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Does the CIO Role Depend on the State of Economy?
Have you noticed that the perceived role of CIO is dependent on the state of economy? [BTW: Have you ever wondered who coined the term CIO and when it was first used. It was first used in 1980 by...
View ArticleThinPrint Works to Take Cloud Printing to Mainstream
With companies putting more applications and data into Internet clouds, cloud printing is gaining momentum in the enterprise. Vendors large and small are getting into the game. HP has made major...
View ArticleAutomating Workflow Processes
These tools work to help enterprises gain control over aging applications and inflexible processes that challenge innovation and agility -- by governing their responsiveness and pace of change. It’s...
View ArticleHP’s Application Life-Cycle Management
We’ve been very focused on creating a single, unified system that scales to tens of thousands of users. And it’s a web-based system, so that wherever the team members are located, they can become a...
View ArticleHP Software GM Jonathan Rende on How ALM Enables IT
It’s not really the case that the people building, provisioning, testing, and defining the applications are lacking or don’t know what they're doing. It’s mostly that the practices and processes...
View ArticleCase Study: Enel Green Power
The business strategy is to manage centrally and operate locally. IT had to follow the strategy. Our main IT platforms are developed with the objective to be global. Global doesn’t mean managing...
View ArticleCase Study: AIG Insurance Group
One key thing is we changed our mindset from a performance testing practice to a performance engineering practice, and we've evolved now to performance architecture. This customer case-study from the...
View ArticleBound and Tied: What Is Data Binding?
XAML data binding is a codeless (declarative) way of transferring information from one object to another. It’s very helpful in a UI where data originating in one object controls a characteristic of (or...
View ArticleMigration Roundtable
I taught a full day .NET seminar to an ISUG group in Minneapolis today. 19 developers attended. During the migration unit I demo'd and showed how mapped custom events, not on the control supported...
View ArticleSalesforce Revs up the Cloud Data Tier Era with Database.com
Salesforce.com is upping the ante on cloud storage services by going far beyond the plain vanilla elastic, pay-as-you-go variety of database and storage services that have come to the market in the...
View ArticleThe Key Benefits of ALM
For the first time, you have something that goes not just across the traditional software lifecycle, as we know it -- develop, test, deploy, and manage -- but across the entire lifecycle of an...
View ArticleHP Offers New Energy-Efficient Ethernet Switches
Many companies today are caught between competing pressures brought by data and power. Faced with moving ever-increasing data faster and faster, they find the power to do that, as well as deal with the...
View ArticleThe Open Group Bridges SOA Definitions Gap
SOA Ontology will serve as a foundation for further work in domain specific areas by supplying a consistent framework that can be reused as SOA projects evolve. In an effort to bridge the communication...
View ArticleNetwork Management Innovation in the Age of Hybrid Computing
We look at WAN governance as really a piece of ISO standard for IT governance, which is an official ISO standard. Ipanema strongly believes the WAN governance is really a standard too that should be...
View ArticleA Peaceful Leap to Cloud Computing
History has many examples of invaders wielding steel swords, repeating rifles, or whatever the latest weapon may be, driving out people who are less well-equipped. Corporate IT departments are starting...
View ArticleCase Study: Improved PC Client Management
Vodafone decided in 2006 to go for a global IT project and centralization in terms of PC client automation. It came down to us to evaluate the current solutions in all these countries and then come up...
View ArticleConsumer Cloud Is Killing Enterprise Cloud
Richard Stallman's recent characertization of the impending Google Chrome OS as "careless computing" brings the careless use of the term "cloud computing" into sharp relief. Stallman says that the term...
View ArticleRIA Integration: Bits and Pieces, Part One
There are many ways to have various software components to communicate in Java EE enterprise architecture. The same is applicable for integrating rich Internet Applications written in Adobe Flex and...
View ArticlePowerBuilder in the Land of Banking and Precision Watches
I had the singular pleasure of receiving an invitation to deliver a one day PowerBuilder Classic Partitioning and Refactoring workshop to the Swiss PowerBuilder User Group (SPBUG). This active group,...
View ArticleISUG .NET Training Days
At the beginning of December, I delivered two full day .NET Training workshops in conjunction with local ISUG PB User Groups. The first was in Salt Lake City, Utah. The turnout was amazing; 29...
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