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This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.By Tony BaerWe’d be the first to admit our surprise that Pegasystems has thrived as well as it has. Our initial impression of the company about four to five years ago was of an interesting, rather eccentric bunch whose absent-minded professors had great ideas but little business savvy. At the
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One of the biggest questions facing companies today is what to make of cloud computing. Does it signal a major shift in how we approach IT -- and the business -- or is it just another ride on the hype wave that will disappear if we just wait it out?HP tackled this question this month with a series of virtual conferences, "Cloud: Practical Advice for Taking the Next Steps," whose aim was to cut
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In a move to mainstream predictive analytics, TIBCO Software today rolled out the latest version of its Spotfire platform.Dubbed Spotfire 3.1, the latest iteration promises a natural language statistical experience. Spotfire 3.1 aims to help anyone in an organization get fact-based answers to questions that help drive revenue.The company says its software is not just for analytics gurus but also
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In a move to tackle a persistent cloud computing challenge, Cast Iron Systems just rolled out a new platform that aims to help companies large and small securely integrate public clouds, private clouds and on-premise applications.Dubbed OmniConnect, the cloud integration solution offers a single platform rather than multiple products or on-premise tools to accomplish cloud integrations.Five
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Security. It's one of the major issues that keeps cloud computing from working its way deeper and more quickly into the enterprise IT mainstream.But what are the potential threats around using cloud services? How can companies make sure business processes and data remain secured in the cloud? And how can CIOs accurately assess the risks and benefits of cloud adoption strategies?Hewlett-Packard (
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This guest post comes courtesy of Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst at Zapthink. By Ronald SchmelzerMost experienced practitioners in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture (EA), including ourselves, would assert that architecture and implementation are not interdependent. That is to say that architecture expresses means for describing ways of doing things whereas
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For more information on virtualization and how it provides a foundation for Private Cloud, plan to attend the HP Cloud Virtual Conference taking place in March. To register for this event, go to:Asia, Pacific, Japan - March 2Europe Middle East and Africa - March 3Americas - March 4In a move to tap into the small- to mid-sized business (SMB) data center market, Hewlett-Packard (HP) just rolled out
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In a move to enter the burgeoning SaaS-based IT management market, Citrix Online announced its acquisition of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Paglo Labs on Wednesday. The first fruits of the acquisition is an integrated web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting IT infrastructure.Dubbed GoToManage, the new service lets Citrix Online tap into the growing demand for
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If you want a realistic view of cloud computing adoption – along with an understanding of what motivates IT executives to invest the cloud, what concerns remain, and what initiatives are planned – you can’t limit your frame to a single industry. The full picture only becomes clear through a cross section of research, manufacturing, government and education fields.That’s the approach Platform
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This guest BriefingsDirect post comes courtesy of Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink.By Jason BloombergEver since ZapThink published our Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA ZapFlash, we've been explaining in our Licensed ZapThink Architect course how SOA implementations must be complex systems in order to deliver on emergent properties like business agility. Yet even though
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