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 There’s a big scorch mark where server sales used to be according to IDC, which put out its worst-since-records-have-been-kept Q2 figures Wednesday, hoping that with the installed base growing increasing hoary with age buyers are starting to replace them.
The researcher said factory...Sep. 7, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 774 |
 At VMworld today HP announced what it says is the first virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution for under $1,000 a seat. The HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware was demonstrated during VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s keynote presentation and is currently being deployed ...Sep. 2, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,462 |
 Over the last couple of years I have been focused on identifying sustainable business models for communication service providers. As part of this analysis I have investigated the return on invested capital (ROIC) as a ratio of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for a variety of se...Sep. 1, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,140 |
 You may wonder whether it’s too early to make the call given the lack of interoperability standards, security concerns, and common definition of cloud computing. Well, the IPTV space shares many of the same similarities – emerging technology, emerging standards, emerging adoption, var...Aug. 30, 2009 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,799 |
 Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y...Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,937 |
 The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ...Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,178 |
 There is a common misconception that CMMI and Agile are polar opposites. One relies on institutionalization and documentation of processes and methodologies, while the other emphasizes interaction among workers and “working software over comprehensive documentation” (Agile Manifesto). ...Aug. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,460 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,863 Replies: 1 |
 Business is stabilizing according to HP CEO Mark Hurd, who's expecting a spike as the economy comes back. He's also not ready to "call it a turn."
Although PCs, servers, software, printers and storage were all down roughly 20%, the bellwether still beat estimates Tuesday when it rep...Aug. 19, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,453 |
 Ousted HP CEO Carly Fiorina, 54, who was treated for breast cancer in March, filed papers Tuesday that will let her challenge three-term Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer for her US Senate seat next year.
She filed for a tax ID number and registered a campaign committee called "Car...Aug. 18, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,299 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,187 |
 RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...Aug. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,499 |
 iTKO says HP is going to resell its LISA Virtualize software combined with HP’s quality management, functional and performance testing solutions. It’s supposed to accelerate software testing and reduce the cost of developing increasingly complex modern applications. What LISA does is d...Aug. 17, 2009 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,256 |
 HP is reselling iTKO’s LISA Virtualize product, a suite of test, validation and virtualization solutions optimized for distributed, multi-tier applications that leverage SOA, BPM, cloud computing, integration suites and ESBs. How does LISA help HP’s Quality and Performance Management s...Aug. 14, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,177 |
 Posted on YouTube, HP with its "HPEN Top Ten," clip has spoofed the satirists. Usually Top Ten lists apply to areas of politics or entertainment -- but, honestly, most of the IT departments I've visited have plenty of both.Aug. 12, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,372 |
 Cluster Resources, the company behind the Moab unified intelligent automation technology that's pretty much a commonplace in the world's top supercomputers, finds its business turning increasingly commercial so it's changed its name to Adaptive Computing.
It thinks that Cluster Reso...Aug. 7, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
 Inside Info announced today that QlikView business intelligence software ranked first in ease of use and customer loyalty, outperforming industry leaders SAP (Business Objects), Oracle (Hyperion) and IBM (Cognos) in the newly released BI Survey 8 – the world’s largest independent surve...Aug. 7, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,149 |
 HP and its reseller channels are going to sell Clerity Solutions’ UniKix 11.0 mainframe rehosting software so companies can move legacy applications to more cost-effective systems and reduce their annual IT operating costs by up to 80%.
Formal announcement is due next week.
Some ...Jul. 31, 2009 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 964 |
 Power Assure Inc, a Santa Clara start-up developing power management solutions for data centers that actively manage server capacity to match application load in real-time, has gotten a $2.5 million A round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and individual investors.
It’s supposed to reduc...Jul. 31, 2009 07:26 AM EDT Reads: 1,080 |
 HP is going to buy Ibrix, a nine-year-old enterprise-class file-serving software shop whose wares include data protection, high-availability features and data management services for extreme scale-out, cloud and HPC deployments.
Terms were not disclosed, but Ibrix, which competes w...Jul. 26, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,178 |
 Jigsaw, the five-year-old data-as-a-service (DaaS) pioneer whose business has doubled for the fourth year in a row, says it’s been profitable the last two quarters despite the sour economy.
Between a revenue run rate of upwards of $20 million, the recent expansion of its partner an...Jul. 26, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,088 |
 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents a challenge to software marketing people like none other in recent history. On the one hand, SOA has been the top enterprise software bandwagon to jump on for the last four years or so, but on the other hand, many vendors have struggled to t...Jul. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,383 |
 ZapThink considers the SOA business case as an essential SOA artifact. Architects must have a clear picture of the business motivations for SOA, not only at the beginning of the initiative, but also as the architecture rolls out. Nevertheless, there is still frequently a disconnect bet...Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,847 |
 Businesses of all stripes need better means of access, governance, and data lifecycle best practices, given the vast ocean of new information coming from many different directions.
By getting a better handle on information explosion, enterprises can gain clarity in understanding wha...Jul. 21, 2009 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 665 |
 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub.
It's launched Singapore's first integrate...Jul. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,717 |
 Loose coupling presents architectural challenges that are at the heart of planning and implementing the SOA infrastructure. Building the Service abstraction presents a simplified representation to the business but requires additional efforts under the covers to make that abstraction a ...Jul. 18, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,542 |
 The common methods for functional GUI testing are the "record and execute" script technique and writing test programs for different scenarios. In the "record and execute," the test designer interacts with the GUI and all the events are recorded in a script. The script can later be repl...Jul. 18, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 40,107 Replies: 7 |
 The mantra heard most often in business these days is "Do More With Less." For many businesses, cutting costs while trying to grow—or even sustain their place in the market—is easier said than done. What could help many businesses is gaining access to some of that $787 Billion in Feder...Jul. 16, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,179 |
 Lead nurturing is often thought about as being found with a flag waving when your leads decide to take action. Waiting to be found is not a strong strategy. In fact, sitting around passively encourages your leads to leak away to competitors working harder to engage them. The secret is ...Jul. 16, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,113 |
 Such projections have long since ceased to be news but Oracle, which will take Sun over before another quarter closes unless the regulators make some objection, rushed out a statement saying it's seen the preliminary estimates and still expects the Sun acquisition to be accretive to it...Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,972 |
 With 47.68% of the company already pledged to it by its two founders, Software AG says it intends to tender for the rest of German-based IDS Scheer AG and create a global vendor of infrastructure software and Business Process Management (BPM) that has more than 6,000 employees and upwa...Jul. 14, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,911 |
 The agenda included a presentation about "VM Management for Green Data Centers with the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine". The talk presented and demonstrated a first prototype of the functionality provided by the OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine to reduce energy demand...Jul. 6, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 817 |
 In my post "Interfaces for Private and Public Cloud Computing", I briefly described the main differences between public and private cloud computing from the perspective of their different application scope and interfaces. My position was that a private cloud interface should provide ri...Jul. 6, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,481 |
 The Chinese government has “delayed” enforcing the edict that would have compelled vendors to install its confounded Green Dam Internet-filtering software on all the Windows PCs sold in the country starting July 1. It said Tuesday through one of its house organs that it hadn’t give ven...Jul. 1, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 905 |
 HP has added to the telecom versions of ProLiant, BladeSystem, and Integrity server families as well as its StorageWorks portfolio. It says the customer has become “king” and that telecom operators are racing to streamline their networks. Proprietary technologies are giving way to open...Jun. 26, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,039 |
 VMware has cut an OEM deal to integrate HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping software into its vCenter software as a virtual appliance next year when vCenter’s ConfigControl is available. Users will be able to manage both physical and virtual machines off the same console. Meanwhile, HP...Jun. 19, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
 Analysts in addition to myself are hearing consistently from IT executives that cost-optimization, cost-containment, and cost-reduction initiatives are the top priorities being driven from the business side onto IT.Jun. 16, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,180 |
 HP Wednesday took the wraps off the first new server family it’s created since the BladeSystem C-class was invented and ran away with the market.Jun. 10, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,239 |
 After weeks of slow-moving negotiations and due diligence, CA has bought what it describes as “certain data center automation and policy-based optimization expertise and assets from Cassatt,” the failed Bill Coleman start-up that sucked up $100 million in venture money on its way to th...Jun. 2, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,971 |
 HP CEO Mark Hurd told a Sanford Bernstein conference in New York Thursday that he’s not ready to call a bottom or even speculate on the timing of a breakout, when the bubble of pent-up demand created by four-year-old desktops, notebooks, and servers will burst. He was pretty much repea...May. 31, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,129 |
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