Technology News: Development

Why Business Transaction Management Is Hot in 2009

Tuesday - June 30, 2009

Business transaction management has been getting a lot of attention lately: IT organizations want it, and every major vendor in systems and performance management has rushed to claim they do it. The promise of BTM is to finally be able to manage IT from a business perspective and make sense of the complexity of modern applications broken down in services that run across environments distributed behind the firewall and in the cloud. [More...]

Beware of the Information Security Inertia Syndrome

Tuesday - June 16, 2009

We all know that some things are easier to do than others. In fact, what separates an average manager from a great one is the ability to balance decisions based on two almost totally unrelated sets of criteria: ease of accomplishment on the one hand vs. value to the organization on the other. [More...]

IBM Offers Platform for Diving Into the Cloud

Monday - June 15, 2009

IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools with built-in service management. [More...]

Picking Up the Pieces After Downsizing: Avoid Orphaned Data

Tuesday - June 9, 2009

Employees are the lifeblood of any business, and the data they produce is critical to productivity. Unfortunately, during recent uncertain economic times, businesses of all sizes across America have laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. Yet when any employees leave during turnover, important data can be lost or forgotten. [More...]

Apple Primed for iPhone Song-and-Dance Extravaganza

Friday - June 5, 2009

Photos around the Web have already revealed the banners gracing the walls at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. On them are the letters "WWDC" and the legend "One Year Later, Light-Years Ahead." Both the letters and the words are surrounded by a blizzard of Apple App Store icons. "WWDC," of course, means next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. [More...]

Legacy Software: Rebuilding the Ship in Rough Waters

Thursday - June 4, 2009

As the market recedes further and companies look to shed cost in any way feasible, many look inwardly in order to find key areas for improvement. Aberdeen's research shows that the top business pressures forcing companies in the direction of legacy application modernization are largely internal. The top two pressures have to do with agility. [More...]

The WAN Traffic Controller Juggling Act

Tuesday - June 2, 2009

The Internet has become a critical component in today's fast-moving business environment and continues to play a central role in delivering mission-critical business applications and vital communications to employees, partners and customers. The Internet holds the promise for organizations to streamline operations, improve operational efficiencies and lower costs. [More...]

Mobile Development and Multiplicity Madness

Monday - June 1, 2009

Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices is a complex subject that has required some harsh trade-offs from developers in the past -- trade-offs between rich, native applications targeted at specific devices versus standardized mobile application approaches that have simply failed to impress users. [More...]

The Cloud's Mix 'n' Match Muddle

Tuesday - May 26, 2009

Cloud computing is a hot tech growth category that shows no signs of cooling. These are still early days, though, and companies that are experimenting with this computing model are doing so in a piecemeal fashion, or on a case-by-case basis. The result, for some firms, is a mishmash of IT functionality -- some of it in the cloud, much of it still on the ground. [More...]

Plan Your Project's Testing - or Plan to Fail

Tuesday - May 26, 2009

Does testing require a plan? That may sound like a silly question, but many organizations leave the testing to the end of the project, and whatever time is left is the time that will be spent on testing. Testing, like any other part of a project, must be carefully planned in order to accomplish the objectives. [More...]

Mozilla Straps On Jetpack for Firefox Devs

Friday - May 22, 2009

Mozilla's call to developers to participate in its Jetpack project on Wednesday is the latest onslaught in the ongoing war of the Web browsers. Jetpack is an open source application programming interface that will let users create add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox browser using the Web technologies they already know. [More...]

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