Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: software

Remember that last independent business intelligence company, Cognos? It's now a part of IBM's software unit. IBM said Monday in a statement that it has acquired Cognos for $5 billion, or $58 a share. In just a month the two leading business intelligence players have been acquired. SAP bought...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6958

Date: 11/11/07     Keywords: software, web

The much-discussed marriage of business intelligence (BI) and business process management (BPM) may be a step closer to the altar with last week's announcement by Software AG that it will embed Cognos 8 BI with the webMethods product suite. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2576

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

IBM has been talking about autonomic computer--the Holy Grail of self-regulating IT, as in the way the nervous system regulates and protects the human body autonomically--since the beginning of the century. To be precise, in October 2001 IBM Research published the "IBM Autonomic Computing Manifesto," with the premise:...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6921

Date: 11/08/07     Keywords: no keywords

SOA has a critical role to play in the development of Master Data Management, or MDM. At Pfizer, SOA decoupled data from applications I hadn't heard much to date on how these two enterprise-changing forces can work together. But Martin Brodbeck, executive director for...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=998

Date: 11/07/07     Keywords: web

Web host warned customers that servers would be down for about 12 hours on Saturday. It ended up being more like five days. Some of the 165,000 Web sites that have been offline since Saturday due to a bungled data center move at NaviSite were back up Wednesday,...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6217438.html

Date: 11/07/07     Keywords: technology

Cassatt's taking their well established virtualization technology and focusing it tightly on helping organizations create a green computing environment. They've launched a new product family, Active Response, that is designed to simplify an organization's move in that direction. Here's how Cassatt describes Active Response The Cassatt...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=274

Date: 11/06/07     Keywords: microsoft

Stuart Scott, who joined Microsoft in 2005 as Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, has left was ousted from the company, as of November 5 for violating company policies, Microsoft officials said. According to a statement from a Microsoft spokesperson: "We can confirm that Stuart...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=909

Date: 11/06/07     Keywords: microsoft

Dublin "mega data center" to house tens of thousands of servers "targeted for the growth and performance of Windows Live services." Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will spend $500 million on building a new European data-processing center in Ireland. Microsoft said in a statement that the...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6217222.html

Date: 11/06/07     Keywords: microsoft

As Microsoft forges ahead with its myriad cloud-computing projects, it is expanding its datacenter footprint just as quickly. Various Chicago-area media are reporting that Microsoft will be the tenant of a new 440,0000-plus square-foot datacenter in Northlake, Ill. Estimates put the cost of the new facility at...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=904

Date: 11/05/07     Keywords: microsoft

The biggest news out of the Microsoft TechEd Developers conference that kicked off on November 5 is the official announcement of Microsoft's offline/online sync platform. Microsoft's strategy around the platform is what's more intriguing to me than the actual platform itself. The actual Community...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=900

Date: 11/05/07     Keywords: browser, microsoft, google

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft's Sync Framework is now available for download. Some others are calling it a competitor to Google Gears but it's not a good comparison. For one thing, Sync isn't a browser plugin. Based on the documentation it looks like it's aimed at synchronizing data...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=617

Date: 11/04/07     Keywords: technology, database, web, microsoft

Microsoft posted for download on November 4 a first test build of what it's calling the Microsoft Sync Framework, technology that will allow developers to take their Web services and databases offline. The new framework also provides P2P synchronization of "any type of file including contacts, music,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=891

Date: 11/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

A friend, Bill Peterson, called my attention to an article called Six steps to halting data center energy waste by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt. The good Mr. Coleman makes some very good points and it appears that Cassatt has fleshed out some of the things they've discussed before. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=271

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here's something to brag about: Corporate data center real-estate mogul Digital Realty Trusthas earned a gold-level certification for green design from the U.S. Green Building Council. The project in question is located in Chicago, and the data center is for an unidentified Fortune Global 500 company. But the company says...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=463

Date: 11/01/07     Keywords: security, google

Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC. IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend. Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure. AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6828

Date: 10/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Survey shows server virtualization and consolidation favored by data center chiefs trying to accomplish more with less money. Server virtualization and consolidation can help data center chiefs in their struggle with increased workloads and shrinking budgets, according to a recent survey. The biggest challenges for data center...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6216207.html

Date: 10/30/07     Keywords: software, google

Research director Martin Illsley discusses how utilities could use Flickr and how software development should be like home building. Some companies profess to put out-of-the-box thinking at the heart of their operations. Apple and Google, for example, claim to thrive on leaving no stone unturned when it...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6216087.html

Date: 10/30/07     Keywords: software, crm

CommentaryTraditional monitoring and management tools manage factors that impact end user experience, but they are blind to the actual end user experience, says Knoa Software's Lori Wizdo. Commentary--Enterprise applications like ERP, and CRM and SCM automate complex business processes where high levels of application performance...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-173233.html

Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: google

Gartner has released a research note covering the departure of John Wookey and the subsequent reorganization of the Fusion team. In our Irregulars Google Group, Josh Greenbaum said that whatever happens at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld event, the company would likely spin the story. Gartner seems to confirm this, noting...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=224

Date: 10/29/07     Keywords: technology

Hewlett-Packard has scored another real-world deployment of its Dynamic Smart Cooling technology, which became commercially available earlier this month. The project, located in Bangalore, India, consolidates 14 different research lab data centers into a 70,000-square-foot high density facility. The technology within the lab consolidates a mix of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=450