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By Tom Raftery on November 22, 2011
And we’re back this week with the second installment in our Data Center War Stories series (sponsored by Sentilla). This second episode in the series is with Jürgen Burkhardt, Senior Director of Data Center Operations, at SAP‘s HQ in Walldorf, Germany. I love his reference to “the purple server” (watch the video, or see the [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged asset management, cooling capacity, corporate cloud, data center war stories, datacenter, Private Cloud, sap, servers, virtual servers, virtualization |
By Phil Wainewright on July 14, 2011
A few weeks back I was in San Francisco to attend All About the Cloud, probably the most important annual gathering of enterprise SaaS vendors. As I walked down the street from my hotel, I noticed quite by chance that Citrix was having its annual conference at the very same moment just three blocks away [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged citrix, cloudcomputing, netsuite, SaaS, Sliderocket, Socialcast, software as a service, virtualization, VMware |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 15, 2011
Forward And Commentary This market overview provides a starting point to SAP customers seeking optimization solutions. The document delivers actionable advice and insights into a proven collection of software solutions. As part of the full series, best practices documents will follow with in- depth case studies and a critical product evaluation of this growing market [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged adobe, application life cycle management, Apps Strategy, ASUG, ASUG365, best practices, CA/Hyperformix, EMC, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, ERP-Link, Flexera Software, Hayes Technology Group, HiLn Solutions, ibm, IBM Alloy, IBM DB2, IBM DB2 For SAP, IBM Infosphere Optim, Informatica, Information Builders, IntelliCorp, iWay, Microsoft Duet, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server for SAP, PaaS, Panaya, R "Ray" Wang;, R “Ray” Wang;, Research Report, Research Summary, Revelation Software Concepts, rimini street, rwang0, SaaS, sap, SAPPHIRE, sapphirenow, software as a service, Software Insider, software ownership, software ownership lifecycle, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, SUSEN Software, Synactive, System Integrators, Third Party Maintenance, Tibco, TIBCO ActiveSpaces Data Grid, TIBCO Hawk, Tidal Software, Used Soft, user conference, user group event, user group events, users, vendor events, virtualization, VMware, West Trax, Winshuttle |
By Tom Raftery on February 17, 2011
If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had [...]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, data centre energy efficiency, data factories, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, sentilla, virtualisation, virtualization, vm clutter, VMware |
By Michael Fauscette on September 15, 2010
Mobile devices are quickly becoming the replacement for the enterprise desk top and that trend has both corporate IT departments and software vendors scrambling to come up with ways to solve a host of issues. From the enterprise IT side…
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, enterprise, iOS, iPhone, marketpalce, mobile, Technology / Software, virtualization |
By Sadagopan on September 1, 2010
I went to catch up with my friends coming from around the world to VMworld 2010 at San Francisco and ended up meeting some upcoming technology players as well. In the course of my discussions, I recognized the existence of a lot more energy in the cloud ecosystem – big and small, private and public [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Private Clouds, virtualization, VMware, VMworld |
By Michael Krigsman on July 22, 2010
In a classic case of the “blind leading the blind,” Texas accused IBM of failing to deliver on an $864 million IT initiative.
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Contract, data center, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Data Centers, Data Management, Hardware, ibm, IBM Corp., Storage, Texas, virtualization |
By Tom Raftery on April 23, 2010
Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged efficiency, efficient work practices, energy star, Granular Resource Economics, green, green it, green it summit, green procurement, Green technologies, pc power management, smart grids, Sustainability, telepresence, teleworking, virtualisation, virtualization |
By R "Ray" Wang on April 22, 2010
Lawson External Cloud Services Represents A Big Step In On Demand ERP Options On March 31, 2010, Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) announced the Lawson External Cloud Services offering. The venerable St. Paul, Minnesota vendor plans to deliver the full ERP Suite including Lawson S3, Lawson M3, and Lawson Talent Management via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon EC2, Apps Strategy, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, crm, deployment options, EC2, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise performance management, enterprise software, erp, HCM, HR, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, Intentia, Lawson, Lawson CUE, Lawson Global Users Group, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, Lawson Talent Management, Lawson Test Drive, license policy, Mid market, News Analysis, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SaaS, saas bigots, SCM, social enterprise apps, Software Insider, software trends, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, strategy, subscription pricing, supply chain, True SaaS, vendor strategy, virtualization |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business [...]
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