Inside the Briefcase
The 2011 Experts’ Guide to Enterprise Resource Planning
December 6, 2011 No CommentsIn this Guide, you will find a wealth of insight, analysis and information intended to help you understand and select an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Top Stories
Why Hasn’t Google Put ChromeOS Out to Pasture?
December 5, 2011 No CommentsGoogle has been on a killing spree the last few months, whacking projects that are non-essential to the company strategy or that haven’t caught on. Even though this has angered some users, Google is still stubbornly clinging to one of its biggest dogs to date: ChromeOS and the Chromebooks.
Do We Really Need a New Microsoft?
December 5, 2011 No CommentsThe discussion is already nearly five years old, and yet the vacancy in the public conscience persists as if something big had collapsed just last week. Microsoft is no longer the dominating, polarizing force that it was in the previous decade.
Business Intelligence 101 | A Beginner’s Guide to BI Software
December 1, 2011 No CommentsIf the words “extract transform load” sound like a foreign language, you’re in the right place. Making sense of the business intelligence (BI) software market can be challenging for even the most technical of software buyers. It’s complex stuff.
IBM becomes second-most valuable technology company
September 30, 2011 No CommentsIBM has become the world’s second most valuable technology company, overtaking Microsoft for the first time since 1996.
Getting Started with Apache Camel FuseID
September 22, 2011 No CommentsIf you are not currently using Apache Camel you might not know that it is a powerful and flexible integration toolset that allows users to create integration routes between software components using the Camel domain-specific language (DSL). Fuse IDE goes one step further and allows users to connect components visually.
Addressing Law Enforcement’s Digital Records and Evidence Data Challenge
September 22, 2011 No CommentsPolice departments today generate, collect, and save an ever increasing volume of digital content from a growing number of sources. Storing and managing that data can be a complicated and costly process if a proper technology solution is not used.
Video: The Future of Camel by James Strachan
September 19, 2011 No CommentsJames tells the history of Camel, it’s wide adoption, and where it is headed in the future. He will also introduce and demonstrate the new Fuse IDE for Camel that he created to make it even easier to use Apache Camel.
Cloud Computing: What You Need to Know About PaaS
September 9, 2011 No CommentsTweet SOURCE: CIO News PaaS, or Platform as a Service, development offerings bring tremendous power and productivity to IT departments, along with a host of new challenges. Bernard Golden explains what CIOs need to know about this nascent segment of the cloud computing market. Cloud computing discussions invariably begin with the “IPS” taxonomy: Infrastructure as […]
Cloud Computing and the need to buy differently in the public sector
September 9, 2011 No CommentsTweet SOUCRE: Business Cloud Summit 2011 As governments move to the new Cloud Computing paradigm, is this the perfect opportunity finally to break free of the ‘cartel’ of traditional ICT providers to the public sector? Is there a new guard with a new approach waiting in the wings for the green light? With the UK […]
Rethinking Mobile Business Intelligence
September 8, 2011 No CommentsAs if the advent of agile business intelligence wasn’t enough of a puzzle, IT buyers are now being asked to wrap their minds around the notion of mobile business intelligence. There are several head-scratching features of mobile BI as it is advertised today:
Health Reform, Meaningful Use Drive Demand for BI
August 26, 2011 No CommentsBusiness intelligence (BI) is becoming more essential for healthcare providers as they make critical decisions about accountable care organizations and how best to meet meaningful use requirements, according to new research from Orem, Utah-based KLAS.
Is Online Security a Modern Day Myth?
August 19, 2011 No CommentsTweet There is no question that online security is a hot topic these days. Ranging from large entities like Google and Facebook to our every day personal email accounts, it seems that no one is safe. Even if we are able to research and invest in top of the line security software, it appears that we are still […]
Avoidable Data Center Mistakes and Simple Remedies
August 17, 2011 No CommentsTweet Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional slip-ups can create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Although facilities operators are often held accountable for these problems, many are actually caused by improper deployment of IT equipment outside of […]
Enterprise BI Made Simple
August 17, 2011 No CommentsTaking the complexity out of unwieldy technology will lead to users to embrace it. That’s the basic idea behind the recent “consumerization” of some of the most complicated and difficult-to-use enterprise applications from ERP to CRM to BI.
Will Facebook become the new LinkedIn?
August 9, 2011 No CommentsMost people think of Facebook as solely a social media tool – used to connect with friends and family. However, with it’s 750 million plus users, Facebook are a launching pad for a sea of new apps and business ideas. Facebook is slowing becoming the next job-recruitment instrument.
IT Budget Killer Series: The Need for High Availability
August 5, 2011 No CommentsThis webcast focuses on DB2 pureScale to provide a highly available and scalable environment. It employs a holistic view, inclusive of archiving and general data integration policies, so your most important data and systems are available, and can grow with minimal effort.
Featured Webinars, Top StoriesThe customer speaks: IBM Cognos 10 strikes a new balance between freedom and governance
August 5, 2011 No CommentsThe value of business intelligence is well-established. But delivering BI in a way that makes it easy for users to realize that value – while still allowing BI professionals to maintain data governance – remains a challenge for many organizations.
Featured Webinars, Top StoriesAnnouncing Storage XIV Gen3 from IBM: Increase Capacity and Lower Costs for Enterprise Storage
August 5, 2011 No CommentsIBM Storage delivers fast, efficient storage solutions ready for big data that help to gain insight and improve decision making. Join us for the webcast to hear some exciting news on product announcements from IBM!
Featured Webinars, Top StoriesSeeking Tomorrow’s Security Solutions Today, Part 1
July 21, 2011 No CommentsTweet Traditional security solutions have lately seemed helpless against aggressive, highly competent hackers. “This is the nature of security,” said MAD Security’s Mike Murray. “Ten years ago, you could have replaced NFC, mobile devices and the consumerization of IT with terms like Bluetooth, wireless networks, ubiquitous camera phones and text messaging. Security should always be […]
The Cost Advantage Controversy of Cloud Computing
July 19, 2011 No CommentsTweet One of the topics most associated with cloud computing is its cost advantages, or lack thereof. One way the topic gets discussed is “capex vs. opex,” a simple formulation, but one fraught with meaning. At its simplest, capex vs. opex is how compute resource is paid for by the consumer of those resources. For […]
Amazon opens Australian office
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet Global cloud computing and retail giant Amazon today told customers it had opened an Australian office with dedicated local staff to service the cloud computing market, as speculation continues to swirl that the company will also establish a new local datacentre facility to meet customer demand. The company’s Asia-Pacific managing director of its Web […]
Microsoft Plans New CRM, ERP Releases
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this week included some ERP and CRM product announcements. Microsoft released a few details at this week’s Worldwide Partner Conference of some upcoming CRM and ERP product launches. Kirill Tatarinov, president of Microsoft Business Solutions, announced that the next update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online will be available in the […]
Virtualization: An easier path to the cloud
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet Diving into cloud computing may not be as big a leap for your company as you might think. In fact, an important shortcut to such a move could already be sitting there in your data centers, waiting on standby to make the process easier. “Virtualization is a stepladder to the cloud,” says Laura DiDio, […]
Search History: Google and Germany, Part 3
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet Google is not the Stasi or the SS; no German has gone on record making those comparisons. Still, Google is an international behemoth that unabashedly scans mail, takes pictures of homes, and keeps detailed records of what people do on the Internet and with whom they communicate. There is no evidence that Google has […]
News, Top StoriesSearch History: Google and Germany, Part 2
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet If you look up Kansas City in Google Maps, chances are you’ll be offered a link to hellokansascity.com, where you can learn all about the city’s myriad barbeque options. Google doesn’t fake that it is impervious to what you’re doing on the Net. It monitors the information it’s given, analyzes it, stores it. Indeed, […]
News, Top StoriesSearch History: Google and Germany, Part 1
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet The innovations that Google rolls out at a dizzying clip — Street View, Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Maps, and so on — have for years run into layer upon layer of resistance and skepticism in Germany. There are reasons for that. German history — tainted by pervasive snooping, spying and smearing — has shaped […]
News, Top StoriesCough Up That Encryption Key – or Else!
July 14, 2011 No CommentsTweet Whether the protection afforded by the Fifth Amendment extends to the refusal to open encrypted computer files is at the center of a potentially precedent-setting case in Colorado. The issue is “not specifically the computer or the email. It’s the encryption,” said EFF staff attorney Hanni Fakhoury. The issue comes down to whether the […]
Will IBM Go ‘All In’ On Cloud Computing?
June 22, 2011 No CommentsIBM has spent $14 billion in just the last five years acquiring analytics and optimization software companies that are vital to its Smarter Planet initiative. It has also talked up the growth and importance of cloud computing.
Open Source and Cloud Computing: A Powerful Combination
June 20, 2011 No CommentsDuring the four years or so, cloud computing has expanded from being only a public computing utility model to also including private clouds. New technologies and innovations have emerged to make this evolution possible.
