posted by John Myers   | November 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

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TIBCO Updates Cloud-based Analytics In September, TIBCO Software announced the latest update of its on-demand business analytics platform -  TIBCO Silver Spotfire® 2.0.  The prepackaged graph, chart and dashboard functionality in TIBCO Silver Spotfire 2.0 provides the type of data visualization functionality non-IT staff members can deploy easily.  This functionality has a level of maturity...

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posted by admin   | November 29, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Enterprise Management Associates Adds Gary MacFadden as Managing Research Director in New Enterprise Content Management Practice Area EMA strengthens IT management leadership and expertise with highly experienced enterprise content management expert BOULDER, Colo., November 29, 2011 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, today announced that Gary...

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posted by Jim Frey   | November 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Videoconferencing

Thanksgiving is a time of gathering and community, and for many of us a primary task, beyond the obvious food, and football traditions, will be to reach out and connect with extended family that can’t be with us in person.  For my family, it will be Skype video chat when possible and phone calls when...

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posted by    | November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

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I’ve been as cynical as the next IT old timer about Cloud. Various ownership models are nothing new, nor are shared resource pools. But in my briefings I’ve come across two things that I think are truly game changing about Cloud: Multi-tenant analytics. For example, order-of-magnitude better benchmarking (and that’s not all). Multi-tenant professional services....

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

See Dennis’ recent article on APM and BSM, posted at APM Digest,...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | November 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

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As is well known by now, Charlie Miller, well known for his research of the security of Apple products, has been evicted from the Apple developer program for violating the terms of the developer agreement, according to an Apple email (reproduced in this CNET article). The prevailing opinions on this matter seem to gravitate toward...

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posted by John Myers   | November 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Microstrategy Alert and Wisdom When you take a look at the “stickiness” of the experience and amount of consumer information on Facebook, you see many intriguing concepts that make marketeers salivate: 23% of all users spend over six hours per day on Facebook Facebook users 8x more likely to interact with brands they like than...

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posted by Jim Frey   | November 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

(Editors Note:  Today’s post is by EMA Senior Analyst Tracy Corbo) Finally freed from the demands of crunching together data for our just-released ADC/LB radar report, it was a good time to check in on the WAN optimization front and see what has been transpiring over the last couple of months. What I found was...

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posted by Torsten Volk   | November 7, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Almost all of today’s business processes are supported and complemented by enterprise IT applications. These applications are often business-critical and therefore tied to strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Most enterprises utilize sophisticated monitoring tools to track system health on the application, operating system, hypervisor, hardware, network resources, and storage levels. These health monitoring tools send...

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