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While everyone in the data center industry follows the new Internet Data Centers (IDCs) built by Google’and Facebook, there are really only a handful of these in the world. While being a supplier to these companies is a great opportunity, it can also be too demanding and take your products in directions that are very custom – like containerized data centers.
As big data skyrockets, universities struggle to prepare students in business intelligence.
More smartphones users are hungry for mobile connectivity today. What do they do with their devices when they go online? According to IDC’s latest survey, social networking and instant messaging emerged top in nearly all the countries surveyed, underscoring the importance of social media as a marketing channel.
OpenText’s (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) Metastorm business, a leading provider of business process management (BPM), business process analysis (BPA), and enterprise architecture (EA) software for business transformation, today announced that it has been recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Business Process (BP) Platforms Report.
International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced the availability of new data from its annual IT spending survey that forecasts total U.S. enterprise and public sector IT spending to grow at 5.6% through the end of 2011. In comparison, U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is forecast to grow 3.0% in 2011. Survey respondents indicated the top IT initiatives for 2011 at large enterprises are Security (selected by 31% of companies) and Business Analytics (selected by 19% of companies). In addition, 17% of companies expect to make investments in Smart Technologies.
IBM 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.
Tweet Where is Linux going? For Part 2 of this interview, LinuxInsider continued speaking with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin to discuss Linux in a wider variety of technologies, new programs intended to make it easier for businesses to switch to open source computing, and open source’s ability to compete in the consumer mobile […]
Featured ArticlesTweet SOURCE: FierceIT Healthcare organizations are embracing the need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation, but they still require the tools and capabilities to make data available in real time and reduce the burden on scarce resources. These are among the key findings from the HIMSS 2011 Clinical Transformation Survey, sponsored by McKesson. Three-quarters […]
During 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.
Cloud computing will continue to reshape the IT landscape over the next five years as spending on public IT cloud services expands at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6%, from $21.5 billion in 2010 to $72.9 billion in 2015. But the impact of cloud services will extend well beyond IT spending, according to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC). Cloud services are a critical component in a much larger transformation that IDC expects will drive IT industry growth for the next 25 years.
Tweet Allowing compromised accounts to run rampant in your infrastructure fundamentally damages your business, the trust your clients put in you, and the reputation you’ve worked hard to establish with end-users and mail providers. We have a duty and obligation to protect our clients from themselves and those around them, and we have a fundamental […]
Featured ArticlesTweet “The thing people used to care about, and the reason they chose Windows, was because there was a huge number of applications available for the platform, so they had the inertia of having lots of installed users and that led to lots of applications users could use,” said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. […]
Featured ArticlesTweet SOURCE: AMI Implementing business intelligence/business analytics (BI/A) software has become an increasingly important priority for small and medium businesses (SMBs). According to AMI-Partners’ recent study U.S. SMB Cloud Playbook, the opportunity for BI/A software as part of an SaaS-bundled offer will increase by 25% through 2015, to $500 million. “The study’s findings reflect two […]
Tweet Oftentimes reminder applications live as add-on apps to much more complex software programs. Email-Reminder is a standalone app that does one thing and does it well. Its way of reminding you of your tasks is by sending you an email at the appointed time. That’s rendered even more effective if you happen to carry […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Remote desktop management is an intriguing concept. It lets you use one computer through another one, no matter where you are. Say Computer A is your home desktop, containing all of your most important documents and applications. Computer B might be your lower-powered notebook, netbook or even a tablet or smartphone. With an Internet […]
Featured ArticlesLate last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest their compliance with the Meaningful Use requirements, that could mean an $18,000 annual incentive payment–which sounds like a nice pile of money to get started on EHR adoption.
Tweet Some have criticized iCloud as a lock-in technology that shackles users to the platform and forcefully prevents them from switching to another. But iCloud is no more a lock-in than any app or service for any other OS. What iCloud is really about is stickiness — it’s going to make users actually want to […]
Featured ArticlesThe impact of EMRs often leaves many clinicians behind – struggling with lost or forgotten passwords needed to access patient information. A brand new survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute researched the economic, productivity and security impact that single sign-on has on healthcare organizations and their means to accessing and securing PHI.
Tweet Google has disclosed that the Gmail accounts of several users were recently infiltrated by hackers who used spear-phishing techniques to gain access to and monitor their private correspondence. While the attacks were apparently limited to only a few hundred accounts, the individuals targeted include government officials, journalists and Chinese human rights workers. The FBI […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Microsoft is reportedly gearing up to show off an OS made especially for tablets this week. The software maker has been mostly absent in the tablet market thus far, and it’s unknown how long it will be before it loses its chance to gain a foothold completely. Its tablet software is expected to be […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Google reportedly plans to launch a service Thursday that will enable users of certain Android phones to pay for purchases at retail locations simply by waving their handsets in front of a sensor. NFC, or near-field communications, technology has been much talked about in the world of smartphones recently, yet its adoption in the […]
Featured ArticlesTweet Business intelligence has to do with brains, but what about the bucks? If you ask supply chain executives about the value that business intelligence brings, it’s clear the two can’t be separated. But business value is not necessarily concordant with big software investments. And companies with an IBM i platform running their critical supply […]
Tweet An Intel executive has stated that when Windows 8 arrives, the versions of the Microsoft OS running on ARM-based chips won’t be able to run legacy applications. Microsoft called that statement inaccurate, though it did not clarify further. Is Intel feeling the heat now that Microsoft — and possibly Apple’s MacBook line — are […]
Featured ArticlesTweet It’s a new era for artists, who are using augmented reality, interactive software, 3D animation, and a host of other digital media to create new worlds and new ways to look at the world. “Software technologies are just tools similar to the ways we used to bring the ideas through the ink of a […]
Featured ArticlesTEKsystems, the nation’s leading technology staffing and services company, today announced findings from its quarterly IT Executive Outlook survey, conducted in partnership with the Inavero Institute. Nearly half of IT executives surveyed report they are not confident in their Mobile Applications (49%) or Business Intelligence (47%) strategies.
Tweet Like all online sites, Facebook is not perfect — and it has lost serious face after its attempt to smear Google — but it won’t be better after state bureaucrats get their hands on it. And once they do, they may not be willing to let go. Sen. Ellen Corbett’s social networking bill is […]
Featured ArticlesProgress Software has always been a little larger that it looked. Founded around 30 years ago, it was one of the early 4GL/database companies and one of the few that made a life for itself as software moved from mainframe/minicomputer deployments to the client server world and then to n-tier browser-based architecture
Today’s dynamic IT environment is experiencing constant changes. Virtualization and agile development driven by recurrent changing business requirements are driving frequent application and infrastructure changes. Whether you are going through a significant initiative like implementing a private cloud, rolling out a new application, moving to a public cloud or just managing the daily routine of provisioning new virtual machines, code-pushes, patches or configuration changes, you’re generating change in your IT environment.
Knowing what happened is no longer adequate. Leaders say they need to know what is happening now, what is likely to happen next and what actions they should take. Smart analytics driven by intelligence data analysis can help us know what we know, and significantly, what we don’t.
The past year has seen business process management (BPM) achieve tremendous growth in the enterprise, but there continues to be a good deal of misunderstanding about BPM itself. At its core, BPM is about automating and streamlining manual processes. These processes may represent a diverse range of tasks, from citizens renewing their passports via online Web applications to an employee requesting paid time off from the HR department.
