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Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?
Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...
Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing
Discussion threads 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
Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source
Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...
Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
Blog posts 2008-03-28
Microsoft-Yahoo: Putting the moving parts together
Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo looks pretty compelling on paper. The deal even makes for a nice PowerPoint slide on synergies, but putting these two behemoths together could be difficult. Why? There's a lot of overlap. First let's get the slides out of the way. On Microsoft's...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management, Networking, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2008-02-01
IBM's 'Blue Cloud' signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
I recall a front page story I wrote for InfoWorld back in 1997. At the time there were still plenty of naysayers about whether websites were a plaything or a business tool. There was talk of clicks and mortar, and how the mortar would always determine business outcomes. ...
Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Red Hat Inc., Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Service, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
Blog posts 2007-11-15
Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platform
Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platformLooks like MS is moving quickly to copy Google Gears.Offline is coming to web applications!! But, offline features will also increase the performance while connected, as there will be a local cache available.It sounds more like ConduitApparently proprietary software companies are...
Tags: Groupware, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., online-offline, Microsoft Delivers, first test, Google Gears, Google Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-11-05
Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them
Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...
Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner
Blog posts 2007-10-22
The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups
The promise of remixing existing online services and data into entirely new online applications in a rapid, inexpensive manner, often referred to as mashups, has captured the software industry's imagination since the release of first major example, HousingMaps.com, in early 2005. Since then, mashups have offered the potential to...
Tags: Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., Mashup, ProgrammableWeb, Dion Hinchcliffe
Blog posts 2007-10-16
Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?
Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?facebook open api'sI think open api's are only useful when they become a utility and there is a need for it. In my opinion many of the facebook apps simply do not extend the networks utility simply because they are superfluous and excessive. Google's...
Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Web, Web Platform, API, Microsoft Windows Live, Google Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-10-16
Vyatta - changing the world of routers, firewalls and VPNs
Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta, and I were introduced recently. The folks making the introduction said "Kelly is CEO of Vyatta, the open source routing company. They are going to change the networking world." With that sort of introduction, how could I possibly turn down a chance to learn about...
Tags: virtualization, Network Virtualization
Blog posts 2007-06-13
Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bit
Service Component Architecture gets slapped around a bitSCA is about building services to fit into a SOAHi Joe,Its Oracle Dave Chappell. In my blog writeup on the SCA panel discussion gets heated after the fact I spoke about this area of contention, which I thought that David, Gregor et...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., runtime infrastructure, Bloomberg L.P., Joe IT, JBI, Service Component Architecture, SOA
Discussion threads 2007-06-01
Will voice make Second Life more business friendly?
Phillip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Second Life, said Tuesday that the company plans to roll out 3D voice applications in the next few months. And more business applications could arise with voice in Second Life. According to Rosedale, Second Life is developing a voice application that will...
Tags: Gartner Symposium, General, IT Management, Second Life, Web Technology
Blog posts 2007-04-24
SOA consolidation takes on new stripes, while extending to open source-oriented vendors
IONA Technologies purchase today of LogicBlaze -- while directed at the open-source development and business models for SOA -- also further demonstrates the prevailing diversity of SOA consolidation activities. There seem to be as many variations on the SOA consolidation theme nowadays as there are vendors lining up to provide...
Tags: Sybase, SOA architect, SOA, SaaS, Progress Software, JBoss, IONA, Cape Clear, Apache, Wall Street, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, SOA Governance, Red Hat, Oracle, Open Source, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Enterprise Java, Celtix
Blog posts 2007-04-10
SOA Insights Edition podcast delves into Microsoft's schizophrenic approach to SOA
Read a transcript of the podcast.Is Microsoft a services oriented architecture SOA company or not? Increasingly the software giant is walking the SOA walk if not talking the SOA talk. So we took this apparently schizophrenic approach to SOA to a panel of independent IT analysts for some probing and...
Tags: Cape Clear, .NET, Virtualization, HP, SaaS, Web Services, Developer Tools, IBM, Software Development, Windows, Microsoft, SOA, Interarbor Solutions, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Vista
Blog posts 2006-12-05
IBM's open source expansion could speed up IT commoditization
IBM announced at LinuxWorld in San Francisco that it is extending its support for open source business models in eight key initiatives. I spoke with Dan Frye, who heads up IBM's Linux Technology Center in Portland, Oregon. "Our experience with Linux and open source has shown how disruptive the business...
Tags: IBM Corp., open source
Blog posts 2006-08-15
Software Services and Competitive Advantage
Software Services and Competitive AdvantageJust another optionBusiness will use SOA - for SOME of their needs. I agree with murph that there will not be any stampede to SOA - business will assess where SOA fits in their environment.Small business and startups will like the flexibility of SOA solutions. They...
Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Sun Grid, Sun Microsystems Inc., software-as-a-service, competitive advantage, software, SOA
Discussion threads 2006-05-03
Red Hat ends speculation, buys JBoss
Will the OSS consolidation never end? Today, Red Hat announced that they would buy JBoss for up to $420 million in a stock and cash deal. (I sat in on today's today's press/analyst call and entered a real time transcript. I've attributed who said what when possible. Any...
Tags: JBoss
Blog posts 2006-04-10
Apple: it's never too late
Everybody's got a strategy. Microsoft is basing it's hopes on using the Nexus DRM technology now being trialed in the X360 to get control of the home entertainment market and then leverage that control to get a whole new OS/HW combination into offices. IBM is betting the farm on providing...
Tags: Apple Computer Inc.
Blog posts 2005-12-09
Oracle's buccaneers head for Port Fusion
Larry Ellison, the swashbuckling buccaneer and yachtsman of the consolidating enterprise software industry, left it to his chief lieutenant and deal maker Charles Phillips to kick off Oracle Open World at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. One of high-tech Oracle/BMW racing yachts--Ellison's preferred sailing vessel--spanned the floor at the...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Phillips
Blog posts 2005-09-19
Hardware strategies and programming models: What's coming
Hardware strategies and programming models: What's comingRemarkableFirst reaction was to look at Microsoft and basic strategy.Are you looking at Vista as part of XP?It's going to be out long before any X360 changes could be moved to Windows.What of backward compatibility?That's an essential sales point for them.Running older applications might...
Tags: Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, programming model, strategy, IBM Corp., Hardware strategy, Linux, CPU, programming, Cell, hardware, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2005-09-13
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