Inside the Briefcase


Webcast: Continuous Integration and Test Virtualization in a Mainframe World

Webcast: Continuous Integration and Test Virtualization in a Mainframe World

Join IBM for this complimentary webcast and learn how service virtualization can enable continuous integration to increase quality, reduce cost, and decrease project risk.

Analyst Report: The Importance of Performance Management in Software-defined Networking

Analyst Report: The Importance of Performance Management in Software-defined Networking

Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software-defined networking holds significant promise to deliver a new network architecture that is abstracted...

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: CRM and Cloud Computing Innovations for the Life Sciences Industry with Matt Wallach, Veeva Systems

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: CRM and Cloud Computing Innovations for the Life Sciences Industry with Matt Wallach, Veeva Systems

Matt Wallach, Veeva Systems
In this interview, Art Landro offers expert advice for effectively growing with Cloud Computing, and emphasizes the importance of having a wide range of capabilities when helping organizations move into the Cloud. Read More...

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Evolution of Voice as a Service with Steve Leonard, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Bandwidth’s inetwork Division

Steve Leonard, Bandwidth
There is no doubt that modern technology has helped to facilitate the rapid growth of the telecom industry. Telecom has redefined itself and taken on a presence that cannot be denied. In the interview below,...





Briefcase Highlights


APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Groupe Mutuel Turns to Azul Systems for Proven Customer Portal Scalability

March 4, 2013 No Comments

With the Azul Systems solution, Groupe Mutuel has realized a number of business advantages. The solution has provided a substantial improvement in the performance of the customer portal and the scalability of the applications for both customers and service agents. The result is the ability to ensure the best online experience for its customer base.

SOA Software OAuth Server Simplifies Secure Sharing of Private Data with Cloud Applications

February 25, 2013 No Comments

New product extends enterprise identity and access management systems to enterprise and partner mobile, web and desktop applications

Translating Application Usage into User Training

February 11, 2013 No Comments

By Michael Zuckerman, Knoa SoftwareGiven the criticality to the operation of the business, training and efficiency should be at the utmost importance to the company. The ability to precisely measure capabilities and performance of the user during and after training should be available to convey how the applications are being used. Read More >>>

PUMA uses the Zing™ JVM for Core System Performance and Scalability

February 11, 2013 No Comments

PUMA uses a variety of Java-based applications for their web presence, stores and manufacturing operations. The PUMA custom product and supply chain application has about 1 million lines of code and 150 Enterprise Java Beans. During peak times the system reads/writes about 55 million records a day. The company’s rapid growth and innovation as one of the few true multi-category global brands caused them to reach the limits of what their current JVM and Java infrastructure could deliver.

APPLICATION INTEGRATION, News

Webcast: Continuous Integration and Test Virtualization in a Mainframe World

February 8, 2013 No Comments

Join IBM for this complimentary webcast and learn how service virtualization can enable continuous integration to increase quality, reduce cost, and decrease project risk.

Gartner Recognizes OpenText in Business Process Management Suites Report

February 1, 2013 No Comments

OpenText announced that Gartner has recognized OpenText in its recent research report Market Update: Match BPMS Vendors to Your Usage Scenarios1.

FN Herstal uses Talend to Increase Agility

January 28, 2013 No Comments

Talend announced that FN Hersta deployed the Talend Platform for Data Services, made up of Talend’s data integration and ESB tools, to guarantee the interoperability of its information system and thereby increase agility

Joyent Launches High-Performance Hadoop Solution

January 23, 2013 No Comments

Joyent, the high-performance cloud infrastructure company, today announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution, built using the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), that allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the high-performance Joyent Cloud

Three Reasons to Go Agile in 2013

January 23, 2013 No Comments

By Cliff Schertz, Tiempo DevelopmentMost IT organizations are talking about Agile, but few are truly putting it into practice. Why is this? Old habits die hard, and getting the entire IT organization on board with a new methodology for development can be a tough undertaking. Read More >>>

Facebook Graph Search: Welcome to the Phishing Pool

January 21, 2013 No Comments

Facebook’s privacy critics might have a point when it comes to the new Graph Search function, which security researchers warn could be used to amass information to be used in phishing campaigns. “It will simply help expedite and simplify creating a targeted social-engineering attack,” said Angel Grant, senior manager at RSA. “Think about how many of your Friends you really know.”

MobileDevHQ’s Ian Sefferman: So You Built an App – Now What?

January 21, 2013 No Comments

ou could call Ian Sefferman’s initial rise to CEO of MobileDevHQ a bootstrap career move. Seeing the rapid growth of consumer interest in mobile apps, he jumped into an infant industry to learn what would push it forward. His interests fell on a gaping opportunity.

Case Study: ZON fruit & vegetables raises the bar for GS1 compliance

January 8, 2013 No Comments

Many fresh fruit and vegetable suppliers are officially allowed to tick the GS1 compliance box. ZON fruit & vegetables, based in the Netherlands, went beyond this type of superficial GS1 compliance and is the first in its sector to not only fill all item attributes with real values, but to also close the entire loop from GSDN publication to EDI invoicing.

Cloud Computing Needs More SOA Services

January 7, 2013 No Comments

The original aim of service-oriented architecture (SOA) was to prevent vendor monopoly, whether in software or underlying hardware, allowing greater user freedom when choosing applications for various business or personal applications. However, many vendors try to tie users to their products, preventing the mix and match of applications on demand and making it difficult to link to existing legacy applications and platforms.

US Justice Department Opens Investigation Into Autonomy: HP

January 1, 2013 No Comments

The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate Hewlett-Packard’s recent acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy, HP said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.

Google Feeds More Personal Data Into Search Trials

December 27, 2012 No Comments

Google has updated its search experiments — and you can still get in on the field trial if you want to — to integrate personal information stored in a user’s Gmail and Google Drive accounts into a traditional Google search. That means users will have more tailored experiences and will be able to access important information more quickly. It also may give Google more leverage with advertisers.

SOA Software Publishes eBook on Enterprise API Best Practices

December 3, 2012 2 Comments

SOA Software, today announced the publication of the eBook, Building Successful APIs.

Analyst Report: The Importance of Performance Management in Software-defined Networking

November 9, 2012 No Comments

Organizations have achieved significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software-defined networking holds significant promise to deliver a new network architecture that is abstracted and virtualized; however, organization would be well served to learn from previous efforts to virtualize other domains in order to avoid making the same mistakes.

Got Virtual Desktops? Strategies for Ensuring Desktop Virtualization SLAs

November 7, 2012 No Comments

Desktop Virtualization is the top cloud-based technology impacting End User Computing. And, user-centric, Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management is the primary factor against which cloud-based virtual desktop solutions and providers are and will be evaluated. If you are currently evaluating, planning, or managing application performance in a Virtualized Desktop Environment, don’t let your VDI project get derailed by poor end user experience.

Managing IT Through the Lens of the End User

November 7, 2012 No Comments

Tweet Featuring David Williams, VP of Strategy in the Office of the CTO at BMC Software and former Gartner Research VP, and Trevor Matz, President and CEO, Aternity Available On-Demand BMC Software and Aternity hosted a 45-minute webinar that revealed the value of complementing your Application Performance Monitoring (APM) strategy with End User Activity Monitoring (EUAM) in […]

Benefits of Security and Acceleration

November 1, 2012 No Comments

Don MacVittie, F5 NetworksThe performance of web applications defines an organization. Whether external applications that drive customer research and purchasing or internal applications that keep the entire organization moving forward, performance is critical. Read More >>>

DNS Architecture in the 21st Century

November 1, 2012 No Comments

Don MacVittie, F5 NetworksDNS is the pervasive glue that holds the Internet together. Without it, organizations would struggle to reach new audiences and deliver quality user experiences. But because it is always there, always on, and “just works” almost all of the time, it is often taken for granted. Read More >>>

How are we expected to deliver good software – can DevOps really help?

October 24, 2012 No Comments

This Summit will be held from 9:30am to 5:30pm at the Hotel Casa 400, Amsterdam. For further information call the team or 01895 256 484 or email info@unicom.co.uk to request a booking form or reserve delegates place.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: CRM and Cloud Computing Innovations for the Life Sciences Industry with Matt Wallach, Veeva Systems

October 23, 2012 2 Comments

Matt Wallach, Veeva SystemsIn this interview, Art Landro offers expert advice for effectively growing with Cloud Computing, and emphasizes the importance of having a wide range of capabilities when helping organizations move into the Cloud. Read More >>>

Integration as a Service with Apache Camel

October 22, 2012 No Comments

Can you create service-oriented applications with Camel? Of course you can. But what does that really mean? While enterprise integration is a key component of most SOA projects, there are important considerations outside the integration and implementation tier that are critical for a SOA project to be successful. This session will explore the intersection points of service-oriented design and development with enterprise integration frameworks.

Why Your Organization Needs a User Experience Monitoring Solution

October 22, 2012 No Comments

Michael Zuckerman, Knoa SoftwareIn this featured blog, Michael Zuckerman discusses the ins and outs of purchasing enterprise software, and outlines the many benefits offered by a user experience monitoring solution. Read More >>>

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Evolution of Voice as a Service with Steve Leonard, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Bandwidth’s inetwork Division

October 17, 2012 No Comments

Steve Leonard, BandwidthThere is no doubt that modern technology has helped to facilitate the rapid growth of the telecom industry. Telecom has redefined itself and taken on a presence that cannot be denied. In the interview below, Steve Leonard outlines ways in which the telecom industry has transformed over the last decade, and the role that Voice as Service has played within this evolution. Read More >>>

Breaking the SOA Trust Barrier Through API Management

October 9, 2012 1 Comment

By Chris Haddad, WSO2For many enterprises, trust, or lack thereof, remains the most significant barrier to service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption. An SOA initiative is meant to knock down internal barriers and help an enterprise evolve from separate silos of technology and information into a leaner, shared-service organization.Read More >>>

The Networked Enterprise

October 9, 2012 No Comments

Tim Minahan, AribaWe live in a networked world. As consumers, we tap into personal networks like Facebook, Twitter and Amazon.com that help us learn, share and shop better. And this is changing the way that we do business. Read More >>>

CA Technologies Extends Cross-Platform Infrastructure Management and Monitoring Offering with Nastel Technologies AutoPilot

October 1, 2012 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  CA ISLANDIA, N.Y., September 27, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a global distribution agreement with Nastel Technologies, the middleware infrastructure monitoring and management company. The agreement strengthens CA Technologies cross-platform offering by adding Nastel’s AutoPilot® for middleware management. “Customers around the world are looking for an enterprise solution that manages […]

Knoa Survey Results Identify Key Trends Within the Application Performance Management (APM) Market

October 1, 2012 No Comments

Knoa® Software, the leading provider of user experience and performance management software, today announced results of a survey conducted during its recent webinar entitled “Thinking of Application Performance Management? Don’t Do It. Find Out More.

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