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- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- BREG, Inc. Powers Global Expansion With Highly Available, Flexible, and Integrated IT Infrastructure
- BREG, Inc. wanted to implement a flexible and scalable IT architecture to meet rapidly changing business demands and enable seamless introduction of new technologies and organizations and ensure IT infrastructure availability and performance. The challenge was to simplify IT administration and standardize production processes, centralize key back-office capabilities, and create...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Breg Inc., Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Logic Circuit Designer 1.5 (Windows)
- From the practical point of view, this paper refers to an educational software developed as a technological tool for understanding the logic circuits operation. Using such an interactive designer software, we have the main advantage and the opportunity of removing all the possible design errors even before proceeding to the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ivan Andrei, Logic Circuit, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-07
- Service-Oriented Architecture: Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
- Watch the free, on-demand webcast see why in the last 3 to 5 years there has been a widespread adoption of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) with businesses making significant economic investments in service-enabling in their IT systems enabling companies to build agile and intelligent businesses. As the SOA benefits become...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2009-10-01
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- 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. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Prices, HP ProLiant DL380 G6, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andy Smith
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Wanova Desktop Virtualization
- A while ago, I had the opportunity to speak with several representatives of Wanova, a newcomer to the desktop virtualization market. On the line with me were Jack Norris, VP Marketing; Issy Ben-Shaul, Co-founder, CTO; and Ilan Kessler, CEO and Co-Founder. The company claims to have developed a new way...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Environment, Wanova Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Another view: SOA is like a mosquito, spreading viral data
- Just as the Internet has shown itself to be a speed-of-light carrier of rumors, gossip, and misinformation, so can service oriented architecture within an organization. I just came across new book titled "Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic," written by Neal Fishman, program director for...
- Tags: SOA, Mosquito, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Panel: too much to lose by moving to generic services and cloud?
- It's basically the same pattern . . .It's basically the same pattern I've seen all the time: New technology comes around, people clamor over it and predict it will replace the "old" tech, the old tech ends up being better than the new tech in some ways, and they end...
- Tags: Virtualization, Storage, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Grupo STP Reduces Transaction, Processing Time and Improves New Product Development
- Grupo STP wanted to integrate service-oriented architecture in projects for rapid development and launch of new products, enabling STP to efficiently achieve results and support ongoing growth - currently at 40% per year - in the customer base, which has reached 1.4 million. The challenge was to obtain detailed views...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Transaction Processing, New Product Development, Grupo STP, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Application Performance Management, Operational Planning, Product Marketing, Databases, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Software engineers move over - the era of the media engineer
- Software coding is becoming a much more common skill and it is a skill that is losing value. You can find coders in developing countries and contract the work for a fraction of what it used to cost. But there is going to be a need for...
- Tags: Software, Media, Media Engineer, Advertising & Promotion, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group
- John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...
- Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- CoDefender 1.2.281 (Windows)
- CoDefender 2008 computer security software prevents identity, data and intellectual property thefts by protecting sensitive data, credit card numbers, passwords and personal and corporate information from keyloggers when you perform online banking, make online purchases, check emails, chat online, edit documents and perform log in operations. Anti-keylogging Protection Modules in...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Encassa, CoDefender 2008 Computer Security Software, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-24
- Wrangling banks' security architecture to allow transactions anywhere
- If only bank websites were as simple and easy to use as an iPhone app. Believe it or not, that wish isn't far from fruition. Earlier this year, banking provider Waterfield Technologies and application infrastructure guru WorkLight teamed up to offer secure, widget-based banking...
- Tags: Bank, Security, UI, Financial Services, Banking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- HP, Intel, Yahoo collaborate on cloud computing
- HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced that three new research organizations will join their Open Cirrus joint effort, a global open source testbed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The continued effort marks increased collaboration between the tech giants for cloud computing....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Open Cirrus, Testbed, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Virtual Instruments launches VirtualWisdom
- Mark Urdahl, CEO, and Len Rosenthal, VP Marketing, of Virtual Instruments stopped by to let me know about VirtualWisdom, a product the company launched while at EMCword. Their product is designed to help organizations moving to a virtualized environment gain insight into and manage their virtual storage infrastructure. ...
- Tags: Performance, VMware Inc., VirtualWisdom VirtualWisdom, VMware Performance Bottleneck, Virtualization, Performance Management, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
- Changing markets, competitive pressures and evolving customer needs are placing increasing pressure on IT to deliver eater flexibility and speed. Leading companies are adopting Service-Oriented Architecture SOA as a means of delivering on these requirements by overcoming the complexity of their application and IT environments. SOA helps businesses achieve operational...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Oracle WebCenter 11g Technical White Paper
- Web 2.0 technologies have made a dramatic impact on the consumer Internet by empowering individuals more than ever before. New tools and technologies such as wikis, blogs, tagging, RSS and mashups allow any user to easily author, publish categorize and share information. This "User participation" architecture of the Internet has...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Internet, Web 2.0, Productivity, Wiki, RSS, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2009-06-01
- HP Insight Orchestration Template for HP BladeSystem Matrix - SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Enterprise Configuration
- HP BladeSystem Matrix is a fully integrated cloud infrastructure in a box that helps one accelerate business service delivery without chaos, and take costs out today and keep them out in the future. The HP BladeSystem Matrix is the world's first adaptive infrastructure that is simple to buy. It unites...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, HP BladeSystem Matrix, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Server Virtualization, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Virtualization
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Internet Scale Identity Systems: An Overview and Comparison
- An Internet-scale identity system is an architecture that defines standardized mechanisms enabling the identity attributes of its users to be shared between applications and Web sites. This enables a streamlined and optimized online experience for users, greater protection from identity theft and opportunities for customization and personalization that do not...
- Tags: Identity System, Internet, Ping Identity, Internet-scale Identity System, Identity Theft, Security Administration, Security
- White papers 2009-05-22
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