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Making the case for green IT

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., technology executives discuss the motives behind going green. Jim Swartz, chief information officer of Sybase, says smaller and more energy-efficient technology is cost-effective. Rob Ober, an LSI fellow, says the issue is more complicated: IT managers can buy a more efficient machine...

Tags: Green IT, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, technology, green, IT, energy, efficient, cost, datacenters, mobile

Videos 2008-09-19

SOA will fold into general enterprise architecture, Linthicum tells Open Group crowd

While enterprise architects EAs and services oriented architecture SOA architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years."In five years I don't think there will be SOA ... it's all going to fold back into...

Tags: Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-23

Red Hat delivers middleware stepping stone to larger platform distribution in fall

Red Hat has cemented another large stone into the foundation of its Enterprise Application Platform EAP 5.0, expected later this year, with the announcement of middleware solution EAP 4.2.EAP 4.2, the company's most comprehensive enterprise platform, weaves JBoss, Hibernate, and JBoss Seam into a single (integrated, tested, and certified) platform...

Tags: datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise Java, Java, JBoss, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-07-12

SOA and SaaS convergence points to new market demand for 'integration-as-a-service'

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.Take SOA and SaaS to their natural maturation and adding more interoperability and integration into the online services mix becomes inevitable. When standardized services come from a variety of sources, then a variety of means to connect them makes more...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Podcasts, Internet, Enterprise 2.0, datacenters, convergence, Cape Clear, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-09

Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution

I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...

Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-06-28

Composite Software tackles the speeds and feeds angle of SOA

As the amount of enterprise data explodes, so does the need to access this data from disparate and widely flung sources, increasing the market for data integration and management.Composite Software this week announced a major release of its Composite Information Server CIS, as well as a Composite Active Cluster, designed...

Tags: Web Services, Software Infrastructure, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, datacenters, BI

Blog posts 2007-06-26

Microsoft absent from open standards movement around SOA

Back when Web services standards were being devised and made part of an open standards approach to XML-based loosely coupled services interoperability, Microsoft was head of the pack. It was one of the main supporters of the WS-* family of specifications that found a home at the Organization for the...

Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, datacenters, .NET

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?

Researcher IDC has published market-sizing figures calculating that revenue from open source-focused businesses totaled $1.8 billion in 2006. More impactful is the expected growth pattern, according to CBR:IDC has also predicted that the market will grow by a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2006 to reach $5.8bn in...

Tags: Windows, Wall Street, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, IT Management, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Google, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, Apache, .NET

Blog posts 2007-06-01

Evidence builds around the serious synergy between open source and SOA

Fellow ZDNet blogger Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch on the interesting findings from a recent Unisys-sponsored survey by Forrester Research on open source use in enterprises. The bits on SOA were particularly revealing, and add more gist to the mill of evidence building around the compelling economics that...

Tags: Enterprise Java, Enterprise 2.0, Eclipse, Developer Tools, datacenters, HP, IBM, IONA, IT Management, Java, JBoss, management, Open Source, Podcasts, Red Hat, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Sun plans developer-focused, on-demand application grid services

Before the end of the year, Sun Microsystems will follow the lead of Amazon and Microsoft in providing a "pay as you drink" applications hosting service that provides a lifecycle approach to new web application development and deployment.In addition to announcing JavaFX Script, a lightweight programming language for creating rich...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Testing Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, Open Source, Mobile, Microsoft Live, Java, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, datacenters, convergence, content delivery network, Application Lifecycle Management

Blog posts 2007-05-08

Case study touts .NET development for IBM portal server deployment

Call it a suck-up job for developer choice, but Ive been appraised of an interesting case study that highlights the ability to develop using Visual Studio/.NET -- but to then cross-compile the applications to play as portlets for deployment on IBM WebSphere Portal server on ... a System Z mainframe....

Tags: Windows, Vista, Virtualization, System Z, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Red Hat, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, JBoss, Java, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, IDEs, IBM, Hardware Infrastructure, Enterprise Java, Developer Tools, datacenters, database, convergence, Application Lifecycle Management, Apache, .NET

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition

As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.Red...

Tags: database, datacenters, Developer Tools, Eclipse, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, HP, IBM, IT Management, JBoss, Linux, management, Microsoft, Open Source, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-04-27

There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java

Colleague and frequent SOA Insights Edition contributor Tony Baer at OnStrategies has a nice context analysis of recent Eclipse Foundation news, and he wonders if Eclipse may be extending itself too thinly. He says this would follow the mistakes of the waning role of the Java Community Process JCP.I think...

Tags: Programming languages, Java development tools, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Eclipse

Blog posts 2007-03-12

SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects

Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Open Source, business intelligence, ITIL, IT Service Management, Oracle, datacenters, database, HP, IBM, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Podcasts

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Oracle and Hyperion combo moves them closer to the ultimate business dashboard

Oracles intended purchase of Hyperion is a good fit for both companies. This merger should not provoke concern or downside risk for their respective customers, as was the early but not consummated concern when Oracle bought PeopleSoft and Siebel.The new greater value for data -- in all its forms --...

Tags: datacenters, business intelligence, HP, Virtualization, database, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, IT Management, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-03-01

SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI

Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCOs latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as...

Tags: .NET, database, datacenters, HP, IBM, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, Podcasts, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-02-18

IT Consolidation: The ultimate less is more -- or how to get a grip of your assets

Read a transcript of the podcast.Broadly dispersed datacenters are a huge and growing expense to enterprises -- yet the demands for more applications delivered fast and reliably is mounting. Can enterprises have it both ways: Fewer datacenters and better performance? Can they cut operating costs in doing so, and protect...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, asset, consolidation, information technology, data center, Hewlett-Packard Co., IT consolidation

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Additional Resources

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

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Three reasons this is a bad paradigm...Security, security and...let's see, what was that other thing...oh yeah, security. The comment "enterprise customers are likely to take their time moving sensitive data into Amazon?s RDS effort" should be nominated for the understatement of the year award. What's more likely is...

Tags: Databases, Web servers, Storage, Web site development, RDBMS, Amazon.com Inc., sensitive data, database, MySQL

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Examining datacenter operations with Akorri BalancePoint

As organizations take the journey to a more virtualized environment, it can be harder and harder for them to actually see what's happening in their datacenters. by Dan Kusnetzky

Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-10-27