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We assembled a panel to examine service-oriented architecture and cloud computing — the relationships, the inter-reliance and the realities. Three years ago, the IT transformation poster child was SOA, and now we’re well into the hype curve around cloud computing, but has one actually given way to the other?
The growing interest and value in PC desktop virtualization strategies and approaches has its roots in both technology and economics. Recently, a lot has happened technically that has matured the performance and economic benefits of desktop virtualization and the use of thin-client devices.
Nowadays, CIOs need to both cut costs and increase performance. Energy has never been more important in working toward this productivity advantage. It’s now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use — and misuse — in enterprise data centers. More often than not, very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older.
Security may be the hottest topic in IT, but it’s also one of the least understood. So BriefingDirect assembled a panel to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than a mysterious art form. Rigorously applying data and metrics to security can dramatically improve IT results and reduce overall risk to the business.
Because companies generally begin their use of server virtualization at a tactical level, there is often a complex hurdle in expanding the use of virtualization. Analysts predict that virtualization will support upwards of half of server workloads in just a few years.
You’ve heard a lot about server virtualization over the past few years, and many enterprises have adopted virtual servers to improve their ability to manage runtime workloads and high utilization rates to cut total cost. But as a sibling to server virtualization, storage virtualization has some strong benefits of its own.
Today, we examine a fascinating use-case for Web data services with Deutsche Borse Group in Frankfurt, Germany. An innovative information service recently created there highlights how real-time content and data assembled from various online sources scattered across the Web provides a valuable analysis service.
Today, we focus on the fallout from the Google’s threat to pull out of China, due to a series of sophisticated hacks and attacks on Google, as well as a dozen more IT companies. Due to the attacks late last year, Google on Jan. 12 vowed to stop censoring Internet content for China’s Web users and possibly to leave the country altogether.
David Foote is CEO and chief research officer, as well as cofounder, at Foote Partners of Vero Beach, Fla. David closely tracks the hiring and human resources trends across the IT landscape. He’ll share his findings of where the recession has taken IT hiring and where the recovery will shape up. We’ll also look at what skills are going to be in demand and which ones are not.
I was a bit distracted from the Apple iPad news due to the marathon Oracle conference last week on its shiny new Sun Microsystems acquisition. However, the more I thought about it, the more these two companies are extremely well-positioned to actually fulfill what other powerful companies tried to do and failed.
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