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Virtual conference speakers focus on cloud, value to enterprises, how to get started

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

A panel of industry analysts, practitioners, and HP experts outlined the value proposition of moving to the cloud, the danger of inaction, and how companies can get started on their cloud journey. [Read More...]

TIBCO rolls out Spotfire 3.1 with spotlight on predictive analytics

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The company says its software is not just for analytics gurus but also marketing professionals, business development managers and others who need forward-looking business intelligence in a hurry. [Read More...]

Cast Iron launches integration platform to help pull hybrid cloud models together

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Integration can get complex in a hurry with a growing number of applications in the enterprise, such as Salesforce, Google Apps, WebEx and ADP. Companies could take a do-it-yourself approach but it won't scale over time. [Read More...]

Survey: IT executives experimenting with mostly 'private' cloud architectures

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Some 95 IT executives across a number of fields offered insight into how organizations are experimenting with cloud computing and how they view the value of private clouds. Nearly 85 percent intend to keep their clouds within the firewall. [Read More...]

Cloud Security Alliance research defines top threats and best paths to secure cloud computing

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As Cloud Security Alliance Founder Jim Reavis sees it, cloud services are the next generation of IT that enterprises must master - and it's imperative that companies understand and mitigate security threats that accompany the cloud. [Read More...]

Mutual embrace of SOA and cloud computing builds into productivity waltz across the IT landscape

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Three years ago, the IT transformation poster child was SOA, and now we're well into the hype curve around cloud computing, but has one actually given way to the other? [Read More...]

HP rolls out data center services aimed at boosting IT ROI for global SMBs

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The SMB IT services and support market is ripe for efficiency and lower total costs. And the SMB arena is also a prime user for upcoming cloud and hybrid-sourced services. So now everything as a service can go anywhere. [Read More...]

Citrix Online acquires Paglo, launches GoToManage

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0100

Citrix Online is positioning the latest addition to its online services portfolio as an affordable alternative to premise-based IT management software. [Read More...]

HP 'trims' SharePoint web doc management risks, builds advanced workflow tools

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The latest version of HP's advanced records management solution aims to help organizations transparently manage Microsoft SharePoint Server records in a single environment. [Read More...]

Electric Cloud updates software production offerings

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

With Electrify, developers can conduct parallel testing or data modeling on their desktop, in a private cloud or on a dedicated server. Meanwhile, the subbuild technology works to help developers avoid unnecessary or broken builds. [Read More...]

Smart Grid for data center from HP

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. It's now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use -- and misuse -- in these enterprise data centers. [Read More...]

Improved data center productivity, private clouds

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

This latest BriefingsDirect discussion explores how converged infrastructure provides more business results productivity and offers a stepping stone to private cloud implementations. [Read More...]

BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

We ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond now that the IT spending recession appears to have bottomed out. [Read More...]

Seeing a golden lining around efficiency, HP expands cloud consulting services portfolio

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Dubbed HP Cloud Design Service, the new offering advises organizations how to quickly design and deploy scalable, cloud-based infrastructures. [Read More...]

ISM3 brings greater standardization to security measurement across enterprise IT

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0100

BriefingDirect assembled a panel this week to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than a mysterious art form. It turns out, rigorously applying data and metrics to security can dramatically improv [Read More...]

ArchiMate gives business leaders and IT architects a common language to describe the enterprise

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

ArchiMate provides ways to develop visualizations and control of IT architecture to more swiftly obtain business benefits. [Read More...]

'Business architecture' helps leaders decide on and execute changes at the new speed of business

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

To me enterprise business architecture is a set of artifacts and methods that helps business leaders make decisions about direction and communicate the changes that are required in order to achieve that vision. [Read More...]

New definition of enterprise architecture emphasizes 'fit for purpose' across IT undertakings

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

There are basically five words or phrases; mission, solution, environment, fitness for purpose, and essentials. Those capture all the ideas behind the definition of enterprise architecture. [Read More...]

Real-time web data services in action at Deutsche Borse

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As the culmination of a four-part series on web data services, we examine a fascinating use-case for how real-time content and data assembled from various online sources provides a valuable analysis service at Deutsche B�rse Group. [Read More...]

CERN's evolution toward cloud computing

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Track the evolution of high-performance computing (HPC) from clusters to cloud models through the eyes of CERN, with analysis from IDC and technical thought leadership from Platform Computing. [Read More...]

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss ramifications of Google-China dust-up over corporate cyber attacks

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China have uncorked a Pandora's Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. But there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance. [Read More...]

Advancing understanding of cloud-use benefits for enterprises

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

We examine the evolution of cloud, how businesses are grappling with that, and how they can learn to best exploit cloud-computing benefits, while fully understanding and controlling the risks. [Read More...]

Security, simplicity and control ease make desktop virtualization ready for enterprise uptake

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Enterprises are looking for ways to save on costs, and are constantly looking for different ways to more efficiently manage their distributed PC environments. All of these things are driving the high level of interest in virtualizing PCs. [Read More...]

Technology, process and people must combine smoothly to achieve strategic virtualization benefits

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Many people have probably heard the term virtual machine sprawl or VM sprawl, and that's one of the risks. Part of the reason VM sprawl occurs is because there are no clear defined processes in place. [Read More...]

Security skills provide top draw across IT jobs landscape

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

We interview David Foote, CEO at Foote Partners, on the IT job landscape for 2010 and to see where the recession has taken IT hiring and where the recovery will shape up. [Read More...]

Apple and Oracle on way to do what IBM and Microsoft could not: Dominate entire markets

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

Apple and Oracle may be unstoppable in their burgeoning power to dominate the collection of profits across vast and essential markets for decades. [Read More...]

Time to give server virtualization's twin, storage virtualization, a place at IT efficiency table

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0100

By going to storage virtualization, they can have a 300 percent increase in that existing storage asset utilization, depending upon how it's implemented. [Read More...]

Seeking alternatives to costly mainframe applications

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

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. [Read More...]

Can Google create a good cloud banking service?

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

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. [Read More...]

Architectural shift joins app logic to take advanced analytics into real-time

Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0100

As we enter 2010, enterprises are including more forms of diverse data into their business intelligence (BI) activities. They're also diversifying the types of analysis that they expect from these investments. [Read More...]