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Cloud Computing: Businesses Diversify their Cloud Portfolios

dweisinger — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:16 +0000

Businesses continue to increase their investments in the cloud. A recent survey by RightScale investigates the extent to which the cloud is being used.

The RightScale survey divided their respondents into four groups:

Cloud Beginners (26 percent) – Businesses just getting started with their first cloud projects Cloud Explorers (23 percent) – Businesses that have implemented some cloud [...]

SOA: Businesses increasingly adopt SOA for greater Flexibility and Control

dweisinger — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:34 +0000

Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software design methodology that modularizes software into discrete self-contained services. Each service is designed to provide a tightly-defined function and is typically accessed over a network as a web service that can exchangesdata formatted in XML or JSON. Applications are then built up by combining the component SOA services. [...]

Data Security: Employees often aren’t Sensitive in the Handling of Confidential Data

dweisinger — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:00:49 +0000

IT security professionals aren’t optimistic about how well they’re able to protect their company’s data. 70 percent say that they would not bet on their company avoiding a data breach over the next six months. That’s the result of a recent survey by Lieberman Software.

Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software, said that “these figures [...]

Open Source Software: It’s Eating the Software World

dweisinger — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:46 +0000

“Open source is eating the software world,” says Michael J. Skok, general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners. ”Enterprises see Open Source as leading innovation, delivering higher quality and driving growth rather than just being a free or low-cost alternative. Going forward, we can expect more disruption from open source, new business models, and many [...]

Enterprise Software: Big Data and Analytics Show Strong Growth

dweisinger — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:07 +0000

Despite the frequency with which Microsoft is beat up in the news as a company that’s no longer relevant, a recent report by IDC shows that Microsoft is by far and away the largest global software vendor, controlling 17.1 percent of the entire market, nearly twice as large as competitors IBM and Oracle.

IDC categorizes the [...]

Cloud Computing: The Tricky Business of Hot Upgrades

dweisinger — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00:59 +0000

Jay Heiser, Gartner research vice president, told Ellen Messmer of Network World that “Gartner clients are almost universally disappointed by what they regard as the incompleteness in cloud-computing contracts where they still don’t see the level of specificity related to security they expect… Cloud contracts are incomplete.” One particular area that Heiser worries about is data [...]

Mobile: Boosting Productivity and Quality in the Construction Industry

dweisinger — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:31 +0000

Mobile devices are changing the way many jobs are being performed. The construction industry is one example where workers in the field are seeing big change. Tablets, Smartphones, and a new breed of ‘rugged notebook computers’ are replacing older mobile devices like two-way radios and cell phones. The benefits of real-time access to project data are [...]

ERP in the Cloud: Enterprise Still Stick with On-Premise

dweisinger — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:00:37 +0000

A decade ago only the largest companies could afford to use an ERP system. That’s changed. More affordable options have become available. Much of the affordability of ERP is due to technologies like SaaS and the cloud.

A few of the benefits of putting ERP in the cloud include:

Providing greater accessibility of ERP across employees Zero Maintenance [...]

Enterprise Mobile: Analysts Predict Rapid Migration to Mobile

dweisinger — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:57 +0000

Forrester Research noted that there are now 7.3 billion mobile devices in a world where there are only 7 billion people.

Mobile applications in the Enterprise may be a future vision for many companies, but mobile is a vision that is being realized much quicker than many had expected. � What does the rise of mobile [...]

Software Development: The Rise of Git for Source Code Management

dweisinger — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:00:19 +0000

Git is a distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) tool for software development. It was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Torvalds first release of Git was in April 2005. It has become a popular tool used in Open Source development, and it’s also grown a following among [...]