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- HP burnishes vision on how products support both applications and data center lifecycles
- Application owners, project managers, business analysts, QA team, performance team, and security teams -- all need to have input into applications requirements, design, test and deployent, said Rende. The HP products have been integrated and aligned to allow these teams to in effect do multi-level and simultaneous change management. by...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Lifecycle, Vision, Data Centers, Change Management, Strategy, Team Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Summer 2008 is just around the corner
- Well, your students are off-campus now or soon will be and any mid-year upgrades you're planning during the break have been scheduled. Chances are, you're not thinking about the next academic year just yet but by mid-January you should be -- especially if you work in University IT, where budget planning needs to...
- Tags: Lifecycle, Need, Data, Financial Accounting, Finance, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- LCC-Course (exe)
- This Life Cycle Costing for Facilities Online Certification Course combines multiple media to create a integrated learning tool that, makes use of the Internet to teach the life cycle cost methodology on your home computer.
- Tags: Home PC, Lifecycle, Productivity, Internet, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Create and manage value throughout the entire service management lifecycle
- There are numerous challenges in governing the IT service lifecycle. One way to effectively create and manage value is by addressing the entire IT service life cycle - from business stakeholders to software delivery and operations.
- Tags: Service Management, Lifecycle, It Services
- White papers 2007-09-24
- Optimize your PC hardware lifecycle with closed-loop lifecycle planning
- It typically costs four times as much to support a PC as it does to purchase it--often, even more. The solution: Closed-loop lifecycle planning, touted since the 90's as an IT strategy that would streamline operations and reduce costs. Closed-loop lifecycle planning offers a methodology that allows businesses...
- Tags: PC, Lifecycle, Addison-Wesley, Desktops, Hardware
- Book chapters 2007-07-19
- The Development Process Made Easy
- Are you struggling to adapt the development process successfully to your own projects? Do you want to use various formal life cycle processes such as Agile, Incremental, Spiral, and Waterfall OR informal processes, such as Extreme Programming XP and others? Are you burdened by the development process? This paper will...
- Tags: Lifecycle, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- White papers 2005-07-19
- Successfully Managing the Software Development Lifecycle
- This paper gives tips on how to successfully manage software projects and how to avoid some common mistakes that too often prevent completion of a project. Topics range from all aspects of the project lifecycle, single and multiple developers, internal vs. external developers, handling geographically dispersed teams, and how to...
- Tags: Software, Developer, Lifecycle, Borland Software Corp., Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2004-09-11
- PC Life Styles: Guidelines for Establishing Life Cycles for Personal Computers
- Establishing a PC life cycle gives Information Resources Managers IRMs a tool to control budgets and respond to management with a strong business case, including quantitative justification for benefits to the agency. This paper provides IRMs with the information they need to establish a PC life cycle, so that they...
- Tags: PC, Agency, Lifecycle, Computer, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Lifecycle Approach to Software Quality: Venturing Beyond the QA Imperative
- A large majority of all applications are either not tested or are only tested manually before being delivered into production. The impact of resulting application errors can include: Missed delivery dates Budget overruns Failure to comply with industry regulations Interrupted workflows and frustrated customers...
- Tags: Software, BMC Software Inc., QA, Lifecycle, It Management, It service Management
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- Cast Iron's lifecycle SaaS integration play
- A new generation of Cast Iron's SaaS integration appliance adds functionality that now addresses what you might call the SaaS lifecycle: everything from data migration through to cloud-to-cloud integration. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Integration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite
- I just spoke with Jerry McCloud, VP of Business Development of Fastscale Technology, about the newest release of their product, FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite. This product is aimed at reducing the complexity of creating and maintaining virtual machine images. Previous versions of the product supported VMware's ESX Server. This version adds...
- Tags: Software, Environment, Image, Virtual Machine, FastScale Composer Suite Software Environment, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Windows Update versus Ubuntu Update
- Windows Update versus Ubuntu UpdateAnd you will find some reason why Linux is worse.Just watch and enjoy the spin.They'll find some reason why Windows is worse.Just watch and enjoy their spin.RE: Windows Update versus Ubuntu UpdateI always did find it amusing at how the Ubuntu crowd simultaneously defend the sudo...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Online Video, Video, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Borland Management Solution offers visibility into software lifecycle delivery and refinement
- Borland Management Solution offers visibility into software lifecycle delivery and refinementBorland shoulda stuck with dev tools....Who is paying any attention to their efforts on this stuff? I mean, yeah, there's this ZDNet article...but how many developers ever mention the name Borland anymore? Zilch. They over-priced JBuilder and...
- Tags: Java development tools, Enterprise software, Borland Software Corp., Borland Management Solution
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Borland Management Solution offers visibility into software lifecycle delivery and refinement
- If you look at most businesses today, IT organizations are expected to have very managed processes for their supply-chain systems and for their human resources systems, but when it comes to software delivery or software development, as you mentioned, there is this sense that software is some sort of an...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Borland Software Corp., Application Lifecycle Management, Tool, Borland Management Solutions, TeamFocus, Borland Management Solutions Suite, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Diane Greene out, Paul Maritz to lead VMware
- While working in San Francisco, I received quite a number of telephone calls from journalists around the world. Since I was "off the grid" for the project, I had no idea what was going on. I finally returned to my hotel room and could read my messages, I learned that...
- Tags: Board, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul Maritz, Corporate Governance, Desktop Virtualization, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- What was that about cutting music?
- Every year it's the same story for too many districts. Do we cut music, art, technology, physical education, or some unsavory combination thereof? Obviously we have to teach the core subjects; we don't get dinged on our standardized music test scores and nobody cares if we have students...
- Tags: Music, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?
- In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull left Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to -- we can only hope -- put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture. The idea is...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Rich Mogull, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Embotics V-Commander 2.0
- Management of virtualized resources appears to loom large in the thoughts of suppliers. The most recent supplier to present their view of how to regain control of the environment is Embotics. The company's V-Commander V2.0 was the topic of the day. Embotics insists that this product will help organizations with...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtual Machine, Tool, Embotics V-Commander 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
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