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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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- WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5
- The latest version from the Mountain View, Calif., and Sri Lanka company adds WSO2 Data Services and security features for enterprise-class service composition. Mashup Server 1.5 is built on the WSO2 Web Services Application Server based on Apache/Axis 2. It can be used as an individual service development and deployment...
- Tags: Data Service, Security, Mashup, WSO2, Mashup Server 1.5, eBizQ, Collaboration, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- DaaS solves schools' Internet parity problem with help from IBM and Desktone
- The broad affection for the term "cloud computing" and all that sticks to that nowadays will mean broad affection too for desktop as a service. Desktone has its sights set on helping service providers ramp up DaaS offerings, but enterprises will be in this one too. Citrix, VMware and Microsoft...
- Tags: Classroom, Computer, IBM Corp., DaaS, Desktone, Productivity, Internet, Desktops, Venture Capital, Hardware, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Serena Software brings business mashups to mainframe application release process
- Serena jumped into the mashup world just a little under a year ago. At the time, I said I thought they were "taking a walk on the wild services side," but I saw great hope for their approach. Just last month, Serena made news again when it released its Mashup...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., Mashup, Mainframes, Collaboration, Servers, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Amazon helps boost Engine Yard's cloud computing efforts with capital infusion
- Rubinius, a project to develop the next generation virtual machine for the Ruby programming language, implements the core libraries in Ruby, making a system accessible for development and extension. Merb is a light framework that is ORM, JavaScript library, and template language agnostic. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Ruby, Merb, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Borland Management Solution offers visibility into software lifecycle delivery and refinement
- If you look at most businesses today, IT organizations are expected to have very managed processes for their supply-chain systems and for their human resources systems, but when it comes to software delivery or software development, as you mentioned, there is this sense that software is some sort of an...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Borland Software Corp., Application Lifecycle Management, Tool, Borland Management Solutions, TeamFocus, Borland Management Solutions Suite, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Progress Software continues SOA buying spree with Mindreef acquisiton
- I took my first briefing with Mindreef, given their neighborly proximity, about three years ago. The seasoned team had a hit on their hands with SOAPscope, and their timing in the SOA market was great. But I'm not sure the company grew as was hoped, and perhaps the fast evolution...
- Tags: Acquisition, Progress Software Corp., SOA, Mindreef, SOAPscope, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Eclipse Foundation delivers Ganymede train with 23 cars, but where are the cloud on-ramps?
- Now that the Eclipse Foundation has proven it mettle with delivery of consistent and complete packages of downloads -- now's the time to take this puppy to the cloud. I'd like to see more integration between Eclipse products and cloud-based development, integration and deployment services. And I'm not alone on...
- Tags: Eclipse, Eclipse Foundation, Amazon Web Services, DTP, Ganymede Web Site, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Coveo G2B for CRM provides search-based single customer view from disparate content sources
- I'm interested in seeing more mashups of search from across many enterprise and web-based providers including social networks to give even more complete and vetted views of customers, suppliers, partners, employees and any others that relate to business activities or ecologies. The information is out there, just waiting to be...
- Tags: Coveo Solutions Inc., CRM, Customer Data, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Progress to buy IONA in another SOA infrastructure vendor mashup
- Progress can assist its applications clients move to the more modern computing paradigms while IONA can help on the back-end for integration and high performance transactions while broadening Progress's share of wallet in more enterprises and verticals. And now, viola, Progress is an open source company. The best part of...
- Tags: Progress Software Corp., Iona Technologies, SOA, Mashup, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- ITIL's influence extends beyond IT operations to enhance SOA, portfolio management and change management
- ITIL, in effect, is fostering cultural and behavioral change inside of IT departments, which also has a direct bearing on general business transformation and the ability of enterprises to innovate and compete writ large. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Change Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, SOA, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Interview: HP SOA Center director Tim Hall on new business drivers and efficiency benefits from SOA
- benefits and pay-offs are accelerating. Green and energy-conscious companies are seeing SOA through the context of data center and applications modernization. Toss in a surge of interest in virtualization, ongoing methodological on-ramps to SOA and a budding fascination in cloud computing methods, and we're looking at the...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Benefit, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Data Centers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate
- In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction and compliance, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Information Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Leader, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Podcasts, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Interview: Dan Rueckert of HP consulting digs into ITIL's role in accelerating SOA, IT service management
- Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for both the service management and security practices in HP's Consulting and Integration group, explains in an interview the direct and significant ancillary payoffs from ITIL adoption -- from establishing an IT service lifecycle to defining an overall IT service strategy. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, Consulting, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Interview: HP Software's David Gee on next generation data center trends and opportunities
- Enterprise CIOs face mounting challenges that are hard and getting even harder. HP says it has a lifeline for these IT departments and leaders over the next five years by helping them to dramatically cut the size of IT budgets relative to the enterprises' total revenue. This allows a shift...
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Generation Data Center, Data Centers, Podcasts, Strategy, Digital Music, Digital Media, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Interview: HP's BTO chief Ben Horowitz on how application lifecycles and data center operations can find common ground
- Through managed requirements collaboration and the use of "contracts" between the designers, testers, business leaders and IT operators, application lifecycle optimization has arrived, says Horowitz. Bringing more input and visibility into applications design, test and refinement, in a managed fashion, allows applications to better meet business goals, while also providing...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- HP burnishes vision on how products support both applications and data center lifecycles
- Application owners, project managers, business analysts, QA team, performance team, and security teams -- all need to have input into applications requirements, design, test and deployent, said Rende. The HP products have been integrated and aligned to allow these teams to in effect do multi-level and simultaneous change management. by...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Lifecycle, Vision, Data Centers, Change Management, Strategy, Team Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- IONA develops beefed up capabilities for financial services, STP automation
- The latest release from the Dublin, Ireland-based IONA includes a comprehensive implementation of SWIFTNet MT Standards Release 2008, a new free online validation service, and new offerings for over-the-counter OTC derivatives processing and payments STP. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Payment, Financial, Financial Service, Iona Technologies, Messaging, Automation, Standards Library, Groupware, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- VMWare and HP align products to bring greater management and insight to virtualized environments
- I was just having breakfast yesterday with two systems architects from Seattle, who said they were exploring virtualization, including both VMWare and Xen hypervisors. The liked the potential benefits but were put off by the complexity of setting the stuff up and maintaining it. Their choices, they said, pretty much...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, VMware Inc., Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Data Management, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- CIOs need an efficiency mastery lifeline, say HP Software Universe keynote speakers
- The big question facing HP now is how they make that disruption work for them more than it works against them. Today, in keynote presentations at the opening of the HP Software Universe conference at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, part of the answer become clearer. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Speaker, Mark Hurd, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Research & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- HP has its sights set on swift yet cost-reduction-intense data center transformation projects
- HP now has the number one revenue share of servers spend worldwide, recently beating IBM in that role, said Livermore. One out of every three servers delivered around the world is an HP server, she said. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
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