation case study targets enterprise bottom line with eye-popping ROI
- The ongoing impact of the reset economy is putting more emphasis on lean IT -- of identifying and eliminating waste across the data-center landscape. The top candidates, on several levels, are the silo-architected legacy applications and the aging IT systems that support them. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Technology, ROI, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-25
- Global study: Hybrid model rules as cloud heats up, SaaS adoption blazing
- Nine months ago, 61 percent of respondents indicated that they were using only internal IT systems and today, that number has dropped to 41 percent. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Dana Gardner, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
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