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- Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista Business Desktops
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this 3-day, instructor-led course, get the knowledge and skills you need to successfully deploy Windows Vista business desktops throughout your organization. Discover the deployment life cycle, which consists of planning for the deployment, building and customizing the deployment method, and then ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista Business, Deployment Life Cycle, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Training 2008-01-01
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- Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion
- I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2009-09-30
- When is a VMware cloud a vCloud? Let the API wars begin
- Attention enterprises â€"Pop Quiz: If your favorite hosting provider launches a cloud service that supports VMware vSphere and is part of the VMware vCloud initative, are they providing you with the rich vCloud functionality VMware is touting at VMworld this week? The answer is no, because vCloud...
- Tags: API, Amazon.com Inc., VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?
- Guest post: TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, Chief Information Officer for Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, examines some of the reasons server sales have dropped and handicaps the recession's impact. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's data center blog. Between cloud computing, virtualization and economic...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Virtualization, Sales, Server Sale, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- SOA, IT and cloud governance converge into 'total services governance'
- Is it time to govern the cloud? Should it be the same governance we're working so hard to apply to service oriented architecture? These are the questions tackled at Dana Gardner's latest BriefingsDirect analyst podcast, in which I had the opportunity to chime in. (Full transcript available here.) ...
- Tags: Governance, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Ron Schmelzer, David Kelly, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2C, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Beware of Windows 7 downgrade/upgrade mess
- Beware of Windows 7 downgrade/upgrade messXP is dead guys....Let it go. Vista works, and contrary to popular belief, is quite stable, and ready to carry your business.If you still need XP, you can always run it in a VM...Question?What organization buys computer without an OS not all ready preinstalled? Does...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0
- You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0The Transition is Well Worth It!Excellent article.Here at NewsGator, we have been E2.0 for a couple of years now. Granted, we are a vendor of enterprise social computing technologies, but not all vendors eat their own dogfood. I penned...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Automatically Deploy Software With a Simple Framework Based on STAF and Lotus Notes
- Deployment is an important process within the overall software life cycle. In this paper, learn about requirements for automatic software deployment, and about a cross platform auto-deployment framework based on STAF. Explore how the framework is implemented on a Lotus Notes platform. The framework can also be applied in one's...
- Tags: Software, IBM Lotus Notes, Framework, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-01-16
- NetApp Uses Automated Provisioning to Reduce Manual Effort Time From a Few Weeks to a Few Clicks
- NetApp wanted to reduce two-week time frame needed for IT group to create a complex multitier Service-Oriented Architecture SOA deployment with components spanning various hosts. The challenge was to provision new deployments for a growing number of internal customers quickly, efficiently, and in a manner that complies with corporate standards...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Provisioning, SOA, NetApp, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Storage, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question
- Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the questionWindows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the questionNo need to wait. If you upgrade to Vista now you will have the best version of Windows available to you right now. You will get...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question
- With Windows 7 poised to begin private testing any time now and to ship by late 2009, a number of business users are wondering whether they should simply skip Windows Vista all together and wait for 7 instead. Microsoft, not surprisingly, is advising customers against taking a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- The Software Development Life Cycle for Web 2.0: Realize the Benefits of Agile Development
- Any software development life cycle must be properly organized before the developer can expect to successfully execute a project. This is also true of Web 2.0, where a well-planned life cycle will let the developer realize the vision of building Web services in shorter development cycles, allow quick testing and...
- Tags: Software, Web, Benefit, Web 2.0, Software Development, Channel Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Marketing
- White papers 2008-05-27
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" is out!
- Bang on schedule, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is released. This is a significant release of Ubuntu. Not only is this release an LTS or Long term Support version (which means that support for the desktop version will be available for 3 years, while server versions will enjoy...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Bungee Connect beta goes public, adds oomph to development and deployment as a service
- Bungee Labs continues its march toward "platform as a service" PaaS with today's announcement that it has opened Bungee Connect as a public beta, inviting all developers to, in Bungee's words, "get inspired, get started, and get involved."Bungee Connect is an end-to-end environment that allows developers to build desktop-like applications...
- Tags: Innovation, Developer, Web, Amazon.com Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Integration, Bungee Labs, WideLens, Demonstration Video, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- TIBCO beefs up ActiveMatrix with 2.0 release, moves to 'Total Architecture' value
- Promising hefty productivity increases and a lower TCO , TIBCO Software this week announced its beefed-up ActiveMatrix 2.0, which aims to simplify bilding and managing service-oriented architectures SOAs. This latest release adds BusinessWorks, which is available either in standalone mode or as a container hosted in...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SOA, ActiveMatrix 2.0, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Product Family, SOA Infrastructure, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Podcasts, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- IT Manager Webcast: Understanding the Microsoft Server Virtualization Portfolio, Including Hyper-V (Level 100)
- This webcast gives an overview of the Microsoft virtualization solution and the future of where virtualization technology and management capability are headed. The attendee will understand current market trends in this area, which solutions are being virtualized, and the opportunities for applying existing IT infrastructure investments in different scenarios. The...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Servers, Storage
- Webcasts 2008-02-13
- New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer RAD for tooling. While this recent runtime environment...
- Tags: Developer, IBM WebSphere, Environment, Web Service, Eclipse, Tool, IBM Corp., Genuitec, MyEclipse Blue Edition, Eclipse Obviously, Productivity, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Establishing Trust in Your SOA Ecosystem (Level 200)
- While many organizations are starting to benefit from Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, many are now challenged with efficiently scaling the number of services provided and the number of consumers supported through their current approach and implementations. These organizations are starting to recognize the profound need for capabilities provided through service life...
- Tags: Webcast, Lifecycle Management, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-01-31
- Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy
- Updated 11:00 AM PST: Microsoft will formally unveil its grand virtualization strategy tomorrow at a Virtualization Deployment Summit in Bellevue, WA, highlighted by the acquisition of Calista Technologies, a deeper alliance with Citrix and initiatives for deploying virtualization from desktops to data centers (see also Mary Jo Foley's take on...
- Tags: Combination, Desktop, Server, Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, EMC Corp., System Center, Hyper-V, Money Line, Application Virtualization, Presentation Virtualization, Microsoft System Center, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Working With Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers
- Poorly-written code and nonconformance to coding standards may get an application ready to ship a little more quickly, but often becomes a nightmare after application deployment. The answer is, of course, properly planned code testing that parallels the development cycle. Test Driven Development TDD simplifies development and reduces bugs and...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Jupitermedia Corp., Test Driven Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Team Management, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2007-12-19
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