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- Sage dresses SoSaaS in cloud clothing
- AgreedSo true! A single-tenant SaaS! What next? A desktop cloud app! But I guess unless there's a certifying/standardisation authority, anything can be labelled to be a SaaSy cloud app!SoSaaS is not Half-SaaSedI can't argue with your comment, Phil, on the Sage announcement. It just proves once again (to paraphrase what...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Scalability lessons from a megaservice
- sansa filesDVD to Sansa easily rip your DVD to Sandisk Sansa, PSP, iPod Classic, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPhone (3G), iPhone.
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, DVD, Flash memory, Apple iPod, scalability
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Insurance Brokerage Saves $3 Million, Boosts Competitiveness With Unified Communications
- Extend Health was experiencing 100 percent annual growth and bumping against the scalability limits of its Cisco-based call center. To eliminate those limits, the company turned to a custom solution based on Microsoft unified communications technologies. The solution immediately scaled to support almost twice as many agents as the Cisco...
- Tags: Agent, Outsource, Unified Communications, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Insurance Brokerage, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Insurance, Collaboration, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Corporate Insurance
- Case studies 2009-07-29
- Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?
- Business ByDesign: to scale or not to scale?Scalability vs. MultitenancyIt appears that from the Forrester perspective that scalability = multitenancy. Wondering if this is the case? While multitenancy would probably help with the "ease" of scalability, can single tenant applications scale?
- Tags: scalability, Business ByDesign
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution
- EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in multiple ways to optimize energy efficiency and minimize operating costs. The challenge was to ensure scalability to support EMC's...
- Tags: Data Center, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Grid Computing, EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution
- Allegro Group wanted to build a scalable enterprise data warehouse that meets business users' performance and quality of service expectations and deliver a single point of truth with integrated metadata, from data integration through to enterprise reporting tools. The challenge was to provide flexible reporting and analysis tools, including sophisticated...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, QoS, Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Dashboard, Online Auction, Performance Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Cubus Embeds Unrivalled Performance and Scalability Into First-to-Market Project and Strategy Planning Tool
- Cubus wanted to build on success of Cubis' customizable, Excel-based planning tool, ABC for OLAP, with a solution that consolidates project management, financial management, and strategy management and enable clients to replace disconnected standalone Excel, Word, and PowerPoint-based planning tools with a single application. The challenge was to integrate structured...
- Tags: Financial Reporting, Financial, Performance, Scalability, Cubus, Microsoft Excel, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Finance, Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Online Restaurant Booking Service Boosts Speed and Scalability With Web Technology
- Online restaurant booking service toptable was becoming the victim of its remarkable popularity. First launched in 2000, the Web site was struggling to deal with 15,000 bookings a day. In 2008, the company's management team decided to rebuild the Web site using Microsoft ASP.NET. toptable expects that the improved user...
- Tags: Web, Scalability, Microsoft Corp., Toptable, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- e-Rewards, Inc. Achieves Near Real-Time Reporting, Increasing Capacity and Scalability for Members
- e-Rewards, Inc wanted to provide fast response time whenever members enter online responses to surveys and meet service level requirements of members, clients, and internal users. The challenge was to align IT resources to support e-Rewards' unique business model and integrate legacy systems and databases to increase scalability and capacity...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, Hardware Upgrade, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical
- Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service QoS. They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a...
- Tags: QoS, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM Scalability Benchmark Executive Summary
- Download the Executive Summary to learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivered a new CRM industry scalability benchmark record and redefined the price-performance equation with 50,000 concurrent users and 0.12 second response times on a hardware setup that cost less than $35,000.
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Scalability, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Intel: New Nehalem chip has "dramatic" performance gains
- Intel said today that it will start producing a new, more powerful Xeon processor, called Nehalem-EX, later this year. The chip will feature eight cores and will support 16 threads and 24 MB of cache. In a statement, the company called the increased performance "dramatic, posting the highest-ever jump from...
- Tags: Performance, Scalability, Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Inside SQL Server 2008 - Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements
- SQL 2005 introduced High Availability and scalability enhancements, such as database mirroring and improved failover clustering from earlier versions. Microsoft is shooting for close to zero downtime with the launch of SQL 2008 by incorporating availability and recovery features that were previously only available in third-party solutions. These features include...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, High Availability, Scalability, Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- White papers 2009-05-20
- Absolute Scalability: SoftLayer improves IT staff efficiency by 15% while introducing more flexible services for customers with Dell storage
- These days, just about all organizations need to invest in information technology in one form or another, whether it's managed in-house or via an outsourcing arrangement. Either way, deciding on the amount of IT resources to purchase is usually a guessing game. Companies often overbuy to accommodate peak demand, wasting...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Storage, Scalability, Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- White papers 2009-05-18
- Competitive SAN Local Switching Solution: Limiting Scalability, Not Improving It
- Local switching is switching in which traffic does not traverse the backplane of a switch but rather stays on a line card. This concept is positioned as a method for increasing the available bandwidth of a line card or reducing traffic on the backplane of a device. While the concept...
- Tags: Backplane, SAN, Scalability, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-05-01
- HP Integrity Servers Running Linux: Providing Scalability, Availability, and Flexibility to Meet the Needs of Mission-Critical Applications and the Most Demanding Linux Workloads
- HP is focused on delivering solutions built on Linux and Integrity servers that address the IT imperatives that one faces today. It understands the need to consolidate and simplify IT environment - to free up more staff time and budget for innovation. It understands need to develop and deliver more...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Scalability, Server, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Strategy, Software, Management
- White papers 2009-05-01
- Citizant Enhances IT Flexibility and Scalability by Creating a Virtualized Dell Infrastructure That Will Pay for Itself in 18 Months
- Citizant's focus on providing superior customer service to its government customers has helped the company grow tremendously since the company's founding. In 10 years, the company has expanded from 2 to 130 employees and achieved annual revenues of more than US$18 million. Citizant wanted to accommodate business growth, enhance IT...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Scalability, Citizant, Strategy, Servers, Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...
- Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- IT Firm Boosts Productivity and Scalability by 20 Percent With New Operating System
- Productiv is an IT solutions consulting firm in Brisbane, Australia, that provides productivity solutions to government and private organizations. The company has three locations and 26 employees. Productiv wanted to further enhance worker productivity by improving computer performance, stability, and usability. It also wanted to reduce desktop management and support...
- Tags: Information Technology, Operating System, Scalability, Worker, Productiv, Performance Management, Productivity, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- HP Service Activator Solution Bundles Software, Services, Hardware to Ensure Scalability, Functionality, and On-Time, On-Budget Delivery
- Tatung, a 90-year old global electronics company based in Taiwan, is no stranger to wireless technology: its portfolio has long featured products like wireless phones and terminals. The company wanted to deploy a new WiMAX infrastructure to deliver broadband wireless telecommunications services. Tatung designed and implemented an infrastructure that features...
- Tags: Software Service, Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tatung Co., Telecommunications Service, Scalability, Hardware, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications
- Case studies 2009-04-01
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