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 Business analytics is a major established sector of the IT industry, but it's one that's ripe for disruption. Cloud analytics is hot. Gartner's top two strategic technologies for the enterprise in 2010 are cloud computing and advanced analytics. Venture capitalist Ann Winblad, in a rec...Oct. 28, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 492 |
 I hope to see you at the SYS-CON sponsored GovIT Conference and Expo 6 Oct 2009. I’ll also spend time during the day attending the day thinking through everything I’ve ever written and learned about Cloud Computing and Federal IT and hope to bring that to bear in my interactions with J...Sep. 30, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,820 |
 Because Chris had reviewed “Collapse of Distinction,” he and I have shared a dialogue. He’s interesting, smart, funny, and profound. In other words, an extraordinarily cool guy. I noticed that he was having a Tweet-up…an in-person “get-together” for people who follow one another on Twi...Sep. 7, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,274 |
 Many of the concepts first proposed and extolled during the Internet hype curve in the mid-1990s are now bearing fruit. Perhaps we should think of cloud computing as less than a separate hype curve, and more as the realization of the original Internet value curve , now some 15 years in...Sep. 4, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,827 |
 Twitter is a communication platform that helps businesses stay connected to their customers. As a business, you can use it to quickly share information with people interested in your company, gather real-time market intelligence and feedback, and build relationships with customers, par...Aug. 26, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,481 |
 With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.Jul. 30, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,039 |
 Analyst firm The 451 Group has just released some very interesting findings about virtualization and availability in a recent report by Chief Analyst John Abbott. Some of the key take-aways include: • V... Jul. 28, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 966 |
 SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced a Performance Certification Program designed to enable companies deploying software in the Cloud, at hosted data centers, or behind corporate firewalls to certify that their website has been tested and has met or exceeded industry be...Jul. 21, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,195 |
 For many years I have observed lots of confusion with some basic definitions such as IT and Enterprise Architecture among other terms. I will not try to define the meaning of Enterprise Architecture by myself (despite I have my own view on this) as this is something being right now red...Jul. 17, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,456 |
 No individual wants to believe they are under control, but society needs to have a sense of order which means we exchanged control along the way with our institutions. With that control being exchanged, we gave power and influence to a centralized few. I feel there is a collective year...Jun. 24, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
 Why developers want the software to be open sourced? I like quotes by great minds. Here's my favorite quote by Henry Ford: If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. Some of these chapters of our upcoming O'Reilly book "Enterprise Development with Flex...Mar. 23, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,510 |
 Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...May. 29, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,490 |
 Despite its success in the mid-tier, Linux has not been widely adopted on enterprise desktops - primarily because there is currently very little in the way of standards-based support for developing platform-neutral, enterprise-class GUI applications for Linux. Enterprises will not unde...Feb. 23, 2006 08:00 PM EST Reads: 29,380 Replies: 9 |
 Bob Young recently spoke at the TriLUG Linux Users Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. His talk covered several topics, from why he founded Red Hat, to his latest online publishing venture, Lulu (www.lulu.com), to the need for greater public debate about copyright and patent law. In resp...Dec. 7, 2005 12:15 PM EST Reads: 9,316 Replies: 1 |
 Let's play word association. I say 'Web Hosting.' I bet 'fat margins' didn't jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the 'where are they nows' of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say 'New York City,' and I'd wager that 'cheap rent' wasn't ...Oct. 25, 2005 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 41,929 Replies: 2 |
 In an all too familiar saga taking place in small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) everywhere, file/print, Web, e-mail, and application servers are multiplying at an alarming rate in response to ever-increasing demands for processing power. Initially, the decision to bolster capacity-constr...Oct. 16, 2005 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 21,848 Replies: 2 |
 One of the obvious driving factors around enterprise Linux adoption has been the significant cost savings on software and hardware. Quite simply, the hardware is cheaper and the OS is cheaper. By taking advantage of the explosion of commodity Linux boxes - and by going the Linux route ...Aug. 12, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,953 |
 'This is excellent news for IBM customers who want to manage their mission-critical applications and make price/performance decisions incorporating the unique features of different hardware platforms to the optimal needs of enterprise applications,' said Zev Laderman, CEO of Aduva, as ...Aug. 5, 2005 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 10,633 Replies: 4 |
 What if your desktop applications didn't care what operating system was running on your computer? If IBM's Workplace group delivers on the vision they laid out for me in a recent demo of their Workplace Managed Client (WMC), IT departments will have exactly this degree of freedom in th...Jul. 8, 2005 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 12,379 |
 This article provides a brief introduction to the Data Center Linux (DCL) initiative sponsored by the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). I'll describe our goals, show how we achieve those goals though our committees and working groups, and provide some examples of some DCL-driven acti...Jul. 8, 2005 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 17,310 |
 In the IT world today, there are many reasons why Linux and other Open Source solutions can replace closed source products from Microsoft and other vendors. When it comes right down to it though, the software that's chosen in business is the software that provides the most value to the...Jul. 8, 2005 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,936 |
 With Linux now officially 'mainstream' in the enterprise, the industry pundits are starting to pay a little more attention to Linux penetration figures further down the food chain. Early stats show that we still have a ways to go before Linux penetration in SMEs (small to medium-sized ...Jun. 14, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,853 |
My first encounter with Parasoft Insure++ and Parasoft Corporation was in the mid-'90s when I was working for a small company developing parsers and translators for languages used in semiconductor chip design. Like developers on almost any development project, we ran into a 'runaway' m... Apr. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,026 |
Data warehouse implementations represent one of the most challenging types of deployments for the enterprise. Several factors contribute to the challenge of deploying a successful data warehouse. Among these are large-scale and complex system configurations, sophisticated data modeling... Feb. 23, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 14,831 |
In recent years, the adoption of Linux in the data center has progressed beyond infrastructure services such as e-mail and file, print, and Web serving. Today, Linux is widely used as a business application server and is moving deeper into the data center as a database and content serv... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,160 |
SAS (www.sas.com) is the world's largest privately held software company and a global leader in business intelligence software. SAS, founded in 1976 and headquartered in Cary, N.C., has taken a different path than many of the 'Johnny-come-lately' software vendors, starting from modest ... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,498 |
Costa Mesa, CA, based Emulex Corp., announced that future version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 will support the networking company's drivers for its host bus adapter (HBA) boards. Aug. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,656 |
Former Aberdeen Group analyst Bill Claybrook shares his thoughts on how it is that just 50 sales staff at Red Hat were able to generate some 98,000 subscriptions to RH Enterprise Enterprise Linux in the quarter it just reported on. Jul. 26, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,346 |
Computing virtualization is a popular term these days, but the concept is far from new. Back in the sixties, Star Trek's Captain Kirk had the ideal virtual computer. Aboard ship, he called out his question or command and the computer responded. Apr. 19, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,070 |
 Given the rise and rise of Linux in the enterprise, LWM invites one of the giants of the commercial computing world, Computer Associates, to sketch for us its 'take' on what the rest of 2003 has in store...Aug. 11, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 18,442 |
Many businesses are exploiting the cost-effectiveness, stability, and scalability of running applications on Linux, today's fastest-growing operating system. However, managing multiple distributed applications can be costly and difficult. Aug. 11, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,596 |
SCO alleges IBM improperly extended its licensed use of Unix Source code and related information to Linux. This is a big problem for IBM but of little importance to the general Linux community. (1200 words) May. 30, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,381 Replies: 1 |
Open source offers a better option for XML, thus making the real bottom line on Microsoft's use of XML in Office 1X a simple one: follow and lose, or continue to diverge and win by offering a smarter alternative that also happens to be cheaper. (2,900 words) May. 13, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,788 |
Microsoft claims Windows 2003 Server is twice as fast as Linux, at least when it's used for file serving. I spoke to Jeremy Allison, head of the Samba team, who provided a few insights into the test configurations that don't leap out at the reader because they are hidden away in append... May. 9, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 42,048 Replies: 4 |
At Big Four accounting-services firms like KPMG, computing is completely dominated by the Microsoft PC. Paul Murphy looks at what Linux could mean for these firms over the next two-to-five years and finds, not surprisingly, that adopting Linux would save them money. More interestingly,... Apr. 7, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,717 |
There are dozens of reasons why people have underestimated how quickly Linux has been grabbing Windows' market share. Windows starts out with a false boost and maintains its illusory market share even as it gets replaced by Linux. In 2004, don't be surprised when Linux overtakes Window... Mar. 14, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 34,193 Replies: 6 |
KDE is delivering a better version of what GNOME's goal has apparently morphed into: becoming a great component framework that you can write to in multiple languages. Nicholas Petreley rebuffs the common GNOME battle slogans and explains why the window-manager's name needs reworking. P... Feb. 28, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 30,469 Replies: 3 |
Murphy's October 2001 TCO analysis generated much reader comment. In this article, the first installment in a two-part series, he revisits the Linux-versus-Windows decision for the faculty of a small college or university. (3,000 words) Feb. 26, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 23,026 |
If Sun doesn't get a turnaround at the top, its shares could sink to the point that management would have to look for a white knight... which would destroy the most innovative company in the business. In the end, Sun is rock-solid; getting there is a short-term problem for which we off... Jan. 29, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 12,449 |
With the core prototype awaiting user reaction, Murphy examines consolidation and software pricing issues raised by readers. He finds Moore's Law has been working its magic on Unix software costs while only Nixon's Law seems to have applied to Microsoft's. (2,600 words) Jan. 27, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,381 |
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