http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:29:45 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2010-03-16T15:29:45Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/mobile-apps-mean-business/?cs=40087       Willie Jow is vice president for business operations and mobility product marketing for Sybase .   Mobile phones aren’t just for talking anymore. With the release of the iPhone in 2007 and the App Store in 2008, Apple gave consumers sybase mobile_workers smartphones software_and_web_development business_technology mobile_applications Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:18:24 GMT willie.jow@sybase.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/mobile-apps-mean-business/?cs=40087 2010-03-16T20:18:24Z 1 day, 11 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/mobile-apps-mean-business http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40087 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-valuation-of-confidence/?cs=40072 Corporate valuation is all about numbers — revenue, EBIT and the like. But what’s behind the numbers? In many cases, it’s confidence and specifically, confidence in the business. If companies want to increase their valuation, they have to improve their risk_management compliance business_technology lumigent Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:24:28 GMT john.capobianco@lumigent.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-valuation-of-confidence/?cs=40072 2010-03-15T21:24:28Z 2 days, 5 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-valuation-of-confidence http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40072 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-voip/?cs=40065 You’ve probably heard that voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology cuts telecommunications costs and improves productivity, among other benefits. It also provides useful features and capabilities that conventional phone technology can't offer. digium voip technology_evaluation quality_of_service resellers business_technology roi Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:18:57 GMT ncgdigium@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-voip/?cs=40065 2010-03-15T20:18:57Z 2 days, 7 hours ago 6 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-voip http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40065 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/it-management-20-new-answers-to-new-questions/?cs=40028     Jake Sorofman is vice president of marketing for rPath .   Today, most IT leaders have a relatively clear idea about what they must grow up to become — highly responsive, agile and lean service providers. Of course, they’ve known this for it_best_practices agile cloud_computing business_technology rpath it_management_automation Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:41:00 GMT jsorofman@rpath.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/it-management-20-new-answers-to-new-questions/?cs=40028 2010-03-12T20:41:00Z 5 days, 6 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/it-management-20-new-answers-to-new-questions http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40028 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-5-goals-of-a-project-manager/?cs=40005     Jason Westland has 15 years of experience in the project management industry. From his experience, he has created software to help speed up the management process. Find out more about Jason's online project management software . These goals are method123 project_management budgeting business_technology change_management project_manager Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:32 GMT jwestland@method123.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/the-5-goals-of-a-project-manager/?cs=40005 2010-03-12T15:27:32Z 5 days, 11 hours ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/the-5-goals-of-a-project-manager http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40005 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/what-you-should-know-when-evaluating-a-managed-file-transfer-solution/?cs=40002     Sam Morris, CISSP, is a product marketing manager for Attachmate Corporation , a provider of managed file transfer solutions through the FileXpress family of products. It’s a reality that the way organizations conduct business today has changed. business_technology attachmate technology_evaluation data_management compliance privacy Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:12:34 GMT sam.morris@attachmate.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/what-you-should-know-when-evaluating-a-managed-file-transfer-solution/?cs=40002 2010-03-12T15:12:34Z 5 days, 12 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/what-you-should-know-when-evaluating-a-managed-file-transfer-solution http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=40002 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/be-careful-in-the-custom-infrastructure-wasteland/?cs=39985         Doug Brockway is the founder and Managing Principal for Advance Consulting . He blogs on IT management topics at Working on Step 2 . An interesting article was posted recently: “Cray Teams with Microsoft on Cloud Computing.” business_technology microsoft cloud_computing tco technology_evaluation cray Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:18:24 GMT doug.brockway@gmail.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/be-careful-in-the-custom-infrastructure-wasteland/?cs=39985 2010-03-11T21:18:24Z 6 days, 9 hours ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/be-careful-in-the-custom-infrastructure-wasteland http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39985 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cast-iron-launches-integration-platform-to-help-pull-hybrid-cloud-models-together/?cs=39930     Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions , an enterprise IT analysis, market research and consulting firm. In a move to tackle a persistent cloud computing challenge, Cast Iron Systems just rolled out a new business_technology cast_iron application_integration cloud_computing hybrid_cloud Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:37:40 GMT dgardner@interarbor-solutions.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/cast-iron-launches-integration-platform-to-help-pull-hybrid-cloud-models-together/?cs=39930 2010-03-10T14:37:40Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/cast-iron-launches-integration-platform-to-help-pull-hybrid-cloud-models-together http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39930 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/wanted-smartphones-in-the-enterprise-no-training-required/?cs=39875         Willie Jow is vice president for business operations and mobility product marketing for Sybase . Check out images and descriptions of the best smartphones for business users -- according to the analysts who know. When introducing a business_technology tco training blackberry mobile_operating_systems sybase smartphones mobile_applications productivity iphone mobile_workers Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:24:23 GMT willie.jow@sybase.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/wanted-smartphones-in-the-enterprise-no-training-required/?cs=39875 2010-03-08T15:24:23Z 1 week, 2 days ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/wanted-smartphones-in-the-enterprise-no-training-required http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39875 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/virtual-desktops-and-flying-cars/?cs=39873     Martin Ingram is the VP of strategy at Appsense . In the 1950s, there was a widespread expectation that by now we would all be driving flying cars as a matter of routine. With the advances in aeronautics in the 1940s and 1950s, it would not have appsense desktop_virtualization productivity business_technology vdi Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:56:19 GMT martin.ingram@appsense.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/virtual-desktops-and-flying-cars/?cs=39873 2010-03-08T14:56:19Z 1 week, 2 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/virtual-desktops-and-flying-cars http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39873 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/devops-why-now/?cs=39854     Jake Sorofman is vice president of marketing for rPath .   There’s tremendous passion surrounding this burgeoning DevOps movement, which aspires to address the longstanding bottleneck between development and operations. It’s no surprise, rpath devops agile business_technology business_culture software_and_web_development roi Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:49:35 GMT jsorofman@rpath.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/devops-why-now/?cs=39854 2010-03-05T18:49:35Z 1 week, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/devops-why-now http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39854 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/calling-all-smes-who-need-help-understanding-their-business-assets/?cs=39771 Business Change It is a fact that no business is allowed the "privilege" of being able to stand still and admire the view. Regardless of how successful you are at any point in time, all businesses need to be planning for the future and working out their business_technology smbs smes open_source_enterprise_software change_management strategic_planning Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:10:31 GMT sarah.smith@e-asolutions.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/calling-all-smes-who-need-help-understanding-their-business-assets/?cs=39771 2010-03-03T16:10:31Z 2 weeks, 10 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/calling-all-smes-who-need-help-understanding-their-business-assets http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39771 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/mutual-embrace-of-soa-and-cloud-computing-builds-into-productivity-waltz-across-the-it-landscape/?cs=39563     Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions , an enterprise IT analysis, market research and consulting firm. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion comes in conjunction with The Open Group’s Enterprise business_technology cloud_computing soa it_market_analysts Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:05:20 GMT dgardner@interarbor-solutions.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/mutual-embrace-of-soa-and-cloud-computing-builds-into-productivity-waltz-across-the-it-landscape/?cs=39563 2010-02-24T13:05:20Z 3 weeks, 13 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/mutual-embrace-of-soa-and-cloud-computing-builds-into-productivity-waltz-across-the-it-landscape http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39563 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/battling-software-defects-one-developer-at-a-time/?cs=39611 Numerous studies attempt to quantify the losses caused by software defects. Take Toyota for instance: It just announced a recall for more than a half million 2010 hybrid vehicles. The reason? A change in "brake feeling" caused by faulty antilock braking software_testing kitware open_source_software_development business_technology Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:18:07 GMT bill.hoffman@kitware.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/battling-software-defects-one-developer-at-a-time/?cs=39611 2010-02-23T20:18:07Z 3 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/battling-software-defects-one-developer-at-a-time http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39611 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/toward-an-application-centric-data-center/?cs=39551     Jake Sorofman is vice president of marketing for rPath .   Talk to any enterprise CIO today, and you’re likely to find an executive on a mission — a mission with a clear mandate to get IT out of the infrastructure business. They’ll tell you business_technology paas rpath cloud_computing data_center saas application_deployment Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:00:51 GMT jsorofman@rpath.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/toward-an-application-centric-data-center/?cs=39551 2010-02-22T13:00:51Z 3 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/comment/toward-an-application-centric-data-center http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=39551