Jasmine Noel
IBM Tivoli’s Predictive Analytics Strategy for Enterprise IT Operations
IBM customers are significantly improving business outcomes by applying analytics to business projects. Similar results should be achievable by enterprise IT organizations when analytics technologies are applied to IT-specific challenges and operational processes. Delivering IT-ready solutions based on predictive analytics has been part of IBM Tivoli’s strategy since 2008. This paper outlines IBM Tivoli’s progress [...]
Zeus customers speak out about their move from appliance-based application delivery
Application delivery solutions sit at the nexus that connects users to business services and data, therefore, selecting between solution options is not a decision made lightly. Switching from time-tested solutions and rock-solid suppliers is simply not done without compelling reasons. This is precisely what Zeus’ customers have done. Our goal with this research was to [...]
A tale of microprocessors and DevOps
At an IBM analyst event earlier this week, Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP & Group Executive, Software and Systems, made some interesting observations about how the microprocessor industry makes no distinction between design and fabrication anymore. He noted that it is simply impossible to produce new high density, high performance microprocessors without tightly integrating fabrication [...]
KineticD: Simplifying How Small Businesses Securely Work With Their Information
Small business workplaces are changing rapidly and becoming more varied. The home office is increasingly an extension of many small businesses. Many employees work around personal and family obligations by completing projects outside of normal business hours. Small business employees and partners are often not co-located, particularly for knowledge-intensive markets. (Ptak/Noel is a good example, [...]
BMC’s Control-M Workload Automation
Virtualization technology continues to become more accessible for implementation and use. Its attraction made all the more compelling as it delivers on early promises of reducing operating and capital costs by improving efficiency of operation, increasing the availability of resources and providing more flexibility in allocation of the IT infrastructure. On-demand infrastructure provides significant benefit, [...]
Measuring the Positive Impact of Devops
Fostering application collaboration between development and operations should be a cornerstone any business agility strategy. The amount of rework developers have to do to fix deployment rollbacks and application performance problems determines the upper limit on business agility. The more deployment and production problems your developers must fix the less time they have to develop [...]
Translattice: Using data delivery to provide consistent application performance to global and mobile users
Every business traveler has experienced the frustration of having good application performance from their hotel and horrible application performance from their client’s offices during their live demonstrations. Every remote or branch employee has experienced the frustration of having their applications suddenly slow to a crawl and then speed up again. The business cost of these [...]
Fortify acquisition is more than a quick fill for HP testing
HP’s acquisition of Fortify looks like a quick filler for a hole in HP’s testing portfolio. However, it seems to me that the move is indicative of the changes in how enterprises are looking to manage their applications. Just as achieving business agility is more than rapidly developing software more than rapidly developing software, managing business [...]
Why Would Anyone Choose IBM zEnterprise?
The answer depends on the type of application services you are delivering and operating In the wake of IBM’s zEnterprise announcement I’ve seen and heard many different reactions from the “ho hum” to the “why would anyone buy this” ends of the spectrum. Those extremes miss the point, as extremes often do. From my perspective, [...]
HP’s Everything as a Service Strategy
By Jasmine Noel & Audrey Rasmussen The industry hype around Cloud Computing often clouds the issues that enterprise IT organizations should really care about. Despite sharing a common name and category of “cloud,” cloud solutions can be vastly different. The breadth of options from solution vendors like HP can seem somewhat overwhelming for busy enterprise [...]
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