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Intrado Builds Smarter, Stronger 9-1-1 Infrastructure With HP Integrity Servers

Intrado Inc. the 9-1-1 pioneer, provides the core of the nation's 9-1-1 infrastructure. Intrado's database management and call-routing services support more than 90 percent of the 9-1-1 calls placed in the United States. Drawing on over two decades of experience, Intrado continually innovates to reduce the costs and complexity its...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intrado Inc., HP Adaptive Enterprise Strategy, Virtualization, Databases, Servers, Operating Systems, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

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SaaS mashups shape up

As SaaS vendors and integrators begin to roll out enterprise mashups, the mashup's seminal role as the disruptive motor at the heart of the on-demand model is becoming clear. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Mashup, Xactly, Appirio, Collaboration, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double

Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. Since I...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership

Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday that the software giant will invest more into the companies' SUSE Linux partnership. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will buy an additional $100 million in SUSE Linux support certificates. The partnership all posts between Novell and Microsoft kicked off in November...

Tags: Novell Inc., Partnership, Microsoft Corp., SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Business Structures, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-20

News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers

Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?

The debate for the heart of the enterprise intensifies -- EA vs. EA, EA vs. BA by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Business Analyst, Electronic Arts Inc., SOA, Ron Schmelzer, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-08-19

HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD

HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible tablet, are part of the new EliteBook line targeted at business users. The third is an HP Compaq model designed...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Chip, 2230s, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-19

HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks

HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...

Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

An Event Apart 2008: Day 2

The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...

Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Morph Labs and FiveRuns combine efforts to support, test and monitor Rails apps

The goal is to make enterprise-class application developers and deployers an offer they can't refuse. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Developer, Monitor, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Web Hosting, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway

There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...

Tags: Software, Software Company, SAP AG, Inflation, Dennis Howlett, Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

A fresh model for software maintenance

It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Google, Apple surge in customer satisfaction rating

Google and Apple were among the big winners in the University of Michigan's second quarter American Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, released Tuesday, found that overall satisfaction among consumers fell 0.1 percent to 75.1 on a 100 point scale. Among the key technology movers...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Score, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, 3G, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma

I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Fortune 500 companies use of email spoofing countermeasures declining

Here's a paradox - a technology originally meant to verify the sender of an email message for the sake of preventing spoofed messages from reaching the network, still hasn't been embraced by the world's biggest companies despite being around for years, but is actively used by adaptive spammers increasingly abusing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, Authentication, Fortune 500 Company, E-mail, Spam, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?

Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...

Tags: Application, Data Center, Enterprise, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Search engines under the spotlight this week

I'm spending most of this week at the Intel Developer's Forum but also wanted to give some time to another show happening in the Bay Area this week: Search Engine Strategies, being held at the San Jose Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Monday was one of those unofficial days of...

Tags: Search Engine, Search, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Zoho's future in Google's hands?

  Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Google Inc., Zoho, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-18