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As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users: The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...; Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-07

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HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service: Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...; Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-14
A brief summary: A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
Sun creates its own solar system of eco partners: Going back to my roots in writing about and for IT resellers, VARs and systems integrators with today's entry. That's because Sun Microsystems became one of the first high-tech companies a few weeks back to include its business partners in its ability have a green tech dialogue with its customers....; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Retail, Virtualization, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-05
What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises: Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...; Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-04

In the beginning (and the end) there was the mainframe: Mainframes never go away--they just find a new use. One thing that has always amazed me about the mainframe is how IBM has managed to cram it into any new technology frontier. Cloud computing? Mainframe. SaaS? Mainframe enabled. Centralized IT? You guess it: Mainframe. What's more notable...; Tags: IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-01
Microsoft's Oslo connections begin to bud: Microsoft took another step in unveiling its "Oslo" SOA strategy, with a sample application intended to not only demonstrate the vendor's interoperability as a SOA platform, and also show how it can automatically scale to meet the increased and unpredictable workloads SOA will bring to data centers. ...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Insects using plants as phones: A team of Dutch ecologists has found that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects use plants to communicate. 'Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant is already occupied.' This means that by using 'green telephone lines,' the...; Tags: Phone, Interaction, Plant, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-27
'Enough with WOA, stick to SOA,' say IT architects - I say drop WOA and SOA: Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture WOA, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means...; Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, Service, Web Oriented Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Open source SOA infrastructure project CXF elevated to full Apache status: After community incubation and development for nearly two years, the Apache CXF open-source SOA and middleware interoperability framework evolved last week into a full project of the Apache Software Foundation. CXF, with some 60,000 downloads since July 2007, takes its place alongside 60 other Apache projects. The...; Tags: Iona Technologies, Apache Software Foundation, CXF, Open Source, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-20
Big Blue delivers big profits; Ups 2008 outlook: IBM on Wednesday handily topped Wall Street estimates with net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.65 a share, on revenue of $24.5 billion. According to Thomson Financial, Wall Street was expecting a profit of $1.45 a share on revenue of $23.7 billion. IBM got help from a...; Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Revenue, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Desktop as a service era ramps up as Citrix marks May delivery of XenDesktop at a tough price to beat: Heralding a new era for desktop as a service DaaS, the long-awaited XenDesktop line from Citrix Systems will become available during the Citrix Synergy 2008 conference in mid-May. The XenDesktop product line is the latest entry in the effervescent virtualization market and will be co-marketed with Microsoft....; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenDesktop, XenDesktop Product Line, Delivery Protocol, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons: Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisonsWhat's fair? PRICEMy former employer had a yearly workstation benchmark process. We would invite the big 4 UNIX workstation vendors (HP,Sun,IBM,SGI), give them the applications and test matrix - and let them tune their boxes to their hearts content. After the benchmark was complete, we looked...; Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, workstation, hardware, paging; Discussion threads 2008-04-16
SOA and compute clouds point to rethinking data entirely: roles and permissions, not rows and tables: There's nothing like a conversation to bring out insights and new ideas. Tony Baer and I were chatting on this very pearl of productivity last week, that an open roundtable analyst call always allowed us to move the needle forward in terms of thought leadership in ways that solo writing...; Tags: Permission, Data, SOA, Cloud, Cloud Business, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-15
Configuration Options for Handling Application Dispatch Timeouts: In the WebSphere environment, the application servers must cope with a variety of work requests. In normal operations, the servers handle the beans, servlets, and other the types of application workloads efficiently and without incident. What happens, however, when processing does not go as planned? That is, when applications have...; Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, Application Servers, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-04-14
Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power of Google and Microsoft/Yahoo: As Phil Wainewright points out, the platform as a service PaaS wars are ramping up with the arrival of Google App Engine. And while there will be preferences around Python or Ruby, stack or ala carte -- there's one ingredient that Google and Microsoft/Yahoo sure to follow suit can bring...; Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-08
IBM launches enterprise mashup portfolio: IBM said Tuesday that it will launch an enterprise mashup portfolio for corporate use. The so-called Mashup Center launches a beta April 15 and targets non-technical customers, IT folks and developers. Big Blue has been pushing the concept of enterprise mashups for months. The problem: Few enterprises...; Tags: IBM Corp., Mashup, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-08
WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent: In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...; Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-04-04
WebSphere Process Server/WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for z/OS V6.1 Network Deployment Configuration Lab: This paper provides customization that allows the user to execute it in own environment. The detailed script takes the user through the various manual steps needed to complete a Network Deployment WebSphere Process Server/WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus for z/OS V6.1 configuration. By providing installation-specific values as input, the user is...; Tags: IBM WebSphere, Network, IBM z/OS, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-04-04
Google the future? A no chair flight? April Fools!: Google the future? A no chair flight? April Fools!Too bad the rest of the world can't see that BBC footage...Unfortunately, the venerable 'Beeb' has been rather uber-an@l-retentive with their TV web sites' content. If you're not in the UK, you're S.O.L. - unless you know of a good free proxy...; Tags: TVs, April Fool, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-01