Enterprise IT
IT Trends and Comments for 2012
This blog appears in the Prism Micorsystem EventTracker newsletter. That posting does not include the footnoted hotlinks that are included here. The beginning of a new year marks a time of reflection on the past and anticipation of the future. The result for analysts, pundits and authors is a near irresistible urge to identify [...]
Cisco Prime™ Collaboration Manager: ‘White-glove’ Service for TelePresence Users
Video collaboration meetings are designed to provide the immediacy and feel of live meetings. Free versions providing consumer quality video continue to accelerate in popularity. But serious professional users demand the higher quality and reliability of „white glove‟ services, such as that provided by Cisco‟s TelePresence. TelePresence sessions were designed to address the demand for [...]
Leveraging CA IDMS™ for Innovation
Business and IT executives acquire and use technology innovation to drive future growth. They also wish to avoid disrupting current operations as they leverage technology. CA Technologies has a track record in product innovation that embraces and extends their existing products to take advantage of advances and emerging technologies, e.g. Cloud, zIIP processors and automated [...]
The Many Faces of Application Performance Management
It doesn’t take a genius to know that business applications have to perform well, particularly if those applications service a company’s customers. This is why most IT staffs understand the importance of application performance management (APM) for protecting and enabling their business’ reputation and success. But selecting APM solutions can be a very confusing experience [...]
IBM: The Power of Business Agility
Agility is a word typically associated with physical dexterity, defined by Wikipedia as, “Agility is the ability to change the body’s position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, endurance and stamina.” In its latest announcements, IBM uses a similar concept of agility but [...]
The Viability of Collaborative DevOps
Companies that pay attention to emerging trends and adapt quickly are most likely to succeed, while laggards suffer the consequences of latecomers and miss business opportunities. The DevOps movement is one of these emerging trends that companies should be taking seriously despite numerous failures by vendors to jump start this area in the past. However, [...]
BSM – On the Path to Smart Computing
Our recent conversations with both executives (IT and business) and developers have convinced us that an evolution is well underway in enterprises of all shapes and sizes. All the ink spilled on articles and presentations to convince IT staffs that they need to expand their historic focus on keeping the infrastructure up and running has [...]
Symantec Focuses on Information-centric Solutions
Symantec Corporation met with industry analysts from around the world in New York on May 23rd and 24th. Enrique Salem, CEO gave a focused and well-articulated commentary on market trends, the challenges that face management teams in all market segments and sizes and Symantec’s strategy to help their customers deal with these challenges. The intent [...]
Apica: Cloud-based Web Performance Services
Apica, an established web performance cloud service provider based in Sweden, is making a major push into the U.S. market. Far from a startup, Apica has been delivering load testing and web performance monitoring services in Europe since 2005. Their customer base of over 250 worldwide customers includes well-known names such as Price Waterhouse Coopers, [...]
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 [...]
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