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posted by Julie Craig   | April 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

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“End-to-End Application Management” is one of those terms everybody uses but nobody stops to think about. What does it really mean? Since “inquiring minds need to know”, I started nailing down answers to this question with a 3 part research study back in 2008. I continue to follow up each year, and in doing so...

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posted by Jim Frey   | April 28, 2011 | 0 Comments

WAN Optimization

(Editor’s note:  Today’s post is by guest blogger and EMA Senior Analyst, Tracy Corbo) One of the many insights we gained while compiling EMA’s recent WAN Optimization Controller (WOC) Radar Report, and after talking to numerous WOC users, is that there are many situations where dedicated WAN links are simply not an option. Traditional WOC...

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posted by Julie Craig   | April 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

heads up to cloud failures

The recent events at Amazon are notable for multiple reasons, but for those of us who have spent time actually working in IT there are no big surprises there. Technology fails. Big, integrated technology systems fail bigger, and Amazon is definitely one big, honkin’ system. No matter who hosts it—even Amazon—if it is technology-based, it’s...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | April 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

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The only thing worse than experiencing an IT system failure is a public IT system failure and that’s exactly whats happening to several large social websites this morning Quora, FourSquare, Reddit have all been offline the past few hours as failures at Amazon’s Cloud service continue. Take a look at the AWS Service Dashboard and...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | April 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

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It’s that time of year again, when the Verizon RISK Team blossoms forth with its latest, much-awaited Data Breach Investigations Report – and with a number of new and (to some) astonishing findings, the 2011 version did not disappoint (you can get it here). This year’s report, however, has some important subtleties that could easily...

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posted by Shawn Rogers   | April 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Cloud technology continues to be a buzz worthy topic in our industry. As more companies are utilizing applications and data that are hosted in the cloud a new demand is being put on integration solutions and architectures. Getting information to and from these environments at scale and at a speed that supports innovative thinking is...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | April 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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EMA consulting once did an analysis of why strategic service management initiatives fail.  These ranged from cross-domain performance management initiatives, to configuration management initiatives with CMDB/CMS enabling foundations,  to company-wide asset management initiatives to name a few.    Of the top ten reasons for failure, only the bottom two (Integration and Discovery) were technology-related.    Three of...

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posted by Julie Craig   | April 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

New Research-n1

Last week, I FINALLY published the 2011 ROI Case Studies research, which I had planned to publish back in 2010. The delay was due to competing priorities on my side, and I’d like to thank Robert Zoch (Brainware), Sam Benihya (AppLoader), and Joe Fitzpatrick (Splunk) for hanging in there with me during the lengthy interview,...

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posted by Jim Frey   | April 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

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EMA recently studied WAN Optimization technologies, publishing an EMA Radar Report on the topic last month, and in the process compared 13 major solution suppliers. Part of that investigation included an assessment of each supplier’s mobile solutions, for helping to establish optimal application and service performance for endpoints that may or may not be able...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | April 4, 2011 | 0 Comments

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No sooner had the ink dried on RSA’s disclosure of the nature of the attack that resulted in its high-profile breach than NetWitness, RSA’s partner in investigating this incident, announced its acquisition by RSA parent EMC. (Given the fact that the deal is already closed, it’s safe to assume that due diligence well preceded this event.)...

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