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Is there a NoSQL Identity Crisis

posted by John Myers | February 28, 2012 | 0 Comments

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As Big Data initiatives mature into enterprise data sources supported by NoSQL products for analytics and operational systems, a clash of cultures is on the horizon (if not here already). Traditional IT implementations teams and their top-down programs rarely see eye to eye with the grass roots culture of NoSQL platform operators. But this divide...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: ACID, Big data, Business Intelligence, NoSQL

Too Many Tools: Integrating a New IT Management System

posted by | February 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

“Too many tools!” That’s how IT managers feel. The systems needed just to run IT can cost millions to acquire and operate. Yet without appropriate tools, how can you run a service desk, IT operations center, or a project management office? Undoubtedly, it’s critical that your IT management tools approach be well thought out. You...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management, Service Management Tags: ALM, Application Lifecycle Management, Configuration management, IT service management, ITSM, Project Management, Release management, Service desk (ITSM)

Data-Driven Security: What (and What Not) to Look For at RSA 2012

posted by Scott Crawford | February 23, 2012 | 0 Comments

One of the major themes that will stand out at RSA next week revolves around the trend I’ve been following closely over the last several months: the evolution of security centered on a data-driven approach. There will be many opportunities for you to learn and benefit from this trend that is having an impact on...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security

Corporate Data Return on Investment

posted by John Myers | February 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Informatica Goal: Maximize Return on Data The theme of last week’s Informatica Analyst Conference was utilizing the “secular megatrends” of information technology to energize data integration across organizations at an enterprise scale. These megatrends, described as trends we can all agree upon, are the following: Cloud Computing Social Media Mobile Big Data Informatica’s message is...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, Data integration, Hadoop, Informatica

Can Watson-like Technology Help Lower Healthcare Costs and Improve Quality of Care?

posted by | February 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

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A combination of escalating healthcare costs and the desire to improve healthcare quality is driving both healthcare providers and payers to seek more innovative remedies to attack the problem. Meanwhile, technological advances in natural language processing (NLP) and predictive analytics now offer relief to caregivers and administrators who have enormous amounts of potentially lifesaving patient...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: Enterprise content management, Healthcare, Hot Spotting, Watson

Data-Driven Security Articles Roundup: February 14, 2012

posted by Scott Crawford | February 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day, etc. But enough chitchat. Herewith a short compendium of some of the articles and blogs about data-driven security I’ve been mentioning or have otherwise referenced recently – thought it would be worthwhile to pull these together into a single post. I’ll add to this list in future updates. We’ll begin with the...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford, Security Tags: Data-Driven Security, security intelligence

(Guest Blog @ Parallels) How to Bring the Cloud to the SMB Marketplace

posted by Torsten Volk | February 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

See Torsten’s guest blog at Parallels. Torsten will be attending Parallels Summit 2012 (February 14th-16th) in Orlando,...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk, Virtualization Tags: Parallels, virtualization

NoSQL Implementation Drivers

posted by John Myers | February 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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If you look at the history of Big Data requirements (volume, velocity and variety), and the NoSQL platforms supporting those requirements, you see a history of organizations and development teams breaking the mold of traditional information technology (IT) programs. Instead of following the traditional IT methodologies to solve the Big Data issues, these teams pushed...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Big data, Couchbase, NoSQL

Next generation IT management

posted by | February 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Here is my yearly prediction column, a bit delayed. Topic of the day is next generation IT management. (Not next generation IT; plenty of folks are covering that!) The tools market for IT service management is glutted. My friend Jan van Bon has been curating a list.ly list of “ITIL tools” that is now up...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: Application Lifecycle Management, BMC, cloud computing, IT trends, ITIL, kanban, Lean IT, Rally Software

The CMDB/CMS Market in Transition

posted by Dennis Drogseth | February 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

On the one hand, many in the industry have begun todismiss the CMDB as well past its prime, at least in terms of industry hype and attention. For this rather significant population, the CMDB has evolved into a complex and demanding data store with tangible but difficult-to-justify benefits, with questionable relationships to cloud computing and...

Posted in Dennis Drogseth, IT Management, Service Management Tags: CMDB, CMS