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- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone
- GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbonesupport central at geChcuk Hollis from EMC just wrote another equally laudatory blog on what looks like the same thing: http://chucksblog.typepad.com/a_journey_in_social_media/2008/07/a-humbling-expe.htmlDoes anyone know where we can get more information? Have any of the Gartners and Forresters written about Support central?The article doesn't say...what is the core OS,...
- Tags: collaboration, Enterprise Collaboration Backbone, Enterprise Collaboration, General Electric Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- MIA at Gartner Symposium: The new guard (aka Guard 2.0)
- Strangely, at a time when the usually conservative Gartner research outfit is talking more about how businesses and organizations shouldnt so quickly rule out bleeding edge technologies, theres one group of people thats noticeably missing from the events agenda: the innovators that are bleeding that edge. For example, I...
- Tags: Gartner Inc., Gartners
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
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- At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth pains
- At Open Group: business and government face similar SOA growth painsWhat's in a name?Thanks for the pointer, Joe, but its the Gardner Magic Quadrant. ;)SOA positioned as a technology?"Enterprise 2.0 ***technology applications*** at CGI, spanning social networks, user generated content, mashups, SaaS, rich internet applications RIAs ***and SOA***."And will the...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, government face, SOA, growth pain, Open Group
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Mac hack challenge sparks (another tired) debate
- Like an old grandfather clock, the controversy surrounding last months CanSecWest MacBook hijack contest just keeps on ticking, loud enough to stick in your ear but so monotonous and tiring that its near impossible to perk up and listen. Just as Apple was releasing a patch for the QuickTime flaw,...
- Tags: Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Oracle, Open source, Microsoft, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Cisco, Browsers, Botnets, Apple, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Wi-Fi security, Windows Vista, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator
- Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking. That...
- Tags: Amazon, eBay, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner Symposium, General, Google, Innovation, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Gartner: Wake up IT managers, you're mediocre (at best)
- Technology managers are mired in mediocrity, wait for technology vendors to innovate and fear being a first mover. The result: The U.S. doesnt innovate and CIOs risk becoming extinct. That sobering message was delivered by Gartner analyst Steve Prentice. "Now is...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, General, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Analyst: SOA may overwhelm current security measures
- SOA doesnt present new security risks. The problem is that SOA multiplies existing risks to the point where they may simply overwhelm an enterprises security measures. Three security vulnerabilities of SOA, and how they can be managed There are three main security vulnerabilities that SOA presents to...
- Tags: Web Services, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...
- My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Cybersecurity group gives feds failing grades
- Despite all the security debacles of last year, the federal government is still woefully behind the 8-ball when it comes to protecting sensitive information. In an annual report PDF released yesterday the Cyber Security Industry Alliance says Congress and the Bush Administration should take aggressive actions to improve information security...
- Tags: Government technology, Security, U.S. Congress
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- How about a really bold Windows Vista prediction?
- I realize Im a little late to the party on this story, but Im just now emerging into the world again after three weeks of essentially round-the-clock work. Glad thats over. So, anyway, I missed the original report where Gartner boldly predicts that Vista is the last...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- It's a wide line between IT security and physical security
- There is a line between IT security and physical security. Many of the big consulting firms and integrators would like you to think it is a fine line. But I think it is a nice wide line, one that gets crossed occasionally when people consider integrating a building access system...
- Tags: IT security, information technology, wide line, Spyware
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- It's all virtual
- Ill be moderating a couple of sessions at this weeks "SOA in Action" conference, which starts tomorrow and lasts through Thursday. (Free membership registration required.) True to the virtualization spirit of SOA, this is truly a "virtual" conference being put on by ebizQ. No wandering around Javits or Moscone Centers...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Enporion
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- SOA: business first. Web 2.0: business later
- Service oriented architecture and Web 2.0 share a lot of common ground. Both invoke reusable code, both enable the rapid development of mashed-upped (read: composite) applications, and both rely on industry wide standards. But theres an important difference between the two, according to at least one analyst. The mantra you...
- Tags: General, Business ROI, Standards Watch, Web Services
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond
- For those of you who havent heard of Nicholas Carr, hes the guy who, back in 2003 (gosh, has it been that long?) published an essay in Harvard Business Review with the title IT Doesnt Matter. There are only a handful of people under a handful of brands that could...
- Tags: Nicholas Carr, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Gartner: Think holistically (architecturally speaking) about mobile
- Here, at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Gartner analysts for the first time are coming out and saying that its time for enterprises to decide on a strategic architecture to support mobile handset computing, and to begin deployments. Until now, according to analysts William Clark and Nick...
- Tags: mobile marketing, mobile
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Ballmer on Microsoft's persistence: The bone doesn't fall out of our mouth easily
- Before a standing room-only audience of more than 6,000 attendees here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Steve Ballmer was put on the hot seat if you can call it that as two of Gartners analysts David Smith and Yvonne Genovese grilled him with a variety of questions...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Gartner: Spending, consumerization, and business goals should dominate CIO thinking
- As expected, Gartner Managing VP and Fellow Daryl Plummer took the stage this morning with a message that the more than 6,000 IT managers in attendance here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo need to figure out a way to allocate more of their budgets to projects that deliver business value and growth...
- Tags: business growth, Gene Hall, Plummer
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- 2.0 fundamentals vs. legacy budgets a theme at Gartner Symposium
- Its early on Monday morning here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo where thousands of IT personnel have gathered to tap in to the expertise of Gartners analysts in hopes of reality checking the alignment of their IT strategies with overall trends in IT. At 8:00 a.m., Gartner Managing VP and Fellow...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Gartner: SOA will drive next round of acquisitions by Oracle, SAP
- Whats left for Oracle to buy? Probably some of the SOA players out there in the market. Mark Brunelli of SearchOracle recently spoke with Gartners Gene Phifer, who predicts that Oracle will be looking closely at acquiring SOA-enabling applications and tools to continue to round out its position as an...
- Tags: SOA
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
- A second Internet revolution? Not really...
- A second Internet revolution? Not really...Evolution over RevolutionDan,I'm glad you left the part "Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models" 'til last.Like the ice dancers who move with such facility, grace, speed, synchronicity, and precision, there is a lot of hard work, sweat, and tears (including, and I'm just...
- Tags: Strategy, SEARCH, Gartner Inc., micropayment, business model
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
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