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Given all the issues tied to petroleum, anything that makes managing limited oil resources more efficient is going to be a very good thing. IBM today announced that it is working with Royal Dutch She... More >
When it comes to building applications, nobody really wants to be on the quality assurance team. Every developer out there thinks of themselves as being best-in-class, so inevitably the folks that ge... More >
As Google Apps has wormed its way into the enterprise, it’s been left up to IT managers to figure out how to manage a set of applications designed to be used primarily by individual consumers. &nbs... More >
A few months back data deduplication stopped being a separate product you buy. It’s now a feature you turn on when deploy most major new storage management technologies. And yet, because most IT orga... More >
Once you’re done arguing over the merits of cloud computing, the next logical conversation to have is how you’re going to live with it. IT organizations already make use of any number of cloud... More >
With everybody complaining about the rapid growth in the amount of data to be managed and the general limitations of the 2010 IT budget, finding a more intelligent approach to managing data has never... More >
One of the ways that IT organizations have been trying to save money is by employing as much self help as possible when it comes to IT support. The theory is that the more end users can resolve probl... More >
When it comes to open source in the world of business intelligence, something radical is clearly going on. Jaspersoft, a provider of open source application software, has announced what it claims is ... More >
As unified communications continues to morph into a set of services you buy instead of applications you deploy , some interesting questions start to emerge about what type of service will ultimately... More >
A lot of vendors are pushing for more economic stimulus money to expand network bandwidth, including IBM CEO Sam Palmisano in a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal . The core of the a... More >
In a sign of the continuing maturation of the agile application development methodology, CollabNet today announced it has acquired Danube , a provider of a project management framework for creat... More >
Deflationary innovation tends to be a nice way of saying necessity is the mother of invention. Economic pressures are forcing a lot of IT organizations to get a lot more innovative about their... More >
As a class of software, project management has never lived up to its full potential. There are, of course, people that swear by their project management applications. But by and large, most projects ... More >
One of the primary reasons, especially after this latest downturn, that companies are so keen to invest in business intelligence is that it became apparent to business executives that there were sign... More >
When it comes to any kind of negotiation with a cloud computing service provider, many IT organizations start optimistically. But once they get into the details, they quickly discover that they are n... More >
Visualization represents a major driving force behind the increased use of business intelligence applications. And until recently, this was also an argument for why BI software should be used on prem... More >
While there’s a tremendous amount of interest in building mobile applications that run on smartphones, managing them on an ongoing basis can be complex and costly. Businesses essentially want to comm... More >
One of the lesser-known attributes of Staples is that the big box office supply retailer actually has an IT services arm. Staples today announced that it is consolidating the various IT servi... More >
By now everyone knows that at some point they will be using a cloud computing service. But using one and building your own are two different stories. For those IT organizations that intend to build t... More >
In an example where an advance in technology helps drive advances in other vertical industries, Hewlett-Packard has announced that Royal Dutch Shell is using new sensor technology from HP to find o... More >
Even the most optimistic people in IT can’t help but wonder what will become of them and their jobs in this new era of cloud computing. The only thing that is certain is that their jobs will change ... More >
There’s no doubt that master data management is a crucial function in a world where far too much data quality is suspect . But with all the activity surrounding the acquisition of MDM providers as p... More >
The problem we have with data is not our ability to store and manage it, but rather our inability to correlate it. Without correlation, the data has no meaning. And if the data has no meaning, busine... More >
IBM is adding master data management (MDM) provider Initiate Systems to its portfolio as part of its push into health care with its Smarter Planet agenda. According to Sean Hogan, IBM vice ... More >
In real life, people hang around the local store or go to the mall to not only shop, but also connect with other people. Now digital equivalents of those stores are opening all over the Web, with IT ... More >
As part of an effort to ingrain the concepts being promoted under its Smarter Planet campaign in the minds of students, IBM today announced that it will give universities free access to cloud compu... More >
One of the reasons that a lot people are confused about cloud computing is that there are so many ways to get there. And how you choose to get there says as much about the IT organization as it doe... More >
When it comes to IT, small to medium-sized businesses in a recent CompTIA survey of 404 customers said that their top five challenges in order are smaller budgets (42 percent), followed by increasi... More >
As the current economic crisis begins to let up, now might be a good time for companies to revisit how well their financial controls were able to respond to dramatically changing business conditions.... More >
In the land grab that has pretty much been the hallmark of most vendor approaches to cloud computing, there’s been very little appreciation for the nuanced needs of specific types of customers. But a... More >
After several fits and starts, a new state law concerning data-security breaches in Massachusetts is going to go into effect March 1 with some pretty harsh penalties. Known as the 201 CMR 17:00: Sta... More >
There are really two types of business users. There are the people who get a report and just implicitly believe everything the report says because it came from a computer. Then there are the people w... More >
One of the more popular things that IT organizations have been doing to save money is relying more on a variety online services for help desk support. The most popular of these services come from com... More >
One piece of conventional IT wisdom these days holds that IT organizations will soon have to upgrade their network infrastructure to accommodate rapidly increasing amounts of video traffic. Driving t... More >
Much like people from two countries that speak a common language, IT people are divided from the business people they serve. For instance, both IT people and business people tend to speak in terms of... More >
Even as the economy shows signs of recovering, IT budgets are still tight. That leaves many executives wondering whehter they got the best deal possible for their IT dollars. And if the financial res... More >
One of the challenges facing IT organizations is how to go about automating the management of remote machines ranging from relatively simple handheld devices to industrial machinery. While all these ... More >
There’s a general lack of maturity these days in most companies when it comes to managing data. The lack of a set of formal data governance policies is usually at the heart of most security breache... More >
To hear all the discussion surrounding predictive analytics lately, you could be forgiven if you thought this was as a relatively new computer science discipline. In reality, financial services com... More >
Informatica’s move to acquire Siperian , a provider of master data management software, is part of a long-term strategic plan that looks to create a shared unified architecture between MDM with inte... More >
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