A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed by Java enterprise applications, according to Oracle.
Read more..A host of substantial problems with porting legacy apps to the cloud will keep most companies from diving in for now, say analysts reporting on weaknesses in the cloud and ISVs trying to fill in the gaps. Here's a look at the details worth sweating.
As you prepare spending plans that line up with a move to the cloud, consider these four items as key for your list.
Read more..IBM is buying AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce, maker of business-to-business data integration software, for about US $1.4 billion (Rs.6566 crore) in cash, the companies announced recently.
For Cargo mangament company Gati, Proof of Deliveries (PODs) are extremely critical. Here's a CIO who devised a simple and low-cost solution that strikes at the heart of an important and expensive problem in the logistics business: making PODs trackable to senders.
Read more..In an male-dominated industry, here is a woman who manages a workforce of 4000. Read the story of how Shobhana Ravi of TAFE found a relatively inexpensive BI based HR policy to keep her workforce happy.
Read more..Typically, private clouds are virtualized architectures that exist within private datacenters but vary greatly in configuration and technology. There is no standard for what constitutes a private cloud.
Read more..Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios.
Read more..A manual system to handle the paper work of over 400 employees was taking a toll on productivity at Sony. The solution: A document management system that saves staffers hours of work every week.
Read more..Just when you thought it was safe to jump into the SaaS waters, a new survey finds that IT and enterprise software decision-makers don't feel totally comfortable with SaaS-namely those nagging security, integration and data migration concerns.
The help desk now sits at the core of an organization's IT service management strategy, being very much based in ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) best practices. Even in tough economic times, help desks have been largely spared the axe,
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From being an IT garage start-up, HCL has sure come a long way. Project eNSURE IT, aptly titled, is another of their ingenious initiatives that nurtured a multi-pronged strategy to ensure 99.99 percent uptime.
Read more..WSO2, builder of open source software for SOA deployments, on Tuesday is launching version 3.0 of Carbon, its componentized middleware platform based on OSGi technology.
Read more..For ERP upgrades, consultants are viewed as guides and often safety nets, without which few enterprises dare go. But they come at a significant cost. Ranbaxy decided to go without one and saved costs, increased project control and delivered business results with minimal challenges.
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Ratnakar Nemani developed a payroll module which could be integrated with ERP as a part of his SAP consulting services business. The company, which has first focused on bringing home its ERP, now, offers its SAP expertise to other companies.
The R-Genomics database does this by storing information on unique expressed sequence tags (EST), in the form of a searchable database. The database allows researchers to share data. The solution would also include the integration of different environments - Internet, Intranet and console services.
The CIO of this telecom giant created a platform that provided consistent service experience to over a 100 million users across media - mobile, PC and TV.
Read more..The company's Web Data Server is popular among Fortune 1000 companies for automating integration with Web data sources
Read more..Red Hat's beta release of RHEL 6.0 adds cloud-friendly features and removes Xen. This will be the first version of the OS not to include the Xen hypervisor. Instead the company plans to focus its virtualization efforts around the kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
Read more..SAP customers shouldn't rely on the vendor's NetWeaver technology stack for all of their middleware needs in the future, according to Forrester Research.
Read more..Loosely defined as software that integrates different pieces of software and enables application deployments, middleware is a critical cog in enterprise IT shops.
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Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".
