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- Tearing down silos, brick by brick
- Tearing down silos, brick by brickEverything old is new again"...who advocates the establishment of an SOA competency center, supported by an SOA steering committee, that can serve as a clearinghouse and information center for all matters SOA."Given the history and track record of previous "competency centers" what a horrible name...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, silo, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Tearing down silos, brick by brick
- I once heard a rumor that there actually is a company with two integration teams that actually meet and talk once or twice a year. Just a rumor, mind you. Lorraine Lawson brought up the whole issue of silos and lack of communication in a recent post,...
- Tags: SOA, Silo, Lorraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Disaster recovery means rolling back the clock
- A Kusnetzky Group client and I had a rather intense discussion about the role virtualization technology could play in a disaster recovery strategy. Although the strategy this organization was currently pursuing appeared to be based upon sound foundations, it didn't go far enough. This organization really didn't have a planĀ ...
- Tags: Data Center, Network, Resource, Silo, Disaster Recovery, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- silo (msi)
- Silo 2 is a focused 3D modeling application with the ability to effortlessly switch between organically sculpting high-polygon models and precisely controlling hard-edged surfaces. It can be used for anything from creating 3D characters for video games and movies to quickly exploring 3D architectural ideas. Silo is being used at...
- Tags: 3D, Silo, Silo 2
- Software downloads 2007-11-08
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angst
- Friday rants: Data silos; Facebook hype; Dow Jones angstData silosWell, the data is all one logical database and you need to put the mechanisms in place so that this is actually the case from a user and programmer perspective no matter how many physical databases are sitting underneath it. This...
- Tags: silo, Friday Rant, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- Poll: is Facebook Platform good for the web?
- Poll: is Facebook Platform good for the web?Face Book can not fight the natural flow of internetFace Book can not fight the natural flow of internet Currently most Social Networking sites create closed silos of user information and content that cannot be easily shared, reused, or...
- Tags: Web, Open Platform, Facebook, America Online Inc., Internet, silo, MySpace
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- New HP Webinar: Managing Availability and Performance Across Domain silos
- This webcast shows how managing across silos increases efficiency, reduces TCO, and takes IT performance to the next level.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Webinar, Silo, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Webcasts 2007-07-10
- ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...
- Tags: Web Services, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Open Source, management, Java, IT Management, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Building the Next Generation of IT With Virtualization
- In an effort to stay ahead of the competition, companies have poured capital resources into information technology. In many cases, this has been done on a group-by-group basis, with each line of business creating its own infrastructure silo. Each silo had its own systems, servers, storage, licenses, and support teams...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Silo, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- A Collaborative Approach Accelerates the Transition From silo Management to True Service Management
- Most organizations looking to make a shift from silo to service monitoring and management have typically initiated this paradigm shift from silo to service management in a top-down manner. In such initiatives, the directive to focus on services end-to-end is mostly driven by the C level executives (CEO/CIO), and the...
- Tags: Service Management, Silo, Silo Administrator, It Services
- White papers 2007-02-01
- HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager Overview
- Nowadays, most servers are highly underutilized. Traditional IT environments have typically been configured as silos in which resources are aligned around an application or business function. Such environments are characterized by silos of IT resources - each dedicated to a specific application. Virtualization is an approach to IT that pools...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Information Technology, Silo, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Breaking down silos inside and outside Microsoft
- Microsofts Unified Communications Group is all about breaking down the communication silos of e-mail, instant-messaging and voice-mail. Thats how UCG officials have explained their charter and technology roadmap, at least. On December 12, Microsoft announced that it was commencing a private beta of Office Communications Server OCS 2007,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Office 2007, Office, Corporate strategy, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Intersilo vs. intrasilo identities
- The Internet Identity Workshop kicked off today with a lot of anticipation from the participants of what will come of the next few days. By design, the first day is a standard conference-style agenda with speakers to help orient newbies. The next two days will be unconference-style....
- Tags: silo, Doc, Web Technology, Security, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- The identity silo paradox
- My recent post on Google's identity silo was part of a hailstorm pun intended of comments that occurred on the email list over at the Identity Gang. All of those fast-flying emails unveiled what I'm now calling the "identity silo paradox." Put simply the identity silo paradox is this:...
- Tags: identity silo, paradox
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Pushing back on Google's identity silo
- Ben Laurie, an employee of Google who is quite clear about the fact that he does not represent Google itself, is responding to my earlier post contrasting Google and Microsoft. Ben's pushing back on my contrasting of Google's Account Authentication versus Microsoft's Live ID, and my treatment therein. Specifically: ...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- The return of the walled garden
- Yesterday, I wrote about how Microsoft's OneCare and Check Point's Zone Alarm ID Lock were band-aids on the identity problem. Today, we see more announcements as AOL and McAffee enter the fray. The truly interesting thing though is a quote in the AOL piece from a Gartner analyst. Therein...
- Tags: identity
- Blog posts 2006-06-07
- HP OpenView Enterprise Management Starter Solution Business White Paper
- Around the world, enterprises are wrestling with change. To stay competitive, organizations of every type and industry need to make large-scale changes in a minimal amount of time. Business executives expect IT to fully support and adjust to the organization's changing goals and objectives, and to help the business retain...
- Tags: Enterprise Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP OpenView, Silo, Utility Computing, Strategy, Storage, Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Photos: Home is where the silo is
- Two former silos on Copenhagen's waterfront have been transformed into new residential towers.
- Tags: silo, Copenhagen, tower
- Image galleries 2005-09-08
- Photos: Home is where the silo is
- Two former silos on Copenhagen's waterfront have been transformed into new residential towers.
- Tags: silo, Copenhagen, tower
- Image galleries 2005-09-08
- The <strike>Four</strike> Five 'Net Freedoms
- In February of 2004, then FCC Chairman Michael Powell gave a speech in which he outlined four 'Net freedoms. David Isenberg who wrote the famous paper on the Rise of the Stupid Network has excerpted the four freedoms and Powell's explanation for easy reference. The...
- Tags: silo, Net Freedoms, Net
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
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