With a commodity productivity application, the most effective delivery is on the lowest-cost platform or from a provider. The problem is that 20 or 30 years ago, people put everything on mainframes. They wrote it all in code.
Like a lot of big, old industries, the banking function is essentially a function nowadays of software, standard protocols, high-performance (yet standard) IT systems ... and soon impeccable cloud computing credentials.
Increasingly, governance of hybrid computing environments establishes the ground rules under which business activities and processes - supported by multiple and more diverse infrastructure models - operate.
Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions | 8th September
We're going to take a look at an emerging updated standard called XDAS, which looks at audit trail information from a variety of systems and software across the enterprise IT environment.
As Cloud technologies start to take a back seat, attention is shifting to the need to redefine service levels in terms of business values that help users understand the real economics of the Cloud.
Progress Software this week announced the release of an enhanced Parallel Correlator for its Apama Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform so it can take advantage of multi-core, multi-processor hardware.
Hydrasight notes that the terms 'cloud', 'utility', 'on-demand', Software-as-a-Service and 'network' computing are being used to describe a very simple premise-that the server-centric computing model is (slowly) returning to favour.
