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 Ford Motor Company has scoured the metrics from the company’s best processes across myriad manufacturing efforts and through detailed outputs from in-use automobiles -- all to improve and help transform their business.
What's different now in being able to get at this data and do this...Feb. 1, 2013 01:30 PM EST Reads: 1,623 |
 As we know, Chief Information Officers are generally ‘change and upheaval averse’ because it is, after all, mostly prudent to resist change. With change comes risk, new user training, new integration challenges and a bottom line with increased cost. But new social enterprise trends can...Feb. 1, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,455 |
 Using OpenFlow to extend software-defined networking (SDN) to the optical layer is a compelling prospect for enterprises seeking to achieve joint orchestration of information technology (IT) and network resources for cloud services, to virtualize the network and to more simply manage i...Feb. 1, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,619 |
 There are numerous applications for cost-effective data retention. Organizations can gain substantial competitive advantages when able to rely on data retention for improved decision making and trend analysis. Research enterprises can make use of large scale data sets enabling them to ...Jan. 28, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,638 |
 Innovation doesn’t just happen… it evolves out of business desires and it frequently involves changing your own view of the IT value statement. This article focuses on one of the key components needed to make the shift from maintenance to an innovation IT philosophy, Business Service R...Jan. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,392 |
 As Senior Director/IT Leader of Information Technology at Dole Fresh Fruit North America, I am responsible for providing consistent and reliable distribution services for our division. Dole’s mission is to provide our customers with safe, healthy, high-quality products and services. To...Jan. 28, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,983 |
 Significant business benefits often follow when BYOD-adopter companies empower their employees with their preferred devices and work habits.
What's more, the rapidly improved productivity and enhanced collaboration among employees -- as well as greater communication and better service...Jan. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,613 |
 Corporations around the globe rely on having highly efficient IT networks, and introducing a new piece of enterprise software into the mix will have a far-reaching impact on the entire organization. The decision to purchase and implement new business IT software is not one to enter int...Jan. 21, 2013 04:15 PM EST Reads: 3,802 |
 I must admit that before I began reading this book I truly thought it was going to be another twisted story of an attempt at agile that failed in everyone's eyes except for those that needed to say it was a success. That is what I am used to.
It is kind of like when I am on a product ...Jan. 21, 2013 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,928 |
 Not long ago, customers and prospects had to find a computer to visit your website. But today they’re online 24/7 via mobile devices. Serving your customers is now a continuous interaction, and this phenomenon will only grow in the coming years as customers and prospects demand reliabl...Jan. 21, 2013 02:45 PM EST Reads: 2,560 |
 I was programming in C++ for a living when I fell in love with Java.
It was an unintended affair. At the time, I was following a trend with the limited language of C++, which didn’t even have operator overloading or templates, but boasted simplicity and the ability to write the code o...Jan. 21, 2013 02:15 PM EST Reads: 7,795 Replies: 1 |
 A tester friend of mine recently came to me with a complaint that I think is fairly common in the testing community. He said, “Every time there is a new release of the software for us to test, we have to rework our testing scripts.” I’ve heard this complaint throughout my career, not o...Jan. 21, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,259 |
 It was never a question of whether SAP would bring it flagship product, Business Suite to HANA, but when. And when I saw this while parking the car at my physical therapist over the holidays, I should’ve suspected that something was up: SAP at long last was about to announce … this.
F...Jan. 18, 2013 07:05 AM EST Reads: 1,792 |
 Dear Mr CIO, how is the year ahead planning program going so far? I know, sorry, it's a tough one. The deployment and integration of devices, mobile connectivity points, virtual cloud-based desktop services, security, Big Data, tablets, mini-tablets and micro-mini-tablets (don’t worry,...Jan. 17, 2013 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,175 |
 Gartner recently published an important report titled "Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?" The report is based on Gartner client Inquiries about enterprise performance and availability strategies and these enterprises report a near-universal commitment to the id...Jan. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,920 |
 I’ve been doing a lot of work with Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS). It’s a brilliant technology that allows you to stand up powerful OData compliant services to support your Windows 8 Store Apps, Windows Phone 8 Apps, and even iOS apps in just a few minutes. It’s hard to oversel...Jan. 10, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,279 |
 Data is going up and data is going down. Its endless upward spiral to the cloud is being lauded as the platform and paradigm that we must now adhere to for future IT efficiency. At the same time, data is going down. It is being processed and (crucially here) it is being ‘analyzed’ at a...Jan. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,146 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In Part I of this article we discussed the differences between testing traditional and mobile applications, specific challe...Jan. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,520 |
 Since ZapThink started the trend with our 2003 predictions and 2002 retrospective ZapFlash, we have taken a different tack than most IT prognosticators in that we actually grade ourselves on our predictions from the previous year, for better or worse. Last year we scored ourselves 2.5 ...Jan. 4, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,931 |
 Enterprise Framework service in Datapower environment is a service implementation to minimize the exposure of ports and their configuration on firewall.
All services running inside the Datapower need to be installed on the appliance IP address and on the port. As the number of servic...Jan. 3, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 4,916 |
 So it’s the end of the year and we’ve all had about as many 2012 retrospectives and 2013 predictions as we can eat. So let’s take a different tack and see if some fanciful (but hopefully somewhat informed) conjecture can give us some pointers for future innovation roadmaps.
What do ch...Jan. 2, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,178 |
 When IT people think about application performance monitoring, they're usually thinking about which metrics they should monitor. Some examples of resource metrics may include CPU utilization, disk queue length, and thread pool size. Examples of performance metrics may be application re...Jan. 2, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,172 |
 With the end of year approaching, I find myself looking back at some of our new projects in the second half of 2012 and studying the commonalities. We remain focused on Fortune 500 companies where applications are global, complex, transactional and virtualized – where the need for anal...Jan. 2, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,403 |
 There are quite a few academic papers and products inspired by the vision of memory-centric DBMS. Most of modern databases serving business applications can already fit within large server RAM available today (2TB). DBMS are heading to memory centric designs and implementation.
Contem...Jan. 2, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,652 |
 Highlighting Mobile Carriers and LTE, Vitesse offers top five industry predictions for 2013. Vitesse’s Chief Technology Officer Martin Nuss and Director of Product Marketing Uday Mudoi shared their thoughts on what will be big in the coming year:
Carrier LTE deployments will double to...Dec. 31, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 2,396 |
 It is important to have a familiarity with the OSI 7 layer stack model when considering what type of traffic or devices can be load balanced. This knowledge is important because load balancing of traffic and, for that matter, devices is normally performed at Layer 2 (Data), Layer 4 (Tr...Dec. 31, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,168 |
 Like an automobile, a web application needs occasional maintenance and management over its life cycle. Although it doesn't need oil changes, it will probably need version upgrades. There may not be manufacturer recalls, but sometimes servers fail or hang. An application doesn't need to...Dec. 28, 2012 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,530 |
 Wrapping up a year of impressive growth and product innovation, Gazzang, the Linux data security company, today made its 2013 predictions covering emerging trends in big data, the cloud and open source technology adoption.
“Buoyed by increasing adoption of and trust in cloud technolog...Dec. 28, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 4,039 |
 Evolving regulatory compliance requirements can be a major headache for the IT teams responsible for identity and access management (IAM). Sarbanes Oxley, the wide range of privacy regulations and other federal requirements, have transformed IAM from a problem that keeps the chief info...Dec. 27, 2012 06:11 AM EST Reads: 3,045 |
 Software developers and service providers need a period of usability testing before launch to find out how the product stands up in the hands of end users. An experienced QA team will ferret out bugs and identify major issues, but they won’t use your software like a customer will. The ...Dec. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,885 |
 Sparx has release a new version of Enterprise Architect. This tool is by far the best software engineering tool available on the market today. I have been using it as my primary tool for Enterprise and Software Architecture for years now. If you have never checked it out, now is as goo...Dec. 20, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,198 |
 The RESTful world distinguishes between resource state and application state, which is the state information the client maintains. And since hypermedia are the engine of application state, it makes sense that application state is more important to REST than resource state. After all, R...Dec. 17, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 3,168 |
 The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component mechanics of many firms’ IT stacks.
Key among these technologies i...Dec. 15, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,060 |
 Personally, I’m more of a last-minute holiday shopper, but nonetheless, there I was being dragged out to the brick and mortar stores on Black Friday. Given that my role seemed to be limited to that of manual laborer (“Honey, can you carry all this for me?”), I had a lot of time to peop...Dec. 14, 2012 04:15 AM EST Reads: 2,034 |
 Most of us can probably still reference fellow employees (and quite a few managers) who passed the Internet off as nothing more than a passing fad as recently as the turn of the millennium.
The “modern” business procedures of 1999 were already pretty slick and refined and fax machines...Dec. 13, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,490 |
 AIG International Group is among IT leaders who are improving performance of their services to deliver better experiences and payoffs for businesses and end-users alike.
Many organizations are now focusing more on the user experience and the business benefits and less on pure technolo...Dec. 12, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 2,048 |
 Embarcadero on Monday made generally available C++Builder XE3, which allows a common development effort to natively target Windows 8, Mac OS X and Intel clients.
The modern class of C and C++ tools are workhorses of PC applications development. And Objective-C tools have proven the r...Dec. 12, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,779 |
 Anyone who ever monitored or analyzed an application uses or has used averages. They are simple to understand and calculate. We tend to ignore just how wrong the picture is that averages paint of the world. To emphasis the point let me give you a real-world example outside of the perfo...Dec. 12, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 13,191 Replies: 1 |
 The aim of the Architecture Assurance is to provide collaborative architecture processes for assuring complete implementation of the technical solutions that are aligned with the business drivers of an enterprise in a timely environment. The effective sharing of the information across ...Dec. 8, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,438 |
 Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In the past, mobile played a smaller role in business applications, so performance issues and outages were less of a concer...Dec. 7, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 3,093 |
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