posted by Steve Brasen   | October 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dentrix-Mobile

Put this picture in your mind’s eye – It’s a beautiful sunny weekday and you’re sitting by a pool catching the sun’s rays and a cool breeze.  Strategically placed within arm’s reach beside you is some kind of fruity drink with a tiny bamboo umbrella in it.  You are working (yep, I said working!).  You...

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Business Service Management for the Cloud

The industry seems to be nearing an inflection point in its attitudes towards cloud computing—as best I can tell from headlines, commentaries and ongoing dialog with IT deployments and vendors.   If I had to put a few simple words around it, the era of “mythic hype” surrounding cloud is nearing its end and diffusing into a much...

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Spring and fall seem to be “travel times” in the Analyst business, and quite a bit of that travel is vendor-related. The analyst role, as I see it, is largely a matter of synthesizing thousands of bits and pieces of vendor, industry, and customer-related information. The intent is to weave a cohesive fabric that accurately...

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posted by Jim Frey   | September 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

Virtualization Fog

For network managers, there was great news coming with the VMware vSphere 5.0 release, in the form of enhancements to the Virtual Distributed Switch (vDS.) In a particular, the vDS now supports Port Mirroring (commonly known as SPAN) in addition to (finally!) formally offering NetFlow support. This should go a long way in helping with...

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posted by Dennis Drogseth   | August 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

See Dennis’ recent blog post on the state of cloud computing, posted at BSM Digest,...

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posted by Julie Craig   | August 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

New Research-n1

One of the hazards of being an Analyst is that it brings out your inner geek. In completing the latest research on “End-to-End Application Management in the Age of Cloud”, it was necessary for me to hole up with a gallon of coffee and a bag of chocolate-covered coffee beans and figure out what Cloud...

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ladders and clouds

Long time, no blog, right? I’ve had plenty to keep me busy. I just finished up my most recent “End-to-End Application Management” research study, which extends the “end-to-end application management” concept to Public and Private Cloud. Both the full research paper and a summary version will be posted to the EMA site (www.emausa.com) by the...

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posted by Scott Crawford   | July 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

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One of EMA’s advantages in having a base in Colorado is our proximity to a number of thought leaders in identity management, and nowhere is this more evident than at conferences such as the Cloud Identity Summit, an aptly-named event held in recent years here in Colorado’s high country (nearly as close to the clouds...

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posted by    | July 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

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As enterprises spend more on cloud options, a new market opportunity is forming: Cloud value management. Surprising, with all the fervor around cloud, that I got exactly ONE hit on Google for that exact term just now. Custon, a Dutch company, gets the credit. (Why am I not surprised this is a Dutch firm? Seems...

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posted by    | July 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

Quick note: CA announced that Clarity, their Project Portfolio Management offering, will use SalesForce.com’s Chatter network. Clarity is already available in an on-demand (SaaS) version. This is an interesting development given that CA also has built an in-house social networking platform for its ITSM suite, OpenSpace, which is also available as SaaS. I predict there...

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