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Windows 8: The Mobile Dark Horse

posted by Steve Brasen | April 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

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I know what you’re thinking – you just read the title and thought, “Microsoft as a serious player in the mobile space … suuuuure!” Bear with me, though – this really does make sense. So much industry buzz has been on the consumerization of IT that vendors have lost sight of the criticality of mobile...

Posted in IT Management, Steve Brasen, Systems Management Tags: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, iOS, IPhone, Microsoft, Windows 8

Integrated Systems for the Enterprise Masses: Expertise in a Box or in the Cloud

posted by | April 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Competition for who owns the data center and which vendors will dominate the cloud services space is heating up. Over the last several days, major enterprise technology vendors such as Dell, EMC, HP, IBM and Oracle have all made announcements relative to what many consider to be groundbreaking progress in rolling out a new generation...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: cloud computing, Dell, ECM, EMC Corporation, Greenplum, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle

What is the IPv6 Tipping Point?

posted by Tracy Corbo | April 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

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One of the items on the research agenda for this year is IPv6. In almost every survey we launch, we have a question about IPv6 to keep a pulse on what is happening in and around the topic. To date while the topic is acknowledged and recognized as something that needs to be addressed, we...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Akamai, Akamai Technologies, Denial-of-service attack, Internet service provider, IPv6, Protocols

Embracing a Hybrid Data Ecosystem

posted by Shawn Rogers | April 16, 2012 | one Comments

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For years our data management universe has been centered around the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The EDW has served us well and created a foundation for todays sophisticated analytics. A paradigm shift driven by a maturing user community, new technology, economics and valuable data types is moving us towards a hybrid data ecosystem that strives to match the workload and...

Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Big data, Data management, Data warehouse, EDW, Hybrid Data Ecosystem, SQL, Technology

A Bravo New World for Network Infrastructure and Management Solutions (A Thoma Bravo New World, that is….)

posted by Tracy Corbo | April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Even people outside of the technology sector recognize the Cisco brand. Cisco has a very strong global presence that transcends the technology sector. However as one dives deeper into the network technology sector, especially into the networking infrastructure segment the names of these technology vendors may not transcend much beyond the target user group within...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Blue Coat Systems, Network Instruments, Thoma Bravo, WAN optimization

From File Share to ownCloud, Dropbox and RES HyperDrive

posted by Torsten Volk | April 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

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I was sitting in a plane recently, pulling out my iPad to enjoy one of my colleague’s excellent publications. After clicking the Dropbox icon, I noticed that I forgot to bookmark the actual document, so it did not replicate to the iPad. This rather annoying experience made me think about how far we have come...

Posted in IT Management, Systems Management, Torsten Volk Tags: Dropbox, FileNet, IPad, IPhone, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, ownCloud, RES Software

Complement Data Warehousing with Data Virtualization for BI Agility

posted by Shawn Rogers | April 6, 2012 | one Comments

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Does your integration strategy match the speed of your business? Many people would assume that it must but I can assure you in most companies IT struggles to deliver data and applications at the speeds necessary. For years this was the acceptable model, ask for a report and sit back for a month or so...

Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Business Intelligence, Data integration, Data virtualization, Data warehouse, Data Warehousing, Databases, IBM, Informatica

In Search of a Strategic Imperative for Managing Enterprise Content: Lessons from AIIM, ECM Vendors and the User Community

posted by | April 6, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Despite conventional wisdom that assumes an enterprise needs to give ample consideration to how its workers and processes support the overall mission prior to successfully implementing complex solutions, personal devices and social media are radically changing work behaviors and technology adoption – for better or worse. Smartphones and tablets coupled with the rise in the...

Posted in Enterprise Content, Gary MacFadden Tags: Enterprise content management, IBM, kCu, Kofax, Microsoft, Microsoft SharePoint, NovoDynamics, Nuix, Smartphone, Yland Software

Two dimensions of enterprise architecture evolution

posted by | April 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Recently, I was invited to give a talk at Troux Directions on the evolution of enterprise architecture (gulp). I think it went pretty well, judging from comments and some of the tweets. The centerpiece slide was this two-dimensional view: (click on the graphic for a better view) EA is not evolving in just one dimension....

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management, Service Management Tags: Enterprise architecture, Information technology management, Strategic management, Troux Directions

Two Troux days

posted by | April 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Attended the Troux Worldwide event last week as an invited speaker. It was a fantastic event, over 300 attendees from all over the world, and the discussions were consistently deep and thoughtful. It felt very much like a homecoming – while I have been working in the trenches of IT portfolio management, ITSM, ITAM, and related...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management, Service Management Tags: Enterprise architecture, IT portfolio management, IT service management