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More than a few IT organizations have been struggling with managing the usage of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications inside their organizations. It’s not necessarily that they are against the u... More >
When it comes to security, there is obviously a lot to be concerned about. But the folks at Blue Coat Systems , a provider of Web security and wide area network optimization products, says there are... More >
They say the best defense is a good offense. When it comes to IT security, however, IT organizations can only take the good offense so far before they wind up breaking the law themselves. But that do... More >
While there are millions of people routinely using services such as DropBox to share documents, there is still a lot of concern about not only how secure these services are, but also how many complia... More >
Like it or not, a lot of business workflow is tied up in our email systems. While everyone would generally agree that those systems are imperfect when it comes to facilitating collaboration, the only... More >
Conventional wisdom surrounding any type of desktop virtualization holds that end users will resist it because they fear a loss of control over their desktop . Any yet, the IT team at the Seattle Ch... More >
It’s a little-known fact that only a small percentage of the automated teller machines (ATM) in use today run the IBM OS/2 operating system. As you might well imagine, finding people to support these... More >
While it’s hard to say that any one development will stand out in the annals of enterprise IT when we look back on 2011, it’s pretty clear that the last year witnessed a transformation of enterprise ... More >
We live in a world where business executives want to see an almost instantaneous return on their business investment. The challenge that creates from the perspective of analytics applications is that... More >
While the reasons are murky, a new survey from Tufin Technologies , a provider of firewall management software, makes it pretty clear that most IT organizations are still dependent on manual process... More >
After being in business for almost 40 years, SAP has a lot of customers running SAP software inside their data centers. Many of the customers would like to move those applications to the cloud, but f... More >
SAP plans to roll out a set of services for integrating applications in the cloud alongside a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that will both be built on top of the company’s High Performan... More >
Most emerging new technology winds up initially being used to make existing processes and applications run faster. It’s usually not until a few years later that the disruption that new technology cre... More >
While the SAP High Performance Analytics Appliance (HANA) initially started out as a specialty engine designed to run analytic applications, HANA has rapidly morphed into a full-blown database plat... More >
SAP may not be known for speed, but if SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has his way, that will change in 2012. Speaking today at an SAP Influencer Summit in Boston, Hagemann Snabe says that SAP’s stra... More >
When it comes to cloud computing services today, there is not much being provided in terms of granular control over the IT infrastructure. IT organizations can generally choose to provision a server ... More >
While there has never been more memory available to speed the performance of applications, it turns out that one of the limiting factors when it comes to actually accessing that memory are the limita... More >
Most folks involved IT in health care organizations would generally agree that security is important; it just seems to be getting harder to build a consensus about whether it’s getting better or not.... More >
Just about everybody sees the value in bringing software development projects to fruition faster using agile software development methodologies . What most IT managers don’t care for is all the cons... More >
One of the harder issues that many IT organizations struggle with when it comes to contemplating a move to the cloud is licensing fees. The issue is that many of them have invested in Microsoft appli... More >
While there is a lot of interest these days in the open source Hadoop data management platform , finding people who can manage it has become a challenge since the number of people capable of deploy... More >
There are a couple of things that tend to hinder master data management projects. First, they are difficult to set up and, second, it’s time-consuming to connect MDM to the sources of data that are n... More >
Just about every corporate network these days is being used to transmit video in one form or another these days. Most of that video is of an on-demand nature, which means relatively very few people a... More >
When it comes to the many forms of Big Data these days, it seems that the conventional wisdom of the day is that something other than SQL is going to be required. But there are those who would argue ... More >
When Cisco first launched its Unified Computing System (UCS), the company’s end game was assumed to be control of the data center. But with the launch today of Cisco CloudVerse , it’s becoming clear... More >
A lot of people wonder why IT organizations run into application performance issues at all. After all, at some point during the development of the application someone was in charge of testing the app... More >
One of the more frustrating things about IT security is how much of blunt instrument most security technologies turn out to be. As a result, a lot of security features never get turned on for fear of... More >
The battle between good and evil in terms of security is starting to shift locations. Instead of being primarily focused on the network perimeter, it’s starting to become clear that the new definitio... More >
In most IT organizations, there are really two distinct management worlds: There are the people who manage applications and the people who worry about the infrastructure. But, as more companies try t... More >
It seems these days that no matter what the question is related to managing Big Data, Hadoop is the answer. But the folks at GE Intelligent Platforms would beg to differ. While Hadoop is fine in ma... More >
The real problem with application lifecycle management (ALM) is that it’s intrusive. As a result, there’s a lot of resistance not only from developers, but also the IT operations teams that generally... More >
One of the more common use cases for cloud computing is the provisioning of additional capacity on demand to handle sudden spikes in additional application workloads. This is a critical capability be... More >
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