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Southwest Airlines Picks PRIMEPOWER to Set the Reliable IT Foundation for Long-Range Vision

Southwest Airlines, the largest low-cost carrier in the U.S., knows how to take care of its customers. Year after year, "Rapid Rewards", the company's frequent-flyer loyalty program, has won customer favour and industry awards by being simple and generous. To keep up with the growth of the Rapid Rewards frequent-flyer...

Tags: Information Technology, Southwest Airlines Co., Vision, Fujitsu Ltd., Rapid Rewards, System Layout, SPARC64-GP Processor, Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

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Developer calls for Apple to eliminate App Store review process

Joe Hewitt, a software developer best known for his work on Facebook for iPhone and early Firefox, has a radical proposal about how to fix the App Store: eliminate App Store review process completely. While I agree with the spirit of Hewitt's argument, it will never happen....

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., App, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Controlling Virtualization Security Risks: Tips From the Experts

The need for increased computing agility, coupled with the increasing cost and complexity of IT systems, has driven the rapid adoption of virtualization technologies. While virtualization has operational and economic rewards, the reality is that when information security controls are improperly implemented or neglected in virtualized environments, real security risks...

Tags: Information Security, Tripwire, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Security, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+why

Survey%3A+companies+investing+millions+in+SOA%2C+but+don%27t+exactly+know+whyOverall, Good NewsThe survey seems to reflect the notion that the real goal of SOA - agility through rapid orchestration of services into new processes, is still a long term prospect, and still just beyond reach. The good news is that companies are finding significant value in the secondary...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, survey, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

Workstream prefers virtualization to multi-tenancy

Among the product announcements at last week's HR Technology conference in Chicago was a major relaunch from Nasdaq-listed SaaS vendor Workstream. The unveiling of its flagship TalentCenter 7.0 marks the company's emergence from a period of much behind-the-scenes work. "We really went invisible for the past sixteen months while we...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Virtualization, Environment, On-demand, Vendor, Human Capital Management, VMware Inc., Workstream, Human Capital, Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Customer Loyalty Program Company Deploys Web Services Solution

Aeroplan, a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Canada, is Canada's leading loyalty program with more than six million members and sells Aeroplan miles to more than 100 accumulation partners including airline, credit card, hotel, car rental, telecommunication, retail, services and entertainment enterprises. Aeroplan's initial challenge was to find a way...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Cisco Systems Inc., Entertainment, Aeroplan, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Case studies 2007-08-01

Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Patent reform needs to go further

Patent reform needs to go furtherFirst, the value of patents...... for the inventor is presumed to be the amount of money received. A longer period is likely to produce more income, and so to be a greater incentive. There is an upper limit, of course, based on a...

Tags: patent, R+D

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

The swinging pendulum

The swinging pendulumI had a slightly different take.....Open source feeling attrition painshttp://jamessummerlin.blogspot.com/2005/10/open-source-feeling-attrition-pains.htmlJamesWhat if you can't afford it?The big problem is that the cost to get started for things like application servers is quite high if you're not going the free route.Think how far TiVo would have gotten if they had...

Tags: Development tools, Proprietary Software, Dana, Self-Interest, programmer, open source, software

Discussion threads 2005-10-12

Extensible Architectures: The Strategic Value of Service-Oriented Architecture in Banking

Information and Communication Technology ICT has helped to drive increasingly intense global competition. In turn, this intensity increases the need for flexibility and rapid changeability in ICT to support strategies that depend on organizational agility. The authors report a comparative, cross-cultural case study of the implementation of Service Oriented Architectures...

Tags: Banking, SOA, Information And Communication Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

White papers 2005-04-27

If RSS ain't broke...

Nothing says success more than counterattack from those threatened by disruptive innovation. Steve Gillmor sees RSS syndication and notification technology and its variants seem poised at the threshold of rapid adoption, given the recent groundswell of scalability concerns emanating from some interesting quarters. Take Microsoft, for example:The rewards for adopting...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2004-09-26