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Data Backup Solution for Web Analytics Specialist

Lynchpin is a full service online analytics agency offering web measurement, reporting, analysis and consultancy expertise. They wanted to be able to keep their existing infrastructure in Edinburgh and be able to back up to a backup site, where the data would be easy to recover in the event of...

Tags: Edinburgh, Analytics, Data Backup, Web Analytics, Lynchpin, Backups, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2007-09-04

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Blood Beach for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

In Blood Beach for iPhone you are the lone defender of a remote listening post in the Solomon islands. While you have an impressive arsenal including the M2 BMG, Bofors 40mm, and Thompson SMG. The Japanese have done their homework and your island is the lynchpin for control of the...

Tags: Firing, Apple iPhone, Mobile, CoreSoft, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...

Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Argument, Tom, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-08

JavaFX's day in the Sun

Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-07

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Analyst: Resist the temptation of well-integrated SOA suites

Can a vendor's offering be too well integrated for its own good? Definitely, when it comes to SOA. Packaged SOA defeats the very purpose of SOA Service-oriented architecture is not meant to be "bought" the same way a packaged ERP or CRM system is...

Tags: SOA, Judith, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Explore the Role of Service Repositories and Registries in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Understanding the Definition of Each and When to Use Them

Many recent publications [Longworth, Clement, Seeley] define registry/repository functionality as a lynchpin of any Service-Oriented Architecture SOA implementation. The enterprise-wide nature of SOA [Lublinsky] requires a significant amount of collaboration between design and implementation teams. Analysts designing business processes need to find services providing functionality required by these processes. Finding...

Tags: Registry, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-05-15

Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remedies

With barely five days to go before long-anticipated January 30 launch of Vista is history, a familiar problem and the lynchpin to adoption of any major operating system upgrade Windows Vista qualifies is crashing the party: backwards compatibility.Intuit, developer of one of the worlds most popular accounting applications used in...

Tags: General, Vista, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2007-01-25

Roles: driving network access control

In my quest to understand the dynamics of how NAC and identity management are intersecting, I've been reaching out to vendors in the NAC space. To be clear, I view this NAC "space" as a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, we have folks like Applied Identity, Identity Engines...

Tags: NAC, identity

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Why Gartner avoided specifics

Several ZDNet bloggers have picked up on a recent Gartner list of "actions" for IT personnel to demonstrate their value. What is of note say both of them is that the term SOA is absent, while the term Web 2.0 seems to be gaining in prominence. I'd like to point...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-01

Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

Meet Curtis Chong. Chong is president of the National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science and is considered to be one of the more important shakers and movers in the disability community when it comes to the accessibilty of technology. Among the community of people...

Tags: OpenDocument Format

Blog posts 2005-11-17

IBM's potential MS-Office killer to roll out by year's end

IBM's potential MS-Office killer to roll out by year's endWell, that bitesAll I needed to start me gagging was seeing that this is modeled on Lotus Notes. What's the point of having standards-based documents if the fool things are locked away in a binary blob, never to return without...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise software, Even IBM, Microsoft Corp., killer, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes

Discussion threads 2005-09-20

Has Microsoft lost its 'identity'?

Eric Norlin of Ping Identity writes an open letter to Bill Gates and Microsoft, telling the big company to get its act together around digital identity. Here's a snippet: The launch of Vista Longhorn is widely seen as one of the most important events in the history of Microsoft. Indeed,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-08-10

Bringing down the walls between business and IT

Michael Liebow, vice president of Web services and SOA at IBM Global Services, writes that the thick walls separating IT departments from business leaders are crumbling. He gives the usual spiel about how IT is the lynchpin for transforming enterprises into on demand businesses (the canonical IBM Global Services sales...

Tags: wall, Michael Liebow, information technology

Blog posts 2005-07-13

Sun makes a pair of executive changes

Sun makes a pair of executive changesAccording to another source, Green left in "disgust"http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36780.htmlExclusive The first major fallout from Sun's capitulation to Microsoft has occurred with vice president and Java defender Rich Green quitting Sun in "disgust," The Register has confirmed.And good riddance...Any Sun exec who as a problem with...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, Corporate governance, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Green, rep, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-04-05

Dell asks PC buyers nuclear questions

Dell asks PC buyers nuclear questionsThis PC will not be used for P2P activity...Good grief. I am sure they are complying with some sort of disclosure laws, but c'mon. Pretty soon the EULAs will include affidavits affirming you won't use a PC for downloadind tunes, porn, or recipes...

Tags: Desktops, PC, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-02-20